3grdlurker

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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
So a fast programmer is necessarily better than one who takes a little more time but pushes out stabler code?
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
So you’re gonna go around the office to point fingers and tell on people that they’re not 10xers, and then call them too sensitive if they react? You’re talking in abstracts but if you put what you said in context (ie this discussion) it do
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I mean, if all you’re saying is that “better programmers deserve better pay”, then you’re not exactly saying anything groundbreaking and the concept of “10xer” is not going to be necessary to make that point. It should also be noted that th
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Of course it is subjective. This is literally what you said: > That is my definition. You obviously care about optimizing for salary expenses. Most companies have room to hire more people who can do a few things well, so their definition
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
But then you have to ask what metrics are being used to define a 10x engineer. You’ll see that everyone has a different version of that and therefore whether a 10x engineer exists solely depends on the ontological argument for a 10x enginee
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I mean, I get your point about the government but now you’re just complaining about how being insensitive to other people has the consequence of them fighting back.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
It’s incredibly reductionist to think that productivity is inherent to an individual when the world is never that simple and there are always a lot of factors involved in any outcome. Even the people that you think are “10xers” will stumble
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Yeah so the problem with that response is that you can say the exact same thing about Facebook, so it now doesn’t make sense that that’s being made as a point in favor of Google.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Have you actually weighed the value that you're getting out of Google services versus the privacy that you (and people) are trading off? Because I feel that people are blindly saying that and are overestimating the value. Let's se
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Not a US citizen, but what’s noticeably lacking in discussions about surveillance (such as this one) is faulting the very government that’s pressuring companies to comply with state surveillance programs. Doesn’t matter how big you are or h
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I find thought pieces like these frustrating since it always devolves into a debate of definitions. For example, isn’t a passionate person curious?
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Keeping up with the competition, if you’re talking about quality of product/service, isn’t the same thing as growing yearly revenues, which usually entails scaling up operations and product lines to more places and more customers, whic
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
But in an economies of scale line of argumentation, shouldn’t the cost of building/selling houses for single people go down precisely because plenty enough people (and plenty more are projected to) live alone? It does seem that cultu
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I don’t think the author intended to talk about men as a class and all the politics that comes with it, and as a man I would hate for discussions about my gender’s politics to be based specifically on sexual transactions. I mean, she had to
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
The problem with that is when you sign a work contract with your employer, there's typically a clause there that also says something along the lines of, "whatever uses you may have of company resources becomes the property of the
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
What do you mean by they don’t provide separate Apple accounts? You sign up for an Apple ID, you don’t wait for it to be provided to you. For example my employer doesn’t provide a work Github account… but while I have the option to use my
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Promotes isn’t requires , though. I’ve read that before as well, but the language around it has always suggested that employees can get away with having a second phone.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
It’s still just an airing of disagreement by the end of the day. The people who lash out on Twitter don’t have the direct agency to fire or deplatform the object of disagreement. It’s still the platform or the university that decides that,
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I don’t think that there’s enough information in the article to take the side of Western academia or of the professor in question. The word used was “harassment”, so I’m not sure that that’s still the same as what people refer to as “cancel
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Developer here. I can confirm that it’s harder and more time/effort-expensive to build a UI framework or design system or custom component than using existing ones. I absolutely abhor working with designers who think that software desi
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Why are there people who expect that HN comments are by themselves supposed to fix the world
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I’m not sure if you described 10x people or one-track minds. I love programming, I’m good at it, but what I do with my free time isn’t necessarily related to programming but is still definitely productive. I read up on economics, politics,
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
The video left me with a feeling of reverent astonishment about how beautiful our planet really is. Such a shame that we’re destroying it.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> one person can have hundreds of thousands and even millions of followers that basically encourages flamewars, short inflammatory comments Honestly you just described reddit, too, except of course for the follower count—but the point is
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I was replying to your question about ever seeing the phrase in a positive light.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
No, but that would be because racism or inequality is impossible to see in a positive light unless you actually like it. I still don’t see why seeing racism/i equality as bad is inherently racist in itself. > more often that not whe
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Implying that his success is about his race is not exactly a racist sentiment though. In order for it to be racist it needs to be discriminatory (heck, by your own definition of racism, success is not a “negative” stereotype). Such an impli
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I don’t see how it doesn’t add much—the tweet pointed out his race to point out his privilege. Can you explain where the veiled racism is in that? Because I’d hate to think that we’re actually making the CEO the victim here.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
More people have been gaining awareness about the lines along which inequality occurs, and race is one of them, so that must be why you’re seeing the phrase more often lately. As for the employee who was asking for a safe space to gather wi
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
You can’t have lack of opportunity, poverty, diseases, broken homes, war, and domestic abuse in a city? I don’t get your point and the blind defensiveness. If I’m not being a hypocrite I certainly moved to the city for the comforts of the m

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