mcqueenjordan

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   by mcqueenjordan 3y ago

   https://jm.dev About me, learning, software engineering, and life.
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   by mcqueenjordan 3y ago

   I structured my hourly classes with a rough target of 20 min of free-form conversation (usually on a topic or two I or the sensei wrote down in a shared google doc ahead of time) followed by 40 min of structured lesson prepared by the sense
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   by mcqueenjordan 3y ago

   I took it in high school prior (for two years), so when starting, I knew ~all of the kana characters, maybe a dozen kanji characters, and had a very solid pronunciation baseline, but had mostly forgotten how to conduct basic conversations o
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   by mcqueenjordan 3y ago

   This was what I did for acquiring the Japanese language. I definitely credit it for my success. After seeing how successful it was, from both an efficiency perspective and from a motivation/accountability perspective, I promised myself
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   by mcqueenjordan 3y ago

   I'm sure there are major methodological issues with what gets added to that list (I myself have seen some very questionable includes), but ultimately it's a trivial objection -- the overarching theme is very clear -- you cannot tr
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   by mcqueenjordan 3y ago

   I haven't thought a lot about that, but it's a great question. Maybe: 1. Try to affect a culture of and signal "we're working together / collaborating, not competing with each other." 2. Make it clear that you&
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   by mcqueenjordan 3y ago

   All of this looks accurate, but it's worth contextualizing: this is an optimization that bears the most fruit in "local frames of reference" -- the timescales where linear scans beat index lookups are likely to be strictly do
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   by mcqueenjordan 3y ago

   1. Psychological safety is key. 2. Onboarding buddy. Someone good at explaining the systems and not too oversubscribed. 3. Onboarding plan/doc/reading list. 4. Constant vigilance to keep your systems simple/understandable, an
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   DevEx: What Drives Productivity?(dl.acm.org)

   2 points by mcqueenjordan 3y ago|0 comments
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    by mcqueenjordan 3y ago

    Search routinely doesn’t work lately. Wrong results and/or extremely slow. Just my anecdotal experience but corroborated by others.
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    https://danluu.com/blog-ads/
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    Kind of ironic that the fifth word of the first paragraph is presumably supposed to be "to", but it is typo'd as "ot", when the subject of the sentence is about the sequence of characters. I have to imagine this was
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    But somewhat ironically, Greenland is less green and more icy and Iceland is more green and less icy. :)
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    We needn't be Nazis about technical glitches; these things happen.
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    Amazon compensates your first year (the low % vesting year) with an entirely equivalent amount in full cash. Which is arguably better -- so I don't get your point.
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    Very nice, I also like the other yojijukugo displayed at the bottom, especially jyuunintoiro. I enjoy (what I perceive as) the subtle wordplay of having two different readings of the same character (ten) in the word, hinting at the sort of
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    Emacs to me is probably one of the better examples of The Right Thing (c.f. Worse is Better essay), where UNIX is one of the canonical examples of WIB. I really like your point about systems approach -- it's definitely a very holistic,
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    The problem the author is describing is not really intrinsic to monorepos, and it’s probably a symptom of a specific problem that Stripe has in its implementation. As the saying goes, the only thing worse than a monorepo is two monorepos.
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    (Assuming they haven't pushed an update and/or it didn't display weird on his browser/form factor/resolution/device.)
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    That’s all well and good. I still think the quote stands on its own as a great philosophy for how to approach scrutiny as a large business. Philosophy and execution are separate!
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    I really despise auto-delete policies. Obviously, because of the inconvenience and all the context/history/search capability you lose, but also because it's addressing the problem the wrong way. Rather than be accountable for
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    I really like a lot of the conclusions the article draws -- 1:1 tutoring, Taking Children Seriously, Access to an Exceptional Milieu, etc. However, I have always thought that the answer to the question "What happened to all the geniuse
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    It's just the rules: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." The original title (on the page linked) is "Google Maps Hacks".
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    I didn't think this idea was all that far out there in the first place, was it?
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    They sold their company to Google. Acquisitions like that typically come with special terms for large shareholders of the company being acquired.
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    I don't disagree with your broader point, but I'll make a small nit that I don't think peer/spot bonuses are a meaningful-enough portion of TC that they matter from a financial perspective (unless the numbers have change
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    I've had times where I stopped the "5 Why's" process short of getting into the human-squishy organizational root causes because I knew the problems were too big to be solved in the context of that particular COE/pos
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    I assume this would be slightly more clear as "aren't tracked by radar anymore [by their controllers]" -- who does what tracking and how, of course, wildly varies. (Not trying to be overly pedantic, just saying out loud my in
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    Oh wow, I had no idea that was a feature. That significantly hampers extending the tools in the future. Has there ever been a discussion to consider breaking that functionality? (I understand it could be a huge impact & not worth it, bu
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    by mcqueenjordan 4y ago

    What went into the decision to use the DSL that you did, versus (for example) SQL? I always miss writing SQL queries, so I got excited when I initially thought queries would be written in SQL.