mmatants

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by mmatants 11y ago
Working independently definitely does not save one from BS and playing by the rules. However, I think the main distinction is that it feels less "personal". In a poorly-run hierarchy, having a manager means playing along for someo
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by mmatants 11y ago
I for one actually prefer to put a different type on the variable than the implementation. I.e. in the given case, I would actually use: `List<String> a = new ArrayList<String>();` I know that for some things it is convenient, b
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by mmatants 11y ago
Agreeing with the premises, let's call this what it is - a recommendation/curation problem, which a kind of thing that a trusted third-party usually does. Seems like it would fit as a Community Explorer blog/engine, as a sepa
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by mmatants 11y ago
Funny you mention monolithic code. The post expressed a very important thought: > we’re trying keep the parts that change frequently, away from the parts that are relatively static Modularization and good code contracts help "seques
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by mmatants 11y ago
Feels like for institutional tools (where end users are mandated to just use that one system) it's not even the retention that is the problem. I would generalize it (perhaps ad absurdum) instead as: do not underestimate costs of user o
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by mmatants 11y ago
Glad to see folks critique traditional ORM tropes and putting forward some innovation in the area. On that note, as a highly subjective opinion, I have really soured on the philosophy that guides many popular ORMs. Relational data does not
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by mmatants 11y ago
The reason to mention image posting is specifically to say that they want the UX to be like a text attachment rather than just a wall of text on someone's feed. Which is a much smaller disruption to existing experience. On that note,
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by mmatants 11y ago
If you decide to study how to build bridges, you will start out with calculus, build a background in science of materials and then a guided tour of approaches to structure-building. In addition, you have to learn typical environmental facto
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by mmatants 11y ago
At least in theory, agencies also do a lot of account management legwork. Of which there is a lot for large clients. Which merits critical attention, but there it is for now.
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by mmatants 11y ago
I recall reading somewhere that while military organizations are very much synonymous with hierarchy, they have historically experienced a lot of pressure to flatten and decentralize, at least as far as field command goes. Napoleon's s
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by mmatants 11y ago
The other tl;dr is that managers need to know and buy into concepts of group psychology.
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by mmatants 11y ago
I would like to examine the concept of properties as it exists in modern OOP with a more critical eye. If a property is independent of other properties, then that means it is an independent holder of state. So then, wouldn't it be a pr
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by mmatants 11y ago
For that matter, most social contexts involve signalling adherence/allegiance to a specific set of values and beliefs: clothing is almost always a uniform of sorts. It helps establish an initial foundation for further communication.
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by mmatants 11y ago
This is why I am perfectly happy with our team's local Vagrant development boxes being quite sluggish - the visible lag has surfaced a few timing and UX bugs already. It's important to feel the customer pain as your own.
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by mmatants 11y ago
That's definitely a danger, and it's not an either-or thing, of course, as well. I think the point of that advice is to remind that for an astounding amount of people empathy is not at all a priority! It may be even seen as a we
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by mmatants 11y ago
Here's the issue, though - no matter how violently we may agree on the downsides of traditional project management, opinionated tools are just ahead of their time. The market is not at all ready to agree on what software workflow shoul
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by mmatants 11y ago
In some way, promoting the use of "await" actually reduces the chance of an exception floating away into the ether. The "thread" joins back, both on success and on failure. And because promise errors are like exceptions,
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by mmatants 11y ago
I've seen this distance measurement mode referred to as Manhattan distance ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Manhattan_distance ), but it's interesting to see the full theory around it (and of course taxi-cab ge
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by mmatants 11y ago
In fact, the secret of the not-as-young people is to manufacture the luck as much as they can and increase exposure to serendipity through consistent - well - showing up. And behind most lucky youngsters are diligent parents and support net
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by mmatants 11y ago
Every political ideology claims to make things better (if only for some folks). The practical question is - which one is likely to devolve into a pathological state, given a historical and cultural milieu where it is implemented, plus the
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by mmatants 11y ago
It's hard to get an intuitive feel for security. If team principals are mostly young and don't have exposure to very specific kind of experiences dealing with threat modelling, then the security work will always take a backseat
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by mmatants 11y ago
> If someone wants to interact with you, they will definitely find a way to get your attention Fair enough. However, this does not account for a whole class of subtle little interactions and questions that might be inconsequential one at
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by mmatants 11y ago
It seems that that would trigger a different set of problems - confidentiality issues, rather than conflict of interest. So yes, still bad, but a different rule-set, perhaps?
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by mmatants 11y ago
The issue with things that are intended to be humorous is that they can be interpreted as an escalation. And escalations do not help anyone. Nobody "learns a lesson" this way. In fact, those "creepy people" may get even
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by mmatants 11y ago
I think it's a transcript of the interview-style video at the beginning of the article, so it kind of flows topic to topic.
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by mmatants 11y ago
That makes me wonder - why do companies treat design and content as something that does not drive profit? Profit is holistic, otherwise why bother with the so-called "cost centers"? Kind of like a restaurant saying "the cash
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by mmatants 11y ago
And for simpler cases one doesn't even need to detect changes in the model. Just do a debounced re-render the virtual DOM on any incoming event/timeout/network activity: https://github.com/unframework/vdo
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by mmatants 11y ago
Generated styles? And great point - these new inline/generated styles are the opposite of what they meant 10 years ago (copy-pasta hacks). Now they are even more powerful than regular CSS, instead.
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by mmatants 11y ago
> I didn't grasp anything new or enlightening Repeating the "obvious" is very important. There is a constant fight against entropy, miscommunication and attrition of experience in any team, and things like these add up in
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by mmatants 11y ago
Feels like "Show HN" implies that the submitter is one of the creators of Kantree, but it does not seem to be the case. Maybe a title change would fix that implication?

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