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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Yes.
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
It's really the people writing the requirements who are driving a lot of these things. Customers are used to Gmail, FB etc. and want similar experiences.
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
I have around 25 years of web development experience and I'd also put some of the blame on PMs and growth hackers who want to build rich UI experiences where often a simple site would suffice. Add UX people with limited knowledge of HT
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Uhm. Why do you limit your reasoning to people doing this to stop their shift early?
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
I think that we do not know whether he is on the autism spectrum. There are articles where RMS states a suspicion but he never underwent an evaluation afaik.
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
I mean these allegations from established researchers etc. are pretty damning https://twitter.com/grok_/status/1375049417926053894
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
But it's not JavaScript. It's something similar to JavaScript.
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
There is so much wrong with this article... Where to begin...
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
If you want to grok Scrum you should read James Coplien's A Scrum Book or his related work on patterns. Also, the bean counters have won. In most enterprise companies "Agile" is nothing more than top down micromanagement.
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Agreed. I know plenty of highly intelligent, super talented and experienced people who had to take multiple rounds to get into Google. I myself tried it once and made it to the hiring committee, but was ultimately rejected. I was an experie
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
I think this is partially bad advice, sorry. Sure, algorithmic thinking is valuable, but linear programming and complexity theory has no bearing on 99% of all web development jobs that require JavaScript and in this context I think this fet
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
It takes 180s to import Statistics, PlutoUI, Images and OffsetArrays in Pluto on this Macbook Pro with 32GB that is a couple of years old, while the fans are going crazy. If I'm unlucky a worker process will seg fault. All in all the i
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Why not both? Many people would still want to be able to tip for good service even if the employees are paid adequately by their employer, and most of those customers expect the employer to not touch that money at all.
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Clojure's persistent collection types include List, Vector, Map, Set and you have namespaced keywords. In general, I don't see how you can compare the approach of Rich Hickey and Clojure to PHP to be honest...
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
This offers an interesting tangent to me: is the dumbing down of the user experience what ultimately opens the door for dark patterns?
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
It's nice imo, the precompilation step is a bit slow imho. Also not sure whether I'm a big fan of its module system.
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
These kind of discussions happen in many work chats in Europe.
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Enhance it in other areas? I doubt it. If you go by Barkley's model, ADHD is mainly executive dysfunction and might just as well be called intention deficit disorder. Hyper focus conversely is what is called perseveration and it is act
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
It is true mainly because if you forget about the clock your opponent will run it down after some initial courtesy :)
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
> I think Google saw a black female PhD and jumped to hire her. All the boxes, and a well respected PhD. So it's hard to imagine how they'd be racist against someone they head hunted and desperately wanted. I don't think t
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Counter point: ADHD, especially when undiagnosed or untreated, is a killer. https://www.ajmc.com/view/psychologist-barkley-says-life-exp...
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
In my case the big tech interview was simultaneously harder and easier than I expected. As long as you are somewhat smart, I think it should be doable with enough preparation and a lot of it has to do with nerves. I made it to the committee
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
I mean the machiavellian interpretation looks like this to me: Google's AI in Ethics initiative is a PR exercise, similar to greenwashing and other models employed by big business. It fundamentally has to be, because large parts of the
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Everyone should read your comment. YLC's initial reply was shockingly reductionist and myopic. How can supposedly smart people, software engineers who are used to thinking in systems and dependencies be so stupid? There is a blindspot
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
You say: > Yes, absolutely! We've taken the legal side of this very seriously since we realize it has the potential to be interpreted as "free labor Your copy reads: > Add talented software engineers to your team for a 4 wee
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Bus-factors are usually an organizational smell. What I mean by that, even if the individual is doing it on purpose (in order to control people in their gate keeper role or to have heroic tales to tell) the failure is the organizational str
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
One framing that I found useful (by Covey Jr I think): Capabilities, results, integrity, intent. A bad engineer is so deficient in one or more of those areas that it leads to issues of trust from which a snowball starts to roll downhill. Th
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Exactly, to use the framing of "Speed of Trust" by Covey, trust has multiple dimensions, if you only focus on the skills and results dimension you end up with toxic employees with malicious intent or who have a profound lack of in
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Oregon Trail Generation checking in. IRC, even the rowdy networks, had no free speech thanks to the 'tyranny' of channel operators. #politics on EFNet was (is?) notoriously right wing for instance. Message boards had no free speec
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by kitsune_ 6y ago
This is one of the best recommendations for "beginners" because it offers actionable advice and tools.

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