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by larsrc 5y ago
It's similar to how when an engineering colleague says "I'm getting a weird error here", I go over to their desk (assuming WFO), ask them to explain what they're doing, look at their screen, and ask them to run a fe
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by larsrc 5y ago
If you're in a union, bring a union lawyer. If you're not, well, this is why you might want to be.
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by larsrc 5y ago
I like the phrasing "software engineering is programming integrated over time." It involves things like rollouts, migrations, deprecations, adapting to new requirements, and designing in so a way as to make all those easier.
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by larsrc 5y ago
Gödel says you do.
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by larsrc 5y ago
Building a house is just lumber and nails.
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by larsrc 5y ago
If electricity was an unlimited non-polluting resource, sure. But when my neighborhood mining rig coal power plant gives me cancer, it's not just a simple marketplace thing.
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by larsrc 5y ago
"nobody cares if your chain tip is the longest in the interrim," Except the people you bought something real-world from, once they figure out that their "tipcoin" is worthless. So now it's a question of convincing s
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by larsrc 5y ago
A fun page! I agree that blind-testing would be important, especially having the name shown in red draws a lot of attention. A possibly better method (but harder to implement) would be to show code snippets briefly, then ask a related quest
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by larsrc 5y ago
Also having to deal with the differences between different markets, internationalisation, auditing required at larger size, greater reliability requirements, etc. And over time, the first designs will turn out to have problems, so you have
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by larsrc 5y ago
"Sendung mit der Maus", 50 years and still going strong.
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by larsrc 5y ago
Are you looking for the American version of the _Inter_net? It's over on yahoo.com.
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by larsrc 5y ago
This is the "it's a bug in the compiler" of cooking. If you think hundreds of years worth of collective professional experience is wrong and you're right, well, maybe you're not. My guess is the wrongness is either
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by larsrc 5y ago
The sarcasm is strong with this one.
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by larsrc 6y ago
+1. Though remember we're talking averages, and different people have different sleep needs. One would think some of them saw enough increase in sleep quality to show up in the stats.
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by larsrc 6y ago
Plenty of offense: why are you even asking why they're doing research into ways to improve people's well-being, especially poor people? Yes, giving money helps, I'm all for UBI, but maybe there are other approaches that are c
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by larsrc 6y ago
Yes. I do 20 minutes of nap most afternoons, and it helps immensely. Though "nap" is a misnomer, I don't actually try to sleep, just sit or lie comfortably with my eyes closed and as few noises and interruptions as possible.
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by larsrc 6y ago
Naps are great. Taking 20 minutes of nap turned my afternoons from distraction zone into my most productive time.
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by larsrc 6y ago
For a healthy person in a good bed without interruptions, 8 hours. But if you have trouble falling back to sleep after being woken up, you can lose a fair amount in a noisy environment. If your bed is bad, you may wake up or not fall into a
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by larsrc 6y ago
This shows (sort of) that the computer does better in situations where humans are known to fail. It's entirely likely that the computers will have new and unexpected failure modes that humans would never run into.
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by larsrc 6y ago
https://brandondong.github.io/css-turing-machine/ Literally 7 entries further down.
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by larsrc 6y ago
Clearly you need to find better teams. It's always been an option on the teams I've been on.
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by larsrc 6y ago
Having been programming for almost forty years, in everything from machine code over C to functional languages, I do not find the shorter version "more obviously" right. It requires more commentary to explain here and depends on p
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by larsrc 6y ago
Are you arguing that we should leave known crash bugs in the code?
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To which my wife says, "Well, we've always said information wants to be free." I (heart) my wife.
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by larsrc 6y ago
Click-bait title, but many good points.
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by larsrc 6y ago
I would have taken this article more seriously if an RSS feed icon had appeared among the social media icons below the title.
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by larsrc 6y ago
I would have taken this article more serious if an RSS feed icon had appeared among the social media icons below the title.
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by larsrc 6y ago
GNU Hello World is 700k as a .tar.gz: https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/
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by larsrc 6y ago
If you think the biggest problem of blogging is that nobody will read your work, you're not blogging, you're angling for popularity (or ad dollars, which comes out to the same in the end). If you have something interesting to writ
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by larsrc 6y ago
I find most of my blog entries using search engines. And I suspect I'm not alone in this. Blocking search engines gives you a serious bootstrap problem.

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