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by luffapi 5y ago
> The ideological left, ideological right, and the people who are more interested in reasoning through difficult problems. This is a gross simplification that ironically lacks logical rigor. As long as you live in a society and have op
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by luffapi 5y ago
> So this is what we are left with: optimizing butt time. Hence low quality code bases and developer burnout. It’s up to us as developers to demand more from our employers. Thankfully the shift to wfh seems to have tipped the balance o
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by luffapi 5y ago
You should be able to measure burnout by watching employee churn. Something software development is notorious for. I don’t think people jump companies every year and a half in most industries.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Exactly I have so many hobbies, social opportunities, home improvement projects, chores… that get neglected because the bulk of my time and energy goes to work. I’ve saved enough to have multiple year breaks in my career and not once was I
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by luffapi 5y ago
A large part of the problem is that management doesn’t realize that writing software is a creative endeavor. You don’t get more creative output by working people harder, you do it by giving them more freedom. I may create more value with on
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by luffapi 5y ago
How is it cliche? Phychology has a well known issue with replication. Is that not worth discussing? There was actually a ton of info in this thread that you wiped. I don’t see how your comment attacking me clears the bar you claim exists
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by luffapi 5y ago
I was unaware that we’re not allowed to critique posts. My comment was highly upvoted before you flagged it, so clearly the community was fine with it. I didn’t call anyone names, and this isn’t a “flamebait” topic, so I don’t know what you
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by luffapi 5y ago
It felt (at the time and in retrospect) that the horribly capped upload speeds of broadband really destroyed that decentralized and equalitarian ideal. The fight against Napster, content mega-corps snatching up broadband providers… There wa
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by luffapi 5y ago
For real. Chrome is one of the biggest threats to an open internet that exists today. Every week we see some Chrome-led attempt to make the Internet more proprietary and under Google’s control. They interviewed one of the worst perpetrators
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by luffapi 5y ago
It’s the study of the “mind” (not brain). It’s very basis is the study of a pseudo-religious phenomenon. Neuroscience is real science because it studies the brain not the artificial and archaic concept of the mind. There can be personal
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by luffapi 5y ago
Can you post a study you feel is reproducible?
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by luffapi 5y ago
Myers Briggs is the poster boy for pseudo science. > But then I realized, who am I to dismiss the idea? I'm not an expert. Much smarter people than I (Dalio) believe in it. This is an appeal to authority; you should stick to your
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by luffapi 5y ago
That’s not a meaningful metric. Plenty of people doing astrology in 2021. That doesn’t make it real.
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by luffapi 5y ago
I was responding to the parent who used Carl Jung as an example.
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by luffapi 5y ago
> But it can explain and predict within bounds of certainty. Can you provide an example of a prediction that can accurately be made with psychology? > Only somebody who didn’t understand psychology would say it produces no reproduc
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by luffapi 5y ago
That’s like saying alchemy is science because chemistry developed from it. If it has no reproducibility, it’s not science it’s speculation.
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by luffapi 5y ago
No reproducibility = not a science
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by luffapi 5y ago
Carl Jung while interesting is anything but rigorous science. Like I said, treat this stuff like fiction. Some can even be insightful! > Psychology is probabilistic science It’s not science if it doesn’t include reproducibility.
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by luffapi 5y ago
1. Neuroscience is not psychology. 2. Electroshock “therapy” is not neuroscience.
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by luffapi 5y ago
> Posts across social media platforms suggest that, as many countries reduce their social distancing guidelines, many introverts have been pleasantly surprised by their increased opportunities to meet people face-to-face. This article
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by luffapi 5y ago
I mean stop them at a larger level by threatening their success as an organization. If developers stop publishing to GitHub they have bigger problems than training ML models. Whether or not this move is “legal”, it should serve as a wake up
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by luffapi 5y ago
> Copilot should be inspiring people to figure out how to do better than it, not making hackers get up in arms trying to slap it down. One of the (many) problems is that GitHub/Microsoft already benefit from runaway network effect
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by luffapi 5y ago
Nothing about further enriching Microsoft and continuing the network effects behind a closed source “social network”, is making the world a better place. Quite the opposite really.
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by luffapi 5y ago
The game industry has notoriously poor working conditions. It’s changed a bit since he said this but yeah, never work for someone who thinks like this. He’s wrong, it’s survivorship bias on his end.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Your equation is missing a critical factor: performance degrades as you work more hours. When it comes to technical work, you can actually cause quite a bit of damage working in a degraded state. Bugs, missed opportunities for creative solu
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by luffapi 5y ago
40 hours a week is too many for any intellectual or creative work. It’s also true that if you’re management, you should model healthy and productive working models and that includes not working more than 40 hours a week. > Grinding aw
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by luffapi 5y ago
If you want no employees, sure. As soon as you hire one, your job is leadership.
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The thing is, if you’re an entrepreneur you’re also likely a manager and working more than 40 hours a week is bad management . You may enjoy it, but no one wants a boss who’s always working. It also suggests you’re not delegating or buildi
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by luffapi 5y ago
Working more than 40 hours a week has diminishing (or negative) returns. Proper scaling means delegation and systems. Grinding away isn’t just unproductive, it’s a sign of a poorly run company.
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by luffapi 5y ago
It makes sense to work ~40 hours a week (or less) on something you love, because to work more means degrading your performance especially in software development, especially over time. If what you are working on is growing that fast to su

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