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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3mo ago
> And here I am driving a 2003 Golf with a tape deck (and CD player). That sounds wonderful. There was a brief, magical moment in history when cars would come with AM/FM radio, a tape deck, a CD player, and an aux port so that you c
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
Absolutely incredible to see Apple pushing performance like this. I can't wait to buy one and finally be able to open more than 20 Chrome tabs.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
Any thoughts on root cause from your perspective? I've been on the other side of the table recently, and I agree it feels like a buyer's market. But it still took a while to find good candidates, and a lot of candidates showed u
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
> The IEEE has been riding this horse for a very long time Well, there's your mistake right there. You're supposed to be riding an ox. All this talk of oxen and horses got me curious about the PDF, so I went and took a look. It
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
> I would rather be a poor entrepreneur/freelancer than wealthy salaried employee. And office isn't really the factor, but other things, like freedom. To add a data point that will sound snarkier than it is: I used to say very
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
The "outliers" are the companies paying these insultingly low salaries for technology development. That's why there's so much low-quality software in the world. FAANG (and a few FAANG-adjacent) companies are the only one
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
> I don't think the author is sympathetic to autistic people I think it's actually the exact opposite. This reads to me like a very kind sentence. It can be very helpful to spell things out like this for such an audience. It is
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
Forward/backward in which dimension? There's at least three or four to sort out.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
Counterpoint: "When art critics get together, they talk about form and structure and meaning. When painters get together, they talk about where to get the best turpentine." (Picasso, supposedly [1]) To be generous to OP, I think t
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
> My female friend once experimented by putting up a picture of a shoe as her only dating profile. She still received many likes - some of them paid Super Likes. Well, obviously. Every guy wants a woman who's got some depth to her s
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
There's also several more classes of B.S., for what it's worth. An exaggerated/anonymized version of a recent one I got, from an otherwise-really-strong senior engineer: "Of course when I said we would put a button there
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
> My own feeling is that guilds of all sorts prioritize exclusivity for the purposes of bestowing power on some select few. As the article states "Master’s were few and far between". One possible reason could simply be there&#x
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
...and whoever did that "accidentally" when they had to leave around lunchtime on Friday was, presumably, celebrated as a local legend.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
Yeah, this one was surprising to me, too. It's not even that complex to do correctly. Usually, it's about 30 seconds of work to just go to https://http.cat/ and pick out the relevant cat.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
> a tower of a man, confident in the face of chaos and uncertainty, purely through force of word and logic I've been the same, ever since I learned to always keep a good towel around.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
As a person replying to your comment in the era of generative AI, I'm inclined to agree the hype is a bit much, even considering how impressive the technology can (sometimes) be. Another big area of hype is "prompt engineering.&
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
One time, I paired with a guy that used `R` all the time . It was an eye-opener for me, too. I use `R` a little more often ever since then, but -- like a lot of others here -- my mental model defaulted to more of a `cw` approach. Maybe the
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
> the mission is to make money and the vision is to make more money. This is just fine, but it's not enough. The purpose of writing a proper mission and vision is to say something about how. There should be some coherent strateg
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
What you really need to do is schedule daily status meetings, a longer weekly status meeting, and -- this is the real velocity trick -- monthly OKR reviews as well as quarterly slide presentations. It's important the slide deck be poli
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
> If they didn't think of getting you flowers themself (and had to use an app), is that real? I did confess to my girlfriend once that I'd never thought of getting her flowers, and that every time I had bought her flowers in th
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y ago
> people with internal monologues might only make up 30%-50% of people It's incredible to imagine there are people out there just thinking in language as they go about their lives. I wonder how it must work. Are they literally lin
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> There are many variations out there (any authoritative?) No, believing there's an authoritative list is one of the falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods programmers believe about names.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Oh, man, I was hoping this thread would be about managers who have mastered the art of time management and are doing their jobs in a few hours per week. One of my old managers had it. I would rarely see the dude -- except for once or twice
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
I think there's a caveat with the current market. Many Big Tech companies are in a phase of pre/post-layoff hunger games. Meanwhile, more and more AI startups are appearing, with lucrative-looking equity packages. In both cases, a
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> my response was: i duplicated an existing structure and made mine look exactly the same. i agree that proper indentation would be nice. but if i did that, my structures would look different from the original. i could clean up the origi
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
The Eames lounge chair is a reasonable solution to this problem. (It probably invokes other stereotypes. I don't really know, but either way, you'll be too comfortable to care.)
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
There's definitely something a little weird about people who proclaim themselves a "Leader" on their LinkedIn title. I can't even imagine how that happens. Did they wake up that day, intending to do that before they even
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> More impressive still, was she would be able to learn new toy names through inference. I'd come home with a new toy turtle, hide all her toys, say "go get your Turtle!", and she'd come back with the new toy. Is it p
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Not very well, in all honesty. The function name is pretty misleading, since it looks like a constructor. Even if it's not a constructor, the functionality is pretty far away from the name you've chosen, so it's not a compell
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> The more detailed my prompts are, the more errors GPT tends to make. I use it as a partner to discuss implementation ideas, before I start coding. This is interesting; I do a third thing that's the exact opposite of both of you. I

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