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by nullspace 7y ago
It really does depend on the organization IMO. In a healthy organization, the managers manager can easily distinguish between contributions and fuck ups of the manager versus the same for the managers reportees. If a team hits their metrics
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by nullspace 7y ago
Well, good point. I think what the author is talking about can he implemented as a Monad, and he / she is describing a flatmap operation. However, I’d hardly describe it as “just”, it’s a fairly interesting idea.
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by nullspace 7y ago
My predictions, not as grand as some others, but anyways! Software Engineering / Startups: - FAANG will be continue to provide the best monetary compensation, that no startup can beat. However, there will be a few startups that will fi
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by nullspace 7y ago
This is fairly controversial. Is there any example of a startup that actually made it by employing this strategy? One of the truisms I've heard and have always followed is you need to release something you're embarrassed about, be
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by nullspace 7y ago
Just a +1 comment, but thanks for sharing this, it’s very much worth reading, the foreword and overview is very much written in layman language. I might try and dig into the rest of material as well. For an even simpler but informative intr
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by nullspace 7y ago
Just curious can you give examples of this?
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by nullspace 7y ago
Or alternatively (and in my mind, more likely), the massive gains coming directly from computer technology has reached its peak. There will never be another new purely "technology" (i.e. where the business is primarily built-on co
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by nullspace 7y ago
> The difference is that now Google and FB pay way more. More than startups could ever dream of competing with. Logically speaking, the only way that a company can pay more and still be profitable is if they produce value more efficientl
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by nullspace 7y ago
> I’m personally very happy with my Python-like language with Python-like libraries, with static typing for maintainability, orders of magnitude better runtime performance, excellent parallelism and concurrency, one of the best compile-t
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by nullspace 7y ago
I’m sorry, I don’t think you can state absolutes like this with respect to languages. After 5 years of programming in Scala, professionally, writing and debugging a cli tool in Go-Lang felt like a breath of fresh air. I agree with about go
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by nullspace 7y ago
It's possible that I'm jaded by non-existing documentation, but skimming over the docs in your link, this actually looks like an example of good documentation* The API reference in particular you pointed to has a top-level descr
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by nullspace 7y ago
I stopped ordering cat food from Amazon after one of the sets of cans quite obviously did not come from the manufacturer. Usually, canned cat food comes in a cardboard box with the manufacturers branding and some important labels, along wit
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by nullspace 7y ago
> There is only one correct way to do something .... so take great care in doing it right the first time. I hear this a lot, in various contexts, and I even used say it a lot. But this has actually stopped making sense for me. I don’t th
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by nullspace 7y ago
> It's usually when non-functional requirements are limiting factors; minimizing memory, CPU time, network round trips, etc. Unless you’re working on something trivially easy, isn’t this almost always the case? The puzzle does not a
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by nullspace 7y ago
> You could argue that I'm using the wrong tool for the job. Without comparing Excel vs LibreOffice vs etc, I've found the category of spreadsheet software to be immensely helpful for analyzing, aggregating, visualizing and red
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by nullspace 7y ago
That's a good thing right? I mean, I'm not implying that Google is on the opposite side of this, but still, I'd wager most people on HN would love to be a Larry Ellison (riches aside), where you get start a product today, and
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by nullspace 7y ago
I does not even have to be OJ. Think morning coffee with sugar, right after brushing. It tastes like crap.
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by nullspace 7y ago
Hah! I feel like you are writing about me from several years ago, although I don’t believe I was this toxic with my peers. Q: was the programmer in question fairly young and inexperienced? My gut tells me that these types of “brilliant prog
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by nullspace 7y ago
If you're implying Brave is not open-source: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/LICENSE
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by nullspace 7y ago
This is news to me. How do I find and install extensions for iOS Safari?
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by nullspace 7y ago
And there’s one more thing, I’ve found that building good interpersonal relationships are quite important to having effective discussions with someone. Especially when the topic is controversial. I’ve found this to be a lot harder when two
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by nullspace 7y ago
I don’t know why you got downvoted, your points are certainly good and reflect my one personal data point.* I have also seen that face 2 face interactions are the best in order to align within or across product and engineering. Especially a
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by nullspace 7y ago
They are actually one of the few services that u can use for programmatically receiving emails. When it works, it just works - but unfortunately the spam thing bit us as well. Fortunately we were able to get it resolved quickly
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by nullspace 7y ago
Not OP, but I was so happy when weather was built into google a few years ago. Weather.com is pure evil when it comes to tracking and clickbait. It's also slow as hell.
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by nullspace 7y ago
This is fun. Isn't there a case d. - The powerful faction cages everyone else, but not necessarily in literal physical cages but rather psychological cages. Provide bare enough for survival, and use psychological techniques to engrave
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by nullspace 7y ago
To counter your arguments, I'm going to use a couple of typical examples of when an in-house versus open-source / external debate comes up. I'm not counting the infamous "leftpad" cases, those are usually trivial, a
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by nullspace 7y ago
Hah... I’m probably falling for Poe’s law here, but anyways... there are certainly cases where in-house is better than external dependency - specifically when your team knows the tech domain better than anyone external can... but in general
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by nullspace 7y ago
A game I love playing is Democracy 3[1], I believe it's an excellent example and exercise of simulating democratic systems. There are so many toggles you can tweak, dozens of policies to enact, setting whatever budget you want for each
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by nullspace 7y ago
Can't speak for lawyers or commercial pilots, but doctors absolutely have "methodologies" or processes. And processes that each individual hospital dept sets up last for years. They're usually different across depts and
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by nullspace 7y ago
This is not directly related to Consider Groups (which itself looks interesting), but just wanted to say that your website looks very, very nice. Well-designed, nice fonts, nice color palette. :) Edit: https://consider.co/co

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