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by seadan83 3y ago
There are a few keys I think for overcoming addiction (former smoker, I vibe quite a lot with the running to quit smoking). 1. Feedback loops. Addictions tend to be positive feedback loops - 100% pleasure. EG: Sit on ass, smoke, feel great,
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by seadan83 3y ago
I think the title suggests larger questions. What is Flow? How many different kinds of flow states are there? To what extent are they equal? I recently listened to "Your Brain: Who's in Control?" [1], a PBS documentary that l
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by seadan83 3y ago
A priori, data-driven decision making is very powerful. One nice thing about working with former Amazon engineers, is they do bring that mindset. No premature optimization, no belief in facts without data. I think when you get burned a few
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I think no. Licenses can make non legally binding claims. It's similar to someone putting up a "no trespassing" sign on public property.
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by seadan83 3y ago
In a way actually! The things that are hard to A/B test get neglected. If you need A/B testing (ie: data) to make any decision, then places where data is purely qualitative - there will be no data to be had and therefore no decisi
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by seadan83 3y ago
Here is a page from AWS executives with insights on how your organization can also be data-driven too! https://aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/content/how-do-you... AWS does have differences for sure - but the &
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by seadan83 3y ago
My fault for a milquetoast response. I disagree. My thoughts are informed here by insider experience at Amazon. I believe I observed these problems over a decade ago (hidden fees, high attrition, poor culture, scattered & non-consolidat
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by seadan83 3y ago
I think I may disagree about the causes. Amazon A/B tests just about everything, the implication being hidden costs would have been found in A/B testing to net increase revenue. That is just profit motive and business ethics comin
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by seadan83 3y ago
It does seem on the road that many people lose the ability to predict 30 seconds in the future. That car in front of you has 10 feet to move? GO GO GO! Wait, it only moved just 10 feet - BRAKE BRAKE BRAKE! I think it can fun to be the driv
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by seadan83 3y ago
I agree to some extent. Though, I don't think it has to be a trade-off though. After a sub-5 second compile time, I go over to get a coffee to ponder the results of the compile rather than imagine what those results might be. Taking ti
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by seadan83 3y ago
Please correct me if wrong, if I understand you correctly, you are essentially saying that managers/executives are effectively 'flailing' in the name of increasing productivity - they're trying anything/everything*.
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by seadan83 3y ago
Thanks for considering the response. I did not quite miss that bit, it's a bit of a tangled web of nuances. Ultimately, I don't think it matters whether a government provides healthcare was elected or not relative to that _not_ b
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by seadan83 3y ago
Good point, nonetheless the RTO is clearly not a silver bullet. Necessary but not sufficient at least, arguably not necessary
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by seadan83 3y ago
Gist of the article seemed to be: - top concern for CEOs when remote = productivity - top concern for CEOs the coming year following RTO = productivity So, not HN news, but the sample set polled by Atlassian to gauge that CEO sentiment. The
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by seadan83 3y ago
Experts who are predicting on the future of work.
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by seadan83 3y ago
That implies having a choice to buy less or more of a service. Healthcare often does not give that choice.
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by seadan83 3y ago
> You’re describing government-run healthcare by an unelected government. Government run healthcare, the healthcare where you just go to the hospital and then you just get treated.. (?) Government run healthcare does not have a great rep
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by seadan83 3y ago
The most pure form of free-market is a black market. Without any government, the free market does not have a mechanism to prevent monopolies (AKA absolute winners). Further, many markets do not even exist without the government. EG: there
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by seadan83 3y ago
Stop hard and rear end is a huge risk, this is not surprising and can happen with reasonable following distances. It takes a long time to stop and humans are bad at perceiving it. Just look at how "stop" is painted on a road compa
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by seadan83 3y ago
Often there were two cars in that scam. One to first follow really close so you are both distracted and reluctant to stop hard.
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by seadan83 3y ago
The claim seems reasonable. Most of the time infrastructure is fine, but that 20% of the time between 4pm and 6pm when you are actually using it, it often is not. More following distance => less throughput. There is already a math proble
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by seadan83 3y ago
Another potentially interesting thought.. The idea that "all code is technical debt" is saying that all code has a non-zero interest rate. In popular parlance though, we don't actually call code technical debt unless we think
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by seadan83 3y ago
+1 for that documentation. I was recently working on a system that split data across multiple database instances (unnecessarily) and that means referential integrity is lacking and sometimes a huge problem. To expound, I was tracking down s
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by seadan83 3y ago
This anecdote is not very surprising to me. Foreign keys are on a scale of DB constraints. I opt to add a maximum of constraints where I can. Adding a date that should be in the future - I'm adding a constraint! Did you mess up your ti
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by seadan83 3y ago
It's a useful distinction, but not necessarily at odds with what I'm trying to say. I'm more saying that all code has interest on it. "bad code" is high interest, "good code" has interest that at times is
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by seadan83 3y ago
It's a pity that there is no DM functionality - but this was a huge help for me! This feels like one of those moments where I learned that "yay" & "yea" sound the same, as do "yeah" and "ya"
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by seadan83 3y ago
More lines does not equal more features! I just ripped out a bunch of unnecessary debug logging, the computation for that, unnecessary data copies, and then a 200 line method turned into 3 lines. What's more, the debug code had bugs I
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by seadan83 3y ago
I don't think the analogy breaks down per-say. Adding features is akin to adding a percentage interest rate. Some add more than others, but the cost of adding a feature is sometimes (often) dependent upon the existing features in the s
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by seadan83 3y ago
Just reminded of the an old trope for estimates, either: - less than 3 months - 3 months - 6 months Anything less than 3 months - is an accurate estimate. Otherwise, 3 months is the amount of time it takes to do _anything_, right? If it&#x2
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by seadan83 3y ago
It is an interesting metaphor. To what extent is it the original architect's job to show or highlight these pathways rather than the maintainer? I think the routers might be symptomatic of a lot of maintenance. (A) maintainers are ince

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