nevinera

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by nevinera 20d ago
I.. don't understand how AI could be an "equalizer", unless we're talking about helping the 1% catch up to the 0.01%? This is one of the most direct ways to turn dollars into outcomes since _legal slave labor_, and the p
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by nevinera 1y ago
Well, there's more information out and it seems pretty.. damning. I wasn't convinced by "power grab", but "economic pressure from our sole remaining major sponsor" is _way_ more believable, and the chain is eve
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by nevinera 1y ago
Well.. "legal liability" is kind of complex topic. Usually what really matters isn't "what the courts will actually determine if such a case is brought" it's "how much will it cost to prove that lack of li
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by nevinera 1y ago
I think you're right, but I suspect the root here is one of legal liability - if rubycentral is operating as a nonprofit that hosts _a recurring attack vector on other companies_, they'll have legal obligations to secure that serv
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by nevinera 2y ago
I used the models with a good workflow, but found them less than helpful. But I think that if I worked in a less expressive language I'd be very enthusiastic.
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by nevinera 2y ago
Aye. It's not the smartphone that's the problem, it's the async notifications pulling you into social media traps. I dropped those apps about 8 years ago, but started to do most of my _reading_ on my phone - when I pick up my
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by nevinera 2y ago
DRY is _not a best practice_. Repetition is a "code smell" - it often suggests a missing abstraction that would allow for code reuse (what sort of abstraction depends on the language and context), but "blindly-drying" is
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by nevinera 2y ago
These types of posts are .. well thought-out, and usually posted by someone with relevant education. But they are not reviewed documents or journal articles, and you can _tell_ when someone is mixing in a lot of their own educated guessing
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by nevinera 3y ago
First ran into this on persistent servers, where the deployed instance knew branch names github had long forgotten about.. Someone pushed a branch named "bugfix", and `git fetch` started erroring. You get even _more_ interesting p
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by nevinera 3y ago
Indeed, if I were running that site, I would now implement the ability to turn on intentional non-randomness for _specific people_, and begin embedding messages in the sequences of comics, or selecting the same two comics 28 times in a row
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by nevinera 3y ago
While I don't really _disagree_ with any of this, I want to raise a point from the other direction - it's possible (and for some of us, absolutely necessary) to build software such that holding a large "structure of thoughts
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by nevinera 3y ago
I gained the most from gobase.org, just clicking through professional games. The tool you can review/replay games with lets you try to guess the next move - just let them play the first 10-15 moves and then start guessing. Don't s
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by nevinera 3y ago
It's an awkward space - requiring us to pay them to put our profiles there is the main way to keep the content valuable/accurate.. but while that's fairly typical for hirers, it'd feel scammy to job-seekers. I think ther
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by nevinera 3y ago
I don't disagree with you a bit! Science should be doubted in the correct ways, and for appropriate reasons, that's one of the main things I come to HN comments for. My issue with the OP was with his reasons - anecdotes about yo
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by nevinera 3y ago
Oh I have no problem with doubting the study (I definitely doubt its conclusions myself, since I don't think "screen time" is a meaningfully monolithic concept to study in the first place, without even getting into the detail
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by nevinera 3y ago
If you'd like to analyze their approaches to call the study 'dubious', I won't argue with you (it is; they are not strong ones). But making that assertion solely on the position that your personal observations of your ow
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by nevinera 3y ago
And of course, talking about all of this as if 'screen time' is all the same is _insane_. Anyone that thinks watching youtubers screech at each other for hours is equivalent (for the purposes of mental development) to watching an
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by nevinera 3y ago
When science doesn't match your personal observations, that doesn't make the science wrong. It also doesn't make your personal observations wrong - it usually (in my experience) means that you're measuring/observing
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by nevinera 3y ago
If on average 100% of cases involve a company that is paying for an arbitration lawyer and even 80% of cases involve an individual that is paying for an arbitration lawyer (which I _highly doubt_, though I couldn't quickly find numbers
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by nevinera 3y ago
Most likely they're referring to the ability for a contract to include terms that remove your right to legal recourse.
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by nevinera 3y ago
> Operationalize transparency to build alignment Hold up there, I can't drink that fast.
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by nevinera 3y ago
I'm sure there's a substantial population that this redesign was successful for, but it's nobody I've talked to. I can no longer tell which of my slacks has pending messages at a glance, and my actually important channel
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by nevinera 3y ago
Eh, I think a lot more of it is caused by optimism than RDD - people who haven't _tried to do it_ look at the mess they've got, and they can see that if it were divided into domain-based services it would be less of a mess. And th
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by nevinera 3y ago
I don't think I'm overlooking any major ones, but we are probably working in quite different types of systems - I'm not aware of any type of static verification I'd use in a rails application that would affect _architect
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by nevinera 3y ago
Well, partly that was a mistaken impression because I thought that your comment was also from vrosas. But I think there's enough in there to assess your attitude toward code-review at least a _bit_: > They have 12 people and no cust
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by nevinera 3y ago
That process sounds fine to me, especially in a context with either good integration coverage or low downtime cost. > to “ream” someone for merging without deploying is incredibly immature and uncreative. I'd agree, but I _highly_ d
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by nevinera 3y ago
Right! What I'm fundamentally saying is that the majority of orgs trying to adopt SOA are doing it for the wrong reasons, and will deeply regret it. In general, the "right way" to adopt SOA is to extract services one at a tim
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by nevinera 3y ago
Hm. I think maybe you're using "system" to mean a different thing than I am? I thinking of "the system" as the thing that is executing in production - it provides the business behavior we are trying to provide; ther
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by nevinera 3y ago
With no customers, one of the purposes of code-review is removed, but it's the lesser one anyway. The primary goal of code-review should _not_ be to "catch mistakes" in a well-functioning engineering team - that's a thin
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by nevinera 3y ago
Did you mean to reply to somebody else? I'm a huge believer in automated testing, and if I said something that can be interpreted otherwise I'd like to clarify it.

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