human20190310

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by human20190310 7y ago
The outgoing product is nevertheless fully determined by the incoming work being done. It would make more sense to group a set of tasks into a deliverable than a time period. You have to do that anyway to deliver anything coherent.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Sprints to me seem completely contrived. In reality, there are only things that people are working on, and things that no one is working on. There's no need for a third category of "things that are in the sprint" as long as
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by human20190310 7y ago
Moreover it might not just be developer time vs. latency that's being traded off. Maintaining a stateful websocket connection on the server side isn't cost-free, and that connection would be idle nearly 100% of the time. The band
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by human20190310 7y ago
> There is no good way for a person to identify another person without first mutually agreeing on Brand identities. How is this absence not a good thing? If someone wants to be identified, they have to go through the trouble of creati
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by human20190310 7y ago
> if they pump out people that don't have skills over time their "Prestige" doesn't amount to much I think you're underestimating the degree to which corrupt, inept institutions can maintain their influence over
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by human20190310 7y ago
Hippies are at least as greedy as anyone else.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Anything that is more advanced than necessary is too advanced to be comfortable with.
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by human20190310 7y ago
It's a great, succinct post. Deeply uncool. A programmer should be modest about their skills, skeptical about new-new things, eschew bullshit, and terrified of dependencies. I buy the whole thing. Moreover, I trust the advice of s
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by human20190310 7y ago
While I agree that in many cases JSON parsing is not the largest consumer of resources, it really sucks when it is. At some point it seems like a general mindset shifted from making things efficient at every level to assuming things don’t m
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by human20190310 7y ago
At risk of embarrassing my self statistically, what exactly happens when you do this? I.e., if you're controlling for country, that means you're bucketing by country, and looking at each subset, right? So if country is represente
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by human20190310 7y ago
> However, if the top-level politicians, who remain technically inept, are the ones giving the orders, confusion will remain. The converse would also be true though; a technologically adept leadership that didn't understand society&
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by human20190310 7y ago
If I recall correctly, one theory is that octopuses are such voracious cannibals that a swift demise after reproduction evolved to keep them from eating the next generation.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Wow... if dreaming evolved twice, I don't know what to think.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I found it incomprehensible from the start. EDIT: The first five sentences invoke Uber, the author's previous article, the Wall Street Journal, Gurley, Damodaran, and two different dubious valuations.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I really wish the author had sensed the limits of his argument, because I think the point he's trying to make is basically correct. He's just stretching it to the breaking point by invoking Amazon and the subprime crisis. If he&#
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by human20190310 7y ago
If the VCs are being bankrolled by Saudi money (via Softbank) that has noplace else to go, because no one wants it, the money might not dry up. With this in mind, Khosrowshahi may be right about Uber's sustainability.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I like Chrome for Javascript development/debugging, but I don't use it for anything else.
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by human20190310 7y ago
At what point do these deranged estimates start damaging the credibility of the estimators?
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by human20190310 7y ago
Indeed; I should have been more specific in referring to people already working in the Bay Area technology scene, where salaries are quite high.
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by human20190310 7y ago
It's always surprising to me how many people in tech need to seek investment. Saving some scratch over a few years of paid employment, then bootstrapping, seems like a seldom-traveled route.
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by human20190310 7y ago
The question makes sense rhetorically, to establish that the machine is still only as good as its operator, just faster.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Even assuming outrage is selective, the question remains: was the outrage inappropriately withheld before, or is it inappropriately applied now? If indeed it was inappropriately withheld in the past, I don't see any moral necessity to
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by human20190310 7y ago
If the previous administration's opponents had called more attention to the issue, maybe Chef would have acted at that time. Being late to recognize a problem is not a reason to ignore it.
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by human20190310 7y ago
> they're about preventing competing products. The purpose of a business is to make money. Crushing the competition helps.
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by human20190310 7y ago
> Technology amplifies our nature. It is a neutral force. Technology might be morally neutral, but since amplification can bring things to an unrecoverable limit, it isn't neutral in the sense of producing balanced outcomes. If we
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by human20190310 7y ago
It's a company's job to be anti-competitive, in the sense of vanquishing its competitors. It gets pathological in the case of regulatory capture, but I don't think Apple has managed that.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Indeed. I suspect that the things we know almost nothing about (e.g. the nature of consciousness), and perhaps things we don't even suspect "exist", end up being far more important than physical expansion for intelligent bei
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by human20190310 7y ago
In general I think companies have a duty to their shareholders to fight to stay in business until it's literally impossible to do so. As long as there are resources left, those would have to be allocated to preserving the business, rat
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by human20190310 7y ago
I think there's more informational value in hearing goog-anon's perspective than in condemning it.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Does a person have an obligation to respect the rules of a system that, at best, only pretends to treat them fairly?

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