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The AI Slop Spiral(nolanfrausto.com)
6 points by frausto 1mo ago|1 comments
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by frausto 1y ago
great quote: > the problems we face with software are rarely technical. The problem is always the people creating accidental complexity and pushing it to the next person as if it was "essential" Until a level of absolutely mass
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by frausto 2y ago
As someone who struggles with cycles of depression, but let's call it funk, I relate to the downward behavioral and thought spiral it can put you inside. Yet, inevitably, I DO get out of it. For me, it's been a combination of thin
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by frausto 4y ago
Anecdotal, but everything running fine and looking normal on our us-west-2 instances
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by frausto 6y ago
"Revenue is the Dominant Term." This really speaks to me and is one of the driving philosophies when we created our pricing model for Warmintro, which ironically has a mission very close to the author's example: "to give
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by frausto 7y ago
I've struggled with this quite a bit in my own life. I find the "No Zero" mentality to work well for me. Treat every weekday as a "No Zero" day. What does that mean? It means if my goal is to go to the gym, even if
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by frausto 7y ago
How do you feel about monthly 1:1's? This was my approach though the topic was less about keeping up to date with what the team/person has been doing, and more about how they are feeling, if there any roadblocks I could help them
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by frausto 7y ago
Software ones can be good or bad, but software adjacent ones can be downright ridiculous. A running joke at my last role was that I would keep trying to get the company to pay for my Scrum Master Training, which conveniently had a Hawaii op
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by frausto 7y ago
Spooky how similar this sounds to my own experience. I would add as well that if the acquiring company does not have a solid plan for how to integrate your team/product... you're gonna have a bad time.
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by frausto 7y ago
That's a good way to put it. As my economics professors liked to point out, Black-Scholes was a self-fulfilling prophecy in that the success of the model was determined by the fact that everyone was using it (or some variation of it) t
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by frausto 9y ago
Been getting blocked by recaptcha more and more, do any of these tools handle dealing with that or workarounds by default? Tried routing through proxies and swapping IP addresses, slowing down, etc... Any specific ways people get around tha
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by frausto 12y ago
I feel this problem is especially significant in San Francisco. Having lived in several other cities, I can say that, at least for me, this was never a major issue before living in SF. Meeting other programmers and people in tech out in the
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Money and Congress. Learn who contributes the most to congressional campaigns(congresswhat.com)
1 points by frausto 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: CongressWhat.com, know your congress people, elections are almost here(congresswhat.com)
2 points by frausto 12y ago|0 comments
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The Tech Interview Problem(fraustollc.com)
2 points by frausto 12y ago|1 comments
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Finally, Clippy comes to Chrome(fraustollc.com)
1 points by frausto 12y ago|0 comments
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Outsourcing Impossible(fraustollc.com)
1 points by frausto 13y ago|0 comments
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by frausto 13y ago
That is a fair point. And to be clear I'm not saying there is not shit code out there, because there is. I'm arguing against a type of culture that praises negativity rather than contributions.
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The code culture problem(fraustollc.com)
148 points by frausto 13y ago|155 comments