noobker

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by noobker 4y ago
A precise and formally verified specification is usually just referred to as "PROD".
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by noobker 4y ago
You appear to be strawmaning this piece to a large degree. The necessity for humans to find meaning isn't ignored or argued as anything other than "how human brains work", in the piece. The Database metaphor isn't a sepa
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by noobker 4y ago
The situation invites comparisons to the obesity epidemic or perhaps (more of a stretch) the introduction of alcohol into American tribes. Regardless, it's critical to recognize that we as a people need to develop a greater worldview&#
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by noobker 4y ago
I never understand this complaint when Javascript/Typescript is sitting there with a mess of .lock and .json files across multiple tools that sometimes interoperate and sometimes don't. Package management isn't a solved probl
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by noobker 4y ago
This transition from junior to senior includes another important skillset: balancing social dynamics against engineering realities. The key is illustrated in the book club parable: The elitism is directed outside of the group and becomes on
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by noobker 4y ago
I was once at a talk with several medical technology founders. One of them namechecked specific legislation that enabled their solution to come to market. And so I asked, "How do you survive if only 1 law is prying open the opportunity
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by noobker 4y ago
> every religion The world's beliefs are many and varied. There are plenty of religious groups that provide a foundation for a healthy life instead of insisting they are the only means to achieving it. You'll be hardpressed to
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by noobker 4y ago
>very likely your technical people are smarter than your product people Intelligence is multifaceted. That business listens to product and not to engineers could be seen as a type of social intelligence of which engineers are notoriously
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by noobker 4y ago
> things in your community you can change There are a class of problems that are immovable to an individual yet conquerable by a community. The author's fear in this piece is that a follower of Stoicism would too readily accept one
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by noobker 4y ago
> "You are the leaf, not the river" I'm curious why you think the author misrepresents/misunderstands stoicism on this point. The entire piece is that Stoicism is an individual's philosophy -- one that solves an
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by noobker 4y ago
tl;dr: Stoicism's first response to a problem is to change the individual (have the individual reinvent their worldview such that what can't be changed is instead accepted and perhaps even reveled in). In a world of decay, having
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by noobker 4y ago
> any organized activity (sports, etc. - Meetup is perfect) will do Please don't come to my clubs looking to get laid -- parasitic mentality.
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by noobker 4y ago
> it's difficult to determine where to set the regulatory "dial." I think about this a lot and have come to this thought: you - specifically - won't get to set the dial at all. Too many political philosophies complete
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by noobker 4y ago
> The funny thing though is that, in most urban settings, this is completely untrue. Cyclists actually speed things up by creating less traffic. Citation please. > Every cyclist on the road means less cars on the road. While that part
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by noobker 4y ago
> But I'm always the same person in all those situations with the same thoughts, the same desires I think that's debatable, and further, a lot of that coherence is a personal/cultural choice and not something inherent to c
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by noobker 4y ago
> you wear one mask with one group, another with a different group. Wouldnt say multiple identities though You're just establishing that for a given persona there is a spectrum from 'Mask' to 'Identity' and insis
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by noobker 4y ago
> The more well compensated you are, the more disconnected you are from the perils of working class poverty. For sure, but there's a type of blindness that comes from our culture and class expectations too. I know many service worke
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by noobker 4y ago
Engineers never want to admit that it amounts to politics. No amount of process will shield you from politics. It has to play out; priorities have to be decided. You can try to alienate yourself from it and watch it play out like the weathe
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by noobker 4y ago
> It's not the sort of thing someone does for a lifetime. Quite literally, not with that attitude. So many of capitalism's pitfalls amount to no more than self-fulfilling prophecies.
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by noobker 4y ago
> what good is documentation without a final product? Reference material for the features and techniques the product had/was going to have. I've earned years of my salary at a time by referencing documentation for vaporware --
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by noobker 4y ago
I believe a real glimpse of the future you're describing can be seen with AWS CDK's L2 or higher constructs: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk We already have the tools to have a cloud-scale application dynamica
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by noobker 4y ago
Mito looks cool. I'm hopeful a tool like it can create a bridge between Excel-based analysts/researchers and more mature application flows. Another tool like Mito is Bamboo: https://bamboolib.8080labs.com/
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by noobker 4y ago
The old saying in English is "hear, hear", in reference to old parliament procedures. I use "here, here" on text forums because you can't hear anything, but "right here" is a post worth reading!
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by noobker 4y ago
> I hold unto my right as a mammal to be inefficient and sit drooling looking at trees here, here!