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by ludicity 1y ago
Most of them hit #1 on Hackernews or close to it. That's usually between 100K and 300K hits, and they're pretty high-quality hits since it's usually non-trash software engineers, contrasted with the twelve year olds you'
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by ludicity 1y ago
Every single reader on my blog that has sent me high-quality written material of their own has independently gone viral without any signal boosting from me. Off the top of my head, Iris Meredith, Mira Welner, Scott Smitelli, Daniel Sidhion.
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by ludicity 1y ago
I've made this point many times and the only possible answers are: 1. The people promising AGI are lying 2. The people promising AGI don't know what they're saying 3. The people promising AGI are hedging against AGI not event
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by ludicity 1y ago
Oh man, I really, really wish that you hadn't said this and also that you were wrong.
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by ludicity 2y ago
I use em-dashes correctly because a reader emailed me, and I was dreadfully embarrassed. You can actually see them become correct in my writing after the "I will pile drive you" AI thing. It never occurred to me that doing this co
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Corporate "DEI" is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals(charity.wtf)
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by ludicity 2y ago
I'm the author! I've had tons of corroborating experience, and many readers with it, but I will say that there are two extreme exceptions. I have two readers with no FAANG experience that consistently find jobs with their CVs at s
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by ludicity 2y ago
It definitely took me way more than 25 hours as a kid to beat Pokemon Blue! But I was so young that I didn't understand that "Oak: Hello!" meant that someone called Oak was talking. The glitched Pokemon you're talking ab
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by ludicity 2y ago
I'm Malaysian, and in tech (though I've left the country), and this is all accurate. 2 in particular is huge. It's super weird seeing my country make headlines, but only in a way where I don't recognize the place they&#x
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Stable of Delivery Professionals(phils-web-site.net)
1 points by ludicity 2y ago|0 comments
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by ludicity 2y ago
No harm, no foul. :) You might very well be right, but I chose to interpret it literally (there are lots of people that are otherwise pleasant that I don't get along with and that's fine) rather than as an insult. I actually had a
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by ludicity 2y ago
The joy of not having many clients yet, haha. Also sorry that I haven't responded to the email. :( I currently have 451 from readers and have had to accept that I can't get to all of them.
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by ludicity 2y ago
I am the author and was puzzling over how to respond to this, but yeah, this is basically it. I still have very little tolerance for a certain level of incompetence (don't work at a hospital if you're going to crash prod repeatedl
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by ludicity 2y ago
You can obviously substitute a book for whatever you want, but a great book is a huge accelerator. And yeah, it has to be good, which doesn't seem very controversial. Fluent Python is a great example of this. I could, with enough effor
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by ludicity 2y ago
Probably because my audience is probably 90% software engineers, and many of them have more experience and technical skill than me. I only really dare to advise people in the first 1-3 years of their tech journey on actual tech topics.
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by ludicity 2y ago
I spend a lot of time talking to non-I.T people due to my partner being a veterinarian and the local improv/music scene. The absolute disdain people have for the idea of sitting at a desk and taking orders from pointy-haired manager is
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by ludicity 2y ago
I will never recover from this psychologically or financially. My life will be neatly divided into before this comment, and after this comment, and ever shall I long for the former to no avail.
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by ludicity 2y ago
It sounds like you'd be a brilliant developer by most standards, but have the curse of understanding the gap between yourself and a top 0.0001% Linux kernel contributing supergenius. Drop my consultancy an email in case we do enough re
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by ludicity 2y ago
We've been floating the idea of giving everyone on the team Wednesdays off, fully paid, to read non-technical material while they're benched. We haven't done it yet because I pay rent and am worried that maybe we aren't
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by ludicity 2y ago
I studied with some very cool people. One joined my consultancy, and the other won a million dollars in a machine learning competition before we graduated. Unfortunately, yeah, we were all removed from the workforce in a conventional sense
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by ludicity 2y ago
LLMs are actually great for book recommendations. Still not quite as good as looking up "HN best book on unit testing" for most topics, but great for niche things. But, to be honest, my go-to move these days is joining a community
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by ludicity 2y ago
You might enjoy this recent article from my friend Adolfo: https://ochagavia.nl/blog/to-broadcast-or-not-to-broadcast/ But yeah, broadcasting has been great for my career. I don't even broadcast maximally emp
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by ludicity 2y ago
Yeah, like, these are explicitly bad things. I have no idea how the commenter above thought those were brags, those are self-owns. My Master's thesis took 5x longer than it should have because there were no tests or version control, I
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by ludicity 2y ago
Yeah, this is probably a sad truth. Something weird is that, as a consultant now, no one asks me to jump through hoops. They just talk to me, I provide sensible guidance and insight, then we get paid to work. I have absolutely no idea why c
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by ludicity 2y ago
Hah, I wish I could take credit for that, but the writing is pretty explicitly a claim that you can 80/20 a lot of domains (see Dan Luu's writing on Overwatch), then you spend a billion years practicing. I wonder how people are re
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by ludicity 2y ago
Author here! You might like David Whyte's writing on "genius". It's sad when you want to be the best of the best in a specific thing, but almost anyone can blend their natural aptitudes in a few distinct fields to the be
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by ludicity 2y ago
Author here! Firstly, thank you for the kind words. And secondly, this is quickly becoming apparent. I'm trying to run sales in Australia, my whole network is here, etc, but most of our good leads are at American companies. I know some
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by ludicity 2y ago
Peter Singer, even though I'm not really a utilitarian, really helped my thinking skills at university. Formal logic and political philosophy were probably the two greatest units I ever took!
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by ludicity 2y ago
We meet again! And yes, I try to keep the reading to 9-5, at least on technical topics. My team is free to read as much as they want when they're benched, and we tend to read in pairs so that we have discussion partners. Although since
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by ludicity 2y ago
Through the blog I get to meet a lot of people from all walks of life, and this has broadly been the consensus, with some exceptions. "Never try" is maybe unique to I.T, "remain fundamentally incompetent or try incorrectly&qu

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