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by laserlight 9mo ago
I believe the point is that price is not value.
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by laserlight 10mo ago
As an outsider, I understand what wpietri argues, but I fail to understand yours --- even though I've read other branches of the discussion. Do you argue that wpietri's method still estimates tasks but the estimation is always aro
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by laserlight 10mo ago
I keep fighting this stupid platitude [0]. By that logic, I fail to find anything malicious. Everything could be explained by incompetence, stupidity etc. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147328
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by laserlight 10mo ago
> "Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence" I don't think there's anything that cannot be explained by incompetence, so this statement is moot. If it walks like malice, quacks like malice,
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by laserlight 11mo ago
What does OpenDarwin or PureDarwin, independent projects, have to do with the fact that Darwin, Apple’s OS kernel, is open source?
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by laserlight 11mo ago
> “I don’t see the point of maintaining a documentation for developers. They should be able to grep and understand the code itself” I cannot think that this comment is done in good faith, when I clearly wrote above that documentation sho
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by laserlight 11mo ago
> the problem with waterfall wasn't the detailed spec The detailed spec is exactly the problem with the waterfall development. The spec presumes that it is the solution, whereas Agile says “Heck, we don't even understand our pr
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by laserlight 11mo ago
> There is a spec, but there is no waterfall required to work and maintain it. The problem with waterfall is not that you have to maintain the spec, but that a spec is the wrong way to build a solution. So, it doesn't matter if the
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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron [video](youtube.com)
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by laserlight 11mo ago
Yep. All are valid questions. I would rather have Zuckerberg donate to charitable causes than not. But this kind of bullshit indicates me that it's mainly for show.
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by laserlight 11mo ago
> giving away Giving away to their own LLC, not to a non-profit [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Zuckerberg_Initiative
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by laserlight 1y ago
It's ironic that you described how the 2008 financial crisis came to be to illustrate how “normal” this circularity is.
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by laserlight 1y ago
> Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity. I don't think there's anything that can't be attributed to stupidity, so the statement
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by laserlight 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if customers are easier to convince, than sales people, that the prototype is not suitable for deployment.
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by laserlight 1y ago
That's a gross misrepresentation of reality. It gives the false impression that gold prices always increase, which is not the case. Gold is a volatile asset, i.e., it's a relatively risky investment. It took 8 years for gold to re
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by laserlight 1y ago
Ed Zitron was famous for writing “The Man Who Killed Google Search” [0] (see also its HN thread [1]). [0] https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by laserlight 1y ago
“I'm eating fewer calories yet keep putting on weight.” There's a reason self-reported measures are questioned: they have been wildly off in different domains. Objectively verifying that a car is faster than walking is easy. When
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by laserlight 1y ago
I understand that you would prefer to be more “productive” with AI but without any sales than be less productive without AI but with sales. To clarify, people critical of the “productivity increase” argument question whether the productivit
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by laserlight 1y ago
> if everything aligns then there are superhuman productivity gains. This is a truism and, I believe, is at the core of the disagreement on how useful AI tools are. Some people keep talking about outlier success. Other people are unimpre
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by laserlight 1y ago
Which has been doublespeak from day one.
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by laserlight 1y ago
It's not that hard when you have proper education, scientific practice, understanding that you don't have to succumb to the fear pumped by those in power, and surplus time and energy to put everything in perspective in a constantl
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by laserlight 1y ago
> She's described as an executive and as a director in articles. I once met with a person who used to be a vice president in a major US bank. I was impressed, until much later when I discovered that there were three thousand “vice p
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by laserlight 1y ago
> it's not the millionaires who pull the levers. It's the rank and file. “People can vote whichever side they prefer, as long as their opinions are based on fake news.” It's difficult to talk about rank and file pulling th
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by laserlight 1y ago
Or, the answer is simply “they didn't survive”, which is the case for countless babies who died because an activity as simple as hand-washing wasn't known to be a matter of life and death.
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by laserlight 1y ago
I see. I thought it was quite specific.
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by laserlight 1y ago
Correction: free drugs are over.
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by laserlight 1y ago
> He was someone who played games and manipulated his way through his career. He could say the right things and navigate his way through office politics unscathed while causing damage to everything he touched. Not the one you're re
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by laserlight 1y ago
In a comment in this thread, the author states that they have 12 - 15 years of experience in Go [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985378
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by laserlight 1y ago
No need to sugarcoat it. Some places are cults and it's best to avoid them. Good for GP.
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by laserlight 1y ago
I had a friend who read this essay and understood it as “Don't do things that scale.”

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