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by dlwdlw 7y ago
Agree with you here. Some of the worst engineers I’ve worked with have been at Google, especially the younger newer ones. There’s a combination of impostor syndrome driving people to dogma (thus lack of thinking) as well as annoying arrogan
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by dlwdlw 7y ago
The authoritarianism is a red herring IMO. The real issue is economic incentives trumping everything else. For example in Japan if you test positive the hospital gets quarantined losing tons of money. In the US, you can end up payong huge m
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by dlwdlw 7y ago
Have been inside google and have friends who have worked, work there. There’s some truth to the asshole thing. Though I think it’s more like snobbishness. That is, conditional super niceness if you demonstrate you’re googly.
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by dlwdlw 7y ago
I like this argument. At a less lethal level it works for guns as well. WW2 taught that you can’t drive countries to the point of having nothing to lose. A potentially positive spin is that we advancing to societies that prevent this from h
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by dlwdlw 7y ago
All behavior is selfish. Each level is supported by the lower level. Upper class has a smaller support of semi-elites below them they must appease. Many things are zero-sum so most actions at this level take from the majority for the minori
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by dlwdlw 7y ago
At certain large tech companies it’s the difference between an all terrain vehicle and laying frikin tracks for a frikin train.
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by dlwdlw 7y ago
Do humans happen to get more cancer than other animals? There’s this weird idea, I forget the source, that a less efficient cell garbage collection mutation allowed increased brain development, connections, etc... but at the cost of increas
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by dlwdlw 7y ago
Regarding the grow and thrive part, some of my Chinese friends mention that they feel China is unjustly cast as the villain as many of the economic issues in HK like the super small living spaces are a result of unchecked and corrupt capita
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by dlwdlw 7y ago
I’ve seen this issue at many “engineering” focused companies where many people write their own DSLs. for CSS in particular there are many people who just hate it and come up with many ways to not write it. CSS however is very much like draw
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
This feels so against so many "Modern" ideas like Redux (one giant source of data) and anti pub/sub. (message passing)
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Is this the opposite of global state management paradigms like Redux? Using the global state requires a lot of contortion on each user's end (bureaucratic hoops) for the safety of the global state. It technically empowers every individ
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Would recommend the book: The Courage to be Disliked.
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Here’s a story of why China is a rather paradoxical state. It’s not pure authoritarianism. Many people who can’t return loans have their name and id number shown on large digital billboards. The goal is to shame them into returning money. S
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
China is actually very liberal in that it believes the future must be better than the present. (Vs the present being the maximum with the future only having downside potential) Technology and new ways of thinking are embraced very quickly.
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
I’m somewhat sad that there’s so much focus on HOW related improvements and less on the WHY. What I really like about Vue was that it was one of the first tools where it’s whole MO was to get out of the way of the process of creation instea
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The “One True Way”(medium.com)
1 points by dlwdlw 8y ago|0 comments
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Seconded. I don’t see anything bad with typescript itself, but naive but passionate usage of perceived silver bullets tends to create terrible things. there are many terrible coffeescript/backbone codebases, overwrought usage of redux,
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
The people can though. Centralization via the state entity can allow for efficient decicions (like corporate hierarchies) as everyone knows which direction to look for common consensus. With a blockchain approach, rather than separate entit
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Reminds me of during the world expo in Shanghai where people would push their older relatives in wheelchairs to skip the long lines in the hot humid weather.
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Theres an interesting book about this “I am a Strange Loop” written by Douglas Hofstadter
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Grokking the Y-combinator(medium.com)
2 points by dlwdlw 8y ago|0 comments
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Not saying it’s a good strategy but amazon seems to have done/is doing something similar. Each purchase is a loss when shipping is taken into account. But if the bleeding is slow enough the created ingress can be enough to shift the l
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
In the book “The Elephant in the Brain”, the author makes the argument that our consciousness is entirely the PR department of the brain, making explanations for the “company” but not truly knowing what’s really going on. That is, all our t
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Yea, even if the local working population can’t afford them, the bay area can still be viewed as a hot spot to be causing housing to go up because they represent scarce investments/stores-of-value. Pressure could then push salaries hig
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
A similar sentiment drove the technocratic elite to a centralized economy in communist china. It may not be beautiful or ideal but it’s fairly effective at coordinating large amounts of people, especially if they are at odds somewhat.
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Doors trigger our minds loading screens. Memory is loaded from disk. Old context is ejected new is injected. The ego or “i” concept is allotted small attention/memory to carry over stuff. If attention is lost in the middle, the backgro
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
I think the bias is against older people who are looking for jobs through the same channels as the younger people rather than having an established enough work history or a network that gives them an express lane.
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Also may explain why they can be damaging to younger people. Like disturbing plants before their root system (filtration system) takes root tends to kill or damage the plants entire lifespan.
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
Philosophy i think is the same question and message repeated in each era in the language of that era. (Modern lingo and memes and such) The question is “what’s the point”. Philosophies that get overly powerful turn into religions. Original
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by dlwdlw 8y ago
This strategy only works if you can effecticely build new habits that are sticky enough to persist when the friction increases. Even better is if the new behavior has interesting interactions with other things. The reason enterprise tools t

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