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by wegs 6y ago
A much more thoughtful treatment of this problem is "The Dictator's Handbook." There are three possible explanations: 1) The CEO knows something I don't. 2) The CEO is dumb. Those are rarely it. The third one is: 3) The
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I'd prefer to see this integrated into the AWS UX. For an external crowd-sourced version, I'd like to see something like this with a column for maturity, and whether it actually works. The classic AWS services are rock-solid, and
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I want to claim it has upsides and downsides, that each example is different, and that you need to dig into nuance of how it is done. I further want to claim that thinking about this in terms of oversimplified cliches, stereotypes, or syndr
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by wegs 6y ago
Sounds like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. To some extent, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Contrast: New / outside CEO syndrome. Any organizational design has problems. Founders tend to be better than replacements, but far from universally. I&#x2
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I think this could be done well, single-threaded, but Python reinvented the wheel a half-dozen times now, and I don't think any of the wheels are that great. Having them all in the system at the same time, and without great connections
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I think programming language design as a having a large random component. New languages pop up every day, and it's really hard to predict which constructs will resonate well with human brains. Guido was competent, but not nearly as bri
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That's the make-or-break for me. Without 4k, I'll move along. With 4k, it'd probably be my next laptop. With 4k and touch or pen, it'd definitely be my next laptop.
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by wegs 6y ago
Neat! What I really wish for is integration, or at least discovery. I run into posts like this all the time, see neat things, and then can never find them again. I like all-in-one libraries like pylab/matplotlib where I know where to l
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by wegs 6y ago
It's more the headline than the news. The news is pretty big too. $4.5 -> $7 trillion almost overnight.
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Usually, in the README, I describe what the major files are. For something this simple, it's usually just one paragraph. "The source code is in `index.js`. In order to build the minified version, run `[command]`. [description of w
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by wegs 6y ago
Nope. McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the tier 1 everywhere. McKinsey is by far the biggest and best-known, but it's like MIT and Caltech. One is bigger, and one is smaller. The smaller is less well-known, but it's no worse. In this c
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Nice! Constructive feedback: Comments! My advice would be to add comments to the code. Comments shouldn't repeat the code, but e.g. describe what it's doing, or provide links to where the formulas come from and what they mean. It&
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by wegs 6y ago
School choice and medical choice are very different. With school choice, parents do incredible amounts of research, and can send their kids to excellent schools wherever they live, or however bad their local school boards are. And yes, ALL
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Awesome! I'd love QBasic from a few years later. I'd also love a nice, easy-to-run Ubuntu .deb for either.
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An intermediate approach I've been taking with my own son is to use calculus and initially not bother with either the manipulation OR the formalism. You have something moving, have the position and want the speed. Or vice-versa. You us
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To be direct: You made a nonsense statement, and now your changing your claims. Your statement was: "anyone that tells you they are able to outperform the market at scale as it relates to R&D outcomes is lying." This is a fals
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My general problem is that it's really hard to figure out which architecture is right for which system. There's a different architecture for: * one queue with billions of messages * a millions of queues with small numbers of messa
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There isn't a simple recipe someone can follow. A recipe is what brings you up to "industry best practices," and about where a typical business might perform. Excellence requires focus, dedication, thinking things through fro
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> There is no magic recipe for success in R&D — and anyone that tells you they are able to outperform the market at scale as it relates to R&D outcomes is lying. This is complete nonsense. This logic applies well to stock and bon
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Well, it's not like they had customer service before, so I'm not sure what's changed.
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I've used git+latex for a very long time, and more recently, git+markdown. It works really well! But it won't work with your nontechnical office staff. :(
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I can come up with architectures which avoid the combinatorial explosion of test cases. Most of these hinge on two pieces of architecture and one of organization: 1) Giving drivers ways to expose additional functionality through extensions
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>> With open source, it's easy to find people to do the fun, modular bits (acceleration curves, palm rejection, etc.). > If that were true, there wouldn't be crowds of people telling that palm rejection in Linux sucks bal
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, let me put it this way. I would donate $250 to fix it. I think that's how much working support for touch, trackpad, and pen input would be worth it to me. I would donate $0 for a stranger on the internet to try to fix it themselv
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Perhaps you're right. But if you prepare well, better organizations will hire you for better jobs. And to your comment, most portfolio sites are years out-of-date. I don't know anyone particularly cares. Most also aren't call
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You're unemployed now. It's not a bad use of your time. There are two levels here: Level 1: There's a basic web site. Think of it as fizz buzz. I can see you have a basic sense of style -- web site aesthetics, code quality, e
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It's not an either-or. Hiring, you want as many independent data points as you can. An ideal candidate would have: 1) A strong resume / linkedin. Worked on projects which were successful. Worked for companies with rigorous recruit
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As a suggestion, point people to a personal web page or portfolio. Especially for a front-end engineer, I would never recruit someone based on a LinkedIn profile. That's doubly-true in this market. To make it through the filter, it doe
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Somehow, all the comments assumed that the article meant parental leave. The article said "maternity leave," and showed a stereotypical photo of mother with child. The PR piece was written by Patty, and the study by Amy. Amy'
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Chrome has insane behavior where it will only autoplay videos from web sites Google trusts. If I put a video on my own web site and domain (muted, autoplay, etc.), it won't autoplay. If I put a gif up, it will. Google claims this doesn

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