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by quacked 5y ago
I think it's one of the most important concepts ever noted down. It's applicable to every learned behavior. Are you mimicking behavior, or are you understanding principles?
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by quacked 5y ago
I couldn't agree more. Coherent vision at every possible level of the company will add more value than "hard work" or a dictatorial fanatic at the helm ever could.
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't admire Steve Jobs's personality, but I find myself talking about him all the time, for two reasons: 1) Steve Jobs had a vision for the appearance, function, and marketability of his products, and enforced his tyrannical wi
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by quacked 5y ago
For any that haven't seen it- a great essay on advertising and how it relates to cancer: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
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by quacked 6y ago
Ever since I read the blog The Last Psychiatrist back-to-front, I've been suspicious of any article that contains the phrase "like a movie". The author of this article is suffering from a severely miscalibrated valuation of h
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by quacked 6y ago
(I am not affiliated with SFDC) The SalesForce product is essentially a large-scale set of software tools that can be used to manage data and communications (marketing, analytics, contracts, timelines, schedules, records, helpdesk tickets,
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by quacked 6y ago
Hell, teaching me to code started too high-level, and I was an engineering student. On review, I think I probably took too aggressive of a stance against the concept. If you look at my other comments in the thread, I made a lot of reference
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by quacked 6y ago
This analogy is not accurate. It is impossible to read without understanding letters; it is not impossible to program without completing simple pre-programming exercises on an iPad. Other people in this thread are pitching simplified progra
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by quacked 6y ago
The reason that books for toddlers lack chapters is that authors believe that toddlers aren't ready to comprehend chapters, not that it is an immutable truth of the universe that humans can't handle a separated narrative structure
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by quacked 6y ago
I certainly agree with that, but I also believe that the "writing off" is a the direct result of a system that takes it upon itself to distill the utter chaos of human knowledge into a learnable "system" that can be fed
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by quacked 6y ago
I have no quarrel with the assertion that computing is one of if not the single most important field to learn in modern society; what I am suspicious of is that there's any long-term performance benefit of making children learn "p
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by quacked 6y ago
"Until it's time to" is a completely arbitrary choice, though. I still am not convinced that it's tremendously important to introduce loops and conditionals before typing symbols into a computer is introduced. Would a cl
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by quacked 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why do kids need to learn programming early at all? It seems like you could just wait until cursor and multi-line text entry wasn't difficult for them to comprehend, and start teaching them then. I could be totally wr
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by quacked 6y ago
I invite anyone two read two essays, which address two separate lies related to the absurd arrangement of math courses announced by this article. Lie 1: You can arrange all of the information in a field into a test, and once you've pas
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by quacked 6y ago
There's never been a better time to be the 3rd party! WinSmith is hiring roles in our new "cashless society" division. We're looking for experienced devs, product managers, QA engineers, torturers, translators, and inter
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by quacked 6y ago
Do you have a source for that? I'd believe it immediately, but I'd like to be able to spread it around.
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by quacked 6y ago
I suppose it depends what circles you run in. I can name thirty people without pausing for breath that I know who believe that not only are men and women interchangeable, but that it is ethically monstrous to even assign shades of "mas
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by quacked 6y ago
You made them contradictory yourself- "... would not result in a meaningful difference. Therefore, sexism is unjustified." "... bring to the table a different set of experiences and knowledge than men". If women are inde
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by quacked 6y ago
You have misconstrued my point in a very silly way. Is there some reason that a woman can gain experience A that a man can't? Or a way that a man can gain experience B that a woman can't? Is the optimal ratio in an organization 50
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by quacked 6y ago
There appears to exist a fundamental but dissonant set of principles exhorted by people who are interested in the exploration of the male/female equity narrative: (1) "There is no meaningful difference in intellectual, risk
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by quacked 6y ago
You live in the ivory tower of civilization. Do you really think you're that different from your ancestors? It's society that has evolved, not the component human parts of it.
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by quacked 6y ago
The main issue I've found with Agile is that in the two iterations I've seen (one BigGovCorp, one late-stage startup), the team ends up with a situation analogous to audience members directing a movie. You can collect a list of au
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by quacked 6y ago
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/04/the_maintenance_of_c...
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by quacked 6y ago
I'm surprised no one has commented. Personally I think this is very troubling. Have you ever heard of "parasocial relationships"?
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by quacked 6y ago
You are clearly too excited about bashing the concept of the IQ test to actually read any of my comments, or the article itself. 1. Feynman self-reported that he took an IQ test once at school and received a score of 125. He also often lamb
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by quacked 6y ago
Feynman's IQ was reported by himself after he took a school test. I have zero doubt that if a representative sample of the population took a scientifically controlled IQ test (and everyone participated honestly, to the fullest extent o
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by quacked 6y ago
The specific numerical rating of IQ doesn't matter. I picked 130 to grab a arbitrary instance of "equal performance on an IQ test". "120 vs. 140 IQ" doesn't give a tremendous amount of insight; what gives a tre
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by quacked 6y ago
When I was 8-10, I absolutely sailed through new programs in Windows XP. Now that I'm 25, every new thing I want to do in a "new" app (Discord, Slack, Facebook, Zoom, etc.) is precluded by "Google, how do I..." Ther
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by quacked 6y ago
I think the crucial insight in this essay is glossed over; the author allots only a few lines to an explanation of how the other graduate students didn't need to work as hard as he did to understand the fundamental concepts relevant to
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by quacked 6y ago
Excel Tables combined with Excel Power Query will turn "hey boss, I figured out a way to save a few hours a week" into "hey boss, I just eliminated several people's jobs".

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