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by klenwell 9y ago
This NY Times article that got a fair bit of attention a couple years ago details just how shady it is: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/magazine/bad-... I'd be surprised if this
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Interesting point. Reminds me of one of the major arguments in Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steels as to why the Old World conquered the New and not vice-versa. Eurasia is a "landscraper" (oriented longitudinally) allowin
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by klenwell 9y ago
This is the technique I've adopted. Interestingly when I was first introduced to scrum years ago, this is how my team was taught to estimate stories. Find similar stories (or, if you're just getting started, requests of comparable
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What find of monster? A frumious frowster who, while he certainly appreciates the rightness of such a term, would argue that it's already lost. I've certainly never seen the word used before and fully never expect to hear it again
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My favorite recent story on estimates comes from a previous company. (I've written about them before. There are reasons I am not working for them any more.) Before I was unceremoniously shown the door, we had been discussing a rewrite
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A lot of these words strike me as arcane and obscure. Keep them in the OED, mention them in articles like this, but I don't see them having a lot of practical usage. I do have a special affection for the words fingerpost and mountweaze
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IARPA forecasting tournament pits humans vs. machines and human-machine hybrids(hybridforecasting.com)
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I worked with an analyst a few years ago. I'll call her Alice. Alice wasn't very good at her job. She was ok and could get stuff done with sufficient hand-holding. The problem was she was really insecure. Alice worried that she wa
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Of course, when Larry David is involved, things can get a little more complicated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De90ozOOquY
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As a fan of Oscar Wilde, I find the headline's suggestion that he shares some kind of allegiance with the likes of Jeff Sessions or Donald Trump Jr. unsavory. Here's the passage near the end of article that struggles to pardon the
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by klenwell 9y ago
I think the original Joel Test still holds up well and I still use it when I interview with companies. But these questions might get to culture issues that ultimately affect code quality and developer well-being: - Are developers/emplo
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This is great. I especially like these parts: > The candidate can use their own laptop, or we will provide them one. The test is contained in a github repo, and consists of a couple dozen unit-tested challenges. > The candidate is enc
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Agree with this completely. Spent over a year job-hunting and found Glassdoor reviews to be a useful tool. I'd often remember to look up a company on Glassdoor after an iffy interview. It sent me running away from a couple places I was
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A MacGuffin (a.k.a. McGuffin or maguffin) is a term for a motivating element in a story that is used to drive the plot. It serves no further purpose. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin Nev
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Actually, reading James Flynn's book What Is Intelligence?, I got the impression that environment and culture plays a huge factor in IQ. Genetics is a factor, obviously, too. But accepting IQ as a mostly function of race or sex, which
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A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich People, and Moby Dick(longreads.com)
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For a great self-deprecating parody of BBC Values, and modern office culture generally, I highly recommend the BBC series, W1A. It should be available on Netflix. Here's one of my favorite scenes, where Hugh Bonneville's character
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Ha. I can relate. At my last gig, it wasn't the seniors developers (well, it was some of them, too). It was the principal developer. As my supervisor, he told me, a senior developer, I asked too many questions. "A senior developer
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by klenwell 9y ago
Yes. If you can trick senior citizens into giving you the information over the phone, you've got a legitimate business in the eyes of the banking industry. This was a scam that caught my grandmother 10 years ago. The New York Times did
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Agreed. I'm in no position to give up my lifestyle and the conveniences and predilections that accompany it, but reading this article about an American anthropologist who was betrothed to a Yamomami women while doing field work in the
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by klenwell 9y ago
It contains multitudes, to be certain. The other aspect of the novel that people familiar with it only by its reputation often underestimate: it's humor. It's a sly often oblique humor, by turns Shakespearian, Victorian, and almos
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Funny you suggest market competition. In The Big Short movie, it's competition that the ratings agency rep played Melissa Leo cites to explain their corrupt ratings: Georgia: If we don't give them the rating, they go to Moody&#x27
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Put another way: if you've seen the movie The Big Short, it's like they cut out all the Florida scenes. If you haven't seen The Big Short, it's still on Netflix.
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> Why would any human think blockchains and not stocks when you talk about investing? Good question. What I've seen enough millenials to slightly alarm me is that they don't think stocks or blockchains but multi-level marketing
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I'm not seeing any of the patterns[0] (e.g. gliders) you see in the original game. It just looks like noise. Which is, in some sense, Life as I know it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Exa
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This New Yorker article from March provides a lot of background on Russia's "Hybrid War" strategy and its motivations: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-an... Readi
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A big part of the rational and moral justification for diversity initiatives and affirmative action programs, as I understand them, is as a means to help correct the history of institutional racism and discrimination in this country. So whi
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Yes, this. Convincing managers to focus on the minimal viable implementation that users can start productively using sooner rather than later and building from there is a real art of senior developers in my experience. A variation on this t
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It also conflates the hiring needs of a large mature corporation like Google with those of a struggling startup: We try hard, but again find ourselves with a 98% male candidate pool. You should know that we are an early stage startup that
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I've seen 50-page project specs written before the dev team even new there was a new project. But PMO board. Ouch. At the other extreme, you have your process-adverse adhocracy where your brilliant new lead developer unilaterally decid

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