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by dood 5y ago
Multiple trends combining to reach a tipping point, mainly decreased appetite for capital investment by the west, inflation expectations becoming increasingly embedded and pandemic destabilization constraining supply/strengthening opec
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by dood 5y ago
Some interesting parallels between the 1970's and the 2020's, both seeing global economic growth stagnating after a protracted boom period ending in major economic crises, inducing a kind of awkward period of digestive realignment
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by dood 5y ago
We've been in a deflationary cycle (driven by technology & globalisation) for decades, so inflation hasn't been so relevant. With that cycle now concluding it's likely that inflation concerns will soon be making a major c
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by dood 8y ago
"The map is not the territory" is so widely known as to be almost a truism, but the post's conclusion is an excellent, pithy summary of the practical implications of this idea: > you do not understand a model, map, or re
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by dood 8y ago
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by dood 8y ago
I think there is a simpler explanation, that has nothing to do with technology, productivity, or society: big companies are naturally inefficient internally (due to complexity) but as a whole are best optimized for capturing and retaining m
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by dood 8y ago
Another example: if somebody asks you to do a random task (which is essential, very important, top priority), then a tiny amount of push back - e.g. sending an email asking for clarification of what is needed and why - often makes the task
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by dood 8y ago
Could you give an example of this please?
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by dood 8y ago
I almost reflexively closed the tab just from reading this comment.
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by dood 8y ago
Probably too late to this thread, but anyway - the key to understanding agile tomfoolery is that processes are most effective if they evolve to meet the needs of the people in the team . A process will always feel like a burden (and be les
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by dood 8y ago
One of HN's favourite quotes applies here too: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Ironically, the incentives for economists to understand booms and bus
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by dood 8y ago
The term refers to people who don't try to get into the art world in-group but still create interesting things, so "outsider" is an accurate and literal description of their status. However the in-group is uncomfortable with
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by dood 8y ago
From a little personal experimentation I've been surprisingly impressed. It helps winding down before bed after a hard day, but also helps to settle the mind for work, and doesn't interfere with concentration. Unlike other health
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by dood 8y ago
I was curious about this since it seems unlikely SF can be so much more expensive than London. When I looked into it a couple of months ago, I found zone 1 London rents are a fair bit higher than equivalent apartments in SF if you compare b
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by dood 8y ago
Those numbers look quite wrong, I don't think they're comparing like-for-like. For consumer goods it seems they're comparing a cheap UK supermarket to Whole Foods in SF, and for rents they must be ignoring square footage and&
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by dood 8y ago
Make a Mess, Clean it Up! http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Make_a_Mess,_Clea...
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by dood 8y ago
Documentation has some great properties as something to work on in early days (so long as you aren't immediately firefighting). * Documentation always sucks, no-one wants to do it, and everyone knows it has room for improvement. It sho
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by dood 9y ago
The idea that vegetarians/vegans need to be "counting amino acids" is a myth - any reasonable diet containing grains and legumes will give sufficient protein. For example rice and beans, chickpeas and bread, lentils and pasta
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by dood 9y ago
This article is about the UK, where adult ADHD is very rarely diagnosed, let alone medicated, compared with the US.
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by dood 9y ago
OKRs sound like a reasonable idea, but in my experience appear to be prohibitively difficult to implement successfully, imposing a considerable burden across the organization which isn't at all commensurate with the value they deliver.
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by dood 9y ago
Wow, sprint retrospective retrospective sounds nightmarish. I've never worked in a team nearly that dysfunctional, but I wonder if the blame is due to agile, or perhaps that team would end making any process or system into a horrorshow
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by dood 9y ago
The primary purpose of Agile ceremonies (if done correctly) is to provide a structured way to surface and resolve resource and process issues (as well as prioritize) in a way that allows team-members to otherwise get on with their work as t
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Ask HN: What conferences are you looking forward to in 2018?
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by dood 9y ago
“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” - Mark Twain It's both hard and underrated - it's underrated because it's so hard that a lot of developers haven't developed the skill of
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by dood 9y ago
The drug system in the UK is quite funny - the politicians pretend drug use needs to be treated criminally, the police pretend to enforce drug laws, and the voting public are satisfied with the status quo because if they dislike drugs they
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by dood 9y ago
I don't think it is even authoritarianism, we've become stuck in a strange cycle - people think drug use needs to be treated criminally because that is what they've been told for decades, and politicians keep repeating the fa
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by dood 9y ago
It's bubble-compensation all the way down.
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by dood 9y ago
Considering the colony as a superorganism, this could be primarily to serve the purpose of redundancy/slack, so that losses or shocks can be continually replaced/responded to, in order to maintain a systemic homeostasis. Though 40
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by dood 9y ago
Nah, don't worry about it. If anything people will respect you for following your passions, but more likely they just won't care. Strong developers are rare, no-one will question how they arrived in their interview room, they&#x27
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by dood 9y ago
There are always extraordinary claims like this in big threads about salaries, but they never seem to be backed up. My guess is it is mostly unusual situations which can't be easily explained or replicated.

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