marcinzm

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by marcinzm 2y ago
In my experience it's not just the judgement of the manager but the judgement of their whole reporting chain. All of which can read the reviews and may be the ultimate decision makers on promotions/ratings.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
My cynical view is that's it's to find scapegoats especially in companies that have a lot of politics or a lot of PIPs. You generally scapegoat one level down and then let that level push it further down if it can. So the Director
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by marcinzm 2y ago
This is my understanding of the US situation. It used to be that doctors were running their own small medical offices a lot. Unfortunately, due to insurance overhead it's no longer profitable for individual doctors to do that, especial
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> Presumably, once the copyright is allowed to expire, it can't be sold and then reinstated. Derivative works have their own copyrights. The original book is free for grabs but each movie franchise has it's own copyrights. Like
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by marcinzm 2y ago
That seems to benefit large corporations at the expense of smaller artists. Either you focus on making money or some large corporation will swoop in the second you can't and exploit your work for their own profit.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> I think in this sentence, there's a hidden assumption that most projects look like your project(s). That's likely false. You left out the part of that quote where I explained my assumption very clearly: A decently designed sy
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> In any case, the nature of the product / features / refactorings usually dictates the minimum size of a PR. Why not split the big tickets into smaller tickets which are delivered individually? There's cases where you lit
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by marcinzm 2y ago
That's also been my experience. It's part time work for a single on call engineer on a team of 6-8. If it's their full time work for a given sprint then we have an urgent retro item to discuss around bug rates, code quality a
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by marcinzm 2y ago
It feels like having 50% of your team's time be spent on urgent support, triage and bugs is a lot. That seems like a much better thing to solve versus trying to work around the issue by splitting the team. Probably having those people
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by marcinzm 2y ago
It's I think sort of clear from everything that Automattic's leadership doesn't seem to understand that running a business means you're running a business. You're not making a side project, working on a hobby or run
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by marcinzm 2y ago
As I see it, aside from the obvious (Security, food, etc.) money lets you focus more on certain activities of your own choice. Either through more time or more efficient use of time (ie: pay for a coach, etc.). This can make you happier if
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Anecdotes are not data, and requiring perfection is a really odd bar for working or not working.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Tensorflow works really well in theory. In practice a lot less so. I saw someone spend months fighting Tensorflow to convert a production model from CPU to GPU inference with any sort of efficiency. Tons of issues due to bugs across version
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Cursor IDE with Claude 3.5 has been very beneficial for me in terms of productivity. Others a lot less so.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
This is what the repo says: >Results >Ariane RISC-V CPU >View the full details of the Ariane experiment on our details page. With this code we are able to get comparable or better results training from scratch as fine-tuning a pre-
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by marcinzm 2y ago
May have something to do with who the supplier of natural gas to Europe used to be.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
As I see it, Rich's stance is that of an expert in the database that doesn't need to deliver business features using the database. New users are not experts and even experienced users that work for companies have pressure to deliv
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Isn't that the case for almost every single VC backed startup?
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by marcinzm 2y ago
That proves the opposite point. At small scale FAANG solutions are non-sensical. At 100 petabytes good luck running your code on a laptop.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> Wild, I would literally never work for a company where I had this kind of relationship with my direct manager. My direct manager should be in my corner and on my side always. They will get me the highest pay, highest title, best perks,
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Isn't that currently the case except for a very small number of people?
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Is that so different than now for all but a few human elites?
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> Generalists often innovate better than specialists So hire generalist seniors? They exist. Sounds like the author wants to patch a broken hiring system (only specialists get hired as seniors) by throwing juniors at it. Throwing juniors
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Fortune 500 executives aren't the idiots you think they are. Some are but most aren't and most are moving to cloud.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> What large corporation would ever sign up to that? Ones with the power to have some very nice contract terms put into place to mitigate downsides in the medium term. If it's a problem long term then that'll be the next CEOs p
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by marcinzm 2y ago
The problem is that 90% of founders will take it as such right away versus reflecting on their own personal skill set first given how it's being framed.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
As I see it, certain founders can function well in founder mode due to their knowledge, personality and luck in term of business positioning. Most can't. Most founders also won't make $100b companies. The latter type of founder tr
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by marcinzm 2y ago
> doesn't make political decisions. Twitter is made of people and owned by people who use it to make political decisions. That was the case before Musk and is still the case after Musk.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
Between Elon deciding who to block (and he blocks quiet often) and democratically elected governments deciding, I prefer the one that's got at least some checks and balances.
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by marcinzm 2y ago
That's for the nations courts to decide and not Elon. It's just an excuse to support authoritarian governments that have no checks and balances in their constitutions at all.

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