rqtwteye

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by rqtwteye 2y ago
"is there any reason to think that in 30-40 years the only people writing Java will be retirees maintaining old banking systems?" I don't think so. But it's pretty much guaranteed that a lot of the people who are complai
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Right after getting the screen layout right when you move between home office and work office :-)
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Most business advice is really good at figuring out in hindsight why things went a certain way. But usually it's not that great at predicting what will work in the future.
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That’s the beauty of the system. It’s mutually beneficial.
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What else is there? Geoengineering sounds interesting but nobody knows what the ultimate effects would be in a complex system like the Earth. And if geoengineering is done on a global level there will probably be winners and losers. How do
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
It’s very hard to prove conclusively that any measures would actually help the situation.
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All PMs I have seen so far were just passing on management’s desire for more features quickly. The only approach I have seen work is if engineering adds refactoring as part of the normal work that needs to be done without asking for permiss
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I think "rescue" is a little dramatic.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
When will they start adding ads to the AI output? Seems that's the next logical step.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I do scrums twice a week. That's more than enough and if somebody has problems in between they are required to get in touch either with me or the person who can help. I think there is not enough going on to justify required daily stand
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
That’s who came to mind when I wrote the comment.
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Having a billion will override any stigma of a convicted felon. Throw a few million at charity and you will be a celebrated and respected member of society. You will get more respect than most people who work a regular job without breaking
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
"I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars." That would be a no brainer for me. I would do a year, no problem. Probably more.
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I think I had a software called wigwam.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I am for portability but if you decide to go that route, you need to do a ton of testing on different platforms to make sure it really works. That definitely costs time and effort. There are a lot of ways to do it wrong.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
“ Opioids won't kill you if you take them as your doctor prescribes” They will give you an addiction if used as prescribed. Purdue knew that their 12 hour interval doesn’t work but they still sold it as such.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I did this a long time ago with macros. It helped me to find a ton of leaks in a huge video codec codebase. I still don't understand the hate for the C preprocessor. It enables doing this like this without any overhead. Set a flag and
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Ford should get sued out of existence if they knowingly shipped defective cars while internally knowing that their cars kill people. The Purdue people knew that their public statements about the addictiveness of Oxycontin were wrong.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
The only way to deal with this is to go after the execs personally who are responsible for corporate wrongdoing.
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Artisans don't scale.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
"Rapid iteration on user control surfaces is good; rapid iteration on public APIs is bad." I think rapid UI iteration is bad once a product has reached a certain maturity. I absolutely hate it when a tool I use often, suddenly cha
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Make sure you talk to all potential users of the library and work on understanding what their issues are. Take them seriously. Don't become a bottleneck. If you don't deliver what's needed, teams often are forced to do their
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Me and a friend also mined a ton of bitcoin around the same time on his PC. We forgot about the whole thing when it turned out that you couldn't do anything useful with it. I wonder if the keys are still somewhere on a disk on landfill
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I am in it for the money. And usually the best way to make more money is to get promoted. And to get promoted it’s best to have visibility within the company. And the easiest way to get visibility is to be at the office and chat with the ri
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I don't understand the mandate for 5 days at the office. I am fully remote and I'll admit that it would probably be better if I was at the office once or twice a week. I miss the random conversations with people and I am often a l
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
The Bangladeshi farmer is still poor, or not? And he can't raise his prices because the people at the top don't want to lose even the smallest bit of their profits. He has access to ChatGPT but not as someone who benefits from it
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
AI will just be another accelerator for the trend that society is not run for the benefit of all people but for the benefit of a few people who are making lots of money. At some point we'll have to make a decision whether this trend of
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I think leading in "wartime" is way easier than leading in peacetime. When you are in full panic mode with a clear goal, a lot of decisions are very clear and easy to make. And everybody knows you can't scrutinize every littl
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Seems we are in agreement. Regulations are necessary but need to be well thought out because there is a risk of over regulating
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
We also know what happens without any regulation: milk with lead added to make it look white, cars that kill their passengers when crashing, polluted rivers, polluted air and much more. We certainly need to constantly revisit things but wit

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