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Anthropic's Nuclear Bomb(warontherocks.com)
2 points by azanar 5mo ago|2 comments
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Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology(dynomight.net)
1 points by azanar 2y ago|0 comments
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by azanar 3y ago
The vibe I get from this article: If the customers of the software written today cared about quality -- and they _should_ care about quality -- they'd demand a higher standard of quality for the money they are paying. They don't,
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Instacart Plans for September IPO in Boost for US Listings(bloomberg.com)
5 points by azanar 3y ago|1 comments
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by azanar 3y ago
To make this concrete: terraform for me has been part code, part configuration. I define a resource, and provide a whole set of knobs on that resource. That's the code part. I test that code against a variety of configurations, the sam
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by azanar 3y ago
I don't see the current model as a single model, but as several models interrelating. In software, there are at least three models I can think of immediately: code, configuration and user data. Why do I separate configuration? Isn&#x27
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by azanar 4y ago
> A field which has so many tools to objectively quantify their work and the result so often are debates displaying poorly concealed biases and egos. This felt wrong when I read it. I agree we have many, many tools to objectively quantif
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by azanar 4y ago
There was a possibility I proposed, which I think you missed. Maybe they _aren't_ miserable. They might be suffering in some ways. They might even complain about it. That doesn't mean they are miserable. They may find other joy th
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by azanar 4y ago
It seems many commenters in several threads are making the same point. I'll summarize it here: > Creating an excessively competitive environment by working longer hours because of an ability and desire to do so is bad civic hygiene.
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Everything I thought I knew about water in California is wrong (2015)(grist.org)
5 points by azanar 4y ago|2 comments
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by azanar 4y ago
We could perhaps get better software, but at what cost? One of the nice things about engineering disciplines is that costs can be reasonably forecast. There are spectacular counterexamples (e.g. Big Dig), but bear in mind those projects wer
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by azanar 6y ago
I'm going to ask a question that I fear will have me labelled as naively privileged almost beyond any hope of my eventually redemption. Are we as individuals hopelessly trapped in a social fabric that leads to the kinds of bad outcomes
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State of Pay – Doing Right by Our Shoppers(medium.com)
1 points by azanar 8y ago|0 comments
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by azanar 10y ago
I completely agree with you! It boggles my mind how much people will tend to treat negotiations, amongst so many other things, as zero-sum games. If that were true, anyone who claims this should please explain to all the people who entered
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by azanar 10y ago
This may depend upon where you are, and perhaps a number of other factors, but since we are mostly speaking in gross generalizations here, I will too. I think you far oversell the degree to which people who are being recruited do not have a
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by azanar 10y ago
I really hope people do not misunderstand this article. Until I reminded myself to assume good faith about the author (which is usually worth it with this author), I felt myself assuming he was disparaging all things new as being shiny and
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Andreessen Horowitz officially closes its newest fund with $1.5B(techcrunch.com)
3 points by azanar 10y ago|0 comments
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Says Company Is Profitable in U.S(techcrunch.com)
1 points by azanar 11y ago|1 comments
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Ruby is defined by terrible tools(devblog.avdi.org)
2 points by azanar 11y ago|0 comments
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FriendDA(randsinrepose.com)
1 points by azanar 12y ago|0 comments
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FriendDA v2?(randsinrepose.com)
1 points by azanar 12y ago|0 comments
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by azanar 13y ago
Pocket Change - San Francisco (SoMA) We are creating a universal loyalty currency, akin to AmEx points, that users can spend on virtual and physical goods. We are growing rapidly, and have around 3 million active users each day across aroun
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by azanar 15y ago
A candidate who is at an elevated risk of being replaced by severance, which is a position most new hires are in, is probably putting their aspirations on hold while you figure out if they are the right fit. Severance is typically enough to
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by azanar 15y ago
Actually, I think "hire them on a temporary basis" is more egomaniacal than obsessing over job interview questions. For someone to work for you as a temp, they have to leave their current full time job and put their benefits in jeopardy. W
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by azanar 15y ago
Is it worth making the world a worse place just to get a measly thousand bucks? I think it depends on whether the person set to net a thousand bucks would agree with you on whether censoring a mascot makes the world a worse place, or whet
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Glam Media Acquires Ning(mashable.com)
2 points by azanar 15y ago|0 comments
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Bribe Your New Employees To Quit(kk.org)
1 points by azanar 15y ago|1 comments
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by azanar 15y ago
Seattle, WA Wetpaint We’re working on a platform of new services and tools aimed at a revolutionary new way of doing publishing. Systems that can spot breaking news, predict the amount of traffic a piece of content will drive and figure out
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by azanar 16y ago
The best jobs and the best candidates for jobs will both be placed privately. I realize that the plural of anecdote is not data, and that you aren't arguing the contrapositive. But I have a couple of data-points from the last few years th
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by azanar 16y ago
In economics the reverse hockey stick growth is known as diminishing marginal returns. This simply means the market values the earliest years of experience as much more beneficial to a developers skill than the later. I wonder which part

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