twawaaay

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by twawaaay 4y ago
> No heuristic is perfect, but it's fairly easy to quantify empirically from activity/records. Developers who are productive (actually write and ship large amounts of quality code) tend to be valuable and those that don't,
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Science is based on measurements and metrology is essentially pedantry, so... a compliment? (And I am aware this is bad logic.)
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by twawaaay 4y ago
They are talking about 1ms diff from 24h as being a lot. 4 minutes is hundreds of thousands larger difference.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Lack of understanding of the relation between 24 hours and rotational period of Earth. Earth does not take anywhere close to 24 hours to complete a rotation, regardless of how you measure it. Earth rotates in 23h 56m 4s with relation to dis
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Completely unacceptable as an input method for anybody with any level of typing proficiency. I can type couple words during the time it would take to input one character... Also, while typing 10 characters per second visual elements stop wo
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think the term "world class" is unfortunate with connection to freight rail networks. Freight does not need to travel super fast or super high tech. What it needs is to be able to travel everywhere at high throughput and cheaply
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Not sure you understand this internet thing works. US is investing into microchip industry so that they don't get invaded over the internet. As to boots in the ground, you are just naive. The only thing that stops China or Russia from
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Security is at the top of all needs. A country that can't defend itself will be pray to everybody else and will not be able to do anything about environment or education. You can bitch and moan all you want. Go visit Ukraine and see wh
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by twawaaay 4y ago
This is flawed logic. Security is what allows everything else to exist. You can't just say "Let's liquidate military and spend all that money on children". This would last only shortly until China or somebody else invade
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Yeah, people kinda forget that not every job is the same. You can pretty much easily test if you have enough knowledge to be a good accountant or if you can play the violin well. There are couple smaller issues. Having knowledge will not te
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think you have some good understanding of parts of the problem but the ease with which you generalise is dangerous. Getting from "I have too many bad experiences with highly intelligent, but myopic and immature software developers&qu
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> You are probably in a much bigger need of accountable management > Your hiring process is not optimised to further business goals, That's a lot of things you were able to figure out based on my comments.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is an excellent question. Having an answer to it would be very valuable and I spent a lot of time thinking about it but found no conclusive answer. Sadly. First of all, I do not condemn people trying to do their best to legally provide f
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am not pretending to be unicorn by keeping high hiring standards. It is a reflection on our strategy. Our strategy is that, long term, is better to have smaller, tight knit community of highly intelligent, capable and motivated people tha
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Interviewing is a mutual process. The company invests time and resources into finding employees and candidates invest time and resources into finding a good place for them to work. I see no reason to compensate the candidate for the time th
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by twawaaay 4y ago
There is a shortage of actual developers. But there is no shortage of people who don't care about what they are doing or whether they can do it at all. When you are looking through piles of thousands of people, you are looking for ways
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> telling someone to interview for two hours, having them decide that of all the offers of interviews they had yours was least interesting with the highest barrier to entry, and you deciding they were at fault isn’t going to help you dea
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by twawaaay 4y ago
No, people were not. What changed is the demand grew enormously and in response, as in every other business of life, a lot of people who only have passing interest in it got into it because it pays well. So now you have companies have to so
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Well, FWD cars will always have a potential for tighter turning radius. RWD car is essentially pushing on a wheel that is almost perpendicular -- not very helpful, a lot of force needed to start the car rolling, potential to damage the whee
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by twawaaay 4y ago
The list is long but if I wanted anybody to take one thing from it is that complexity is the real killer. The job of the most experienced person in the software development organisation should be to spot unnecessary complexities and find wa
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think this is terrific advice. Over decades I have compiled my own list which contains all these and bunch of other behaviours that are needed for successful project. I would add one or two very important thing missing from the list. One,
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by twawaaay 4y ago
First of all, you don't wake up in the morning and have an idea that it would be great to have 5 nuclear reactors so that you don't freeze overnight. We more or less know how much energy we will need in 10 years. You just need to
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Budgets are decided by elected officials and elected officials are steered by their polling numbers. Out of all sources of energy only atomic energy is something that we can practically scale at the moment to cover almost all our needs (air
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> HN is generally okay with dissenting viewpoints. No, it is not. HN is for more or less like-minded people and if you stay too far from the beaten path you risk the ire of moderators regardless of whether you are right or not. Apparentl
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> The reason AirBNB will always have garbage service is because the hosts are their moneymakers, not you. Ummm... the fact that most people prefer Airbnb to anything else seems to directly contradict your statement. Also, why would you s
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by twawaaay 4y ago
We have some wrong models but this does not mean we don't have biases. The simplest way to disprove it: If we did not have biases but wrong models, fixing models would make us unbiased. But that works very rarely in real life.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
When I have internal conversation with myself, there is no difference between lose and loose. Probably because in my native language both pronunciations are indistinguishable. And also at least partly because I mostly work with polite peopl
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> This seems like terrible advice for most people though. But why? Maybe reducing number of companies you apply to lets you focus much more on getting prepared and this leads to you standing out from other candidates? Remember, you don&#
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by twawaaay 4y ago
That's not how this works. If somebody responded to senior developer ad, they will never be happy if I give them regular developer job. This is how human brain works. If I started discussion with you at $150k and then negotiated down t
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by twawaaay 4y ago
In decades of interviewing and hiring developers I have not seen an actual difference coming from posting salary ranges. I tried many different versions of this. As a candidate, I do not apply to a thousand different places. I find 3-4 wher

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