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by smikhanov 1mo ago
God, I wish I knew which PR firm he hires. Changing his public image from the most despised, greediest, nastiest businessman of his era to a calm, wise sage over a course of 10-20 years -- that's quite an achievement. Just read the int
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by smikhanov 1mo ago
It takes a lot of patience to read this much slop voluntarily.
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by smikhanov 2mo ago
God, those "software is getting worse everywhere" takes are tedious. Let's have a look at a few rarely quoted examples from the last decade, shall we? Just six years ago, a big company rolls out a line of new chips so good th
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by smikhanov 4mo ago
Intelligence is absolutely a valuable addition to dexterity, but no, current industrial robots have nowhere near the dexterity of a human hand.
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by smikhanov 4mo ago
The article says nothing about “skilled people who work with their hands” specifically, so it’s unclear what is being refuted here. However there are people in the workforce who don’t identify with their work. Those are likely not in prof
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by smikhanov 4mo ago
“Scaling” as in “making sure the infrastructure can handle much higher load”, or as in “making sure the product remains genuinely useful to people, so that the user numbers go up and not down”? For both, it didn’t happen by itself, but it’s
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by smikhanov 4mo ago
> real user pain point That is obvious from all the upvotes your comments get on here.
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by smikhanov 6mo ago
Oh dear, not again: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/brooks-law/ This one belongs to history books, not to the list of contemporary best practices.
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by smikhanov 7mo ago
The Nebraska guy’s block remains surprisingly stable, even when the whole thing above it collapses. Very symbolic.
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by smikhanov 7mo ago
That’s a lovely comment, thank you. If you’re keen to think about it more, consider the fact that the existing members of the project that’s being late are actually in not as much of an advantage compared to the new joiners, as it’s common
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by smikhanov 7mo ago
Several related reasons working at once. The nature of work changed. The boundary between accidental and incidental complexity shifted (and it’s unclear whether this distinction still exists). Niche specializations within the field emerged.
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by smikhanov 7mo ago
That law (formulated in the 70s, I’ll remind the reader) wasn’t true for at least couple decades now.
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by smikhanov 7mo ago
Pages are snappy, terse, consistent, clear and unsurprising This is a fantastic summary. Also, when you switch to gov.uk after using literally any other modern website, it's always surprising how fast it is.
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by smikhanov 7mo ago
gov.uk has a tendancy to treat everyone like a 5 year old Which is not a bug, but a feature of the gov.uk website, and it's the best and the most important one. 89 year old you would absolutely appreciate it when you'd n
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by smikhanov 8mo ago
I like how the author correctly shown the cover image for the "The Sciences of the Artificial", with plural 's' in 'sciences', but then in the paragraph praising it gleefully ignored it. Probably means this art
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by smikhanov 9mo ago
To be honest, in the pre-internet era, paid paper copy of FT had ads too. The delivery mechanisms for ads in the internet era are trillion times nastier and more annoying, of course. By the standards of today’s web, the print ad for Cartier
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by smikhanov 9mo ago
People who love thinking in false dichotomies like this one have absolutely no idea how much harder it is to “get paid for doing commercial/trendy art”. It’s so easy to be a starving artist; and in the world of commercial art it’s bloo
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by smikhanov 10mo ago
Well, fuel duty is a better example then
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by smikhanov 10mo ago
I need to think about this more, but the first thing that comes to my mind is not that this looks like “taxing the tool”, but that this can (ought to?) be similar to an alcohol or a fuel duty. Nobody calls alcohol duty “micromanagement”. Fo
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by smikhanov 10mo ago
You could, but you’d be missing a big part of the picture. Humans are also (at least) symbol manipulators.
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by smikhanov 10mo ago
Oh, and there's also "grok" just few paragraphs later!
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by smikhanov 10mo ago
"Grabbed lunch" is an awful phrase
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by smikhanov 10mo ago
Yes
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by smikhanov 11mo ago
> I don’t know what IntelliJ is. “I never read The Economist” – Management Trainee, aged 42.
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by smikhanov 11mo ago
Don’t be a square
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by smikhanov 11mo ago
Some laptops clearly belong to the cheerful juniors celebrating their coding practices (git! npm! vim! Python!), and some are very political; once you filter those out, what remains are interesting examples of people expressing themselves.
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by smikhanov 11mo ago
I can only imagine how many similar places to see ancient ruins in everyday context are in Rome. Or Athens.
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by smikhanov 11mo ago
> But there is no such possible way to use an iDevice without relying on Apple's services. There is. One can go through the iPhone setup wizard and opt out of everything. You don’t need to have any accounts, neither iCloud nor App S
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by smikhanov 1y ago
More like 16 year old, but the rest is spot on.
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Wow, I didn’t know Laser Squad was done by the same guy (and his brother, full indie-style, it turns out) — I remember playing that game on Spectrum in 1992 or so, and it was absolutely next level, no other game came close at that time.

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