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by mattm 6y ago
> I recommend watching the video series introducing TLA+ by Lamport I'm guessing this is the video series for anyone looking for a link https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html
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by mattm 6y ago
I just finished reading the book "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal". Very highly recommended for anyone interested in the early days of computing and the internet and the people
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> When you should (and shouldn't) buy things For me, any non-trivial purchase I put on a list. If I'm still thinking about buying it a week or two later then I'll buy it. This not only saves money but saves clutter as we
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by mattm 6y ago
> if BTC got to a point where it didn't change more than 25% value in a year with a normal-ish economy, I'd have to reevaluate You could probably cherry-pick some dates between Q2 2018 and end of 2019 that would come pretty clo
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by mattm 6y ago
I used to think so too but now it's become obvious that someone else is sending on behalf of the "CTO" or I've just been added into an automated funnel.
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A process like this may work for new grads or entry level roles. With the rise of bootcamps and greater popularity for programming, the trend seems to be going towards "Let's put everyone possible into the funnel and see who make
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It looks like this is mentioned as a possible change to the oath[1] from a 2015 report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission[2]. But if the current government of Canada website lists the oath without the phrase "including treatie
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Wow, thanks for the background on this. I lived in Japan previously and I had always assumed that there was no Shinkansen to Narita due to airline lobbying. Most international flights go through Tokyo. If you live in Nagoya or Osaka and
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Wouldn't that be the advice you would give a friend if they were fretting about something that had a very low likelihood of happening? Would you be happy with them spending energy on something that has no impact on their life?
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Completely agree. My motto for work is that you want to care the right amount. It's hopefully obvious that caring too little is bad. But caring too much can also be a bad thing.
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Yeah from what I've read, people who work longer feel more productive but in reality they're less productive. I would guess it's from your stress hormones constantly being engaged. This also jives with my experience noticing
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This is a good This American Life podcast about that issue: > Two towns where people got really upset about undocumented immigrants, even though in both places, that did not seem to be the most important thing happening at all. One of th
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Yeah this confused me for a long time as well. I then realized that there is tremendous value in something that acts as a reliable store of value. For example, rich people are known to buy expensive art and then lock it away in a warehouse
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Did you buy low and sell high?
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I'm a mentor on CodePath.org - https://codepath.chronus.com/ I've only had one mentee so far but it worked out pretty well. Maybe sign up and reach out to a few mentors on there that are doing work that would be
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by mattm 6y ago
I agree. I'm left leaning and if I read Reddit I see the same hateful arguments that people on the other side of the political spectrum use. The words may differ but the arguments are the same.
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We've seen something similar at work where 2 or 3 people will come across an obscure bug in our code all in the same week. When looking into the root cause it turned out that the bug was created 18 months ago. So for 18 months it went
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by mattm 6y ago
As a software engineer who has been woken up in the middle of the night while oncall because some random user wanted to run their own performance tests against our system, I can completely understand why companies want to prevent this from
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I do this as well. It's the best signal to noise ratio. Developers spend much more time reading code and understanding the system rather than writing code, yet interview questions don't acknowledge this. It also works even if th
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Me too. I've always felt that 5 - 6 hour days would be ideal. This assumes though that I have a short commute.
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by mattm 6y ago
Why not ask people to work 6 days a week then? /s I'd disagree about your work compounds part. A fresher mind, due to more leisure time, will solve problems faster and reach insights quicker. I've seen friends ramp up their
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by mattm 6y ago
The best resource I've found on estimating is "When Will it be Done?" by Vacanti. The great thing about the system outlined in the book is that it fits into any software development workflow system without requiring change a
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Look at Shin Dong-hyuk's story. I read his book "Escape from Camp 14" several years ago and then afterwards came to find out that a lot of it was misrepresented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-h
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by mattm 6y ago
1. No, the post is still available for viewing. They're just stopping it from spreading. I'm free to write an article. A media company like NY Times or Fox has no obligation to spread that article to their viewers. 2. Yes - you
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Perfect example of "whataboutism"
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It's difficult for people to reconcile the real person when all they know is the carefully crafted public persona.
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I just want to say I love this comment. It would have taken a negative situation and turned it into a possible win-win scenario.
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I would guess suicide is what the poster is implying.
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Thank you. This is great. A lot of other commenters in the thread alluded to leadership vs. managing but this is a great, concise summary of the differences.
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It also means that the managerial work is distributed amongst the team rather than focused on a smaller number of individuals. That distributes the power and decision making at the expense of individual productivity. I suppose generalists

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