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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>And every country does it differently Seems like the real world is just choc-full of Liskov Substitution Principle violations :P
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
The US tax system is the legislative equivalent of spaghetti code / big ball of mud.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>And in a world where we're unable to continue exploiting fossil fuels, whether due to the environmental impacts of their waste, or the lack of future supplies, the present mode of operation will end. What that means in terms of the
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
This has been my line of thinking too.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
You just actually quit if they refuse your hard 'no'. I was asked to be a team lead and turned it down as I know it's not right for me. I left my last company after they asked me to do a project in a similar way to an already
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Well I just do it by putting the laptop on my chest and using an external keyboard that also contains one of those touchpad mice like laptops have. Works like a charm and costs way less time / effort. The chest gets a little sore if yo
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Comments like this are why I find reading HN to be both depressing and cathartic at the same time. That's quite an achievement.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Sounds exactly like my current job.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Perfectly describes my last job.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>In my mind, it happens when autonomous systems optimizing reward functions to "stay alive" (by ordering fuel, making payments, investments etc) fail because of problems described above in (a) -- the inability to have determini
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>Oh, we do it better. We just replace step 2 and 3 with "Executive management says the same set of empty slogans they've been saying for years whenever these problems are raised, thus all but admitting that nothing is actually
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>Not that I’m bitter or anything. Hahahahah. Me neither man, me neither.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>I'm increasingly convinced that a large portion of our problems as a society is our absolute refusal to hold anyone in power accountable for anything. Well the problem is you try and then you disappear either because you self-selec
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Turns out I'm covered in lint and basically a walking fire hazard.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>I asked a psychiatrist friend of mine what they do when someone shows up depressed for reasons that are totally reasonable. She said they try to use drugs and therapy to generate some minor delusions that would help the person feel bett
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>Simply switching from a monolith to microservices makes them more thoughtful about the consequences of design. Well, in my experience it makes _some_ people more thoughtful about those things.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Welcome to software development. Expect it to be like this forever and continue to get worse. Tech seems to have 5 year cycles in which a problem has gotten enough peoples nerves over the previous 5 years that a new abstraction comes out to
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
There is no 'science of future events' only probabilistic outcomes based on models underpinned by chains of inference. The longer those chains of inference the lower the conditional probability the entire chain is correct becomes.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
My take on "Don't Look Up" was that it's actually a documentary, but it had to be made ahead of time because we won't be around to make it or see it after the fact. Don't forget to like and subscribe.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>I see this often when climate change is discussed. People seem to casually throw science under the bus when it suits them. I think it's because people see humanity casually throwing the planet under the bus when it suits them despi
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Thanks for your response. I definitely agree that bikeshedding can be a problem in code reviews and bikeshedding itself is best avoided for sure. Automating that stuff away with linting tools is a good tool in the toolbox for that, and so t
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>There is a continuous stream of bad ideas being implemented. And when a bad idea gets implemented, it is really hard to undo it and it tends to just create more chaos. This describes all aspects of software development.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>We are in an era of mythologizing that old white men are at the root of all problems, so thinkpieces like this have to mention old white men as a matter of course. That we've gotten to this point must also be old white men's f
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Precisely. You could replace the entire thing with "shorter feedback loops" and it would be significantly more meaningful.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>Agile as per the Agile Manifesto isn't bad. At all. If you actually read it it really is just a bunch of words that doesn't specify much of anything at all. To me it reads as something incredibly vague and hand-wavy and how on
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
This is an amazing list, though I'm curious given how accurate the rest of this list is how you drew the conclusion that code reviews are a waste of time?
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>We need to talk about a "software archaeologist" specialty where one tries to plow through a mound of garbage left by the predecessors and seeks to figure out what prescriptions their therapists had written for them Reminds me
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
The reality is sometimes the market decides to do terrible things.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
If it were always paid then one could just game the system taking such take home tests as a second job. Since they're relatively small in scope you'd quickly (if you haven't already) build up a code library containing a cache
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>It's the reality of how large organizations keep their teams stable with employee turnover and also slightly grow them. Yes, teams will work to fill their roles directly too but often the team will show up for work on a Monday morn

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