jkaptur

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by jkaptur 2y ago
If you offer a programmer a deal where you make their code x% faster on average, never slower, and the actual speedup depends on a huge number of factors making it really hard to reason about, they'll take it 99.99% 0f the time. It see
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Every New Yorker short fiction: our protagonist, a slightly dislikable person, suffers from a medium-high amount of ennui.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Lego should provide a way to check whether the machine will stop for a given input, so that kids don't get frustrated turning the crank forever.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Donald Trump is strongly against Section 230. https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/trump-and-section-230-what-know
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Some context that sometimes gets lost: this sort of research is, to put it crudely, content marketing for an investment bank. So when the article says "the firm began hosting private bull-and-bear debates" we can be sure that each
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Strong https://xkcd.com/793/ vibes here, though it's a cool way to approach this model of a problem.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Work closely with UI designers at the company. Make sure their design process (sticker sheets or whatever) uses the components you're building and vice versa. If developers have to twist and contort your components match mocks, then th
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by jkaptur 2y ago
"IT will tell you what the new process has to be" is usually a pretty tough sell.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Now you have two problems: rolling out the new system and changing the business process. And you'll solve them simultaneously, and if anything goes wrong, you'll roll both back...
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I think that would require calculating the hash, which was ruled out as too slow.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
They're probably as critical as ever at Barclays :)
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by jkaptur 2y ago
The idea is that it is acceptable to rely on test automation, and that teams should apply the "Beyonce Rule" - if you like it then you should've put a test on it.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Some other interesting points here: Ballmer works hard to de-emphasize and diplomatically move away from discussing this exact question once it becomes clear that Chang's not approaching it by thinking explicitly about binary search an
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I recommend the book "Automating Inequality" by Virginia Eubanks for a deeper dive here.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I think that article buries the most interesting part! It's true that "bug" in that sense dates back to the 19th century, but before that, it didn't necessarily mean "insect" - it could mean something like &q
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by jkaptur 2y ago
The spec has an answer for the "transient element" issue: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A... . Of course, this doesn't eliminate the possibility of bad UX.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Very interesting interpretation! I see your point.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
It's on the beaten path, but how can you resist (and how did the New Yorker resist?) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Went_Down_to_Georgia Most of the deals in th
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by jkaptur 2y ago
That setup cost in the neighborhood of five thousand dollars (adjusted for inflation). Spreadsheets are amazing.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Yep: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/241379/what-is-t...
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I know nothing about promotional email, but I'm curious if you ever provided links so that the user didn't have to type an answer in order to provide a bit of information - something along the lines of "I'm using this fo
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by jkaptur 2y ago
That's counterintuitive, though - often, the whole point of a hash is that it's one-way.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Any system will have some limit on the length of names - if nothing else, the budget for storage. A non-lazy programmer will determine an appropriate limit, document it, continuously test that the entire system can handle that length correc
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by jkaptur 2y ago
My hypothesis would be that companies with poor operational practices are more likely to underperform the index and have data breaches - in other words, that the study confuses cause and effect. This wouldn't be that hard to test. I
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Sounds like this person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ragan
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by jkaptur 2y ago
This is a really interesting topic, and it has complexity I didn't consider until I became deeply involved in some similar systems. For example, in code, you can generally use feature flags, A/B testing, etc. to show different thi
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by jkaptur 2y ago
"View of the World from Ruta 70"
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by jkaptur 2y ago
> I feel uneasy about design patterns. ... they solve problems that a choice of programming language or paradigm creates. I don't understand the ambivalence. I have to make some choice of language and paradigm, and then I have to
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I think this is basically true in moderation. I certainly agree that a lot of problems (including a lot of very difficult problems!) are not amenable to purely technical solutions. But sometimes you have a difficult, technical bug to fix, a
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I love this! Quick feature request: the die-roll is really cool, but can you make a lower-latency version so I can play more games in less time?

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