> I’ve also learned to write code in a way that reduces cognitive load so that interruptions aren’t so disruptive to my productivity. I have too, but sometimes I have to read other people's code, and I don't have any…
I've found that learning to empathize with future-me, also made me better at writing code that others want to read. Kind of like dogfooding.
The overall portion of athletes are vegetarian or vegan is low, but the ones who are can still perform very well. This suggests that the difference is based, at least in part, on preference.
This. In conversations about vegetarianism, it's pretty common for people to give their distaste of fake meat as their primary reason for not reducing their meat consumption. I really wish that wasn't the default…
I've experienced this first-hand. Joining an existing project and being put on test-writing duty very quickly turned me into our team's chief advocate of writing testable code.
I don't think volume of articles is a very good measure. The distribution of people who publish things has changed over time.
I'm not a Twitter user myself, but the character limit is what made Twitter unique. It might be fun to laugh at people who only want to read 140 characters, but we shouldn't assume they aren't going elsewhere to post…
I've also done a lot of accessibility work. For people looking to get into it, another crucial thing is using "Semantic HTML". If every button is a <button> tag and every link is an <a> and every form element has a…
It's also a great way to persuade managers. Actually, a lot of the time you can just tell them you're doing SEO because nowadays they're fundamentally the same. Almost everything you do for accessibility has a positive…
Bathrooms and kitchens
"Agile transformations" are bad, but I still think agile itself is fine. Teams of self-organized, competent developers tend naturally toward agile-like practices. I've seen agile's story-centric model of development…
I feel like people who study subjective topics like the value of human life (philosophers) have already internalized "learned helplessness". It's empirical-oriented people like us who have a harder time grappling with…
You must be really fun at parties
I once read someone give similar advice about estimation. What stuck with me most is that if someone pressures you to change an estimate, it's no longer an estimate. Most managers don't actually want estimates.
My internal kid voice said "Yeah!". Until I read the other reply, it hadn't occurred to me that your rhetorical question's intended answer might be "No"
Another very important reason was left out: The 5th edition of the game was very well designed and received critical acclaim among veterans who were disappointed by the 4th edition. The article makes it sound like…
It is if there's large barriers to entry
I haven't researched it, but the two statistics could be reconciled if there are fewer smokers than non-smokers.
Those givens are far from trivial, and getting them wrong is dangerous. You may as well say "Given we can perfectly predict the market, it's possible to make a lot of money"
This is neat. I'll make sure to use it whenever I post something here or on Reddit. Great work
Adblock Plus has an "Acceptable Ads" program that allows non-animated, non-sound ads to remain on the page. People who think supporting the sites they visit is the right thing to do, can enable acceptable ads while…
My wife does this. One time a support scammer called trying to get her to install malware. It went something like this: "Ok. Please press the Windows key" "Ok (long pause)" "Did you press it?" "Yes" "What happened?"…
When I saw this in the HN feed, my first thought was "I should see if I got that email"
Our meeting format was for each person to say a) What they worked on, b) What they were about to work on, and c) If they needed help with anything. Our rule was that you could ask for help as long as you were just…
While I agree that free content isn't inherently better (and usually worse), I disagree that good content will emerge in free venues. Social media has crowd-sourced the costs of discovery. You don't have all day to…
> I’ve also learned to write code in a way that reduces cognitive load so that interruptions aren’t so disruptive to my productivity. I have too, but sometimes I have to read other people's code, and I don't have any…
I've found that learning to empathize with future-me, also made me better at writing code that others want to read. Kind of like dogfooding.
The overall portion of athletes are vegetarian or vegan is low, but the ones who are can still perform very well. This suggests that the difference is based, at least in part, on preference.
This. In conversations about vegetarianism, it's pretty common for people to give their distaste of fake meat as their primary reason for not reducing their meat consumption. I really wish that wasn't the default…
I've experienced this first-hand. Joining an existing project and being put on test-writing duty very quickly turned me into our team's chief advocate of writing testable code.
I don't think volume of articles is a very good measure. The distribution of people who publish things has changed over time.
I'm not a Twitter user myself, but the character limit is what made Twitter unique. It might be fun to laugh at people who only want to read 140 characters, but we shouldn't assume they aren't going elsewhere to post…
I've also done a lot of accessibility work. For people looking to get into it, another crucial thing is using "Semantic HTML". If every button is a <button> tag and every link is an <a> and every form element has a…
It's also a great way to persuade managers. Actually, a lot of the time you can just tell them you're doing SEO because nowadays they're fundamentally the same. Almost everything you do for accessibility has a positive…
Bathrooms and kitchens
"Agile transformations" are bad, but I still think agile itself is fine. Teams of self-organized, competent developers tend naturally toward agile-like practices. I've seen agile's story-centric model of development…
I feel like people who study subjective topics like the value of human life (philosophers) have already internalized "learned helplessness". It's empirical-oriented people like us who have a harder time grappling with…
You must be really fun at parties
I once read someone give similar advice about estimation. What stuck with me most is that if someone pressures you to change an estimate, it's no longer an estimate. Most managers don't actually want estimates.
My internal kid voice said "Yeah!". Until I read the other reply, it hadn't occurred to me that your rhetorical question's intended answer might be "No"
Another very important reason was left out: The 5th edition of the game was very well designed and received critical acclaim among veterans who were disappointed by the 4th edition. The article makes it sound like…
It is if there's large barriers to entry
I haven't researched it, but the two statistics could be reconciled if there are fewer smokers than non-smokers.
Those givens are far from trivial, and getting them wrong is dangerous. You may as well say "Given we can perfectly predict the market, it's possible to make a lot of money"
This is neat. I'll make sure to use it whenever I post something here or on Reddit. Great work
Adblock Plus has an "Acceptable Ads" program that allows non-animated, non-sound ads to remain on the page. People who think supporting the sites they visit is the right thing to do, can enable acceptable ads while…
My wife does this. One time a support scammer called trying to get her to install malware. It went something like this: "Ok. Please press the Windows key" "Ok (long pause)" "Did you press it?" "Yes" "What happened?"…
When I saw this in the HN feed, my first thought was "I should see if I got that email"
Our meeting format was for each person to say a) What they worked on, b) What they were about to work on, and c) If they needed help with anything. Our rule was that you could ask for help as long as you were just…
While I agree that free content isn't inherently better (and usually worse), I disagree that good content will emerge in free venues. Social media has crowd-sourced the costs of discovery. You don't have all day to…