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by tmlb 4y ago
You can have some idea, but it’s not like estimating the time and cost of building a house.
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by tmlb 4y ago
Makes sense only if you assume building software is like building a house. Imagine getting an author to tell you when the novel they are writing will be finished? Or this: imagine seeking an estimate on when a house will be built, trimmed,
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by tmlb 4y ago
They sort of touched on this point in the movie: >No one exceeds their potential. If they did, it would mean we did not accurately gauge their potential in the first place.
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by tmlb 4y ago
This is why I thought it was one of the more interesting problems in the list. There’s a lot of potential suffering that can fit inside an eternity.
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by tmlb 4y ago
Would your answer change if you were stuck on the trolley quite literally for eternity, rather than just the remainder of your biological life?
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by tmlb 4y ago
I suppose I'm hedging my bets by using vim in VSCode.
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by tmlb 4y ago
> My suspicion is that staring at objects closely and under dimly lit conditions causes pseusdo-myopia Are you implying that cell phones could be a factor?
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by tmlb 4y ago
I've worked on a service that handled credentials where we added tests like this to try to catch if a log statement gets added containing the username/password. We used a few end to end tests rather than attempting to include some
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by tmlb 5y ago
The article mentioned that the blog itself is hosted on a replit, so I guess that's one example. This seems like it would be great for rapid prototyping.