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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Nothing personal, just interesting to see how engineers think about how their work can harm other humans, yet some jobs are about creating machines or weapons meant for destruction.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Anything to do with "defense" industry
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Software engineers sometimes wonder about the importance of their jobs by comparing them to other engineering fields where mistakes can hurt or kill fellow human beings. And then there are jobs that hurt or kill regardless of the quality of
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Not to be facetious, but to stay rational, I always consider the ultimate Black Friday Special: 100% off on stuff I don't really need.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
> LinkedIn tried to get me to solve a captcha about 20 times Are you sure you're not suspended due to too many failed attempts at captchas?
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Unless you want to own real estate near urban centres, a software engineer salary in Canada puts you squarely in the middle class. You didn't mention where you currently live, but I assume most people don't like very cold winters.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
"Get your employees addicted to work notifications" seems to be one of their core premises, and this redesign is yet another step in that direction. The biggest issue of this redesign for me was getting rid of the "unread mes
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
While related, commercial real estate ownership and leasing have two separate markets. I imagine WeWork's bankruptcy doesn't invalidate their [sub-]lease agreements (with actual occupants) and just transfers them to creditors. Wha
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
The United States has by far the largest consumer market in the world. A right to privacy hinders access to that market and slows it down.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
It's not very intuitive to imagine how the numbers change. It could be fun to learn though. One way to know if it's fun is to make a simple version and play around.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Was the session still valid?
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
The notification behaviour hasn't changed, but the "indicator" (red circle with a number) has. There's no way to tell if you've missed a proper notification or it's just the baseline noise.
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Tell HN: Slack Becomes Noisier
4 points by pesfandiar 3y ago|2 comments
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Regression to the mean, IMHO. For geopolitics specifically, many believe in the imminent end of Pax Americana.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
It's the most common way of saying it, maybe because the alternative explanations need to be believed.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
I shuddered at that. There are times that parents have to resort to screen time to entertain children (e.g. a long train ride), but there are many other less harmful options than adverts or gambling-adjacent games.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
The idea is to allow denser housing in residential areas, not completely removing any restrictions.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Vancouver has one of the least affordable housing markets in North America and people have been concerned about it for years. 4 years ago, it was even a municipal election issue, yet most people who couldn't afford housing voted in som
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
But did the assembly line become more efficient?
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
How could this be detected and enforced though? Rely on self-reporting? Let's say we outlaw surveillance tools (e.g. customer data platforms). Wouldn't this give an advantage to the big tech since they can covertly roll their own?
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
I'd argue speeding is even worse, but to each their own.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
It is quite challenging. I think giving a bit more context would bring it within an enjoyable range; e.g. showing the entire file, including the full path
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
The underlying mechanics are unimportant. You could make similar arguments about encryption and compression algorithms.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Priorities. And MBAs. > for companies that we're paying > $100,000/yr. for access to their APIs Case in point; they didn't need to provide any of that for you to pay. The value is coming from elsewhere, and they didn&#x
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Trying very hard to find any positive impacts; I wonder how many felonies weren't committed because the felons were engaged with social media instead of being bored.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Making anything more complex than needed is IMO the basic definition of over-engineering.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
The UX is very poor when you expect the ecosystem to be anything other than a platform to screw unsuspecting marks out of their money.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
Along the same cynical lines of thinking, I bet this is part of the whole belt-tightening move. If employee retention is not a priority, managers can reduce or neglect related tasks (think 1:1s, career development, ...) and manager-to-IC ra
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
The BC government has started twisting some municipal governments' arms to loosen some of the zoning. The effects may be too little too late though.
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by pesfandiar 3y ago
I've mainly used ChatGPT for the learning side of coding. It's useful for learning new frameworks or languages by giving me examples. It's tripped me up a few times when it combines different ways of doing things though (e.g.

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