ralphstodomingo

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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
Because the practice of parsing more complicated sentences, compounded over time, might instill in people the mental fortitude that translates in other areas? But yup, I get it.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
I'm curious. Is there a specific reason why the trend for our use of the English language went towards this direction, when in the past, a lot of the historical material I read seemed intentionally verbose? Sure, it's all for ensu
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
Don't even go there. Might jinx it.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
I think our part in the community also entails we maintain a high standard of quality in discussions, which means that instead of complaining and making parallels to reddit, maybe we should provide other, maybe better resources and add to t
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
I agree. I even doubt why it'd gone to the first page given the original blog is already up and functioning.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
Yeah - I think that's a cue pointing to you that your understanding of the project at hand may be lacking in some regard. I usually listen to that signal and learn the heck out of the current tooling whose config I see on the root befo
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
Likewise here. I think that as far as defaults go, having these config files accessible in project root so makes it easy for people to see what tooling a project uses. Suppose this pushes through and .config becomes more of a default than a
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
> the joy and pride about your work are within yourself and not in your employer I just wish I realized this sooner. No one else is responsible for your career progression, job satisfaction and personal fulfillment other than yourself.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
That too was my only gripe with the article - solid and engaging writing, but I was wincing every time polymath was mentioned. I feel like you could substitute most uses of the word with just 'generalist' and the article would hav
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
Anonymity solves the issue for the individual, and for the most part I believe it works. The problem is, this current culture of irrational, non-engaging echo-chamber woke cancellations is further propelled to the forefront when those unwil
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
I would be inclined to agree except people generally have low standards of performance (ofc depending on the industry!). People also rarely care about the hand of the puppeteer , what keeps the lights on parts especially if we're
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
I was curious about that as well. For notes or thoughts that don't fall into a specific project, I wouldn't know where to put them.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
I do not see how you came to that conclusion - nowhere in the piece does he hope or pray to maintain such ignorance.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
Pretty controversial of me to believe so, but what if those sectors aren't really for startups? I'd wager they're more accessible to well-established companies belonging in a horizontal industry beside those.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
Last time I checked, something being open-source doesn't mean corps like MSFT can shit on them.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
Exactly. GP thinks nutrients are just all-beneficial.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
I don't know about you, but while flying may start to be come more palatable over time once a vaccine is developed, my priorities have changed a lot over this situation that I'd put casual, international travel somewhere below my
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
I'd like to think that most companies don't really test out the friction and experience of their hiring processes. A good company might have one or more interviewers that are not so good.
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by ralphstodomingo 6y ago
YMMV I guess. But the article talks about asking questions during a (hiring) interview. I don't see it the same as asking a question during a meeting.
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
This is what you get when you make a post when you've got no expert on this subject matter. Token example.
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
Isn't this problem solvable by looking at it differently? To me, the problem is that it's easy for scammers to impersonate someone. What if there was a way to reasonably check a person's identity in a standard way accessible
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
Yeah, Facebook's trying to strong-arm registrars, but the fundamental premise comes off to me as entitled. It's like they're asserting they're too important and they don't want to go after these domain holders one-b
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
The mobile platform is inherently different from desktop - what made the desktop OS flourish constrained their thinking when they went with Windows Mobile. Gaming, on the other hand... it's not like they weren't dealing with game
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
Thanks for these links Gwern, down the rabbit hole I go. But how would you summarize the situation? Is it that there's not a definite study that proves the whole thing?
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
I'd like to see you try. As an aside, clearly not everyone is gonna be within their target market, but there is a place for ones who pander to specific palates like these. Live and let live, I guess.
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
Cut the guy some slack. You can get your fill of conspiracy theories elsewhere. I for one enjoy random bouts of small, shallow experiences like these.
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
I am doubtful. My view of the future of software engineering is that developers will be better equipped to handle _more_ complexity, not _less_. And we all know what happens when there's black boxes. Not to mention you're locked i
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
No worries. After the period of "cashlessness", who knows? There might be some special material that can be a physical representation of digital currency, that can probably be modifiable remotely in value or appearance, which lead
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
Truly jarring if this is true. The systematic persecution of and violence against political opposition is one thing, the oppressive surveillance another, but I think forced organ harvest (especially on living people!) crosses a line. What c
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by ralphstodomingo 7y ago
Quite a nice excerpt, will be reading the article now. We almost always discount the work done by our predecessors: NIH-syndrome/"reinventing the wheel" vs "standing in the shoulders of giants", and this was a humbl

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