milesvp

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by milesvp 5y ago
> We bias these decisions towards throughput (I blame Taylorism). I think he's ignoring another tradeoff that may be hiding which leads to a bias towards throughput. One of my favorite lessons with regard to video is something that
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by milesvp 5y ago
I worked in a big box retailer a couple decades ago. They had metrics that showed them every time a customer entered the store it was worth $50. This created a huge incentive to handle returns, since just being in the store “made them money
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by milesvp 5y ago
I find smurfing funny. I’ve never tried it in overwatch, but in other games with good match making smurfing doesn’t last very long. You rise to the level of incompetence really fast. I think the last time I smurfed in LoL I got about a doz
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by milesvp 5y ago
Bah! I think you may be right. A quick google corroborates it was referenced in english as early as the 14th century. I’ve been annoyed at the term milk for non lactose based liquids for a while now. I’d assumed it was modern marketing usur
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by milesvp 5y ago
500+ years? Last I looked into what some major players in computational neuroscience were doing simulating highly accurate neurons they were doing on the order of maybe thousands of neurons. It’s been a few years so maybe they can simulate
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by milesvp 6y ago
I see a double edged sword here. We already have enough light pollution that stars are hard to see in most cities. That amount of pollution grows yearly as cost per lumen drops. The problem ground based astronomers are having is the polluti
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by milesvp 6y ago
I think it’s important to think of consciousness as a spectrum. Having studied artificial life, the conclusion I came to is that something needs to be situated and have some degree of nervous system to be conscious. A rock is not concious,
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by milesvp 6y ago
Seriously trendy. I had a CTO try to claim we were doing microservices even though our stack just had a couple of different systems serving different APIs. We would just roll our eyes whenever this person would try to brag about it to other
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by milesvp 6y ago
Wordpress. I haven’t been paying attention for a few years, but last I looked wordpress powered over half of public websites. Wordpress was forced upon my team at my last job because non technical users have been exposed to it and training
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by milesvp 6y ago
Seriously this. Depending on your baby’s sleeping habits and how they line up with yours, you may be in a fog for the next 2+ years. And babies will take up any free time you’re willing to give them. Now is a good time to coast if you can.
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yes. I say deploy in friday, but you better call it out explicitely. We’d call it cowboy friday anytime someone suggested deploying on friday. That person immediately volunteered to be on call. And if anything went south, they lost social c
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by milesvp 6y ago
You may have missed something important, which is you should have some ideal portfolio balance in mind when purchasing. This forces you to “buy low and sell high” in that you buy whatever you need to to bring your percentages in line with y
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by milesvp 6y ago
I've experienced this professionally. It's super debilitating. At some point, the only thing that you are willing to spend energy on is preventing the last fire you're exhausted from just fighting from happening again. I don&
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by milesvp 6y ago
I have to add my anecdata here as well. I’ve used firefox on *buntu for 8+ years as my primary browser, and have found I only need to open chrome ~1/mo for the rare case where I need chrome (and I suspect my issues may be more tied to
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by milesvp 6y ago
Seriously. The bad engineers are the ones who accomplish nothing. I’d be concerned if he said the codebase was too hard for him make any significant changes. About the only
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by milesvp 6y ago
What you may be missing is how hard it is to actually create a good take home. Every take home test I’ve seen was rife with potential for the problem to explode in complexity. Even things that seem simple like names and dates have so many p
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by milesvp 6y ago
Brains are highly associative. Different neurons fire depending on things like location and time of day. This has been studied in terms of learning. Students who are tested on a subject tend to test better if the test is in the same locatio
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by milesvp 6y ago
This doesn’t terribly surprise me. Community isn’t just the people but also the customs and idioms within the community. It’s probably similar to ‘code switching’ in verbal languages. People talk (and act) differently depending on who thay’
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by milesvp 6y ago
Never forget that a company is a group of individuals. All it takes is for one of them some time in the infinite future to decide they own the IP you developed during the time you were employed at the company. Making sure that no one can ea
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by milesvp 6y ago
I have a feeling you may be conflating some concepts in information theory, and possibly redefining information in multiple places. Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood require a codec to decipher. Otherwise they are literally just strings of bit
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by milesvp 6y ago
Intelligence is realizing you only have to look one way to cross a one-way street. Wisdom is looking both ways anyways.
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by milesvp 6y ago
I’ve experiences this, and it’s annoying. Worse is it’s never obvious if it’s a driver problem. That said, part of why I know anything about computers was trying to get games to work on my old 486. I sort of miss the feeling of reward of re
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by milesvp 6y ago
Historically fizzbuzz was meant as a sanity check. Can this dev code a simple for loop with some conditionals in it? It was made up because some dev realized that too many poor candidates were making it to late stages of his hiring process.
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by milesvp 6y ago
You’re not misinformed. This is kind of a weird thread. Generally, if you want to hedge against inflation, you buy anything but dollars. If you want a very safe hedge against inflation you buy US government bonds. They are considered the lo
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by milesvp 6y ago
The laws may punish the misuse of data, but laws change, as do vilified minorities. Never forget that while you may be one of the privileged now, your status will change throughout your life. If you’re lucky you will only become a more priv
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by milesvp 6y ago
I find this interesting. I've been told that law schools teach that when estimating how long something will take (not how many hours of effort, but calendar time) they say to double your estimate, then increase the units by one. So wha
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by milesvp 6y ago
There’s a lot to this, bad moral lead to bad retros. But I’ve seen a team with very high cohesion shut down completely when a particularly toxic manager was present in a single retro. It was very illuminating to watch. When no one feels saf
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by milesvp 6y ago
I will second retros. I have seen team cohesion go up and down based on the quality of the retros. It is really hard to do a good retro, and ideally no one from management should be present for at least half of it. Making a space where peop
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by milesvp 6y ago
This idea is related to a study I saw some years ago. If you give a small sum to someone and tell them to spend it on themselves that person later will self report some mildly positive results. If you give a small sum to someone and tell th
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by milesvp 6y ago
Forget pride in your work, this is literally costing rockstar money. It may be hard to estimate, but I’m sure it was in the hundreds of dollars a day category at some point. Shaving milliseconds off of loading time has real effects in the w

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