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by urthor 4y ago
Wall Street isn't run by morons. The quants own the trading floor. The Yale crowd owns private equity and investment banking. Why? Because private equity and investment banking involve "literally talking to rich old white people
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by urthor 4y ago
Because human beings have a right to live in an affordable home. There's no reason that, given increased construction, Bay Area prices cannot DECREASE. Imagine that. Having your monthly home payments go down by 10% a year, due to incr
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by urthor 4y ago
Keep in mind that the politicians in charge of this... are extremely local. They are Democrats, but not the kind you'd think. It's a very small world in local politics.
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by urthor 4y ago
The hypotheses I'm seeing are interesting. On one hand, lots of tech workers with kids move there for big yards and good weather. On the other hand, the universities are not up to scratch. And for college graduates and the young, movin
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by urthor 4y ago
One trick savvy folk do, and this is beyond effective. They take these two week courses at these universities. And then they put it at the top of the "education" section of their resume. It's like $99.99 prices. Against all
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by urthor 4y ago
How so? Curious on your perspective why professionalism and good work habits beat "genius" at startups. I would have assumed the opposite. My view of startup life was that it's about managing your money, your hiring/fir
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by urthor 4y ago
Absolutely this. The out of towners, who are mostly Blackrock, is just a fella with a spreadsheet tracking new dwelling approvals vs demand. All the Bay Area has to do is approve new dwellings. The issue is the politicians are landlords wi
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by urthor 4y ago
$3000 a month for a modern building, good one bedroom? Not a studio. In SOMA/Mission? That's genuinely somewhat affordable for tech workers. You'd get a terrible studio in Manhattan for that, plus all sorts of fees. San
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by urthor 4y ago
Disagree. After retrospectives we've always had a pretty good idea of what our problems are. Motivation to fix those issues is a different story. Scrum can't solve for lacking motivation.
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by urthor 4y ago
I've encountered almost zero agile manifesto teams in my time for back-end software. For 95% of projects, getting non-technical customers & stakeholders to read the manifesto and come demo software fortnightly, in person is impossi
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by urthor 4y ago
The beautiful thing is there is a built into Scrum solution to this. You alter estimation. The fact story points are made up BS numbers means developers have full control over the velocity chart. My favorite part of Scrum is it makes it IMP
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by urthor 4y ago
Kanban isn't an externally facing interface. Quite honestly Scrum and story mapping isn't that good for a whole of company approach. You need to use tools like OKRs and good old waterfall to manage multiple team projects.
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by urthor 4y ago
Really, I don't think that old world approach changed much with Scrum. The root cause is that most people are honestly not too amazing at this corporate teamwork thing. External frameworks like Scrum can improve things 10-20%, maybe.
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by urthor 4y ago
I agree. The process itself is fine. The issue is that the practitioners are none-too-adept managers and teams. Making software is simply hard. No amount of Scrum frameworks solves for staffing a project with a talent-less manager. Althoug
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by urthor 4y ago
See I think, whether it's outliers or regular people. Use 100% of your brain. That's the most important thing. Revv the engine to 100%.
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by urthor 4y ago
Top mathematician's brains might be outliers. However, I strongly doubt the various parts and cells erodes any differently. Brilliant minds, bog standard glial cells. Their parts come with the same warranty we receive. My experience
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by urthor 4y ago
It's also because these companies hire away staff all the time. Rule 1 of working in this field, recruit a mid level member of the other company's research group biannually to get the latest gossip. It's impossible to keep a
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by urthor 4y ago
For most CEOs or business owners it's definitely the hardest episode they'll face. Mostly because of the loss of face. Layoffs means the CEO/board has screwed things up big time. Firing people is easy. They fire screw-ups a
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by urthor 4y ago
Agreed. The way to do layoffs is simple. You get managers to stack rank the lot, then you get every single person with 30 or more reports under them in a room. Then you do the whole layoff in one 5 hour meeting. Swing the axe and get it do
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by urthor 4y ago
It's a book for data scientists. Data scientists are not software engineers. They analyze data, they don't produce applications. Not everything in the world is written for the benefit of software engineers.
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by urthor 4y ago
> This metaphorical braid shows the integration of the foundational fields, labeled S, OR, and C. Figure I.1 Integration of Statistics, Operations Research, and Computing Brilliant. The single biggest issue I see working in this area to
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by urthor 4y ago
Strongly disagree. IMO I think GUI variables are a big weakness of Airflow. I, simply, never want to be responsible for a typo in a prod config variable. Ever. I'm all for version controlling every, single, variable.
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by urthor 4y ago
It's absolutely market forces. Research output determines rankings. Teaching quality doesn't.
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by urthor 4y ago
Smalltalk doesn't run on iPhone for one thing. Also, there is still a nonzero amount of asset porting. Even if the code is portable, making the buttons for MacOS involves changing the art and everything. Apple only allows rounded corn
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by urthor 4y ago
The problem is, what's the single best use case for Smalltalk? Web apps are too dominant, and the fact is much of backend engineering is mildly unsuitable for a dynamic language runtime due to raw performance. I think that's the i
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by urthor 4y ago
Keep in mind that there are some very good reasons the Smalltalk ecosystem wasn't adopted. #1 it's a burden of knowledge to shift from the Unix filesystem to the Smalltalk runtime. There... are no files. #2, quite honestly Pharo
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by urthor 4y ago
One of the things to appreciate with Pharo Smalltalk is a code snippet isn't a code snippet. Pharo is not a filesystem/.txt coding environment. It's a VM runtime with every single element is indexed by the class/traits
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by urthor 4y ago
I find number of commits is a lot more correlated with development ability than people thing. People who've made lots of git commits... have made lots of stuff. Experience and knowledge is commensurate with ability. Even though we say
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by urthor 4y ago
It's a very intelligent dance on Amazon's part I find. The objective of antipiracy restrictions shouldn't be to restrict the top 5% of most technical power users. That takes far too much time and effort, and frankly power us
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by urthor 4y ago
> Tech leads in most engineering firms don't have that kind of control That's a mistake by most engineering firms. Direct technical leadership is extremely important. Weekly direct feedback and performance evaluation on techni

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