lostdog

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by lostdog 5y ago
> As a manager, it’s really not hard to see who’s actually doing what within a team. You may be good at this, but lots of managers are not.
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by lostdog 5y ago
I have two ways of reframing this that help me: Every time you find yourself comparing yourself to someone richer, also pick out someone poorer and compare yourself to them at the same time. Should that poorer person be a ton more miserable
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by lostdog 5y ago
I have frequently had code like this: if other < mine: update_comments(other, mine) write_billing(other) and then I paste it, but get the indentation wrong on the last line, and it falls outside of the if block
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by lostdog 5y ago
Do you never move code around? Especially moving things into and out of loops? That was my experience in Python. -> These statements need to be in this other loop. -> Cut...paste -> Reindent -> Turn my brain to extreme paranoia,
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by lostdog 5y ago
You can do similar types of work, but target speed increases instead. Getting all the batch jobs to finish faster can help developer productivity, and is even worthwhile at a new startup.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Linux is a different beast, and the big variety of choices you get is a special thing about Linux and not a detriment. If you're not sure what to use, just use Ubuntu. It's a great default distro.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Yes, and for all adults we should too. It shouldn't be possible to take out so much debt on such bad terms that you fuck up your life. Bankruptcy should be available for these cases, and lenders should be responsible for checking that
488.
by lostdog 5y ago
At some point you have to accept that being the 100,000th best at something is just fine.
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by lostdog 5y ago
I didn't understand the context of this tweet at first, but now I do. This is a congressman from Kentucky, who is using his installation of battery power into his home (which is legitimately cool) to cover for his political talking poi
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by lostdog 5y ago
No. No they are not. I just bought my 3rd X1 Carbon (gen 9), and then returned it the next week. It made a constant buzz. $$$$ laptops aren't supposed to sound like the cheapest USB charger knockoff. Plus it would never go to sleep (so
491.
by lostdog 5y ago
Same reason math uses letters rather than words. It's easier to pattern match strings that are short. Having one `mr`/`mw` is confusing, but taking up whole lines with long strings can obscure the logic of the code.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Thanks! I guess I'll check back in 5 years and see who was right.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Very interesting. This reminds me a ton of L4, with its message passing style. I'm curious if it was inspired by L4. It's a great talk, and my only disappointment was that I was hoping to hear about what comes after. After watchin
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by lostdog 5y ago
Last year I figured it out from first principles, like some of the other commenters, but that problem was one of the hardest for me (like the tile rotating problem, which was excellent). This year, my rule is that if it looks like the Chine
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by lostdog 5y ago
I do get tired of reading code that isn 't formatted in a clear way because the autoformatter is a slave to the column limit and especially in the case of 1. lists 2. instructions. 3. Other things tha
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by lostdog 5y ago
> Assuming you are high up enough in the organization. Unless junior developers get the same plan and coverage as the CFO. Companies are required to offer the same benefits to all employees, so yes you do get the same health insurance as
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by lostdog 5y ago
No, they are not bounded.
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by lostdog 5y ago
> People are incredibly reluctant to believe that ailments might actually be partly or mainly psychological. There are two simple reasons why people don't want their ailments to be psychological. First, there are no real tests for d
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by lostdog 5y ago
Not caring enough to try to come up with good names. I see tons of functions named update_data and get_state and add_items in the business logic sections, which should be named for the specific things they touch. But laziness leads to using
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by lostdog 5y ago
c) She was kept locked up and threatened, and was trotted out for a few hours here and there as a photo op to cover up her imprisonment.
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by lostdog 5y ago
I have seen a lot of AI tech that took pages and pages to explain how it works. However, it only takes one paragraph or picture to explain the product/business benefits. I see founders get really attached to the technical details of th
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by lostdog 5y ago
I don't know the background, but I do think that saying or implying that he was conniving or strategically malicious would be a lie. Are you suggesting that he may not even be bipolar?
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by lostdog 5y ago
For example, Facebook is dying because they focus on engagement and ignore enjoyment. You can measure engagement, so it fits neatly into a key result, but enjoyment is hard to measure, so the entire company is blind to it.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Writing OKRs is useful. Strict grading of OKRs is worse than useless. During the year (or quarter), your picture of what's useful and feasible becomes more and more precise. So your OKRs that you wrote at the beginning are worse than y
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by lostdog 5y ago
I'm just pointing out a common engineering principle: Trying to optimize two solutions together is often more difficult than trying to optimize them separately. I hope I'm not coming across as overly negative here. If these things
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by lostdog 5y ago
Similar to solar roadways, I would expect there are many reasons to separate the solar panels and the farm. For example, maybe the solar panels restrict the types of tractors you can use. Maybe the fields sometimes create too much condensat
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by lostdog 5y ago
They should still compare solar+farm, to covering the farm with canvas shade and having the solar panels elsewhere.
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by lostdog 5y ago
> Why do you feel entitled to live at any particular location (that was not actually inherited)? For me, it's less about my own life, and more about how terrible the world is when people get pushed out of their homes. Most people ne
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by lostdog 5y ago
> If you want to protest the parking scheme and you complain to Trader Joe’s you won’t get anywhere TJ does care that it's customers want to come to the store, and they do have some power during lease negotiations. Making it bad PR
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by lostdog 5y ago
The reference design document was both an interesting read, and gave a lot of detail on how the system aims to be as safe as possible: https://openaps.org/reference-design/

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