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by quantified 7y ago
I hope this article raises visibility of this mindset in engineering management. I’ve always found product management very appreciative of the product-minded engineer, but engineering management to be apathetic at best. Engineering manageme
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by quantified 7y ago
A long-lived code base will end up containing different conventions for doing things based on the era the code was written in. I’m OK with that, the later code will (should) have, per screenful, higher clarity, more functionality and fewer
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by quantified 7y ago
Follow the money. If they invest with GS, see how much is left after 5-7 years.
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by quantified 7y ago
I really like the idea of implementing mutability control at the level of a collective as opposed to a single object. A great many transactions are multi-object. Love the idea that a Netscape-legacy language has traction there. I hope the
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by quantified 7y ago
I’ve found neighboring voters pretty apathetic about vote counting, and my local poll workers actually contemptuous of my interest in the integrity of counting. I wish people were as interested in their vote counting as much as making it ea
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Redesigning Culture for Longer Lifespans(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by quantified 7y ago|0 comments
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Meet Hector(earther.gizmodo.com)
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by quantified 7y ago
On the one hand it sounds insane. On the other, he mesmerized so many other people with pure charisma that maybe just maybe he could have been useful. Fits with the Trumps' thinking that Mideast peace is just a real estate deal. And re
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by quantified 7y ago
Consider the comment as like a header in HTTP in relation to body content: a side channel for information. I despair that anyone was putting processing pragmas in comments, but you can’t beat all the human out of a programmer. The word “Not
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by quantified 7y ago
Another argument for designing languages and formats so that there is no need for the comma.
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by quantified 7y ago
Will medical schools be covered by this? Wouldn’t the state be forced to license doctors who followed a religion’s teachings on how to treat illness?
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by quantified 7y ago
Right.
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by quantified 7y ago
How long until the first substantial successful subversion of this? (Success defined as >USD 100K of sales, or destruction of >10K of a competitor's goods) How long until it's made public?
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by quantified 7y ago
Almost never. I’m roughing things out first, or iterating the APIs. When the functions, data and interactions seem to stabilize, then I’ll start to put tests in. Once, I started with tests, but I had to rip up a lot along the way. It is hel
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by quantified 7y ago
To the last comment within the article: yes, we’re accustomed to laggy websites. Most sites have tons of chatter/bloat/trackers. Refreshing to encounter those that don’t. Thankfully HN is fairly low-bloat itself.
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by quantified 7y ago
I hadn’t ever until recently. Openly hostile and toxic specifically towards me. Not my imagination, co-workers would periodically come up to me and ask me what her problem was with me. There is a company culture that protects bad behavior f
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by quantified 7y ago
For various domains this might be helpful. There’s no way to enumerate units in a general way, so I’m interested to see what “rock-solid” manifests as. The principle could be applied in an open-ended way, with luck this becomes a robust fra
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by quantified 7y ago
Charismatic flim-flam is definitely a core competence.
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by quantified 7y ago
The “right” info is the challenge. A company with >500 engineers will also have at keast that many sales, marketing, bizdev, legal, facilities, HR all put together. At least 1,500 people. And esch executive needs to handle communications
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by quantified 7y ago
From my experience (3 technical co-foundings, 1 additional top-tier startup, other companies) it’s rare for management to incorporate our estimates. I’ve been coached by a VP Eng on how to blow off actual estimating, in that top-tier startu
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by quantified 7y ago
Too bad you’re only choosing one. Haskellbook is my favorite for Haskell. I’ve read 3 different Haskell books, it’s the clearest and has the fewest “and now a miracle occurs” sections. SICP drops you into more involved engineering domain to