johan_larson

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by johan_larson 2y ago
Do you have any people in your company who could build what you need if given the time? Sometimes there are people who are pretty handy with coding who aren't called "programmers". They may be analysts or engineers or somethi
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by johan_larson 2y ago
It makes sense that Google would want to push jobs from high-cost centers to low-cost ones. The only question is why they haven't done so more aggressively.
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by johan_larson 2y ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like parasites, so I put wasps in your wasps so they can parasitize while they're parasitized.
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by johan_larson 3y ago
Yeah, it's not hard to find knowledgeable commentary to the effect that the duty of directors to act in the interests of the shareholders does not mean a simple-minded duty to maximize profits. The interests of shareholders are complic
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by johan_larson 3y ago
> He is considered one of the most savvy and aggressive tech ceos out there By whom? I used to work at Snowflake, and from what I remember people on the inside were far more excited about the founders than they were about the CEO. I got
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by johan_larson 4y ago
I don't know about that. Companies generally do regular performance reviews, so there should be a lot of information about who the underperforming or merely adequate workers in each group are.
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by johan_larson 5y ago
I doubt the really top companies -- top 10, say -- have any trouble finding staff, at least for low-level positions. These companies are mobbed by applicants, and can afford to pay top rates. But I can believe things are rather different fa
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by johan_larson 5y ago
I don't for a minute believe this number is actually true. But on the other hand, it seems like a very strange lie to tell, because it's so unbelievable. It would be far easier to believe a claim that COVID deaths are simply very
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by johan_larson 5y ago
I agree with you that it is not possible to both fix the feature set and fix the delivery date and expect to consistently succeed. But it is also not possibly to tell upper management, who are dealing with a whole other set of difficulties,
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by johan_larson 5y ago
The problem I see with various flavors of Agile is that they don't fit in particularly well with how things actually get done at companies. For example, teams running Agile are very reluctant to give both a delivery date and a fixed se
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by johan_larson 5y ago
Here are the current number of deaths per million from COVID for the G7 nations: Japan - 119 Canada - 696 Germany - 1,093 France - 1,704 US - 1,876 UK - 1,886 Italy - 2,118 Judged by this metric, Canada came second among the major first-wor
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by johan_larson 6y ago
I worked for Huawei in Canada for a bit less than a year before I left, because my boss insisted on assigning me work I didn't believe I could deliver on. Of course I was only there for a short time, so I could be mistaken, but I did n
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by johan_larson 6y ago
Some people just plain don't like Reddit. I'm not quite clear on why, but it predates the current cancellation fights. Perhaps the upvote/downvote system encourages attention-seeking behavior.
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by johan_larson 6y ago
Actually, Data Secrets Lox has moved to this URL: https://www.datasecretslox.com/ The old link will continue to work for a while.
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by johan_larson 6y ago
It's an anagram of "Slate Star Codex".
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by johan_larson 6y ago
The SSC diaspora is collecting in a number of locations. The two I am most familiar with are Naval Gazing (a blog about naval affairs) and Data Secrets Lox (a new discussion forum). Data Secrets Lox is set up as a replacement for the SSC op
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by johan_larson 6y ago
I have occasionally been curious about that, but never curious enough to try to make an effort to find out. Call it a mix of laziness and respect for the preferences of others.
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by johan_larson 6y ago
Anonymity is not some sort of natural right. For most of our existence as a species, we lived in small groups where you quite naturally knew everyone you dealt with. True strangers were rare, and quite rightly regarded with a certain suspic
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by johan_larson 6y ago
I'm sorry Scott has decided to shut down his blog. He posted many interesting things over the years, and the community of commenters that clustered in the blog's open threads was usually a joy to deal with. I was part of that for
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by johan_larson 6y ago
How about something counter-intuitive: lower the limit? There is a built-in hard limit imposed by the structure itself. Set the marked limit to something well short of that, like 8 feet. Then add very obvious soft barriers like light swin
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by johan_larson 6y ago
The dollar sign comes before the number, not after it. $150
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by johan_larson 6y ago
"Grit" is a good translation. English-speakers who try to translate the word usually try something like "courage" or "guts", which isn't quite right. "Sisu" is not really about daring; it's
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by johan_larson 7y ago
For what it's worth, Bing doesn't make the distinction much clearer. Ads have a tiny little Ad icon, but both the background and the text look just like regular search results.
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by johan_larson 7y ago
For a long time, the answer was probably performance. Lots of people were trained to use Lisp in their computer science courses, and lots of people admired it. But it was never anywhere near as fast as C, and in the seventies and eighties s
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by johan_larson 7y ago
I can't help but notice that this post is just below PG's "Having Kids" post. That's a challenging project right there.
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by johan_larson 7y ago
I guess 850 jobs moving out of Silicon Valley isn't that big a deal, relatively speaking.
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Huawei to move research centre from U.S. to Canada(cbc.ca)
3 points by johan_larson 7y ago|1 comments
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by johan_larson 7y ago
> We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. Anyone in the telecommunications industry care to speak to this? Because t
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by johan_larson 7y ago
This is my thinking too. Having to prove, over and over, that I understand how linked lists and binary search trees work is just tiresome. Doing it once and then being able to refer to a trusted credential that certifies it would be a bless
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by johan_larson 7y ago
> A Corporation is legally required to work only to increase the value of a share, nothing more. No. That's a misconception. Corporate directors are required to act in the interests of the shareholders, but they have a lot of discre

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