avocabros

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by avocabros 5mo ago
Would you elaborate your argument? IP protections such as copyright exist for the express purpose of promoting the sharing of information. If patent law disappeared, everyone would keep their inventions private and work to obfuscate them as
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by avocabros 5mo ago
That's because the purpose of code is to be used, not to be read. The only purpose of the written word is to be read.
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by avocabros 5mo ago
This seems like a solution looking for a problem. https://tiller.com/ works great and lets you do whatever calculations you want in a spreadsheet - and, bonus, it's never going to hallucinate. I don't quite unders
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by avocabros 5mo ago
The ability to enforce a law doesn't mean it shouldn't be a law. No law is followed and enforced 100%.
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by avocabros 7mo ago
Sounds cool and I hope you can make it work; what I don't understand, though, is how to solve for the hidden preferences which are the major barrier when scheduling. E.g. I'm friends with so-and-so and I don't want to be a je
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by avocabros 3y ago
How do we differentiate "addictive" behaviors from "non-addictive"? Is it illegal if people like your product too much? There isn't a clear definition here of where free will comes into play.
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by avocabros 3y ago
This is the intention of capitalism - profits go to the companies who can build products that people are most enticed to buy. A company that doesn't work to make their product loved/addictive will not continue to exist. Another wa
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by avocabros 3y ago
A flaw in this article like every other I've ever read both acknowledges that we don't have good objective data and then also goes to say "remote work works, don't fight it", etc. COVID wasn't this big, control
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by avocabros 3y ago
No one is forced to live there? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others don't.
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by avocabros 3y ago
You can make an argument in the other direction too - prove that WFH is better than RTO, or else we should return to the default that modern society has worked in for the massive majority of our history. There is not reliable data on either
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by avocabros 3y ago
I've come to the same conclusion - having thoroughly enjoyed remote work for the first ~year of Covid, I realized it was a net negative on many long-term aspects I valued. I do believe remote work can "work" - so can four day
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by avocabros 3y ago
WFH is one solution, but it's not free in terms of collaboration costs. There's a reason no one thinks college is better remote, for example. Sure, it's fine for some jobs but it's not super obvious that it's a net
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by avocabros 3y ago
There are plenty of people who do side projects outside of work, train for marathons, etc. That doesn't mean you're atypical - most people don't run marathons, for instance - but I don't think Carmack is this wild, total
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by avocabros 3y ago
Wat? 2x? You can lock yourself in a conf room in the office and...it'll be effectively the same as if you were remote, right? I don't see the reasoning
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by avocabros 3y ago
Humorous that you're getting downvoted for asking a valid question. It's simple to me - you can emulate remote work in an office by locking yourself in a conf room and never talking to anyone IRL. You can't emulate an office
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by avocabros 3y ago
I'd guess that most software work doesn't require super-specialized roles. You can get good quality engineers for generalist tasks (web app dev, API dev, etc.) all over the world. I agree, the end game for remote work for non-spec
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by avocabros 3y ago
It's worth considering whether that's a positive, or if the extra coordination is required simply because there are fewer and slower information channels available to communicate vs. on-site.
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by avocabros 3y ago
I think this observation is spot on - and you don't have to look far to understand why individual productivity != systems productivity. 100% individual utilization in a system is a negative - manufacturing companies learned this years
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by avocabros 3y ago
I don't think the jury is resolved on whether colocation matters for success; if anything, it's more common that the most successful companies are forcing RTO (Apple and Amazon), and I doubt they're making the decision on a w
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by avocabros 3y ago
Some people (perhaps a lot, even) are also friends with their coworkers, which seems preferable to working with people you are not friends with.