obstacle1

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by obstacle1 5y ago
What are the strict "levels" of education? Why is obtaining a "Yale" level of education in and of itself a good thing, especially if we're not seeing society-wide positive change driven solely by individuals with th
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> It treats streamers as kids who can't take care of themselves and don't understand the long-term impact of their lifestyle and career choice. Interesting. I did not read it like that at all. Do you have an example quotation o
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by obstacle1 5y ago
>If a kid told me he wanted to be a Twitch streamer I'd say he can't be one You'd be lying though, and your kid would probably grow up to resent it. There are ways to educate kids about the relative risks of careers in goo
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> after the easy parts are done "Uncreative farmers" is insulting, and this isn't? The claim that your standard megacorp legacy maintainer is altruistically keeping the world spinning seems a little self-important, too.
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> made-up nonsense about churches and bars. The first sheet music printed (15th century) was almost exclusively liturgical (i.e., religious). Similarly, it's no accident that the first popular work of the printed word was the Gutenb
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Say during due diligence two options are uncovered: use an upstream dependency owned by another team, or use that plus a 3P vendor for redundancy. Implementing parallel systems costs 10x more than the former and takes 5x longer. You estimat
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by obstacle1 5y ago
I would exercise a little humility and allow for the possibility that you don't understand what parent is saying, before slinging obscenities. You are absolutely right about music being fundamental to the human experience, universally.
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by obstacle1 5y ago
In what context would it be OK for a CEO to send ENTHUSIASTICALLY YELLING e-mails to employees telling them they are SLOW DUMB DOLPHINS and to STOP EMBARRASSING ME STOP IT STOP IT RIGHT NOW...? Also how would our knowing more about the CEO&
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> To me, this is not relevant. What people should be focusing on is WHY. Totally fair that to you it is not relevant. But that doesn't imply that people should be focusing on what you think is relevant instead of what they think is
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Say a couple has a good relationship. One day, Partner A has a bad day at work. A comes home and screams at Partner B: "you're dumb! you're slow! why isn't dinner ready? you're a dolphin!" Partner A was just ve
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by obstacle1 5y ago
"You're moving slowly and dropping tasks. That is impacting the business and we are losing customers. This needs to change by next month/quarter/whatever." vs. "YOU ARE A DUMB DOLPHIN BLAH BLAH BLAH" Massi
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Seems ripe for exploitation. What's stopping the PM-but-really-Major from invoking chain of command and making overriding decisions? In an org like the military I'm not sure you could just say "please act like a PM and don&#x
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by obstacle1 5y ago
It's almost like that style of commercialized prose forces you to recognize it as such and reflect on how crass it really is. And then you realize that that kind of dialogue is pretty much the one you are having with yourself 24/7
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by obstacle1 5y ago
The vast majority of dev jobs don't require you to be good at CSS. Unless you're going for a front end position, which is a small minority of jobs, it's not even a factor.
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> Why would they promote hard work if hard work didn't matter? Hard work matters. But it isn't enough. Luck is needed to transform hard work into wealth. Line cooks work very hard. Incidentally, YC's business model positio
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> You can have a family, a house be sustainable but not earning enough to be able to pay for a year off of work. I think we have different definitions of "sustainable", then. What you're describing sounds one step up from
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by obstacle1 5y ago
I don't see this as much different from "sure, if you don't have a million dollar mortgage and 2 car payments to cover!" Having a family is partially a financial decision. People should make the decision with eyes wide o
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> trust fund crowd You're on a discussion board filled with software developers and tech employees generally. The vast majority of such workers make a lot of money. If you're working in tech and you can't bank enough to ta
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by obstacle1 5y ago
It doesn't seem necessary for an article about moral decision making to contain anything about utility theory. For example, what if the author prefers a deontological framework? Then they'll write about that, and it'll be per
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> a sensible risk tradeoff Note the tradeoff doesn't make sense as soon as you're operating at a meaningful scale. A small likelihood of failure at small scale translates to "I expect a failure a million years from now&quo
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by obstacle1 5y ago
Maybe the problem is you're hiring CS/engineering students to "show KPIs" or "set up mixpanel" or "not program"? I can't imagine any competent student from those disciplines, never mind a student
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by obstacle1 5y ago
If you're frequently being paged for stuff you literally can't fix, then the process/monitoring/alerting has broken down somewhere and needs to be fixed. If it can't/won't be fixed, then the company needs
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by obstacle1 5y ago
> God forbid anyone be multifaceted. It's fine (and necessary) for everyone to be multifaceted. But it's not wrong to not care about some facets of a person you follow, in the context of social media. Even two different people
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by obstacle1 6y ago
> already have some kind of desktop computing arrangement at home Sure, but it's your personal desktop computing arrangement -- not the company's. With WFH, the company is effectively renting that space from you so you can work
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by obstacle1 6y ago
That's because CRUD people can do work that is far more leveraged than a hardware engineer, from the business' perspective. So the CRUD people produce more economic value. One dev can spend 2 weeks automating some process or build
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by obstacle1 6y ago
The point is they might be the first ones to voluntarily leave.
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by obstacle1 6y ago
The problem is when they grow into the lead role, you need to pay them like leads. Otherwise if they are really that smart, they will realize they are being exploited and jump ship.
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by obstacle1 6y ago
> Marketing is still a factor but matters a lot less (many artists even wear masks/helmets). Marketing doesn't matter any less now than it did back in the day; it's just something the artist is expected to do themselves, r
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by obstacle1 6y ago
> Don't focus on semantics Semantics is the meaning of what you say. It isn't some subordinate type of communication; it is fundamental to communication. If we don't focus on semantics, we don't focus on the meaning o
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by obstacle1 6y ago
I think you're conflating contrarian thinking with critical thinking. Believing in conspiracy theories does not imply a well-reasoned path to belief. Critical thought requires not only analyzing a position from contrary points of view,

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