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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
Apple is just as sleezy as Google but doesn't have as much power and reach. If I don't want to, I don't have to interact with Apple at all. Google is much harder to avoid, impossible in some domains like email.
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
Except large code bases do the same. They regularly die when their ability to be understood drops too low. Even with well organized code, they are pushed to add features until they aren't understood at the deepest level. Once you hit m
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
I explain it in the third paragraph but to illustrate it further: Consider a function. A function that is 1 line long is immediately understandable. At 10 lines, it is readable within a minute or two. At 100 lines, it is maybe legible to so
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
It's less about risk aversion than it is about position, size, and complexity. As these things grow, the incentives change and the ability to understand what the organization even is becomes impossible. A startup starts at the bottom.
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
Freedom not only allows jerks and kooks, but it requires them. We need sovcits and police auditors, because they define the boundary and remind the police and prosecutors, whom are apt to forget, where that boundary is. Everyone demands vic
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
Here's the actual problem. Kids are cute and annoying. You love them but they will drive you nuts if you don't drain their energy and attention. The previous solution to this was that parents booted their kids out of the house and
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
>Code which was committed to repositories didn't match the actual running code I remember the first time I saw this at a small company. The head programmer was the only one with the actual production source, despite a working source
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
As I said, RDD is the dominant paradigm because it is rewarded. The career trajectory of someone who hops companies versus someone who doesn't is wildly different. I also pointed out that the problem isn't with the developers but
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
Microservices are Resume Driven Development, the leading paradigm of our industry and others. People will always optimize for the incentive structures of their environments. The most important person in every company is the CEO. He sets dow
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
IQ is an incredibly useful metric and why we sort our society on SAT scores. It's just not the only useful metric.
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
Most people are totalitarian in a few ways. Some people hate drugs. Everyone hates crime. The homeless cause social issues. Some people want their religion enforced. Some people hate foreigners. Most people grant these powers to the governm
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
The one time I was asked to be searched while driving I declined. They immediately called a drug dog, yanked its leash, and called it a drug hit. I then hung out for an hour while they confirmed I was a poor college student with zero drugs.
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
Sizing values is also great for reducing bandwidth footprint, either network or memory. The really good optimizations come from this.
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
All governmental prosecution should be before a court with the protection of rights. Even in your contrived example, the defendant has the right to face his accuser, cross-examine, attorneys, judges, juries, and the many things we throw in
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
If management cared, not updating documentation with every merge would be a strike, with multiple offenses leading to firing. They don't care. All large development is just slapped together and shipped. By the time the reaper of long t
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
That wouldn't fix anything at all. You still get that PhD to do research and publish. The only fix for this is funded and career-advancing randomized replication. We should lean harder into the scientific method, not withdraw from it.
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
It's worse that that. Most companies give career incentives to new projects. Google is probably the most well known offender, but they aren't the only one. Very few companies understand that the most valuable asset of a programmer
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
There are already many energy storage systems in place and many more being installed even now. The problem is that energy storage and recovery is a hard problem. Anyone who solves it will be rich overnight.
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
Power generation comes in two classes, baseline and peaker. Baseline units are on 24/7. They are typically very efficient, but can take days or weeks to start. Peakers can turn on in minutes of notice and are usually better at followin
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
My attorney friend has explained to me that SLAPP is very hard to get, even when it is obvious, but especially when experts are involved. It's the civil equivalent of malicious prosecution, which is also notoriously difficult to get. J
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
This is only a premonition of the things to come. Our universities have been hell bent on destroying themselves for the past few decades. They stole as much as they could as the traditional gatekeepers to the upper-middle class, but even th
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
It is funded by the US Government. The only shills it will find are Russian, maybe the Chinese these days, the politically unpopular, and social media marketers.
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
Software productivity is all but impossible to measure and insanely detrimental. We tried lines of code, story points, key process indicators, and others, but all they do is pervert the process into an exercise in cooperative stupidity. Wit
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
As someone who maintains a large Fortran codebase actively maintained from the 50s, I can say with 100% confidence that syntax, compiler, and other tools aren't even 10% of getting up to speed. It's some of the worst code you will
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
It has little to do with the look and feel. Loading a "new" reddit page feels like going on a 2010s news page without an adblocker. The page takes 15 seconds or more to load. Elements are shifting around during that time. If I&#x2
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
>It may be possible that there is no English sentence you can utter about anything which is both explanatory and fully accurate. FTFY. Philosophy aside, humans understand complex things by building simpler abstractions for them. I thin
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
It doesn't even have to be nefarious. They could just offer money. The larger the company, the smaller the CEO's morals.
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
I agree and disagree. The USA and the US Dollar aren't going to evaporate any time soon. People have been predicting that ever since we left the gold standard. The USA may not be a unilateral superpower anymore, but it's still the
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
Engineering happiness is directly tied to product quality. Product quality is directly tied to brand value. Brand value is directly tied to sales. It takes years for changes to promulgate through the chain, but they always do. That being sa
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
Superhuman AGI (SHAGI) is possible, but we aren't close, only closer. It's also not a problem that more GPUs can solve. Qualitative improvements are still needed. SHAGI isn't the solution to the Fermi Paradox either. The most

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