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by scrubs 10mo ago
I sometimes wonder what a Drucker or ishikawa would say of today's "vaunted American management". Speed roughly short term thinking is too strong of a force in our American thinking. Heck I've counted three recent HN pos
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by scrubs 10mo ago
Well said.
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by scrubs 10mo ago
Half of all math proofs are guys walking around in nature or sitting in it. The last one I read was Ken Ono's breaththrough on partition numbers ... he was on a hike with a friend. I might also add hard work gets you to a frustration p
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by scrubs 10mo ago
I return often to the argument (I cannot recall where I read it) that is cheaper to do right on earth than start anew elsewhere. Humans have never had to deal with mother nature's biology arm quit working.
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by scrubs 10mo ago
I'm currently writing a formal model for a packet protocol in tla. (I started with spin). And im writing a paper with my findings including some thoughts on why FM are not more widely adopted. here academics and FM system devs have wor
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by scrubs 10mo ago
You're basically right. But here's an argument to get to a renewed commitment to the good stuff in religion: the catholic church needs accountability if it gets into politics. When things move from blabbing talking points and mere
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by scrubs 10mo ago
Nvidia is adversarial too, and a giant pain to deal with. But then since the 1980s there's been a slow pendulum move to suppliers having more actual and self-perceived power over customers. I'm a big proponent of respectfully lett
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by scrubs 10mo ago
I see no need to dunk like that. There are ample stories over the years on HN how software orgs without using FM have bugs, waste money, treat people poorly, all leading to canceling software projects before delivering anything to customers
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by scrubs 10mo ago
And ... so what? Nobody ever said specs are error free or complete. Heck, you didn't even get into liveness, dead lock issues. The salient question: is risk reduced for the time alotted to write a spec in say spin or tla+? Formal specs
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by scrubs 10mo ago
Shareholders must be the weakest most by-passable interest group in corporate america. Would I stand by and allow my shares and future profits flounder while the head guy goes rogue? No blankin' way. Regardless of personal preference f
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by scrubs 10mo ago
I second these points. Risk has moved private equity post 2008. Here's my question: what in the hell do C-board people including CFOs do besides a sales hussle? I guess it's shareholder money not their personal butt on the line. P
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by scrubs 10mo ago
Right. Those are the salient questions. Or to put it another way: extreme imbalance resting on actual or strongly arguable misaligned incentives lead to revolutions. At base justice is the issue. I prefer to avoid revolutions. So, what are
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by scrubs 10mo ago
No it's not that one, but thanks for the reference and digging for something. I'll try to find it.
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by scrubs 10mo ago
I can't lay my hands on the book or regrettably recall the author but there was a university book broadly on the op's topic and simulacrum that crossed into wide spread readership ... beyond academics. One of the lines I remember
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by scrubs 10mo ago
Nice post. Great points!
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by scrubs 10mo ago
Agree. What putin's government understands is a 2x4 upside the head. I'm reminded of the cool hand luke line: "If that's the way he wants it, he gets it."
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by scrubs 10mo ago
Yup. Science/math/chess/music and literature to name a few are better with russians involved. Then there's the russian government: that's a problem. Their military subdues by shelling to bits civil targets come what
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by scrubs 11mo ago
Totally agree with this post. I've had many hour convos with a program manager on his project (an enterprise security master for trading) where AI has been misapplied to make the mess a bigger mess as just one current example in my own
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by scrubs 11mo ago
Agree. I get accountability for code I had no control over. That's a setup. "You’re a senior engineer - why did fixing this take so long?” This is also maddening: it's not a question arising from technical indight or a manage
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by scrubs 11mo ago
Enforcing modularity at a component level could be a thing ...
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by scrubs 11mo ago
Not sure what you're after in that comment. The entire description of mind is maybe not shoddy but definitely high level functional meaning it always comes with a Chinese menu of if/and/but on a scale of emphasis in linear co
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by scrubs 11mo ago
I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist. My observation is the more difficult cases of attachment in important adult relationships esp. partner/spouse is far more impacted by parents and their relationship than friends. This doesn&
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by scrubs 11mo ago
Agree - argue with customers at your own peril ... moreover sophisticated devs and companies want freedom from corporate control and the underlying attitude of entitlement ... a kind of campish behavior where customers buy-in to the corpora
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by scrubs 11mo ago
Hilarious!!! Did you see? You saw right? How awesome was that throw? Awesome I tell you....
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by scrubs 11mo ago
Understand MAGA politics? - trump is in deep with epstein. Maga cares about that - trump and bondi said they'd release all files, which Maga wants as does the prepondernce of america. - trump has no morals or ethics. He thinks he can t
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by scrubs 11mo ago
The first 51% of happiness is knowing what you like/need/value and not giving a damn if the other side doesn't see it or agree. Important: values change in time. It's critical be self aware on that point. What used to wo
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by scrubs 11mo ago
And misery loves company. The losers can sit around in a mutual admiration society brown nosing and using and be used by each other.
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by scrubs 11mo ago
Well written! I learned stuff. Dependent types was new on me. Cheers.
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by scrubs 11mo ago
"You don’t have to like them, but you should want to be right about them. To be the best hater (or stan) you can be." The op has a point - a good one
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by scrubs 11mo ago
I think more truth would be shown by critiquing Boeing's organizational culture that allowed this decline. In particular does it have the chops to get over its lethargy? No doubt boeing has earned a negative assessment. Now what? My r

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