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by urthor 4y ago
I think it's a little bit more complicated than that. What you are describing is "treat developer productivity as a supply side problem." developers continually demand resources to improve their productivity. However, there&#
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"How the hell is the OS meant to know whether this thread is going to turn out to be a rendering operation or a logging thread?" Because this problem is incredibly well solved (I believe?). Scheduling priorities in operating syste
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Think OKRs. "Is the high level goal for this software critical." If yes. Then, people will give the problem the full attention it deserves. And once you have their full attention, you are more likely to get their cooperation to b
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The thing is, there is absolutely a cost for all those meetings. Time spent working with stakeholders and building consensus takes away from the urgency and energy you can devote to good work. My experience is very similar to the article&#
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"What Andy giveth, Bill Taketh away." Big little is fundamentally the correct architecture. It's not Intel's fault that the software guys making the Linux Kernel haven't fully supported heterogeneous yet. In the lo
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It's because Intel is behind in process nodes (transistor density) and chiplet technology. Once Intel is matching AMD for density, Intel will be able to jam far more small cores into a multi chip architecture than AMD will with just
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It's simple. You say "this company turns over 20 billion a year revenue. If I want to I can flush the whole damn lot down the toilet." "Pay me to not do a shit job." Latest in executive compensation research. As a
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Keep in mind that is at a particular price point. NVIDIA's top of the range chip is ahead of AMD's, and the 3080's SKU is at a lower binning point on the bell curve than the 6950's. Hence NVIDIA would be able to maintain
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Agenda, timeboxing and action items for meetings is absolutely the biggest, best, low hanging fruit in the modern workplace.
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NVIDIA is well, well ahead of AMD. NVIDIA's cards were faster than AMD's with the huge gap in transistor density that was the Samsung fab. Don't get excited for the AMD graphics division up in Canada.
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I'm interested in why Python is such a good teaching language. IMO I find that indents are supremely useful and visually appealing to the novice. They just look fantastic to people without decades of parentheses muscle memory. But my
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Got one of these for in person software roles (of good quality)? They're getting thin on the ground lately.
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Locking in a 10 year horizon with 50% of all man hours within a single suburb is also a large hurdle.
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From the article: > No more than 5% of a QOZB’s assets can be “nonqualified financial property”. Nonqualified financial property includes most types of financial assets such as stocks and bonds but excludes cash, loans with a term of 18
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Everyone makes mistakes. But when they committed to that mistake, they thought they were right at the time. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23771902/ Diagnostic errors by Doctors are probably the gold standard of being
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Well I don't think I'm right haha. I haven't met these people and asked them exactly what they were thinking. But I honestly think we're very biased towards assuming our senior corporate leaders are foolish and misguide
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It does feel like the barrier to entry for that kind of deep knowledge career is increasing these days. Maybe it's because I live outside the United States, but it seems like it's much harder to build a "pathway" into wo
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I'd say the reason I was keeping it ambiguous is that I wasn't really making a point about hardware or price negotiations specifically. I'm not a hardware person at all. I was maybe close to making a point that with supply ch
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Competition for social status is the fuel that propels so many people's lives. Acting rudely, just because you can, is something people struggle all their lives to achieve. I just think Darwinian tribalism is the natural status quo of
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100%. All I'd say is that I've seen it happen at every large corporation. At any one time a project or team gets chewed up and spat out. Corporate one size fits all policies, and the Darwinian competition for resources, inevitabl
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by urthor 4y ago
Yes, absolutely. Keep in mind as well, all corporate policies follow a normal distribution. Most of the time, I find corporations never aim for 90th percentile high performance. Perfect is the enemy of cost effective. They want "work
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Keep in mind this attitude makes total sense to hardware engineers. The hardware business is... Let's just say that the difficulties you face definitely exist for hardware engineers. But, difficulties involving negotiations plus recalc
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I find time goes extremely fast when I'm not doing deeply engage work that requires 100% of my brainpower. Want to slow time down? Maxwell's equations have you covered.
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Without reference to Heroku's current incompetence. As a general thing, I like the idea of a "swift, well written" email to your entire userbase saying "please reset your password, now." That seems like a perfectly
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Is the model of using an asterisk after first author's names to signal equal contribution common? Don't read many papers, but that's a new one.
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Absolutely not. Humans are attuned to have happiness that's deeply connected to interacting and mutual appreciation of other. Despite the best efforts of Twitch.com, television and other activities do not fill this void for deep apprec
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Empathy is its own little rabbit hole. Suggest reading a negotiation book like Never Split the Difference or 3D Negotiation. These books spend hundreds of pages describing techniques to jog your ability to put yourself in the other person
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What I see with finance is a HUGE discrepancy between out of classroom learning. High socioeconomic advantaged students are just prepared incredibly well for these discussions. It's very, very uphill for students who don't have th
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Keep in mind also that that's because in high school the number of hours per week are far more limited. High school has a part of a highly varied curriculum. For example, students almost never spend more than 25% of their time on just
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You may be speaking from a privileged position, of lifelong financial education & socioeconomic advantage. Even if you automate your tax deductions, you gotta know what a tax deduction is. Many people in tech come from a position of

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