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by urthor 4y ago
It's remarkably easy. For some reason it's simply not taught at schools. 1. Psychological security. 2. Crystal Clear targets, planning, goals, written down. To paraphrase this, a top manager will write their ICs an 8-12 week JI
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by urthor 4y ago
It's remarkably easy. For some reason it's simply not taught at schools. 1. Psychological security. 2. Crystal Clear targets, planning, goals, written down. To paraphrase this, a top manager will write their ICs an 8-12 week JI
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by urthor 4y ago
In truth, I don't hold my view strongly. Software is a YOUNG field. An undiscovered ocean of knowledge absolutely awaits us. Far more knowledge remains to be found. Far more focused on "what haven't I learnt."
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by urthor 4y ago
I agree. I simply think, the assembly model will be replaced. There will eventually be a new, "better," set of principles. For reasoning about library gluing. > Knowledge of the underlying machine is irrelevant. > As you lo
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by urthor 4y ago
Play is more a search for novel ideas by practice. Discovery of new ideas, and absorbing. Different types of learning.
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by urthor 4y ago
> They want programmers to become fungible "resources", Capitalism is a graph search problem linking supply and demand. Don't imagine otherwise, for one second. It's genuinely, EXTREMELY, easy to hire c++ programmers
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by urthor 4y ago
Do you have a source for France teaching mathematics from first principles?
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by urthor 4y ago
That's not how tertiary education works. University is where students choose the classes they want to take. Students are 100% responsible for their learning. They vote with their feet. Faculty must JUSTIFY why the knowledge they teach
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by urthor 4y ago
As said young person. The issue is: I truly, truly, love programming and working with computers. I truly, truly, cannot see myself writing software in a systems programming language, ever, for the rest of my career. I'll only work in
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by urthor 4y ago
Exactly this. As a fulltime functional programmer... I cannot ask university graduates to learn functional programming to the depth of SICP teaches. Even the "Scala redbook" is 50-100 hours of work. Junior graduates, have so, so,
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by urthor 4y ago
Amazon is excellent for books. A category it maintains a genuine, unique advantage in (Amazon prints books and generally speaking does many different extra operations in that market.) One notable part of Amazon's success story: book r
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by urthor 4y ago
Very interesting actually.
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by urthor 4y ago
fwiw, you can share a spark session between unit tests. Even persist a spark session throughout the day so your tests run against a hot session. Straight TDD with spark is perfectly fine if you know what you're doing. I'm not sa
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by urthor 4y ago
https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?cites=1112604061083212... Citations of said paper.
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by urthor 4y ago
The concept is still worth knowing. Intersperse sprinting into your jogging is extremely important. Or other similar intensity lifts.
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by urthor 4y ago
It leads to the metagame. For many junior employees, far more likely to be predesignated as H2F, you onboard as a hire to fire employee. Then immediately begin networking for an adjacent team to join. It's never about what you can do.
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by urthor 4y ago
Those are far more common.
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by urthor 4y ago
You're describing a theoretical situation. While that can definitely occur, I strongly doubt that's what has happened to Canva.
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by urthor 4y ago
Do those events change the fundamentals though? Canva's bottom line is still excellent. The previous valuation was just PE froth. Canva just raised money at the top of the market at an absurd valuation, but it's the cash flow th
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by urthor 4y ago
This is really excellent, thank you! I'll always remember this. Live a life of atelic enjoyment.
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by urthor 4y ago
https://www.scalatest.org/at_a_glance/WordSpec Seems pretty straightforward.
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by urthor 4y ago
IMO the best thing you can do is reaching out to high school teachers teaching programming. A coworker had an interested high school student come in for the day/week a few times, and shadow them. For many kids whose parents have never
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by urthor 4y ago
Realistically, corporate donations are almost entirely measured by the "gross value added to brand/reputation." Not "actual worth to society." A market based, consumer driven approach like Amazon Smile, is likely op
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by urthor 4y ago
Really? That's fascinating. Avionics certification is an incredible milestone for FOSS in general.
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by urthor 4y ago
If you phrase the question "is there a way to prevent" usually it all goes well. Working with folk who understand that nuance is the tough part.
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by urthor 4y ago
He might well have. I don't know the titles of any of them, so I can't comment.
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by urthor 4y ago
Practical Vim is worthwhile. Unfortunately, I had to put it down to read the 695,378 word Vim manual. Or at least, the 33,807 word core essentials. Approachability is... not Vim. Especially when both the manual and Practical Vim to absorb &
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by urthor 4y ago
Ironically, in a Hacker News article clickbait title. The clickbait title is more precious than its contents. Foundational knowledge allows you to tie different facts together in your field. This rope vastly, vastly, aids comprehension.
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by urthor 4y ago
It's a fine balance. Software Engineering is a profession that deeply revolves around saving people time. The tiniest fraction of software engineering involves goals other than "saving humans minutes." The foundational kn
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by urthor 4y ago
Early in 2022, the rumour was Sand Hill Road essentially asked its startup portfolio to invest in Crypto. iirc Neeva wasn't doing too flash back then. Now, Neeva's playing in its own ballpark.

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