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by wellpast 8y ago
Your tl;dr here is rather surgically picked. But forgiveable bc a lot easier than the challenge of contending with context and ideas...and a lazy developer is a good developer amirite?
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by wellpast 8y ago
It’s awesome to see that a mere post of an article is enough to conclude that the whole of Hacker News is transphobic, let alone the poster. Mia culpa—I will delete the post soon; I will also burn the article if I can by some means find it
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by wellpast 8y ago
Also it’s not about working harder; it’s about building smarter—building simple systems—which absolutely makes your world simpler. ‘Essential complexity’ is what sophomoric developers decry when they are unable to architect well—and are unw
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by wellpast 8y ago
As incrementally as possible. Eg, does your entire data model need to move at once? (Probably not.)
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The Transhumanism Revolution: Oppression Disguised as Liberation(quillette.com)
11 points by wellpast 8y ago|5 comments
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by wellpast 8y ago
Red Flag #1 should be that you’re doing a rebuild.
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by wellpast 8y ago
Yes! And the property of Simplicity is orthogonal to whether or not you chose to make the Knife or the Hammer. A Hammer's construction can be Simple. A Knife's construction can be Simple. Or not.
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by wellpast 8y ago
I believe you're conflating simplicity/complexity with flexibility. _One_ hallmark of developer ability is the discretion/wisdom/experience to know how flexible to make the thing. (How to prioritize and limit feature-cre
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by wellpast 8y ago
A well-built software system doesn't have to grow in complexity over time. More features does not equal more complex in the true sense of Simple. Faulty data models and system designs -- that aren't fixed -- lead to ever-increasin
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by wellpast 8y ago
The world, from software’s perspective at least, isn’t growing in complexity. What leads one to that?
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by wellpast 8y ago
I've found that, unlike Mark Twain's profession of writing and art, in which each new work is attempting to push the bounds of thought and expression, constructing simple software is something that you can actually get better at o
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by wellpast 8y ago
Anyone who has spent any time developing anything but a tiny software system knows that the biggest impediment to productivity (feature delivery, bug fixing, etc) is the complexity of the system at hand. In a sense, this post is simply stat
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by wellpast 8y ago
This is great, but completely lost on the crowd if what Simple means isn't understood. One of the best clarifications of what it means to be Simple, to put it out there, is [1]; but the key point: Simple != Easy. Simple means minimal
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by wellpast 8y ago
I would love to see a complex, multi-file CloudFormation config expressed in jsonnet.
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by wellpast 8y ago
I was disappointed with the author's reason for this fear; his idea is too simplistic and I don't think correct: "In imagining the motivations of this amplified intelligence, we naturally imagine ourselves." -- he's
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I fear people who fear artificial intelligence(medium.com)
1 points by wellpast 8y ago|2 comments
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by wellpast 8y ago
Apparently to “look hard enough” it’s not enough to go directly to the source. You have to read someone else’s interpretation.
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Jordan Peterson AMA(old.reddit.com)
14 points by wellpast 8y ago|7 comments
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by wellpast 8y ago
> It simply does not communicate anything to me to hear someone say "logically-speaking, there is no such thing as null" I've seen tons of complex and unwieldy code in my day. Often the complexity comes from illogic and in
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by wellpast 8y ago
I would also say that the tech industry desperately needs a better understanding of what constitutes the professional practitioner skill set, and how to teach and measure it. Many or most of the individual contributing practitioners I'
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by wellpast 8y ago
The truth is you are an imposter. No one fulfills the perfect ideal of whatever role they are playing (employee, manager, parent, etc). Recognize and accept that you're an imposter and continually reach for the ideal. There are various
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by wellpast 9y ago
Then we’re in the realm of automated or at least codified/systematic process, or we should be, no?
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by wellpast 9y ago
I think our industry can come to _understand_ and _articulate_ the skill set without having to standardize/certify it. Civil architects can be wildly creative and artful in their industry which understands its own domain deeply.
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by wellpast 9y ago
As a thought experiment imagine an org that hired for organizational/abstraction skills and landed a single worker good at algorithm design. (This is a distilled/simplistic example but bear to the point.) 10-20% of time in my care
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by wellpast 9y ago
Hopefully, lots of play.
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by wellpast 9y ago
This kind of tech writing — the historical/anthropological - especially wrt web tech is far more helpful to me than the technical & how-to docs etc. Just knowing why things are creates a much better context for me to place the kn
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by wellpast 9y ago
Correction: You're as weak as your team's strongest link.
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by wellpast 9y ago
These posts are a dime a dozen. Many developers get to that place where they realize the wide gap between what they suspect, or intuitively know, can be done easily/quickly in their software system but for some... reason... just... _ca
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by wellpast 9y ago
Henry is William’s brother. I’ve heard the James’s called “a family of geniuses.”
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by wellpast 9y ago
Where is my Clojure syntax highlighting?

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