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by seadan83 3y ago
I believe we would agree, yes. My hope is to convey more texture here, that programming is more than just one thing. EG: "Today I was mostly debugging". That could have its own measures. I think in large part the measures of progr
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by seadan83 3y ago
There is I believe a specific context where removal is good and others where that is not the right measure I'm working on some java 8 cide that was written by folks still living in java 1.4 land, lots of opportunities there to reduce 2
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by seadan83 3y ago
Cue the perl one line challenges. Metrics that are team level dashboards and not shared outside of the team are different from pay and promotion incentivized metrics. The same metric can have very different behavioral outcomes between the t
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by seadan83 3y ago
It's not a spectrum, instead a duality. An engine is an asset, yet it needs maintenance. Because software is soft, existing assets become yet more stuff to understand, more stuff to fix and keep in sync. Compare for example a building
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by seadan83 3y ago
I ran across this paper recently which conveys it better than I can: "[refactoring], defined traditionally as a set of program transformations intended to improve the system design while preserving the behavior. Refactoring studies are
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by seadan83 3y ago
I generally agree, but with the caveat that you are more speaking to "Agile" and agile project management (eg: Scrum). To that extent, I find it really useful to draw a distinction between agile development and agile project manag
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by seadan83 3y ago
One more example, the phrase "consistently bad is better than inconsistently good" Sometimes you have 10 modules that all need the same update to be better. Updating just one module, while that module might be a lot better - break
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by seadan83 3y ago
Maybe, though as a hard and fast rule I strongly disagree. Delaying merge increases risk. It can also make the diff impossible to review. Overhead can be increased by way of merge conflict and re-doubling of efforts that would not be necess
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That strategy is something the heart of "agile development." Ensure you can do a little bit and then walk away and work on something else while still having delivered some value. A crux though for "big refactoring project&quo
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TL;DR Premise is kinda all wrong, but IMO some interesting questions nonetheless are posed at the end of your comment. First agricultural revolution was farming, that allowed for cities. Second agricultural revolution overlaps with the indu
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by seadan83 3y ago
Was it an @gmail? I wonder if glass door forced the account linking because of that, or if the option to enter my password and not link accounts was just buried.
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by seadan83 3y ago
Wow, big dark UX pattern when trying to sign in now. I'm quite positive that I never linked my glassdoor account to google. Yet, Glassdoor was ambiguously saying on login "use your google account to login for your @gmail address!&
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by seadan83 3y ago
I think this is like saying "my car payments are $1000 per month for the next 10 years, and my rent is $30 per month for the next 80 years. For my financial health, why am I worried about the car payment when I will be paying rent for
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by seadan83 3y ago
> why can't companies just survey from the ground? From a layman's perspective: (1) the incentive is not aligned to accurately report leaks [1][2][3][4][5] (2) Satellites provide global monitoring. This reaches to places/
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by seadan83 3y ago
The arguments are so vacuous against induced demand that the author is left with just opinion. I'm making a strong statement there, but I think I can defend it. At its core, the author argues that "induced demand" is strictly
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Seemingly, a dam was built, the diverted water created the channel.
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by seadan83 3y ago
One last response.. I think we should take a step back. A clearly labelled image of a radio tower for a sensationalist story that a radio tower in Alabama was stolen, that.. that clearly labelled image is evidence of "left wing bias&qu
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I think a PhD study would be needed to know accuracy rates of media over time across many outlets before such a generalization can be made that "media accuracy has gotten worse". How does one even measure accuracy? Number of corre
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I'm skeptical it would be just me given there is some prominent text right below the image that says "not the radio tower". > Okay, so maybe they wanted to have a photo, but there's no way to frame this that makes the
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> The Guardian never publishes a link or an academic reference to the source of scientific articles it pretends to quote. This is not true. A single counter-example is all that is needed to disprove the assertion "the guardian never
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> As you say, it also waits until a reader notices factual mistakes, the other ones just slip through. I don't believe I said that. My impression is that they certainly do pro-actively correct mistakes and do not rely on just reader
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> Better to use a wrong one apparently. I think this is hypercritical. If there is a story about some dolphin, if there is a picture of 'any' dolphin to give context, is that then the "wrong one" and suddenly a ding a
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by seadan83 3y ago
A single example of one inaccuracy many years ago is not evidence for (at least as far as the Guardian is concerned): "The media did not really care much about accuracy then, and its even worse now." To say that, you would also ne
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by seadan83 3y ago
I'm curious. Would you mind sharing some examples?
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Not all mail servers treat a+b@a.com and a@a.com as the same email. By equal token, you can't be sure that the email address doesn't actually just contain a plus sign. I was disappointed to find out at work recently that the plus
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by seadan83 3y ago
Interesting point. 7 digits was in part chosen because people used to have to remember phone numbers. So.. add a few digits and suddenly spammers would have trouble. On the hand, add a few digits to phone numbers and Y2K might look like a w
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Call centers will dial multiple numbers and connect to only the ones where someone responds. Sometimes they will still hang up on you because multiple calls responded. Probably a wash whatever you do after picking up.
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by seadan83 3y ago
Salmon farms turn out to be bad news. Profit motive has them being packed in, the "run-off" is too concentrated and poisons the surrounding water. The fish themselves are unhealthy and their meat bad. Further, sometimes salmon esc
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by seadan83 3y ago
I was confused about another situation - I was quite sure about this - and was incorrect. This speaks to the benefits of speaking from data and not just what you think the data was. Thank you for calling me out here, it was merited and the
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by seadan83 3y ago
HAHA, apparently my comment is the number 1 result from google to the question: "can a nonprofit hoard cash", and the answer quotes me from this very thread with "Non profits cannot hoard money" I believe I was likely in

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