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by seadan83 2y ago
Thank you for the discussion. I think there is a lot to be said for housing-first answers that could help many people, but won't necessarily help everyone. You raise good points that context matters. One thing I've thought of sinc
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by seadan83 2y ago
Yes, there are heuristics given. Except, until clean code, it was not common to even see "use good names" as a principle. In the bad times, pre 2000, a lot of code was just focused on getting it right. The: then make it clean, th
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by seadan83 2y ago
> So like, Clean Code really does say you should write four line functions, and does not put caveats on that statement This is false. I tried to look this up a few weeks ago, there is no number. The book says (close paraphrase) "fun
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by seadan83 2y ago
Clean code had a place and context, it is almost two decades old. The idea of writing usable API's at the time was somewhat novel. Most developers were busy trying to get the code to work at all, that the API was an afterthought. EG: M
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His career IIRC starts in the 70s. After 50 years, the answer is assuredly yes to the first question.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Thank you for the follow up. We are at small risk of talking past each other. One correction if I may, SF had open hard drug use - that policy was reversed. Is that correct? I'm looking at: [1] > There was a time when suggesting t
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by seadan83 2y ago
Interesting. I was not aware of that level of spend from CA. There are a number of resources that get into, this one [1] from 'calmatters.org' agrees with you by saying essentially housing is too expensive (and goes a bit further
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by seadan83 2y ago
Interesting, thank you for the response. I agree with what you say. (Though, I would caution to avoid using "they" like this though, it creates a false "us" vs "them" & is ambiguous)
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by seadan83 2y ago
Thanks for providing some data! The city-by-city comparison I think is really the interesting metric. Homelessness is not equally distributed in America and I to my understanding European countries as well. Paris: 150,000 (~8%) homeless peo
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by seadan83 2y ago
> California was ground zero for some of the more supposedly 'enlightened' approaches to the homelessness problem with both substantial, sustained funding and strong local political support for non-enforcement. After nearly a
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I think you undersell the "do not like staying in shelters" part. > you cannot keep stuff there If you are already low on belongings, having the rest of your stuff be stolen is not worth sleeping in a shelter Pets often cannot
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My impression is the "bold new thinking" you are describing was just "hey, we don't have the funds to actually address this issue; and the police sweeps are just kicking the can down the road and make things a lot worse
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Do you have any data sources to help us quantify either claim? (Revenue loss, and homelessness rate comparisons) I'm particular curious how really large European cities compare to their west coast equivalents and also the midsize equiv
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by seadan83 2y ago
Would you clarify "support for non-enforcement?" My understanding is that a number of jurisdictions saw no point to round up a person's few possessions and put them in jail for a month. Places that have paused and/or res
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by seadan83 2y ago
Being charitable, the question I would have is whether the FCC has the same regulatory power over private prisons as they do over state and federally run prisons.
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by seadan83 2y ago
There are some legit things to want to know about realtors. How many homes did they pressure people into whom then had various issues they needed to deal with? Or, did the realtor truly find a good fit for the buyer? How about conflicts of
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by seadan83 2y ago
> we would still have our free speech rights to share whatever we want This is a false dichotomy. It's not "free speech" to copy someone else's video game and then sell it for your own profit. By "copy", in
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Most linked financial news is auto-generated and auto-correlated. Lots of "why did.." when nobody knows, and frankly there often is no why. Perhaps that was the day a retirement fund shifted money, who knows. While this price move
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by seadan83 2y ago
Copyright laws prevent piracy. It is interesting to live in a country with no enforced copyrights and EVERYTHING is pirated. I think it is easy to not know about that context and just see the stick side of copyright vis-a-vis big money corp
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Cover songs have a special abd explicit law covering them. Not relevant.
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Oh my, it was difficult to not chuckle with this comment immediately before: "Shorten it to the first letter and the last three and see how long it lasts."
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by seadan83 2y ago
I hear you. I love that you can share a favorite food like that with your partner :) When I worked for amzn.. I was eating approx 3500 calories a day - long bike commute. Pizza was always disappointing as rarely enough (and even then, eatin
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by seadan83 2y ago
I'll add mine, constant logical inconsistencies. If a team is following a roadmap, then you are NOT doing agile, you are not pivoting on a very frequent basis, the team is following a project plan! What's worse, because the agile
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by seadan83 2y ago
2nd reply, another perspective, perhaps summarizing. I think you're saying essentially a raising tide lifts all boats, and lifted boats reduces essentially all problems. To some extent that is true, on average, poor people are better o
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by seadan83 2y ago
Thanks for the responses. We disagree on a number of things. AI generated content is not "craft" IMO at all, almost the definition of mass produced. EG: AI artwork, can get a lot of it, but if you want a Mona Lisa - you're go
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by seadan83 2y ago
And secondly, do not need to fill out an elaborate expense report for buying lunch. At the time of two pizzas, Anazon circa 2008, that would have been a sub $50 order.
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It is one large pizza, 8 slices, that is 3 to 4 people. Yes, some people can eat more or less. If you had 10 people, you could order 2 larges but that is going to be a treat or a snack, not something that will be welcome if that is a lunch
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by seadan83 2y ago
2 slices is considered to be a meal. Calorie wise, it likely is. Typical large pizza has 8 slices. The vagueness is intentional. From the Amazon concept, it is intended to replace a meal and not be a random snack. (Former amazon employee he
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I joked that I was a half pizza team on my own. The commute had me riding 25 miles per day on bike, I don't eat breakfast and only a light dinner -> lunch was easily 4 slices of pizza. In seriousness, pizza is not a bad measure sinc
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by seadan83 2y ago
You make good points. I think this illustrates well that software engineering is much more akin to writing than it is to carpentry/construction. Thus, a team of software developers is more akin to a team of story writers than a team of

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