mr_tristan

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by mr_tristan 4y ago
I'm more concerned AI will spew garbage we end up getting stuck spending time cleaning then actually replace me. The software developer trades in abstractions, fundamentally, and not code. So if I could get an AI that actually helped m
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
The cloud era seems to exacerbate these kinds of issues. The only way to truly have "long term" service is to be a subscriber, not a "buy once" customer. If you're a part of their revenue next year, they're goi
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
Yeah, I've noticed more applications just need to focus on making sense of raw information really quickly, but usually don't need an archive to make decisions. There are lots of interesting things that can happen with "big st
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
Not an employer, but work at a pretty big company where the CEO made a pretty big tell: he mentioned that remote work seemed to cause a loss in overall productivity. But then almost all engineers chafed, and he had to clarify: we was talkin
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
So, it's great the author has recognized they are unhappy, but "heading to the mountains because I had good experiences there" seems like terrible decision making. The "happiness trifecta" still seems to be a sense
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
This seems rather extreme, and likely to cause a lot of backlash due to how disruptive calendar manipulation is. At my company, we have started "async weeks", where, basically once a quarter, we try to basically use async communic
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
I'm in that boat actually. It really just comes down to the people, like always. The teammates that meet together show respect for the remote folk, so it works. But I've definitely been at places that didn't really have that
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
We've got that channel, and many, many other "help" type of channels, like "help-who-do-i-talk-to" as well as "help" for many different teams, subjects, etc. They work pretty well, but, there's just a
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
Technology is often very, very distracting, and everyone feels it. I've noticed that we've hit a point in my team where juniors don't even feel comfortable asking questions in a team channel, because they think it might add t
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
This doesn’t seem like they figured out anything about “high functioning teams”, they just performed a survey. Like, do these companies actually ship faster, have lower rates of issues, better MTTR, etc? This just says things like “there ar
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
It's an interesting thought experiment. Recently, I've started switching my note taking to being more aligned to the ideas in the antinet zettlekasten. (See https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/ ). Basi
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
After timers, the #1 use of Alexa in my house: 'make a fart noise'. We've tried to use Alexa for some games, like Jeopardy or Whose Line Is It Anyway, but it always is an incredibly buggy experience. Even just simple multiple
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
How easy is it to transfer between teams? Some companies make this easy, others make it almost harder to apply internally then externally.
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
I've been using digiKam in a similar way, where Affinity Photo is where I do manipulation, and digiKam for organization. It's been working well enough, though, I am very much an amateur hobbyist.
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
I had the first generation iPad Pro. And eventually I gave it to my wife for a lot of the same reasons you list. Ultimately, Apple will just doesn't want you to separate your data from the app. It's not just that it's a walle
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
That's an excellent example. Mostly because I've probably had to replace simple retry loops more than once after they triggered various kinds of death spirals. Even recently, an engineer on my team spotted a retry technique, where
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
There is so much abstraction going on now, debugging can be very, very challenging. Many systems are distributed and virtualized, so even trying to create a detailed visualization of "what's going on" can require mind-bogglin
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
While this is interesting, I'm very curious if there's any analysis that looks at other pressures that might happen in tech that's different from the broader business world. Are acquisitions more frequent? I say this, because
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
I see this more as a challenge of managing the different threads of communication. Basically, threads, as they are implemented in most chat apps, just suck. If you're not involved in that particular thread, you tend to just skip over i
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
> It seems that in many places, "DevOps" is all Ops and no Dev. This was definitely my experience at my last couple of jobs. At my last one they "scaled out their DevOps team" by hiring tons of juniors with next to no
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
A sax is really easy to control (or lose control) of the pitch. And in fact, many saxophonists will just shift various ranges around sharp or flat to suit their style (cough Phil Woods cough). So basically, a woodwind like a sax will tu
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
I see these articles focusing on cars and density, and don't seem dive into details of policy decisions. This year I moved to a city (Spokane, WA) with an abundance of parks and a few smaller commercial businesses within the middle of
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
We can only hope that the US doesn't let a corporate interest put limits on this a la Intuit with free tax filing. Otherwise, yes, it sure seems like this would pretty much obsolete a lot of payment platforms.
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
As a hobbyist who used Fusion 360 for various woodworking design and CNC tasks, this doesn’t really impact me, however, it basically pushes me a lot closer to investing in other tools. Basically, pulling features without much communication
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
I suspect for something like this to happen, the upper levels of management needs to understand the individual contributor better. I've worked now for some very large companies, and, most of them simply do not think about individual pr
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
It is interesting to use a library as a model, but I would be amazed that you could get any particular company to understand and implement it. I could see teams having dedicated coworking areas that are extended from a large central open ar
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
The general workflow I'm finding useful is to generate a ton of simple logs, ingest all those logs into a SQLite database (that acts like a "data lake"), and then use the customized REPL to generate some charts (typically .pn
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
I'm surprised how much time is spent thinking about planning and execution, and so little is really discussed about defining goals well. Because I've found that goals are often really vague, and frequently, they shift. And, shocke
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
> My recollection is that Chris Anderson's "Long Tail" never particularly promoted prosperity for those in the long tail but rather for the aggregators of the long tail. And that seems to have happened to a large degree. T
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
Visualizations are just one aspect of documentation, so I would recommend looking into how you organize your documentation, and build visualizations to support that. This is, after all, what I think you are really going for: just better wri

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