> The tools of marketers (data mining, consumer behavior analysis, surveys, market testing, etc) aren't just a veneer to be applied at the completion of a development project. I strongly agree with this! If you're…
Not sure it helps, but I submitted https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/4206 Feel free to jump in on it
There are lots of startup founders who do feel a bit sleazy, or like they're just faking it until they make it. You don't give that impression at all! As others have said below, I think you should push your product a…
Strongly agreed! It doesn't just seem unfair, it is unfair. I also think that there's much more celebration of "overcoming" disability or illness, rather than the much more sustainable (and difficult!) practice of…
Since it's my lunch break, I put together a PR: https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95/pull/4 My CSS-fu is very basic, so it might need further tweaks to make button presses look right.
I feel like it's just missing the fairly fundamental thing that any flow of energy will result in an increase in entropy of the universe as a whole. It doesn't mean that localised systems can't tend towards lower…
It does seem obviously to be a spectrum. I only realised that I have some degree of aphantasia when I read an article on it. I think there's also an element of things being "faint" in your mind's eye. For example,…
This just sounds like a bad/inappropriate use of a tool. I wouldn't think that a team of people working on unconnected items should have any meetings at all, let alone a daily stand-up. As others have said, when you're…
I'm not sure there's an inherent value in compromise. I certainly see value in a greater understanding of the alternative perspective, but not in accepting it if you disagree.
That's great to hear to be honest. It sounds like you're one of the self-made grafter types. :) My parents' background is similar - they both put themselves through university as adult learners having a pretty poor time…
Oh, I certainly don't mean that a good university place guarantees you a top job. My company targets top universities, so it naturally has to reject a bunch of people who just aren't the right fit. However, it is…
In the UK at least, the people who've managed to bootstrap themselves to success through hard work and good decision making are the overwhelming minority. The causal chain seems to roughly be: Top jobs tend to belong to…
Even using the carpentry analogy, I suspect the point is to avoid ruining something on which a lot of time was spent. The material cost of most raw materials isn't very high, but ruining something you've already spent…
Yes, though some other commenters have pointed out caveats (e.g. do they really have a free choice?). IANA moral philosopher, but I think the gender of the baby being a primary consideration in abortion also makes this…
I don't think HN can necessarily be to blame. It might just be one of those "you're getting older, so think things were different when you were young" things, but I certainly feel I have a shorter attention span and…
I recall someone saying that holiday periods actually had better reliability for their services, because fewer people were pushing breaking changes... I do wonder if it's that the usual maintainers of particular bits…
I'd generally agree with this (bumped up against more gcc, libc and kernel bugs than I'd have liked), but I find that my code has even more bugs than that. :)
N.B. My understanding of this stuff is pretty vague, but here's a quick summary of the arguments I've heard on the matter: I think the grievances might be to do with the amount of money paid into a pension pot versus…
I must confess that the main reason I'm replying is to correct the darkly amusing dead->deaf typo that I'm hoping you made. However, I wonder if you could comment on whether you think a) that you and your colleagues'…
I switched from computational simulation stuff to software engineering (big company, but not FAANG), since I found that the coding was much more rewarding than running the code. I think academia is a great career, but…
It's great that you encourage this attitude in your kids. I had a similar high-achieving story until I experienced some mental health issues during my PhD. I came out the other side realising that what made me happy…
Strongly agree with this. My company has its own coding standards and openly acknowledges that they are not objectively "the right way to do it", because such a thing does not exist. Instead, they define rules to make…
I went to a course on how to negotiate with people delivered by a hostage negotiator for the (British) police that basically agreed with what you say. The key they said was to work out what the person's motivation was…
Soluto - it profiled your Windows boot time and did some other performance monitoring. There are alternatives (e.g. Task Manager's Startup tab), but I feel like they lack some of its killer features: - Option to defer…
We have exactly this for deploying one of our side projects at work. :D I believe it also flashes logs at you in (red) Morse code. It's not the most effective way to monitor a release.
> The tools of marketers (data mining, consumer behavior analysis, surveys, market testing, etc) aren't just a veneer to be applied at the completion of a development project. I strongly agree with this! If you're…
Not sure it helps, but I submitted https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/4206 Feel free to jump in on it
There are lots of startup founders who do feel a bit sleazy, or like they're just faking it until they make it. You don't give that impression at all! As others have said below, I think you should push your product a…
Strongly agreed! It doesn't just seem unfair, it is unfair. I also think that there's much more celebration of "overcoming" disability or illness, rather than the much more sustainable (and difficult!) practice of…
Since it's my lunch break, I put together a PR: https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95/pull/4 My CSS-fu is very basic, so it might need further tweaks to make button presses look right.
I feel like it's just missing the fairly fundamental thing that any flow of energy will result in an increase in entropy of the universe as a whole. It doesn't mean that localised systems can't tend towards lower…
It does seem obviously to be a spectrum. I only realised that I have some degree of aphantasia when I read an article on it. I think there's also an element of things being "faint" in your mind's eye. For example,…
This just sounds like a bad/inappropriate use of a tool. I wouldn't think that a team of people working on unconnected items should have any meetings at all, let alone a daily stand-up. As others have said, when you're…
I'm not sure there's an inherent value in compromise. I certainly see value in a greater understanding of the alternative perspective, but not in accepting it if you disagree.
That's great to hear to be honest. It sounds like you're one of the self-made grafter types. :) My parents' background is similar - they both put themselves through university as adult learners having a pretty poor time…
Oh, I certainly don't mean that a good university place guarantees you a top job. My company targets top universities, so it naturally has to reject a bunch of people who just aren't the right fit. However, it is…
In the UK at least, the people who've managed to bootstrap themselves to success through hard work and good decision making are the overwhelming minority. The causal chain seems to roughly be: Top jobs tend to belong to…
Even using the carpentry analogy, I suspect the point is to avoid ruining something on which a lot of time was spent. The material cost of most raw materials isn't very high, but ruining something you've already spent…
Yes, though some other commenters have pointed out caveats (e.g. do they really have a free choice?). IANA moral philosopher, but I think the gender of the baby being a primary consideration in abortion also makes this…
I don't think HN can necessarily be to blame. It might just be one of those "you're getting older, so think things were different when you were young" things, but I certainly feel I have a shorter attention span and…
I recall someone saying that holiday periods actually had better reliability for their services, because fewer people were pushing breaking changes... I do wonder if it's that the usual maintainers of particular bits…
I'd generally agree with this (bumped up against more gcc, libc and kernel bugs than I'd have liked), but I find that my code has even more bugs than that. :)
N.B. My understanding of this stuff is pretty vague, but here's a quick summary of the arguments I've heard on the matter: I think the grievances might be to do with the amount of money paid into a pension pot versus…
I must confess that the main reason I'm replying is to correct the darkly amusing dead->deaf typo that I'm hoping you made. However, I wonder if you could comment on whether you think a) that you and your colleagues'…
I switched from computational simulation stuff to software engineering (big company, but not FAANG), since I found that the coding was much more rewarding than running the code. I think academia is a great career, but…
It's great that you encourage this attitude in your kids. I had a similar high-achieving story until I experienced some mental health issues during my PhD. I came out the other side realising that what made me happy…
Strongly agree with this. My company has its own coding standards and openly acknowledges that they are not objectively "the right way to do it", because such a thing does not exist. Instead, they define rules to make…
I went to a course on how to negotiate with people delivered by a hostage negotiator for the (British) police that basically agreed with what you say. The key they said was to work out what the person's motivation was…
Soluto - it profiled your Windows boot time and did some other performance monitoring. There are alternatives (e.g. Task Manager's Startup tab), but I feel like they lack some of its killer features: - Option to defer…
We have exactly this for deploying one of our side projects at work. :D I believe it also flashes logs at you in (red) Morse code. It's not the most effective way to monitor a release.