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by jdm2212 3y ago
I'd trust their manager or skip-level manager more than I'd trust them. Lots of rank-and-file workers really have no idea how they generate value for the organization. Until you've spent a lot of time managing people or at le
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by jdm2212 3y ago
I don't think he got a book deal to write this doorstop about the utterly banal claim that some people find their jobs unfulfilling. Like, duh, that's why they pay you. He got the book deal because his pitch is that the jobs are a
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by jdm2212 3y ago
It's not a charade of productivity if it is producing value for some stakeholder. "some people get fulfillment from their jobs" is a very very banal take. The pitch for Graeber's book is that he's going beyond this
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Cowen's review misses the point, which is that Graeber is probably right about academia (not coincidentally, that's where he worked). Academia has no profit motive so all the money gets sunk into an ever-expanding bureaucracy rath
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by jdm2212 3y ago
I love that this guy is a leftist Occupy Wall Street guy who wrote a whole book whose fundamental premise is "what if capitalism was not actually ruthlessly profit-seeking, but actually kept millions upon millions of people employed do
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Go is great for CLIs and utilities. It compiles to native code, has a low memory footprint, and the source code is pretty readable even if you've never written Go before. And when it crashes you get a human-readable stack trace not jus
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Yes, it does offend the language hipster instinct in me too to have to add 8 lines of gradle to a turn on a build plugin.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
If you import Java libraries into Kotlin, you can still get NPEs from the libraries. And if you don't import Java libraries into Kotlin, well... you could just write Java without those Java dependencies, too.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
FWIW, it is not difficult to set up NullAway: https://github.com/uber/NullAway
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Mostly a bad thing, at companies with lots and lots of Java devs.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
I'm happy to take a crack at Go and C++, but coming from Java it is totally impossible to decipher wtf is going on in Scala. Kotlin is better, but still pretty awful. Also, devs who use Go and C++ usually have a good reason (embedded s
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by jdm2212 3y ago
They're really great for making sure Java devs will absolutely never contribute to your project. (I say this as a Java dev who occasionally gets tempted to try to help out in repos that are Kotlin/Scala, and gives up very quickly.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
The message preview is a few kilobytes of text, which is very different from loading an arbitrary (and arbitrarily large) file onto my machine.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
It's only unpopular with the people who aren't paying, and Netflix dgaf about them.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
the wrist vibration alarm that won't wake up your spouse (unlike a phone alarm or alarm clock)
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Turns out it's literally exactly what I said. A human came up with the idea. No AI involved: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/02/us-a...
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Deposits from Chase via ACH happen overnight for me and are available for withdrawal pretty much as soon as they land in Apple Savings.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
This sounds kinda fake to me. Like, how did the AI have a concept of an operator, or the operator's physical location, or comms equipment used to communicate with the operator, and how did it game out the consequences of destroying the
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Gmail is not my computer.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
The Natural Intelligences mostly keep their money in banks, so that's probably what AI will prefer too.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Banks have APIs. Stock exchanges have APIs.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
> He just wrote a crappy basic PHP backend. lol. citation needed. Among geniuses who can build a FAANG company from scratch, I'm sure Zuck is not the strongest software engineer or hacker or whatever. Like, Jeff Dean is undoubtedly
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by jdm2212 3y ago
so in the original context of my post... Zuckerberg : Harvard :: hacker : software industry. it's an analogy. I wasn't saying he's a great hacker. But also the dude obviously is a great hacker. There are vanishingly few peopl
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by jdm2212 3y ago
I really wish I was so brimming with self-confidence as to say that I'm just as competent as the guy who founded the eighth or so most valuable company on Earth, and he was just in the right place at the right time. Zuckerberg is clea
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by jdm2212 3y ago
I was using that as a shorthand for "geniuses who found multi-billion dollar companies".
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by jdm2212 3y ago
There are just a lot more programmers today. All the same hackers and stuff who used to be there are still there, but there's a lot more of everyone else. If Harvard started admitting 50,000 students a year, the density of Zuckerbergs
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by jdm2212 3y ago
If a PI knocks on your door and says "I represent X, you have in your possession property of theirs, you can turn it over to me now or you will face legal action" and then you turn the thing over... that is not them illicitly taki
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by jdm2212 3y ago
A police raid involves the express threat of violence if you don't comply -- that's what the guns and battering rams are for. A PI who's even vaguely trying to obey the law DEFINITELY does not expressly threaten you with viol
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by jdm2212 3y ago
> But hey, if you wrote an article and many many people, even in your own business, misunderstand it as fan-girling, did you succeed at your job? There are a lot of people who post dumb hot takes without reading the article to the end, t
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by jdm2212 3y ago
How is knocking on someone's door an "incursion" or a "surprise attack"?

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