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by tibbetts 5y ago
The amount of information available on candidates to hiring managers is extremely limited. Evidence of outside creativity is a pretty good sign that someone is not a bozo.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I enjoyed the book _Leprechauns of Software Engineering_ which did track down all the chains of citations to find where the original work was misunderstood or even nonexistent. I would bet that it covers most or even all of these citations,
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Lots of bugs in production code never get triggered or never get fixed and lots of production code eventually gets deleted. There is a real problem with confirmation bias here, as the bugs that cost weeks to fix in production are extremely
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by tibbetts 5y ago
There could be, but I can’t think of anyone I know who grew up with transit who talks about how much they love car centric suburbia. I do know people who like that their kids are in greener spaces, which is related.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
This is a good list. It’s interesting to me that it emphasizes historic papers that were quite novel when they were published. These papers were impactful, and are thus good on some absolute scale. But they were not written to be introducti
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by tibbetts 5y ago
It’s more common if the specialty shop has expanded to a chain. Because the same skills and tactics it takes to make a chain business also make a salable / maintainable business.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
People in Germany and Norway somehow start companies. Maybe they make do without receptionists?
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Finance is like the engineering department in Star Trek. They provide critical resources, and are limited in what they can do by the laws of physics, but they still have to respond to constant demands from executives to somehow make it work
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by tibbetts 5y ago
One person businesses often require a unique collection of skills to operate and don’t make enough money to hire a team of professional operators. This is also true of traditional small businesses like restaurants and car mechanics. The phe
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I would tend to flip the value of reflective novices and prescriptive masters. Or rather, I’m often successful with advice from reflective people who have minimal mastery. Like, I’ll take reflective advice from an entrepreneur who has only
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by tibbetts 5y ago
They are lobbying to maintain the status quo. I think their big fear is some politician deciding to sell off the amateur spectrum to Verizon or getting convinced by Cisco that ham radio is bad for wifi and needs to be more tightly regulated
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by tibbetts 5y ago
This is kind of what the ARRL does. Amateur radio is supposed to be self-policing. They want to minimize FCC headaches from any kind of hobbyist radio, in order to maintain flexibility and tolerance.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I’m waiting for a Greg Egan short story to explain this better.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I’m 41, and know all those things, and my father’s company ran for most of my life on AS/400. But they replaced those systems over a decade ago. My whole professional career IBM has been trying to commit corporate suicide in a stumblin
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by tibbetts 5y ago
My biggest image format question, which I haven’t seen a clear answer to, is as an iPhone camera user should I be keeping the JPEG or the HEIC as my archival format? I theorized the HEIC had more information, but I don’t really know. Unfort
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by tibbetts 5y ago
This project would benefit from someone with some marketing skills being clearer about not what it does, but who would use it and why.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
That would seem to lead unavoidably to extremely perverse incentives.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Redundant implementations only help with uncorrelated problems. With complex software, problems are often quite correlated across multiple implementations. Add to that the additional complexity of managing those multiple implementations and
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by tibbetts 6y ago
The banks are just responding to government policy. To quote the article, the single family homeowners who think of rising property values as a birthright are the problem, along with politicians and regulators who cater to them. The banks a
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by tibbetts 6y ago
Sure, but it’s a transition to slowing down, not going faster.
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by tibbetts 6y ago
I thought it was pretty clear that the FSF has accomplished little and is prepared to accomplish less going forward. An advocacy organization without a legislative agenda, whose messaging remains ineffective and unchanged for decades, isn’t
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by tibbetts 6y ago
RMS never harassed women? Have you spent any time around MIT or other RMS haunts? Dude was well established as a serial harasser. When I was a grad student in 2002 it was common knowledge that he was afraid of spider plants and many women a
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by tibbetts 6y ago
Scaling the payment with the importance of the software is already how enterprise software largely works. Often times customers actively want to pay more for software so they can secure more attention from the vendor, if the software is cri
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by tibbetts 6y ago
I imagine getting the trackpad right is either a giant pile of heuristic rules, or a nice tagged data set for ML, or both, maybe with a side of online learning from usage. A trackpad that automatically does the right thing for me coding, my
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by tibbetts 6y ago
Microservices architectures are like the Navy using nuclear reactors to power aircraft carriers. It’s really compelling in certain circumstances. But it comes with staggering and hard to understand costs that only make sense at certain scal
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by tibbetts 6y ago
The capitalist colonization of North America, complete with genocide and chattel slavery, deserves at least honorable mention. Also the East India Company, and the Irish famines orchestrated by British landowners, and many more. Just becaus
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by tibbetts 6y ago
Falling life expectancy is a statistical fiction due to changing demographics. And health/medical outcomes are still better, most of the problem is systems that encourage people to die because they can’t afford care.
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by tibbetts 6y ago
Responsibility doesn’t sum to 100%. If I fly on a crappy airline and get in a plane crash, it was partly my fault, and also the fault of pilots, maintenance people, regulators, executives, and many more. If someone makes a box with a hole i
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by tibbetts 6y ago
If you are making your vaccine from artificial peptides that are a hundred times shorter than a live virus, this seems unlikely. There was no way for live virus to be introduced into this process.
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by tibbetts 6y ago
Generally being able to interactively adjust the granularity of the data, drill down, and also to interactively filter the data and see it properly re-aggregated.

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