roosterdawn

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by roosterdawn 6y ago
The Tim Bray blog post, while well written and respectable, was still in my mind contentious and arguable. I unfortunately can't make that same call here. It's taken me a while to realize this, but I have begun to filter out readi
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
To backproject the causation of popularity of a given ecosystem and language towards cultural relativism and sociological in-groups rather than pragmatics just seems like a post-hoc rationalization. But, to take your comment in good faith (
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
Right, that's the other side of the equation that needs to be fielded beyond a certain size in organizational scale. Organizational processes need to be in place that protect the organization from bad actors, in a manner which is most
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
This is one of the few voices of sanity I've seen on this thread. Your father seems wise. With that said, I do understand why companies try and install panoptical surveillance practices in places where it's basically overkill. Com
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
It is vindictive. When non-vindictive measures failure, the measure of last resort sadly tends to be the vindictive one. I don't know if this was part of your point (I imagine it was), but the vengeful carcerality of vindictive justice
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
Yes, it probably would be a valuable to Amazon. So valuable, in fact, that it already[1] exists. [1] https://flex.amazon.com/
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
But is max-pos - cur-pos better to read than maxPos - minPos or max_pos - cur_pos? I would say no to both cases.
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
The last time I checked, Zoom was a publicly traded company. Of course, this doesn't invalidate your second point due to the existence of large institutional public investors.
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
`kebab-case` isn't perfect. It works just fine in a prefix notated language such as LISP, but less so in an infix language. I suppose you could require significant whitespace to differentiate `a-b` from `a - b`, but even that is a litt
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
For what it's worth, I think this is why kebab-case originally became popular in lisp-land. We used it significantly in our JS style guide at $PREVIOUS_FIRM.
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
After using `ember` and the wonderful `ember_data` at $PREVIOUS_FIRM, I wholeheartedly agree. React is good for what it's good for, but the community sadly did not stop there.
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
This is a great question. To me, the only answer is (as I believe you're alluding to) "who" is at fault is not relevant when compared to "what" is at fault. In this case, the problem is the lack of proper systems le
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
Why doesn't your team have a process (integration tests, etc) that makes it impossible to check in something like `input_array[0]` without breaking a build? Why is it allowed to directly push to master? How does the old saying go? The
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
I'm not sure this was your intention, but you have just described how folks are supposed to do postmortem and retrospectives at most agile shops, as well as how Toyota created the kanban process and implemented the andon cord. It'
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
For what it's worth, this intuition is sound and I think it works just as well if you formalize[1] it to be used to illustrate the lambda calculus. [1] http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
What you're saying is that it's worth it to lie because it's too expensive to give a truthful answer. That is something that your customers likely would not agree with.
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by roosterdawn 6y ago
This issue comes up a lot. As a sibling comment says, if it is so common an occurrence for the character limit to lead to misleading headlines because they were overly condensed, you may want to consider slightly expanding the headline leng
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by roosterdawn 7y ago
Wow, very cool idea. While obviously this wouldn't be a substitute for lab grade testing, what makes me excited is that it could make sense as something folks produce for themselves as a precursor to getting a proper test done.
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by roosterdawn 7y ago
I don't know whether a smaller change means necessarily a lower probability of small blast radius, but the larger a code change is the higher the probability is of a high blast radius. Blast radius isn't necessarily going to be sm
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by roosterdawn 7y ago
Even if it doesn't work over the whole visible spectrum, is there any way that this could be used in some way that is sort of like an inverse ink jet printer where half-toning is used with a couple basis wavelengths to simulate the who
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by roosterdawn 7y ago
This is fascinating and something I've wondered about. It'd make for an interesting study, and actually, I wonder if you know about any research that has been done on this subject. I'd be curious to know if the data backs up
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by roosterdawn 7y ago
YMMV with amphetamines -- they seem very specific-body-metabolism specific, but you'll always be fighting your body's attempt to move to homeostasis which means it will be very probable that you'll run into tolerance, diminis
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by roosterdawn 7y ago
At first blush, this looks like new lipstick on the old pig of the venture studio. The issue with venture studios is the same as with corporate "intrapreneurship" -- lower rewards and lower risks. Savvier founders will be more cap