tikhonj

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by tikhonj 1mo ago
I mean, in a lot of these cases people take those jobs because they're able to work remotely initially... and then get hit with an inflexible, top-down RTO mandate once they've settled into the role.
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by tikhonj 1mo ago
Too bad so many companies insist on top-down management practices that actively make this harder: planning and tracking work in individually owned tickets, individual stack-ranked performance evaluations, "productivity" metrics th
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by tikhonj 1mo ago
Exactly the same thing happens with in-office work. I've certainly had that experience! But it's hard to talk about because in-person work is the "default", and it feels like if you have problems with that it's a si
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by tikhonj 1mo ago
If I get lucky in IPO land I'll have my eye on a Jaeger-LeCoultre watch with a meteorite dial, so I guess things have not changed all that much in the last 3500 years :P
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by tikhonj 1mo ago
My personal view is that programming languages are amazing tools for understanding. Some more than others, but even the worst—the most verbose, the lowest level—are better than they have any right to be. So I think that we are leaving a l
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by tikhonj 1mo ago
Bloomberg is big enough that different aspects of the system are going to be absolutely key for substantial subsets of its customers.
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
It's a sign of how much distribution matters to VCs . Whether that is enough in the medium- and long-term is unclear. I'm a bit skeptical but not very confident either way... which is part of the reason I am not a VC!
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
I mean, in this case, it's 2^{0.6039n}, and the n is pretty important. I can see why trying to automatically detect cases like this would run into a bunch of wrong behaviors (either styling text that was not meant to be math notation,
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
Everybody saying "coding was never the hard part" is really telling on themselves. Coding was never "hard" because most organizations were absolutely unwilling to take on any technical work that was hard. That tells us
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
The main thing that Bonsai gets you is a nice programming model for making your UIs interactive. If you're mostly producing static reports (with maybe some basic interactive visualization widgets or something), it will not get you much
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
notion isn't too far off wave failed for weird google organizational reasons far more than anything inherent to the product or tech
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
> A few months post-acquisition, he got fired for an allegedly silly reason, but my intuition is that he was coasting hard and couldn’t focus at all because of home office and lifestyle creep. This seems like a pretty dubious conclusio
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
"Everything is a trade-off" assumes you're on the Pareto frontier. Go is... very much not on the Pareto frontier of programming language design.
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
A pretty big part of the reason we didn't switch earlier is that most people—certainly most non-technical leaders, but also a lot of engineers—don't value correctness or security enough. We didn't have good alternatives until
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
I've already seen at least one promising experiment about how static checking helps LLMs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01522 Key parts of the abstract: > This raises a question the programming-language community
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
If all you do is replace the recursion in that example with one (or more) loops with mutable indexes, chances are the code will get worse .
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
Well, maybe it is... but then the PM never prioritizes testing or fixing the problem. They're not intentionally trying to get more people to accept cookies, it's just that there are always more important features to build and fire
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
I mean, if you wrote an article like "the whole premise of disallowing people to spray-paint your house is daft"... The real point isn't that they're "obligated" to allow AI-generated comments, but that they&#x
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
The "data inputs" were also, very much, somebody's "value added" IP. We're talking about things like text people wrote , not some kind of raw data floating out in the ether.
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
There are still a lot of smaller totally independent projects like this. I suspect that there are more— far more—just-for-fun projects today than in past decades in absolute terms . I love Haskell, I've spent a lot of time in the gen
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
The biggest obstacle to that is the electorate. People (voters!) would go wild . Anything the NGOs do, however shady, won't compare to that. We had a successful campaign to recall a progressive prosecutor over less.
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
None of those things make homelessness appealing in any absolute sense. Like, if people had a (reasonable-to-them) path to getting a home, the vast majority would go for it even if there were a bunch of services available. The real answer i
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
I've had the opposite experience, where Spotify (and, to a lesser extent, YouTube) has been a great way to find different music that I enjoy. The Discover Weekly playlist in particular has been surprisingly good at surfacing music th
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by tikhonj 2mo ago
It's a bit harder to find, but I've had a good experience with liquid melatonin. Each drop contains like 0.1mg, so it's easy to dial in the small dose that you need.
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
I did this the last time I tried reading Gravity's Rainbow and it definitely helped. Still required more prolonged focus that I have readily available though :P
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
Emacs is, in fact, an IDE and some general purpose automation harness. And some other stuff. That's the point .
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
When I've been in that position, I've just trusted junior folks to figure out the tooling-specific way to do things like that, and it's worked out perfectly well. If anything, it leaves people happier and learning more. And
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
That doesn't follow. For one, there might be trade-offs against dimensions other than safety and expressiveness. Performance, corporate support, libraries, popularity, learning curves, similarity to other languages... For two, populari
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
It isn't nearly as much of a trade-off as people say. Languages like Haskell are both remarkably expressive and provide a lot of safety. (And, of course, languages like Python, Java and Go are the opposite.)
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
Is that actually a word, or were you thinking of "wrought"?

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