jkingsbery

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by jkingsbery 4y ago
Whether or not we are "in a recession" will not change the underlying metrics. Whatever positives may exist, the agreement seems to be that on an individual-by-individual basis, things are not as good now economically than they we
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
Right. Generally what happens is before a doc is presented to X level, it is reviewed with stakeholders at X-1 beforehand, they do a review and gather feedback, iterate, and then present to X level.
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
> Now we are talking about all kinds of fancy programming stuff to try to solve problems that only exist because we don't want to repeat the same 6 line snippet in a handful of different places because DRY tells us that's bad.
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
> Am I the only one who experiences this? No, everyone experiences this. This isn't a non-technical vs. technical thing either: I've certainly talked to non-tech people who left meetings unsure what the point of it was or what
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
As the link you provided indicates, it's a bit more complicated than that. But generally, yes, people would benefit from understanding more about Medieval History, and how our conceptions about it are shaped by Renaissance, Protestant
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
* "Respect the time of your readers, and respect your message!" * "The Art of Writing Less and Saying Basically The Same Thing [sic - that's not even a complete sentence]" * "Don't say anything more than y
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
This link would be useful to see on first page of HackerNews. The Duolingo article - not as much.
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
Having had small classes undergrad and larger classes where I went to grad school, scaling a class is not simple, the experience changes. With larger class size comes less in interactive lectures, more reliance on TAs (of varying quality) i
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
As a community grows in size, necessarily the dynamic changes. A company where everyone knows every other individual and what they're working on will necessarily have different dynamics than a thousand-person company. Whether this coun
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
Right. It could have more succinctly summarized just by quoting Hayek's: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men [or people, if you'd rather] how little they know about they imagine they can design."
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by jkingsbery 4y ago
Not really the same thing: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuhgeddaboud...
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
+1... I haven't read through it in a while, but I read it frequently earlier in my career and have found that really valuable. In the cases where I've been asked about situations that I had no first-hand experience in interviews,
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
The best way for one to stop being boring is to not write a post about how one must stop being boring. The best way to stop being boring is to write a post about all the interesting and exciting things there are that have nothing (or very l
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
For whatever it's worth, I found this interview of Bari Weiss also helpful on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VwX372tM3I .
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
You cannot pass... to the next page by right clicking.
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
At some point, four years of college is going to be more expensive than buying a house. At which point, the rational thing (for most) will be to skip college and just buy a house.
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
Besides ones already mentioned, a suggestion I'd like to throw out is the writings of GK Chesterton. I've heard many engineers cite "Chesterton's fence," the idea that you shouldn't get rid of something until y
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
A change like this would never happen. But it is a fun thought exercise. The current system in North American sports rewards losing. Between getting better draft picks helping to improve the roster and revenue sharing agreements minimizing
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
I mean, they can make up new definitions for the words "autocracy" and "democracy," I suppose, but that's not what they mean. It calls to mind Alice's discussion with Humpty Dumpty: > 'When I use a word
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
It looks like they consider the US to have become a democracy in 1921, which would point to the 19th amendment as the thing that made the US "become a democracy" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amend
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
> A complaint I've heard from some folks who are junior is that they can't get promoted because their work doesn't fulfill promo criteria. When they ask to be allowed to do work that could get them promoted, they're t
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
Having worked at a writing-based company, any time I have to sit through a PowerPoint is now painful: Do I ask a question about the topic I care about now? Will we get to that topic later, and the speaker is just providing needed background
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
I haven't seen that one, but I've been watching the Ken Burns documentary recently. It seems suitably fair. Where maybe some of the proposed "McNamara Fallacy" breaks down from OP, according to archives that they go thro
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
"Frupidity" is a term I've heard used for this.
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
I know this is meant to be a short article, but there are several points that I think are more complicated in reality. > The promise of a relaxed, comfortable commute to work could even make some people move farther away from their workp
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
Current Amazon employee here. > It all boils down to making the employees working as hard as possible This has not been my experience. The way I've looked at it as, these are more explicit ground rules for how decisions are made. At
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
> They can request a review if they want somebody else to take another look at their code. This can work sometimes and with some groups of engineers, but the engineers I worked with in my career who most needed this (1) would never ask f
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
> Some scholars in those dark days we refer to as the Middle Ages sure did. According to [1], more precisely the word came into English around 1300. According to [2], Petrarch coined the term "Dark Ages," a term that many histo
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
As Russ Roberts details in https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRZf05zFBLXIKLD3blbnn... things are more complicated. A lot of the analysis about things being flat since 1970 makes assumptions about things being the same
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by jkingsbery 5y ago
We are a free-market economy. But the free market assumptions are not just allowing for voluntary trades, but also require information symmetry. When one person (or group) has more information, we no longer have a free market.

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