I’m scanning resumes and portfolios for little prototypes that exhibit taste, empathy, and principled thinking. As a hiring manager and a manager of engineers across the seniority spectrum… yeah, I think these traits…
One important distinction was that the previous one was voluntary retirement and was offered to people nearing the ends of their careers. The people taking these offers were likely tired of their jobs and taking the…
> Unless you mean your hobby is other people using your software, rather than programming for the sake of programming in the literal sense. In which case, yeah, sucks to be beaten by AI on all fronts at the same time.…
It helps to be able to learn as you go, because the end product is motivating, and the learning is fun. I will corroborate that AI and pressure even in hobby spaces (like game modding) to ship faster if only to preempt…
Most of what you said is already how it's done today, at least in the pharmaceutical industry. > Some may consider it extreme, but, in my view, in an ideal world, people would treat testing in animals almost like…
What he actually said was: > The kind of expectations I have is that people do their best and I expect people to understand what they are doing. > But that understanding has very little to do with what tools they use. >…
I go back and forth on this. But to pull something from the post: > If this is the right mental model, you should expect to see: > An unusual amount of in-house harness building on both the build side and the sell side…
It's definitely not for everyone. I'd equate the feeling to knitting, where progress is mostly slow and deliberate and the meditativeness is by design. It's also more fun on a server with friends, where it can be more…
Consistently, at scale, and in a durable way: I doubt it. However, I have seen many localized cases of extreme excellence in the places where the company knows it really matters.
I will readily admit that even when I know my counterpart is neurodivergent, I still have issues adjusting my expectations and reactions. Without practice with repeated interactions over time it’s hard to mentally…
Agreed with what you said, when you're only considering security and usability you're often not at a Pareto optimal state, but once you add cost into the picture you see a lot more cases of being on the Pareto optimal…
> I would then have to wonder if all the time saved in the first place at all. From my experiences using AI to write documentation, if your bar is high quality documentation, yes, you do save time, but it's on the order…
> We do this and then no one reads it. My experience with AI-written documentation is that, as a category, it contains just enough technical errors that more often than not I end up spending time running down…
If it’s a problem you’re willing to solve with money and don’t want any special stuff like mods, you can pay for a server with Realms and then you don’t need to think too hard about it. But the canonical way to do it…
If you're not set on a "survival mode" design, could you design it as counting up instead of counting down? And maybe showing a "par" time, that way players can opt into the challenge vs. just a morning brainteaser.
Another idea: maybe time how long you take for each word, and for the competitive among us, show stats on how long you took compared to everyone else, and a leaderboard for who took the least total time.
> I've been around many conversations over the years where people would say goofy things like they couldn't use Python because it's untyped. I'm not sure I would go that far, but I would definitely say that I remember…
> The whole “you could only possibly pretend to care about other people” response to the book is vaguely psychopathic. I prefer to interpret it charitably: the line between influence and manipulation can be pretty…
> for some reason I got it in my head that it's a sort of red pilled book that teaches you how to manipulate people. It's two sides of the same coin. Many techniques in that book are things that both genuinely kind…
It’s rough at first but you will learn the baby’s rhythms and preferences. If you track their sleep and wake up times (I did it the old fashioned way in a notebook) you’ll see a pattern emerge pretty quickly, and then…
> But as any parent knows, changing nappies is really one of the easier parts of looking after babies and toddlers. For sure, probably because stinky diapers are visceral but psychological challenges aren’t, yet I think…
"E2E teams" are difficult because your success depends on specialized teams to not screw you over - and not just in terms of politics, but it can happen just from them protecting their codebases and trying to focus on…
I sneak thirty minutes in here and there for it regardless of my manager. If you work, say, 40-45 hours a week, you’re probably doing 20 hours of true focused productivity. It’s easier to borrow here and there from the…
In my experience it doesn't really work that way. It's somewhat akin to a house that's undergone multiple remodels. You eventually run out of the house's structural capacity for more remodeling and you have to start…
> The point of the question is to have something remotely understandable for both sides to talk about, that’s it. I think a lot of people miss this point. Real projects are complex and have tons of context at the…
I’m scanning resumes and portfolios for little prototypes that exhibit taste, empathy, and principled thinking. As a hiring manager and a manager of engineers across the seniority spectrum… yeah, I think these traits…
One important distinction was that the previous one was voluntary retirement and was offered to people nearing the ends of their careers. The people taking these offers were likely tired of their jobs and taking the…
> Unless you mean your hobby is other people using your software, rather than programming for the sake of programming in the literal sense. In which case, yeah, sucks to be beaten by AI on all fronts at the same time.…
It helps to be able to learn as you go, because the end product is motivating, and the learning is fun. I will corroborate that AI and pressure even in hobby spaces (like game modding) to ship faster if only to preempt…
Most of what you said is already how it's done today, at least in the pharmaceutical industry. > Some may consider it extreme, but, in my view, in an ideal world, people would treat testing in animals almost like…
What he actually said was: > The kind of expectations I have is that people do their best and I expect people to understand what they are doing. > But that understanding has very little to do with what tools they use. >…
I go back and forth on this. But to pull something from the post: > If this is the right mental model, you should expect to see: > An unusual amount of in-house harness building on both the build side and the sell side…
It's definitely not for everyone. I'd equate the feeling to knitting, where progress is mostly slow and deliberate and the meditativeness is by design. It's also more fun on a server with friends, where it can be more…
Consistently, at scale, and in a durable way: I doubt it. However, I have seen many localized cases of extreme excellence in the places where the company knows it really matters.
I will readily admit that even when I know my counterpart is neurodivergent, I still have issues adjusting my expectations and reactions. Without practice with repeated interactions over time it’s hard to mentally…
Agreed with what you said, when you're only considering security and usability you're often not at a Pareto optimal state, but once you add cost into the picture you see a lot more cases of being on the Pareto optimal…
> I would then have to wonder if all the time saved in the first place at all. From my experiences using AI to write documentation, if your bar is high quality documentation, yes, you do save time, but it's on the order…
> We do this and then no one reads it. My experience with AI-written documentation is that, as a category, it contains just enough technical errors that more often than not I end up spending time running down…
If it’s a problem you’re willing to solve with money and don’t want any special stuff like mods, you can pay for a server with Realms and then you don’t need to think too hard about it. But the canonical way to do it…
If you're not set on a "survival mode" design, could you design it as counting up instead of counting down? And maybe showing a "par" time, that way players can opt into the challenge vs. just a morning brainteaser.
Another idea: maybe time how long you take for each word, and for the competitive among us, show stats on how long you took compared to everyone else, and a leaderboard for who took the least total time.
> I've been around many conversations over the years where people would say goofy things like they couldn't use Python because it's untyped. I'm not sure I would go that far, but I would definitely say that I remember…
> The whole “you could only possibly pretend to care about other people” response to the book is vaguely psychopathic. I prefer to interpret it charitably: the line between influence and manipulation can be pretty…
> for some reason I got it in my head that it's a sort of red pilled book that teaches you how to manipulate people. It's two sides of the same coin. Many techniques in that book are things that both genuinely kind…
It’s rough at first but you will learn the baby’s rhythms and preferences. If you track their sleep and wake up times (I did it the old fashioned way in a notebook) you’ll see a pattern emerge pretty quickly, and then…
> But as any parent knows, changing nappies is really one of the easier parts of looking after babies and toddlers. For sure, probably because stinky diapers are visceral but psychological challenges aren’t, yet I think…
"E2E teams" are difficult because your success depends on specialized teams to not screw you over - and not just in terms of politics, but it can happen just from them protecting their codebases and trying to focus on…
I sneak thirty minutes in here and there for it regardless of my manager. If you work, say, 40-45 hours a week, you’re probably doing 20 hours of true focused productivity. It’s easier to borrow here and there from the…
In my experience it doesn't really work that way. It's somewhat akin to a house that's undergone multiple remodels. You eventually run out of the house's structural capacity for more remodeling and you have to start…
> The point of the question is to have something remotely understandable for both sides to talk about, that’s it. I think a lot of people miss this point. Real projects are complex and have tons of context at the…