mr_crankypants

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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
I can follow your hypothetical right up to the point where the union official commits career suicide by trying to piss off every member single member of the union in a single stroke, and no further.
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
How often do labor unions campaign to impose salary caps on their own members? The very idea seems out of character.
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
A preceding B does not imply that A causes B, it only implies that B doesn't cause A. Which doesn't really reduce the world of possible causal relationships by all that much, since there may be any number of other factors that wer
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
Local governments, too. In my neck of the woods, there are departments that have to make do with whole teams of low-skill employees because, while a more skilled person could do the work of at least four lower-skill workers, they would also
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
I suspect that that fact and our beliefs around it are being reflected in market prices, albeit with some heavy discounting for the uncertainty inherent in there still being so many companies out there. So many people's first instinct
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
It seems that the endgame we're unwittingly asking for is WALL-E .
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
I honestly think that both of those are weak reasons. The first is a problem for other generations; on our own time scale we should focus on the problems that affect us on our own time scale. The second is just not compelling; space explor
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Monorepo is great if you're really good(yosefk.com)
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
It might depend. In the case I experienced, sales, marketing and support were already in place and quite successful beforehand, and the acquiring company did an admirable job of teaching all three how to do less with more. To take the examp
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
> I can't think of a single large software company that doesn't regularly draw internet comments of the form “What do all the employees do?" I also can't think of a single large software company that doesn't, in
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
There is one thing I really like about story points: Disagreement about them drives a whole lot of useful conversation, and can reveal communication problems and misunderstandings that are difficult to root out otherwise. That, in turn, sh
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
Scrum, in particular, is a fascinating beast. Looking at how it was in the early days, you can see that a huge motivation was to try to get the non-development bits of the process under control. For example, one of the big ideas behind the
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
The problem there is that most "libraries" are actually frameworks. The difference I'm drawing being, libraries just provide a mess of utility functions. Theoretically, even if your compiler won't strip the library stuff
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
I don't know what Moore would say. Personally, I've retreated to the back end - used to be full stack, but I'm just sick to death of how overcomplicated front-end work has become. I'm inclined to say that, e.g., the mode
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
The more time I spend dealing with blowback from excess complexity being imported in the form of 3rd-party libraries that offer complicated solutions to simple problems, the more I think that Chuck Moore was very, very right on that point
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
The problem here is that pharmaceutical companies' marketing departments have a deep conflict of interest. They're incentivized to encourage doctors to use the drug that makes their company the most profit, not the drug that is be
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
I honestly wouldn't bother for programming, per se. It's great for learning facts, so, if you wanted to, I suppose you could use it for something like memorizing a pile of library functions. But I'm having a hard time seeing
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
Wow, that's a lot of flashcard time. According to Anki, I'm averaging 10 minutes a day on my language vocabulary deck. It does happen in a series of short, 1-2 minute bursts when I'm sitting on the toilet or whatever. To that
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
One potentially nice thing about formats like Cap'n Proto is that they don't eagerly parse the message. You can just lazily grab the values you care about, which can be a big performance win if you typically only care about a few
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
I find that the human benefits of using something like protobuf outweigh the human benefits of using JSON. The machine benefits are just a cherry on top. Protobuf - or, more specifically, proto files - gives you a central place where you ca
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
It's perhaps less a limitation of JSON and more a limitation of JavaScript itself[1]. But still, given that easy consumption from JavaScript is the ultimate primordial reason for choosing JSON over other formats, it seems like trying t
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
According to https://www.gamespot.com/articles/this-is-how-much-the-witch... , 240 is just the number of in-house staff. The full count of people who worked on the project came to more like 1,500.
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
Teams were so much smaller. Ultima IV was about as big-budget as a video game got. Here are the credits for the DOS version: https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/ultima-iv-quest-of-the-av... 19 people, total, for
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
It seems, though, that it's even worse than that for games. Every so often you see an article to the effect of, "Authors of that indie game everyone was talking about this summer ended up netting $not_very_much_at_all apiece.&quot
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
And I guess my concern is that doing something like this is probably solving the wrong problem. I've worked with people who write messy, tangled code in giant methods, and my experience has been that forcing them to write smaller funct
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
It seems like it's more like C#'s PLINQ and TPL merged into a single abstraction.
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
I, too, love fountain pens. Except when I forget to take my daily out of my pencil case before flying. :(
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
Yeah. It's not necessarily that I don't think that it's useful to place limits on length. It's more that it's hard for me to imagine a situation where a godzilla method like that sails past code review, but then get
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
Personally, yeah, I agree, my belief is that most the really long functions I've encountered have been awful unreadable bug farms. But I still think it's a bad idea for a static analysis rule. Two reasons: 1. Static analysis tools
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by mr_crankypants 7y ago
Your chances of getting the middle seat go up as the other seats are taken, meaning that a lot of the people in the middle seats are people who had to book that ticket on short notice: death in the family, emergency business trip, other fli

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