jimberlage

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by jimberlage 3y ago
At first I was like, “oh, that’s a reasonable perspective,” and then I thought about it more and it kinda isn’t? When I buy a keyboard, the manufacturer doesn’t run a shipping company, so they use $x from the purchase price to subcontract s
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Rust has an industry and a hobbyist ecosystem, whereas I’m not sure if Ada ever had the hobbyists on board.
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Yeah, that was the most interesting point for me as well. If you view it through a management lens, it makes sense; "we hire top CS people, let them do the top CS problems, JDBC drivers aren't a core competency so we can outsourc
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Did the Dutch Tulip craze also go through a graph like bitcoin? Where it dropped as everyone realized the craze and then went back to its highs? Bitcoin behaves more like a currency and less like tulips. I think the Fed not providing an e
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Oddly enough (as someone who feels lukewarm about crypto) isn’t this a really strong case for it sticking around long-term? Like, “crypto will go away as soon as humanity stops feeling fear or being greedy”? TBH, if anyone really wants to t
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by jimberlage 3y ago
This was an important differentiator for Twitter; even if you use a thread reader, the author can’t assume that’s the format their text will be read in. So they have to make the best of both worlds, distill the content into its essence and
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Out of curiosity - do you think that difficulty of installation is what keeps people from installing a vault door on their home? I imagine even if it were easier, you would see low adoption, because “I’ve never been robbed but I have locked
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Yes, and sometimes even locked houses are broken into.
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by jimberlage 3y ago
So the case against SMS 2FA boils down to “There are two factors, but the second factor is something a determined actor can get around by SIM swapping.” But there are still two factors and SMS 2FA handles disaster recovery much better than
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by jimberlage 3y ago
The right way to handle this is - store both the user input and the validated value (potentially null) and an error state (potentially null.) Then, when the user takes action to submit the form, validate and set the error state if needed.
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by jimberlage 3y ago
TBH - I find the opposite is true. Far more complaints have been of the form “this isn’t an illegal state, the dev mistakenly thought so because they’re not a domain expert - why won’t they let me do this?” And some illegal states are usef
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by jimberlage 3y ago
I live in a place like this with multiple kids in my 30s, and it’s fantastic.
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by jimberlage 3y ago
I don’t have great links handy, but read up on observability. You’ll want to read up on what people do on error, especially in the case that contracts change (search “api versioning”.)
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by jimberlage 3y ago
This is absolutely correct. Let’s assume a hypothetical 30 year old who bought a house at the absolute peak of 30 year fixed interest rates, 16.64%. The median US home price was $70,400. Assume 20% down. Let’s also assume a hypothetical
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by jimberlage 3y ago
A reasonableness test (like what a court system uses) makes this quiz really easy to answer. Basically everything is either allowed or a margin case except for the person driving their Civic in the park. TBH, I think if you have this quiz
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Yep! Picture this from the engineering or product manager's point of view (especially in the case where it really is simple, and the app is links and forms with a consistent look and feel.) Imagine a split for a Rails app (like what w
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by jimberlage 3y ago
I agree, with one caveat - the web is links, forms, and styled components. It’s the styled components bit that makes everyone reach for react over ERB/HTMX/whatever. Web components wants to solve this but the API is just not ther
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by jimberlage 3y ago
A part of all psychology diagnoses is that it must both match a definition and negatively impact someone's life. So if you never had to care about what neurotypical people think, then it wouldn't rise to the level of a problem an
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by jimberlage 3y ago
It's also worth noting - the concept is bottom-up, practitioner-driven, while the experiments that get at theory of mind are top-down, academic-driven. Theory of mind would exist even if it stopped showing up in academic papers, only b
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by jimberlage 3y ago
I've heard that theory of mind issue described as "cannot reliably make predictions based on what other people might think or do.", which is more nuanced than the other definition of "doesn't understand that other p
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by jimberlage 3y ago
This was my takeaway as well - theory of mind can sometimes be described as 1. "literally does not understand that other people have their own thoughts" or 2. "cannot reliably predict what other minds would think". Most
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by jimberlage 3y ago
MS has lots of battle scars from the security headaches they went through in the 2000s/2010s.
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Alternatively, retire and find a fulfilling volunteer opportunity you're passionate about. Most volunteer places need people during the workweek, and the best fit is college students or retirees. If you need to be super entreprenurial
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by jimberlage 3y ago
I’ve lived in areas with this parking problem in multiple cities for over a decade now. I can confidently say, I don’t care about this problem at all. Parking further up the street from my house is a small, small, small price to pay for th
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Are you lucky, or are necks less likely to break than arms due to evolutionary pressure?
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by jimberlage 3y ago
This is really good - lots of studies from I/O psychologists measuring at companies in this analysis. This makes a strong case for anonymous peer reviews in addition to the manager’s review (peer reviews are the most correlated with p
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by jimberlage 3y ago
I’m trying to find the study you mention, but a huge caveat IIRC is that these were not people who knew each other, but a random sample of experimental participants (likely college students.) I’d expect this effect to be less pronounced amo
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Thanks for the response! One thing that may help - dealing with impoliteness is an expectation of a __people__ management role, but not an expectation I would have of project or product managers. If you’re consistently seeing PM burnout,
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by jimberlage 3y ago
The explanation of effort made bit is something we could all benefit from - I'm glad to hear that your coworkers are writing that down!
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by jimberlage 3y ago
Working with these criteria sounds a bit like the experience of working with some outsourcing firms. This can work, but there’s a big upfront burden on whatever PM interfaces with the person/people who work this way. I’m curious if yo

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