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by kamaal 1y ago
>>It makes me wonder if people today (especially younger people) would be able to watch a movie like the Godfather? I have doubts. Last time I watched the movie 'The Irishman' with family, they all seem pretty tuned out by 1
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A recipe has a great chance of success, there are few such recipes. If you think you will try out a new recipe from scratch everyday it shouldn't be surprising if most of your days don't add up to much, or even add up to a negativ
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Eventually it all folds into one management org, that is the whole issue. I wouldn't expect two parallel cultures in a org, one for safety, one for entertainment systems.
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It would do people a whole lot of good, if they start looking at a great day as executing well tested 'checklist' rather than a 'todo list' built from scratch every day. No wonder some of the most productive people like
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This stops working after a while. The real deal is you begin the realise the 'points' you accumulate playing this game can't be redeemed to do something fun or satisfying. This game begins to appear totally pointless as you a
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>I witnessed this up close in India where parties openly exist to benefit certain constituencies based on caste, language, religion and so on. +1 As an Indian, classic definition of corruption here is something that other people do.
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>>In theory maths should be able to be broken down to its basic components and be proven to be all true, or if something is false, then the whole thing collapses. >>But in practice things like this become so complex that it beco
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>>will retard the skill development I worked at a Indian IT services firm which even until mid-2010's didn't give internet access to people at work. Their argument was that use of internet would make the developers dumb. The
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Im always confused about this. I think my brain has rewritten memories to a large extent. While its ok to have fictional memories for fun, I think this is disastrous for legal reasons. Plus I do think memory recall is strong for a lot of pe
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>>I've never seen or heard about anything similar. Yeah, I mean, they don't exactly go around announcing how the whole thing is done. You often don't know who won at your cost.
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Im not sure you get the mathematics of this here. You can hire anybody, anybody , any saint for that matter. The more area a section occupies on a pie chart, the less area other sections get. >>Apologies, but I don’t like when people
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We are talking about colleagues, not friends. Not sure if you know this, due to cost centers, companies have per team budgets. Quite literally, X gets bonuses at the expense of Y. Im not saying people act out of malice. But the game is desi
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>>Counter data point, worked in a company 10 years ago, our team was so close that we would vacation together overseas. Worst thing ever, nothing is more harmful than a enemy who appears as a friend. This is even more true at workplac
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>>The best friends I’ve made at work have usually been in non-competitive departments. Best friendships I've made at work especially with my managers, in my own teams, have happened when I have openly announced I'm not compe
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>>I’ve always worked that way. In school (or in seminars), I ask questions that may have the whole room in stitches, but I always learn the lesson. In my experience, if a question is understood well enough, it basically directly trans
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>>It also ends up undermining faith in true content, which may be outlandish. In all honesty, art in some form or the other has always been simulated to some extent. Heck, the whole idea of a story, even if in a book is something you
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>>I'm not afraid to ask "stupid" questions -That is critical. AI won't judge and shame you in front of the whole world, for asking stupid questions, or not RTFM'ing well enought, like Stackoverflow users do. N
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by kamaal 1y ago
At some point trust will break down to a point, you will actually only believe things from a real human with a badge(talking to them in person). For that matter, My email has been /dev/null for a while now, and unless I have spoke
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Not sure if meritocracy has been on a decline, or that we're now just more aware of it due to the internet. As an Indian, let me tell you, to accept something is wrong, and then just being fine about it, and just adjust your
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>>Some of the most intelligent people I've ever met in math, physics, and computer science don't even use a notebook. They use printer paper and pen. When they're done, they throw the paper away. Donald Knuth works that
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>>I think that Welch spawned a whole bunch of "Mini-Jacks," that worked to be what they thought he wanted. >>The management, however, was terrible, especially at the higher levels. Lots of nice suits and cufflinks, but
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People who don't come from a hardcore engineering background, often fail to understand what goes behind making good engineering deliverables. This problem has complicated since MBA types people have taken over. Everything is a cost cen
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>You’re exactly right that it’s practice. Thinking is a incremental process, you make small changes to things, verify if they are logically consistent and work from there. What is to practice here? If you know something is true, prac
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>>That just strikes me as an odd thing to say. This is along the same lines as why I don't doubt the syntactical features to break. I assume they work. You have to accept some abstraction work, and build on top of it. We will rea
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Again I don't know what people mean when they say it will get more expensive. This is a wrong way of looking at the issue. Pretty sure cars are more expensive than horse carriage, or that iPhones are/were more expensive than butto
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>>There's no reason why an outsourcing firm would charge less for work of equal quality. Most of this works because of price arbitrage. And continues to work that way, not just with outsourcing but with manufacturing too. Remembe
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>>These GH interactions remind me of one of those offshore software outsourcing firms on Upwork or Freelancer.com that bid $3/hr on every project that gets posted. This level of smugness is why outsourcing still continues to exis
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>that's a choice. Yeah, thats the problem. Humans always want more. Its always a choice.
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>>The one thing you'd think it gives them is freedom, but they all pretty much end up working til they die so I don't know. I was having this conversation about this colleague a few weeks back about another colleague we knew
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>>And obviously the reason why it sees such a decline is because AI (ChatGPT and similar) took the job of answering the basic questions about programming that StackOverflow used to help with. A big reason why AI is replacing these thi

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