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by wellpast 4y ago
For codebase ask LOC. Ask them to run cloc on a repo and tell you what that code does for the business. That will tell you so much.
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by wellpast 4y ago
Programming may be related to one half of fiction writing - the structural and logical facets. There is a whole other half of emotional authenticity and character building that make it far broader and more difficult than programming. That i
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by wellpast 4y ago
This is how I learned to code. I cannot imagine throwing a kid in front of a Javascript browser console or modern IDE and say figure it out. This is so awesome -- with the low-res graphics, too! If my kids learn to code, this is how my kids
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by wellpast 4y ago
What is the name for the fallacy in which you make an analogy that does not reflect the real-world territory at all, and then draw a conclusion from it? “Doing” is not at all enough. (Well, it shouldn’t be.) Peer into any random engineering
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by wellpast 4y ago
Fair. The concern, however, is when the state forces everyone to reason one particular way. The other concern is that arguing from a who has 'all the data' position is seriously fraught ... but the state and its mandates get under
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by wellpast 4y ago
This is a worrisome line of reasoning -- that you can't act to protect children until you have 'all the data' about this or that narrow threat vector.
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by wellpast 4y ago
The problem I’ve always encountered is that layers of abstraction are often prematurely introduced and cost immensely because the programmer believes certain things won’t change. Most abstractions are premature and the world always chan
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by wellpast 4y ago
Wither is #nostr [1]? [1] https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
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by wellpast 4y ago
Same is true for every other aspect of your work. If your code is wrong, then you’re losing too. You’re saying a tautology. Being able to estimate, being able to market, being able to code — these are all competencies.
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by wellpast 4y ago
This is exactly what I do. I do this in my job as well, but privately. Making myself my own product manager. Do you use a tool to do this? Spreadsheet?
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by wellpast 4y ago
> “Building the wrong thing on time and within budget doesn’t buy you much.” Let's get one elephant out of the room out right away. Many in the #NoEstimates camp are speaking from the position of some enterprise context where the bu
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by wellpast 5y ago
I'm at a mandatory-pairing-multiple-times a day place right now and I've made the same observations you are identifying here. Pairing may be good to some degree for knowledge sharing but it works against good architectural design,
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by wellpast 5y ago
As a thriving contractor, you should hire him, coach him, and make some money off of him.
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by wellpast 5y ago
What a punch! > This is why we invented religions, and will continue to reinvent them in ever shifting guises. Something off about this statement, though. Like out of place in some otherwise wise observations. Man has our escapism but it
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by wellpast 5y ago
What's your product - if you don't mind sharing?
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by wellpast 5y ago
None of this will happen until there we have an objective metric for determining the tangible value provided by developer. So, so many devs are great at building interesting tech, refactoring to more interesting tech, and so on, but entire
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Coupling and Estimating(chronos-desk.com)
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by wellpast 5y ago
> I've seen some managers (engineering and product alike) say phrases like, "well, if you created a better solution in the first place, we wouldn't be in this situation" – this is just stupid, inhumane, and ultimately
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Coupling and Estimation(chronos-desk.com)
1 points by wellpast 5y ago|0 comments
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by wellpast 5y ago
Just performed this trick for my partner and she was very underwhelmed. There’s probably a good delivery to figure out.
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by wellpast 5y ago
> DEV: "We can only do that by cutting corners, reusing code for purposes we shouldn't, and making it not extensible in the future" This is an inexperienced dev talking. If s/he was more self-aware, it would be DEV: I
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by wellpast 5y ago
> If you weren't there, you don't know. Technically speaking, for any given situation there's no way you can be wrong. But this post describes a distinct and, by my experience, dominant industry phenomenon. And the stakes
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by wellpast 5y ago
“Tech debt” is the software industry’s way of euphemistically describing their incompetence. It’s a way to act like one “meant” to implement a shitty architecture instead of admitting one’s lack of ability and experience. It’s the mantra of
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by wellpast 5y ago
Take this a step further and consider vaccine mandates. However flawed or not the antivaxxer's reasoning, imagine the stress of having to choose between yours and your children's livelihood or being forced to inject a substance yo
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by wellpast 5y ago
Where can one get reliable, relevant and complete data on long covid vs long flu?
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Where has all the productivity gone?(johndcook.com)
236 points by wellpast 5y ago|211 comments
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by wellpast 5y ago
I wish we could do this with houses.
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CRT and the Psychology of Language(psychologytoday.com)
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It Is Obscene: A True Reflection in Three Parts(chimamanda.com)
102 points by wellpast 5y ago|82 comments
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by wellpast 5y ago
Biodiversity requires incremental, organic evolution. Funny how humans think that our intellect can somehow solve every problem.

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