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by tj-teej 2y ago
"leave everything tidy at the end of the day" - totally agree, I've now shifted to my "tidy" means my todo-list is tidy with the first thing to do at the top.
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by tj-teej 3y ago
Not a golden way of improving your EQ, but Impro by Keith Johnstone was illuminating to me (specifically the chapter on Status). If you feel you struggle with understanding how to communicate I can't recommend it enough. https:/&
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by tj-teej 3y ago
I don't think IRC is comparable in it's effects to the profit-driven (engagement-incentivizing) "Social Media" companies. These are dramatically changing the fabric of society (something Adults can decide for themselves
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by tj-teej 3y ago
"At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried Googling. I made some false starts using what I could ga
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by tj-teej 3y ago
Wouldn't this require retraining the model each time your "extended mind" needs more information? One benefit of RAG in my mind is that the "database" can be updated in real-time without needing any model retraining
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by tj-teej 3y ago
Does anyone realistically think "Facebook" will exist in 2100? Looking at how different the web is today from even 20 years ago there's almost no services that are remotely the same. This study is analogous to one which says
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by tj-teej 3y ago
The other thing to remember is that a Senior Developer isn't just a moniker for the best of the developers, it's a different job. A Sr Dev should have a different job description, different expectations and be held to different st
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by tj-teej 3y ago
The book Impro - it's a fantastic book written by an Improv coach, the first chapter on Status was one of those lightbulb moments for me, so many interactions I had everyday made so much more sense. Reading the first chapter is a bette
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by tj-teej 3y ago
Squash! :)
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by tj-teej 3y ago
"What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento" You can't play the "I wasn't told" card, this is something that I would hope 99% of engineers would have warned about, and if Elon
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by tj-teej 3y ago
Related story, I remember years ago as a kid I bought a Prince of Persia PC game at a yardsale (on a CD), but early on in the game there was a riddle where you needed a password to get through this door, it was some cryptic message of a few
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by tj-teej 3y ago
FWIW in the American south it's common for Fraternities to hold BBQs and party outside of executions
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by tj-teej 3y ago
"roughly 30% of Microsoft employees in the study now had a third productivity peak at about 10 p.m" Maybe I'm naive but I'm surprised one in three workers at Microsoft have a productivity spike at 10pm (they said it&#x27
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by tj-teej 3y ago
Just a counter example, if a Comcast customer unloads a racist tirade against a customer support rep on the phone, it's reasonable for Comcast to cut-off their internet services, right? Even if they bought their router and modem from C
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by tj-teej 3y ago
If a business hired a hundred people to go to a soup kitchen to get free soup and then went out and sold the soup surely that seems wrong. PS - these comments are going to be used to train the next GPT aren't they?
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by tj-teej 3y ago
Armando Iannucci gets it spot on in The Thick of It: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the-thick-of-it
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by tj-teej 3y ago
The comments and discourse here is always so black and white. If you're lucky enough to have creative work where you can deliver the most value by doing focused work all day, then by all means ignore your slack and email. BTW I'm
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by tj-teej 3y ago
The Wall Street Journal's Editorial page is notoriously reactionary, this is par for the course to be honest.
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by tj-teej 3y ago
I think the problem with these kinds of posts is that they miss the fundamental fact that humans are so different from each other. The hobbyist who coded from age 10 because they just enjoy solving super complex problems will be helpful for
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by tj-teej 4y ago
Bob: "I used to think correlation implied causation, but then I took a statistics class and now I know that's not true." Bill: "Wow! Sounds like that class really helped you learn about statistics" Bob: "Maybe.
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by tj-teej 4y ago
Why do you think it's the "Cult of the MBA" (aggressive business leaders have always existed) and not the fact that there will be no meaningful pushback from the US Government, regardless of which political party is in power.
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by tj-teej 4y ago
I'm sorry to hear that and I wish you the best. Don't sell yourself short. You've spent a decade creating software and dedicating yourself to it. A degree doesn't change that (a degree is much easier to go and get than 1
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by tj-teej 4y ago
Having been through a few layoffs at companies, I think it's still helpful to remember that even when a company does lay-offs and while thousands of people are losing their jobs, the vast majority are not. News articles don't stat
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by tj-teej 4y ago
I don't think this is the case. I think most engineering teams will have a "backlog" of tech debt. Some are things they want to do (the original implementation is icky but could be lived with for years until requirements chan
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by tj-teej 4y ago
It only goes against his "free speech thing" if his "free speech thing" was actually a coherent ideology. Instead his "free speech absolutism" is a brand, it's there to signal what kind of person he is, it
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by tj-teej 4y ago
Do you believe no member of your family has ever experienced poverty and had to steal to survive? What a callous thing to say.
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by tj-teej 4y ago
Supply and demand doesn't have to be how all pricing is set. Why should those with the highest ability to pay be the ones who get to see the band? Doesn't seem very Punk Rock...
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by tj-teej 4y ago
"because....that's what it is" I think this is the key problem here. Tesla is asserting the right to decide for the owner what the car "is". Kinda brings into question who the "owner" "is"...
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by tj-teej 4y ago
This is such a great distinction! The reason people are encouraged not to make their work their life is that their work can be taken away from them (including for reasons that are in no way their fault). But a passion for your craft can tra
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by tj-teej 4y ago
Well it's an economy of scale thing, I'm sure lots of people are paying the $2 and incidents are rare

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