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by tchaffee 6y ago
Frustrated customers, even rude ones, are an opportunity to learn and improve. The CEO of Ghost unfortunately resorted to schoolboy tactics instread of acting like a diplomatic executive. Sure you should fire your bad customers. But don&#x2
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by tchaffee 6y ago
People complain about this all the time. AWS is the most common example that comes to mind.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
And where is the problem? Abstraction in programming is one of the most powerful tools we have. Perhaps the author should have warned about the anti-pattern of premature abstraction, but it was a very light treatment of the subject and the
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by tchaffee 6y ago
That's a good question. With database normalization you do end up with more tables that have less columns anyway. But the ORM boundary has always been problematic and normalization won't always get you down to seven columns, so th
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Maybe it's the opposite. Just like there are likely evolutionary advantages to some of our cognitive biases (better to mistake a rock for a bear than the opposite), it might be worth considering if holding on to more than seven things
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The article talks about object properties, not methods. The problem described is that each property is like a global variable that all methods share. So the string object having 40 methods is not a counter example. As far as I can tell from
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Source? I think you'd also need to account for how many big acts had song writing factories working for them back then. Lou Reed for example worked as an in house song writer for Pickwick Records before he went on to form the Velvet Un
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The word racist has lost all meaning? Could you provide evidence of that? I anecdotally still see the word used often enough and correctly. No doubt it is sometimes overused, but considering there are a lot of racists in the USA and that ra
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It sounds like what you are saying is that it is easier to be either a bullying management type or a charismatic persusasive type. Both of which I have seen lead to some of the stupidest corporate decisions in my career. So while both of th
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by tchaffee 6y ago
How do you plan on taxing something that is free?
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Likely to turn out similar to when the UK banned the Sex Pistols' first album. It will become a must-have item for those in their rebellious teen years.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The first amendment is a negative right: it forbids the government from acting. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech..."
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Because we live in a relatively free country where the government doesn't choose what software we buy or use.
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It's inconceivable because the Beatles were hugely talented with two and a half very prolific song writers all playing off each other, they had enough money to stop touring and to live in the music studio, and they hired outside talent
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by tchaffee 6y ago
So hard to put into words because the role is so varied but thinking of them as an artistic coach or mentor to the band while recording is perhaps accurate enough. Often hated or loved by the band and or fans of the band for the direction t
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The article seemed to imply that's one thing that deserves more research.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> I'm not sure why you'd assume that would be kept from them? Where did I assume that? > nothing forces people to apply Agreed. I already predicted that the reputation gained from this practice would have talented developers
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> IMO bite the bullet, over hire and then collect the cream based on evaluation That sounds at the least unethical and perhaps illegal in some countries. You're messing with people's lives, their ability to pay their mortgages,
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Some of the very productive developers I have worked with are not great at code reviews. It's a different skill from writing code and not everyone who is good at coding is good at reviewing other people's code. Considering most of
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> collaborating on a problem with the interviewee That's not how developers spend the vast majority of their time. It's a poor signal in my experience. What it selects for is candidates who are immediately comfortable collabora
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by tchaffee 6y ago
In other words the companies that 99% of the world's developers work for. What they are "resorting" to is a hiring process that finds good developers at a reasonable cost. "We can't pay you what FAANG pays but we do
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It takes a long time to build doctors and nurses.
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Understanding Covid-19 New normal: How far is safe enough?(graphics.reuters.com)
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> However, if you demand hard proof before taking any significant action, that's the same thing as demanding that no significant action be taken. We do have enough hard evidence of many things to take action. And we have seen those
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by tchaffee 6y ago
That's a strawman along with an exaggeration. I never said to not make assumptions. If you are a doctor or scientist specializing in disease then I'd love to hear your assumptions. It's the layman persuasive arguments in here
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I'm astounded by the number of attempts at persuasion in this thread. Around claims that deserve hard evidence. Just wait for the evidence and say "I don't know" in the meantime. I see nonsense like "because other S
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by tchaffee 6y ago
That's a useful mental model. It took me a while to reply because I was trying to get enough clarity on why my process works to put it into words. I use red flags in my hiring process. There are many when it comes to whether or not som
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> I guess you couldn't say, right? Of course I can say. Many people have five fingers and some have fewer and some have more. The second sentence of the Wikipedia article on fingers agrees with me. [1] What was so difficult about t
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Castration reduces testorone. Estrogen does not reduce testorone as far as I know. Which is why transgender women take both estrogen and testorone blockers. If the doctor had prescribed a testorone blocker you might have a point about prece
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by tchaffee 6y ago
You can thank genetic "abnormalities" in part for evolution. Many genetic variations, even those that cause disease, have been later found to give evolutionary advantages. Sickle cell comes to mind. There is no "normal state

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