mlosgoodat

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by mlosgoodat 5y ago
Meanwhile, the people of the country “by, of, and for the people…” stroll into corpo HQ and login every day. You don’t HAVE to commit code to a git repo they control. The socio-political reality isn’t like 100 years ago. As soon as Wall Str
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by mlosgoodat 5y ago
“Person on internet can perform basic arithmetic, demonstrates by counting instances of repeat content.” is a headline that: 1) we’ve seen over and over 2) adds little to the context at hand You’re not wrong. You’re late to the game spottin
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by mlosgoodat 5y ago
If the human element to this story was “cat gifs”, you might have a point. The human element here is “world governments and multinational corps beholden to nobody want to insert the first of possibly many back doors into your emotional life
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by mlosgoodat 5y ago
There is a “blue collar dev” market. I dated a “web developer” who worked for the county. She used a Photoshop like tool to update the layout of an intranet, and occasionally straighten some PHP. She knows nothing of computer science, just
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by mlosgoodat 5y ago
Remember; human function names and object names are for human consumption. We could write a whole lot less if not for all the programmers who need context. We know from our hardware platforms what we can and cannot compute; their spec defin
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by mlosgoodat 5y ago
Work and jobs are different things Work is generic A job is specific I like to work and work with people I hate my job which specifically exists because 2-5 people, founders, investors, eventually some manager, or some “owner” of socially v
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by mlosgoodat 5y ago
> There are a plethora of reasons not to put sales data into github issues. Thanks for the details. Anecdotally; the author of the blog post and work environments I’ve been in did just that and … reality still exists. Me thinks personal
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by mlosgoodat 5y ago
He was speaking as if it was still 1980s. Now we have cloud based ML doing the optimization finding. ML will (eventually) be able to generate biz logic code, and most assuredly infrastructure config (a cloud API has a limited set of possibl