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   by shermantanktop 2y ago

   Are the companies you most admire run that way? Is that how the technologies that you love were invented? Is that how the individual technologists you look up to operated? Is that how the most impactful, world-altering inventions were crea
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   by shermantanktop 2y ago

   Two different jargon phrases overlapping here, as I’m sure you know. Yours is “out of communication band” whereas GP is “out of predictive band.” Yours is a bit more common to me, but I hear both.
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   by shermantanktop 2y ago

   What happens when doctor attention is negatively correlated with quality of life?
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   by shermantanktop 2y ago

   If I never hear a manager utter “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” again, it’ll be too soon. It’s one thing to suffer from a blinkered, reductive view of the world. It’s another thing to be proud of it.
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   by shermantanktop 2y ago

   You can become functionally capable in any mainstream programming language with some working examples, newbie hello world tutorials, maybe a debugger, and/or stack overflow. You are unlikely to get past an intermediate level of skill,
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   by shermantanktop 2y ago

   There’s a certain type of American who sees Scandinavian countries as having 100% cracked the code to every possible problem. It’s not a viewpoint that allows for a lot of nuance.
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   by shermantanktop 2y ago

   The idea of a year-round fruit crop is a modern supermarket creation. Most food is seasonal. If a consumer are unaware of its seasonality, that’s because someone is working hard to hide that fact. I try to enjoy asparagus when it is in seas
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   by shermantanktop 2y ago

   It’s essentially thick veneer. Veneer gets a bad rap but it’s a great way to make highly-figured wood available to as many people as possible. And since burl and spalted woods are often unstable or have big pits or cracks, it’s a good way t
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   by shermantanktop 2y ago

   When I have to do faux-2FA auth using numeric codes sent by text or email, I sometimes catch myself quietly saying the numbers. A microphone would by quite handy for an attacker, even if they couldn’t see all my network traffic.
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    Which many people call “Tesco’s” for some reason. I had to read your comment twice to spot the issue.
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    I worked literally around the corner from there some years ago. Watch “Slow Horses” and you’ll see all those sights, including Barbican tube stop and its pedestrian bridge, Charterhouse square benches, the brutalist towers, my work’s favor
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    That’s an extremely broad statement. Biology, physics, architecture and history are pretty different professional cultures.
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    I have heard every possible sentiment about RTO at this point. The post is a well-written spleen vent, and I mostly agree, but I didn’t see anything new in it. But because everyone has an opinion, I’ll share mine: I like being in the offic
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    That example was not picked at random.
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    I’ve been in this game for 30 and I agree with GP. “I won’t build that simple thing from scratch, I’ll just import this thing that does approximately what I want.” We should banish the word “import” in favor of “take a dependency on someone
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    “Ideal” is a nice word for arbitrary fashion, literally a herd mentality. This mirrors what happens with muscle cars, women’s handbags, JavaScript frameworks, and so many other things. The purpose remains ostensibly functional but the real
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    you forgot the part where "Proposal" has been promoted twice based on a hurried launch and only "Counter" is left to take the blame for the messups.
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    It’s a nice museum!
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    I was interviewing a dev candidate some years ago and they were totally lost trying to traverse a tree on the whiteboard. I kept helping them get unblocked, because my philosophy is that anyone can get stuck once, but if I’m supposed decid
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    “High performers” in this article mean, to me, something like the 5% best. John Carmack is not a “high performer.” He’s in the vanishly small <0.001%. We all know his name, and what he did and where he works.
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    Those performative people are worse than useless. They take up critical bandwidth and add no real value. An effective operational culture has methods for removing those people from the conversations that matter. Unfortunately that earns y
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    I’m just pointing out that there are Netflix engineers reading all these words. For every thread like this, there are likely people who are readers but cannot be writers, even though they know a lot. That means the active posters exclude th
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    You may have belonged to one of those groups in the past, or maybe you will someday. I certainly have. Many of the more seasoned folks on HN have. Stuff goes wrong, random internet people jump on the opportunity to speculate and say wildl
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    Why is that “very likely”? I’m genuinely curious about the reasoning behind that statement. It’s very possible that you are using a different set of assumptions or definitions than I am.
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    nods knowingly
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    At 120m concurrents? I’d be interested who can whitelabel that.
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    It should be obvious that not all risks can be converted into a capital problem. People say this, but then fall in love, get divorced, get depressed, or their company might lose its mojo, get sued, or lose an unreplaceable employee. But the
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    Every time a big company screws up, there are two highly informed sets of people who are guaranteed to be lurking, but rarely post, in a thread like this: 1) those directly involved with the incident, or employees of the same company. They
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    Got me! You’re right. Ok, gotta remove multiples of factors of twelve, so 2 (whole), 3 (dim), 4 (aug), 6 (tritone), 8 and 9 are out. That leaves 1, 5, 7, 10, and 11, plus all the variants from adding n*12 (e.g. 13 or 25). So my bold asserti
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    by shermantanktop 2y ago

    I watched the whole thing. Impressive!