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by juancn 6y ago
It's not crippling, it's annoying. I can code without an IDE just fine, I just don't want to. It's too slow and you end up doing a lot of very repetitive and boring tasks. Modern IDEs, much like type systems, help you av
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by juancn 6y ago
They miss the main problem: tooling. DSLs are nice, but you need to integrate them into a development workflow which means strong IDE support and build systems. Auto complete, testing, backward compatibility, etc. If I normally have code in
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by juancn 6y ago
Mandatory Simpsons quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgct3Jn8pFA Homer: Aw, twenty dollars? I wanted a peanut! Homer's Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts. Homer: Explain how! Homer's Brain: Money can
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by juancn 6y ago
Docker is ok. But please do not over use it. It's not really portable, it only runs decently on Linux, on other platforms it's a kludge.
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by juancn 6y ago
Dude, hot water is a known carcinogenic. It is scaremongering unless backed by hard stats that point to the urgency. Cancer is the default disease, it amounts to a cell copying error, if something else doesn't kill you, you eventually
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by juancn 6y ago
Animalese is a simple phonetic translation of the text. It’s super noticeable in Spanish which is fairly straightforward. In English it’s a simplistic translation to phonemes as far as I can tell.
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by juancn 6y ago
Given the wording, I still don't see how this works. A more long term, indirect approach would probably work better. If Facebook had a continuous, long term, PR campaign, where they reasonably established themselves as helping small bu
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by juancn 6y ago
The idea of doing a public campaign over this is so myopic that I cannot fathom the thinking about it. Who’s going to rally for Facebook? Did they really expected Apple to change this? The ad should scare investors much more than Apple’s mo
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by juancn 6y ago
Was KFC behind the steel monoliths? The video suggests it, and the logo looks like three monoliths.
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by juancn 6y ago
"Fondling balls increases testosterone"
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by juancn 6y ago
I use an iPad with an Apple Pencil. This so far has been the closest to a whiteboard.
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by juancn 6y ago
It may be unpopular, but strict lockdowns are untenable in the long term. Living locked down is no life at all, it's just survival. And I'd rather take my chances if the alternative is perpetual stay at home orders (I'm from
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by juancn 6y ago
They are good for different use cases. There's no "better" without some very specific context.
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by juancn 6y ago
That's plainly not true. There are top performers that do not produce the largest number of commits and PRs. They produces the most difficult ones to get right. There are mediocre performers that produces an awful lot of commits and PR
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by juancn 6y ago
No mention of number of cycles?
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by juancn 6y ago
I like books for fiction, and articles for keeping up to date. I usually read books for fun before sleeping, and articles to keep informed during the day. But really, I just do whatever I feel like doing. I might cut Netflix time for readin
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by juancn 6y ago
It feels like a commoditize the competition strategy. Essentially the single deployment structure makes your competitors impossible to differentiate other than on price, while still being the access point to the cloud.
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by juancn 6y ago
The world has always been too complex for any human to understand. Any time we thought it wasn't it was just an illusion. The only difference is that now we have more information and information moves a lot faster than before. So the t
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by juancn 6y ago
You start by breaking it down, a lot. Into smaller problems. Analyze, and break those down too. Find edge cases. Wash, rinse, repeat. For example: "what is the best way to organize a liberal democracy of >100M citizens?" - How
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by juancn 6y ago
Can you be a citizen of a bad country and be a good person?
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by juancn 6y ago
There's also the causality direction in question. Are they parents richer in part because they are less likely to have psychological disorders? Hence the offspring is also more likely to have fewer psychological disorders? In that scen
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by juancn 6y ago
No. By definition, if you overestimate yourself, you don't have impostor syndrome in that particular discipline.
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by juancn 6y ago
Impostor syndrome is kind of a corollary of the Dunning–Kruger effect. Since you know a lot about some discipline, you're better able to judge your gaps in knowledge, and you assume others know as much as you (because of a gap in knowl
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by juancn 6y ago
I also worked with 0.5x-ers. Whose presence alone would drop value in half.
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by juancn 6y ago
I've worked with 10x-ers. They do exist. In my experience they're extraordinary people in many, many aspects. More than anyone has a right to. Besides the god-like ability to solve problems, they were amazing mentors, and clear co
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by juancn 6y ago
It looks like it's perpetually falling asleep.
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by juancn 6y ago
I don’t get what’s surprising. DNA transcription is computation. Decision making only needs the most basic of conditional information processing. Pretty much any regulatory process leading to homeostasis is a form of decision making.
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by juancn 6y ago
The main problem now is not speech recognition. It's a kind of uncanny valley effect. You can speak to these assistants, but the language is still restricted. They show little to no common sense. It's a lot of party tricks bundled
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by juancn 6y ago
You know what they will ask in an exam before hand. The scope is somewhat limited. I also think that these types of complaints about the difficulty of a job interview have to do with tying your self-esteem to the outcome of it. A failed job
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by juancn 6y ago
On the other hand, if software developer were trained as doctors... Doctors spend many years doing hands-on work under more experienced doctors, free clinic hours, 30+ hours shifts, lot's of grunt work and specializing on a very narrow

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