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by ludicity 3y ago
Very kind of you to say so, thank you!
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by ludicity 3y ago
Very kind of you to say this, thank you! I'd never heard of Cuckoo's Egg but it sounds like it might resonate with me.
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by ludicity 3y ago
I hadn't reasoned my way to this exact mechanism, but I need to reflect on this. You're right that they seem to have no pain response to their own work. Unfortunately, I don't have a theory of mind for this because I feel lik
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by ludicity 3y ago
Yeah, I need a better vocabulary for this. It's like seeing someone who has the height to play for the NBA, and they spend all day on the court, but somehow never take the time to learn how to dribble or shoot. Note: I don't know
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by ludicity 3y ago
Oof, not off the top of my head. I think that's something I wrote about in an older post about an engineering interview I sat, but if you hit up my email, I can speak to one of my co-directors who has done loads of stuff in this space.
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by ludicity 3y ago
Oh for sure, I did read your first paragraph that way. I think what I was trying to communicate (badly) is the message that I want to ingrain in engineering culture writ large - don't let anyone do this unless they're Rich Hickey.
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by ludicity 3y ago
I don't think you can, unfortunately. I've started my own company which does very low revenue at the moment, and that's the only solution I have found - handpicking the whole team from scratch. I've spoken to a few execu
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by ludicity 3y ago
Derek wasn't paid spectacularly well (though above the national average), and also slapped a bunch of copyrighted code into the codebase, then uploaded medical data to GitHub. All of which could have instantly ended his career if the o
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by ludicity 3y ago
Melbourne, Australia. :) I don't hide this so much these days because it was stopping me from meeting cool people, and all the people that would get angry at me don't read Hackernews.
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by ludicity 3y ago
Author here. This is fair. Karwin's book also acknowledges there is a time and place for EAV, though I judged that it would detract from a post that was already quite lengthy. There's a saying I heard a while ago which I really li
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by ludicity 3y ago
Author here. Many of my readers have suggested I read Kleppmann, but I haven't looked at it yet since there are so many good books to go. I didn't realize this was covered in there, but it has shifted the book to near the top of m
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by ludicity 3y ago
Firstly, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Secondly, yes, Derek left for another job immediately afterwards. And he came to us quite highly recommended.
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by ludicity 3y ago
Author here! I love basically everything Rich Hickey does (which is probably not a sign that he is always right, but that he's so much smarter than me that he can convince me of anything). Simple Made Easy was so influential on my earl
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by ludicity 3y ago
Fortunately, this isn't their site, it's mine!
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Praise the Machine Spirit(ludic.mataroa.blog)
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by ludicity 3y ago
Not at all - I probably just wrote badly and gave off the wrong tone there. I love that people can find excitement in almost anything. But uh, yeah, the book is very strange. There are a lot of characters that just take all sorts of insane
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by ludicity 3y ago
I had a great chat with a reader yesterday, where I became very concerned that we aren't incentivizing young people (like myself!) to pick up the "carve code out of firmament" skills. We just rely on certain personality types
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by ludicity 3y ago
I read something great to this effect recently, but I can't remember where. The gist of it is that adding people increases overhead, so the absolute smartest play is to keep the tiniest team physically possible and give them an absurd
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by ludicity 3y ago
I was already going to write that this is a beautifully written comment, and then the high praise at the end sealed the deal! Thank you! I must confess that I am still in the reactionary phase of having watched Simple Made Easy two years ag
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by ludicity 3y ago
I can't remember if I saw this in Slack or Peopleware (either way, very evidence-light books), but they made the great point that there's basically no good data on open plans being better than offices. It's just that you can
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by ludicity 3y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this. "CEOs think they are buying an appliance" sums it all up perfectly. I hold them accountable because they're paid so much that they should know better, but you're right that a
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by ludicity 3y ago
Author here. I have some famous-ish (within medical circles) family members, and it's interesting. On one hand, they have a lot of leeway and status, and at least the hotshots in my family are clearly treated as the medical equivalent
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by ludicity 3y ago
Author here - nothing really to say other than that I think this is bang on the money, and I've used the word meta-work to describe it too (when done correctly). However this doesn't mean this notion isn't possible absolute b
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by ludicity 3y ago
I actually totally agree with all of this, and these are the positive takeaways from the Phoenix Project. It was actually a valuable read despite my ribbing re: prose. There are many things people do wrong with known work/repeatable st
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by ludicity 3y ago
This is a fair critique, and I'm giving it some thought now. I'll need to stew on it a little bit. Maybe the fundamental issue is that many of these products are designed to, as one of the other commenters noted, appear to purchas
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by ludicity 3y ago
Don't stress too much about improving things there, spend time with the colleagues you like, and make incremental (and sometimes major) changes to your life, I think. Not super insightful, but you'll note it's a good idea in
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by ludicity 3y ago
To be fair, my other stuff is full of swearing. He's got me there. Although I started writing at 6PM on a random day after a stupid meeting, and actually tend to agree that there's worthier stuff to be popular - but people click o
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by ludicity 3y ago
Very fair. The funny thing is that I'm pretty jaded, and people tell me that I've got the wrong read. Then I see comments like this where people say "This is so obviously true that it's crazy it bears mentioning". I
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by ludicity 3y ago
Well, there's levels to it, right? I got an invite for a senior role at a company that some people here would recognize, and they had problems that sucked but were reasonable. Most of the problems I see don't really have a good re
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by ludicity 3y ago
Author here. My organization continues to exist in its current massive form due to regulatory capture - I can't provide details and remain anonymous, unfortunately. We would probably survive at 1/10th the size or something akin to

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