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by nzmsv 5y ago
Taleb makes an argument in Black Swan that a bad model can do more harm than no model at all, and that "we can't throw our hands up" is not a valid excuse either: sometimes that's exactly the right call.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I was nodding along and then had to stop and think. Are Amazon and Netflix actually good organizational examples to emulate?
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by nzmsv 5y ago
That shouldn't have happened enough times that Ive developed a Pavlovian reflex to avoid unpacking his bag. Or if all hotels they stayed at were that shitty, perhaps some stern words should have been said to the people responsible for
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by nzmsv 5y ago
> He joked about how he would never unpack his bags upon arriving at a hotel because Steve would call him and say the hotel is shit so they had to move immediately after checking in. I think it’s those human connections he made that made
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by nzmsv 5y ago
So which people are going to fix global warming and save the whales? The ones smashing windows, the ones burning tires, or the ones who use profits from lectures on BLM to buy up a ton of real estate?
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by nzmsv 5y ago
You know that high you get when your software finally works, with all the little cogs churning away and producing something much bigger than any one of them as a system effect? That, but with people. Feeling powerful feels good.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Or a variation on the theme: "we know this schedule is aggressive, but we have open reqs to hire another 3 engineers"... who of course never materialize.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
The below is a joke, but sadly it is representative of most teams I have worked on. If it's like anything that most managers do, you have the team come up with estimates, have some meetings to see if you missed anything, discover that
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Are you me? ;) Just kidding, I am not a VP and it sounds like your starting position was worse (so you've accomplished a lot more). But the rest of it reads like something I could have written. My suggestion: therapy. It will take mo
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by nzmsv 5y ago
The chat that doesn't require immediate feedback is called "email". Otherwise you are stuck with "hey, can you help?" with zero details for when you actually get to take a look. Then you have to say "yeah, wha
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Of course it's completely unrelated. All lawyers are interested in DNS sniffing, haven't you heard? It's going to be more popular with that crowd than golf soon! /s
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by nzmsv 5y ago
You have never been to Russia and yet feel comfortable saying it is "something else in this regard", basing the statement on a YouTube search. The average stats are about the same, but that's as useful a number as the average
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Seems like Gotham is eager to live up to its comic book version. Except in real life you don't get Batman stepping in, you get the mafia. It's easy to see the next step too: these organized protection groups get some members who
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Another way to get crime stats to look good is to ignore crimes. Even from the article we are discussing here it sounds like there have been dozens of instances of assault and robbery that were ignored. Ignore enough and people stop wasti
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Many shops are optimized to make the kind of thinking and organization described in the article impossible. They keep throwing developers into fire after fire, leaving no time for any reflection and growth. I was surprised to see several
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Most people will never wake up. The system's very existence relies on it. Or alternatively, our system arises from humans being basically apes with very strong in-group/out-group instincts.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I wonder if you'd still be using those big brave all caps if the tables were turned and you were the one being censored. It could happen, you know.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
And it's not like the crazy hours are necessary in any way other than to create a cutthroat competition for artificially limited residency spots. Why has the AMA decided to destroy the health of those whose job it is to preserve the h
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Agreed! I periodically burn some karma on this point and should probably stop. Most people are brainwashed to believe the system they live under is the bestestest and won't even consider any other alternative. Indeed this unfailing b
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by nzmsv 5y ago
All those Uzbeks shot for buying property should rise from the grave and haunt you for being such a troll. Must be millions of them. You should be very afraid. But maybe a Coca Cola mist will keep them at bay? Maybe if you chant Adam Sm
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by nzmsv 5y ago
By the same argument: Facebook is a US company, so Russia is innocent. Just because someone uses a front to hide behind does not mean they are not behind the activity.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
You are probably pushing yourself too hard, become demotivated and quit. Think about it this way: you are never going to beat Usain Bolt no matter how hard you try. So just go for small improvements. Run half a mile, limp another half, go
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by nzmsv 5y ago
So in the US there was a big kerfuffle about how Russia paid for some Facebook ads and interfered with the election. Russia bad. Here you have an app that literally tells people how to vote . This is pro-US, so again, Russia bad.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I think you cherry-picked here. You are thinking about the Baltics and forgetting about places like Uzbekistan (now broke) and Kazakhstan (rich but authoritarian). And even if you say these are former republics rather than satellites, thi
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by nzmsv 5y ago
You could also just relax your requirements. You need a great convincer. You need a technical person. There is no strict requirement they have to be the same person though. What you have here is two jobs mashed into one job req.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
As a complete outsider, I would think of this as follows. The current status quo is a Comcast/CenturyLink duopoly. Let's imagine I wanted to start a local ISP. What would kill my company the fastest? The thing that would pop up
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Usually yes, with an AT command: http://www.messagestick.net/modem/Hayes_Ch1-1.html Knowledge of AT commands is still useful today, but the modems are cellular: https://www.twilio.com/docs/iot&#x2F
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by nzmsv 5y ago
So can I continue to prefer my narrative? It seems to gather some upvotes and some downvotes, so at least it is interesting and elicits a reaction :) Also, the more I learn about my heroes the more I realize that they never saw themselves
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Disagree. A finely crafted but ultimately false story can be actively harmful. A young person may think that they are not of the same caliber as "the greats" and cannot make their mark on a field, which would discourage them fro
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Many things is modern human lives are social constructs. They are very important to the functioning of society, but they are propped up entirely by people believing in them. These are things like national borders, currencies, human rights

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