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by yomly 10y ago
I'm not entirely sure adequate performance is good enough when you work at the scale of Google...
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by yomly 10y ago
what about if you reverse the incentives... Product Managers get bonuses related inversely to hours of downtime (caused by bugs). Engineers get bonuses related to number of features pushed out. In theory, this would encourage engineers to s
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by yomly 10y ago
There are always tradeoffs but for me, I feel like lack of autocomplete encourages people to use shorter less descriptive names for identifiers. I am a believer in using as descriptive identifiers as possible to make the semantics of your c
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by yomly 10y ago
Extrapolating your argument to the extreme: why write ruby when you can write C? Why write C when you can write assembly? Why write assembly when you can write binary?
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by yomly 10y ago
In this story, Monica was able to actually get to year 4. What's to say that if she went with raw SQL, the team never would have been productive enough to match their run rate. For every story there is of a successful team who rues usi
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by yomly 10y ago
agree - I do the same too.
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by yomly 10y ago
Seems like a bit reductionist to liken concern/acknowledgement that "free market" dynamics may not necessarily be desirable in every case to support for Soviet-style regulation. Airbnb has caused increase in local rent by rem
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by yomly 10y ago
Even just being able to browse code when I'm on the go on my phone is useful! I am guilty of occasionally even viewing my own projects on github to avoid having to put down what I'm doing to check what's in production...
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by yomly 10y ago
I don't think the intent in the above comment re. auto-eject was malicious. It's about equilibrium, phrased in more common-speak they're better off without them, as they're clearly gossipy/close-minded people.
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by yomly 10y ago
Don't forget Amazon Aurora, and Redshift. With the number of big name customers AWS, these products are the most scary to direct enterprise Oracle DB. Though the smaller and new tech giants of tomorrow will probably be running your Pos
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by yomly 10y ago
Yes, but click data and search history is all integrated for Amazon and the combination of search, purchase and click is the true value. Not to mention every purchase and visit is linked to an account. [EDIT]not to mention that as an online
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by yomly 10y ago
I doubt this - Walmart have scale, experience and infrastructure over Amazon but what they're lacking for in these areas, Amazon more than makes up for it in engineering culture. Amazon is first a foremost a data-driven company. Compan
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by yomly 10y ago
And even then, I can see why they use it - the syntax is pretty light and largely gets out of the way of the problem-space. The only problem is that modern applied ML is dominated by Python...
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by yomly 10y ago
This is a pretty cool library, for the people coming from React, the context switch for creating components needs not be so great: For a stateless component which is implemented as a pure function, where you would normally write: myPTex
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by yomly 10y ago
If you're an adult more often than not, you'll be trading your time for income. Therefore this is a safe comparatively in offensive question to start a conversation. Given a working person spends around half their waking hours wor
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by yomly 10y ago
Mentioning lack of dreams is on point. As a student I would do at least 1-2 all nighters (~36+ hours without sleep) a week. In the rest of the week I would probably be partying. In hindsight, it was pretty stupid as I was incredibly ineffic
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by yomly 10y ago
The Facebook app is incredibly hungry (on Android). Dropping the all brought me hours of battery life and per charge and hours per day from no longer finding myself randomly vegging on my feed. I use a home screen web shortcut - it looks li
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by yomly 10y ago
>Or the ever popular "I don't get paid enough for this!" The danger of criticising this behaviour is that it is putting the onus on the employee to earn their money rather than the employer to pay their employees. Doing so
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by yomly 10y ago
Oops I meant White Noise. That film really creeped me out!
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by yomly 10y ago
As a child, I always had an irrational fear of channels on the TV with no signal - you'd get a blast of white noise accompanied with a grainy white noise image feed. Due to the internal amp configurations of the TV, the noise would alw
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by yomly 10y ago
>No one ever adequately describes the process: "put peanut butter on bread" Sounds like the perfect introduction to abstraction and wishful-thinking guided programming! (Maybe not using big words like abstraction for kids)
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by yomly 10y ago
There are plenty of pharmaceutical drugs out in the wild that have known side-effects. Chemotherapy completely nukes a person's body but is legal because the harm it induces is deemed worth the problem it solves (cancer). Despite this,
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by yomly 10y ago
But when your boss has never even made a model, let alone tried to fish data out of a database, then the kind of work he can imagine, his idea for time duration for work are all off. More importantly, what he values in the team (for when it
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by yomly 10y ago
I think that is true, although people have been doing MBAs for a much longer time than the tech boom has been around for: e.g. doing an MBA was viable a route into Finance since at least the 80s. Though MBAs have certainly been growing in p
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Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold Water: The Mpemba Effect (2013) [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by yomly 10y ago
I suspect it is a comparatively new phenomenon in the workplace which is in part attributable to the recent surge (5-10 years) in knowledge work. When I worked in bigco as an analyst, the director and even managers were from a different era
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by yomly 10y ago
After a skim of this sub-thread I'm surprised no one mentions that it might be a benefit that as autonomous-car driving tech spreads around world (presumably with SF/SV being the epicentre), countries which are poorly equipped for
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by yomly 10y ago
whoa - good job!
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by yomly 10y ago
I think the rationale is not that a woman can't stand when she's pregnant but that in sitting lowers risk for an accident - e.g. the train suddenly stopping unexpectedly or even people just having more people bunched around you wh
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by yomly 10y ago
That's mortifying!

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