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by pavas 5y ago
Yes we are; I thought you were advocating for larger commits since they're too difficult to break apart into logically independent pieces, but it seems I just misunderstood what you wrote the first time I read it.
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by pavas 5y ago
For the developer working on the change, or for the reviewer + everyone that comes after them looking at your commit (which can include your future self)? We tend to discount everyone else's time but our own. Might also be worth thinki
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by pavas 5y ago
Luckily my company doesn't have much prescription about commit process, so its up to each team to determine what works for them and we've been pushing for small atomic commits (probably what you'd term micro-commits). The ide
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by pavas 5y ago
I consider myself a git noob, but I do find myself using rebase several times weekly. It seems to get easier the more I use it, along with all other git tactics. Why bundle all changes into a single commit? How can the commit message be mea
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by pavas 5y ago
Our team has been pushing for and implementing small, atomic commits on mainline. Honestly, I'll keep fighting for it and never go back. PRs are easy to review, commits are easy to reason about, what's not to love? Why squash com
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by pavas 5y ago
Let's agree that status is about what people think (other people think) about you. Are all people's opinions equal, or are some people's opinions worth more than others? Furthermore, does it matter how many people think you&#
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by pavas 5y ago
I view the reliance upon the idea of status as a low-status activity. Low status or high status only emanate when you're playing the status game, but it's not a game that you necessarily need to play. And if you're not playin
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by pavas 5y ago
There were 485 murders in NYC in 2021. What is the difference between those and these ones, other than the murderer being homeless? Some stats I pulled up: - Minimum wage in NYC is $15/hr, coming out to ~$30k/yr pre-tax @ 40hrs&#x
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by pavas 5y ago
I live in Seattle, and I would say that homelessness there is also reaching a state of crisis. Sometimes I see people in pain, sometimes I ask them about how they are doing or if they need anything or if there would be something that can he
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by pavas 5y ago
This kinda sounds like a copout. We can escape the fatalism of Dunbar's number and in/out-groups through leadership and recursively hierarchical structures. See any large (>~200 persons) company, collective action (civil rights
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by pavas 5y ago
> if only we could all just band together, we could create world peace and end hunger I mean, that does sound like a true proposition. So why is it that we can't band together?
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by pavas 5y ago
> The problem is the lack of jobs, or safety, or some other thing people want. From op: > But it's totally doable in the new work from anywhere future
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by pavas 5y ago
If you truly believe in the concept of a collective consciousness, then would you not also be forced to conclude that there are others that have considered these questions as well, and possibly that they have answers for them? Just curious,
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by pavas 5y ago
Wasn't the point that change itself caused productivity to increase?
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by pavas 5y ago
There are nuances, but at it's core either it was valid for them to make that appeal and it is valid for us to request their credentials (which is essentially an appeal to authority--"who has the better credentials?"), or it
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by pavas 5y ago
Reasoning doesn't require credentials, please let's keep it that way.
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by pavas 5y ago
I'm not talking about growth though, I'm talking about marginal cost per service rendered. To serve twice as many people in a restaurant you need roughly twice the servers. You don't need twice the amount of programmers (and
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by pavas 5y ago
The fish are swimming because they are in water, that is what is actually happening. If they do not know they are in water, they ascribe some other meaning as to why they are moving their bodies (swimming).
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by pavas 5y ago
A company that uses software automation to increase efficiency and improve margins at scale (thereby scaling non-linearly). E.g. a company that uses people to calculate taxes is not tech, whereas a company that uses people and software to c
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by pavas 5y ago
I'm going to go ahead and say it then, this is suspicious as fuck. It would have been slightly less suspicious if the response to "this is a security concern" would have been "oops yeah we see that now, let's disabl
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by pavas 5y ago
Isn't it actually as simple as "how much do you get paid per year in total"? The reason being that you can convert cash to stocks (and pay capital gains taxes on its growth) at any time. So $100k salary + $50k cash bonus == $
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by pavas 5y ago
Hire for Ө.
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by pavas 5y ago
This is something that would be really cool to have and I think it would work if you could set up a proper incentive structure so it doesn't get gamed. Some comments I had on this a little while back: https://news.ycombinato
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by pavas 6y ago
Yeah there are definitely other reasons but this is one of the biggest in my opinion. There's always a tradeoff between security/bureaucracy and speed in delivery so as to remain competitive. This does matter even at large scale.
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by pavas 6y ago
In case you want a real answer here: > What difficulty of questions will be asked? Easy? Hard? Easy to medium depending on the position or any number of factors. MAYBE hard if you've done really well and solved the questions quickly
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by pavas 6y ago
I would be wary of new teammates whose motto is "think different" when it comes to operating services at $B scale, because if they break something, someone else on the team will have to work all day and night to get things fixed a
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by pavas 6y ago
The interview process for FAANG companies is primarily focused on preventing false positives because of the damage that can be done by individuals when working at scale. Unless you have a really large sample size I wouldn't take any of
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by pavas 6y ago
I guess the next step of the argument would go something like "we can formalize certain forms of interesting* knowledge in the relationships among prime numbers, which are infinite" (e.g. Godel's work). After which point we c
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by pavas 6y ago
You've given a much better explanation of it than I have. I was trying to think if there is some interesting property of the generalization of this (generalize the quotients/generalize the directions) or if it is all just a trivia
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by pavas 6y ago
Am I missing something here? Choose any infinite sequence of binary numbers {0,1,0,0,...} and map the natural numbers to it. For any number not divisible by 2 or 3, go left if it maps to 0 and right if it maps to 1. Doesn't this proper

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