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> You think Google has 5,000 people working on novel design spaces? Yes. Maintaining a bridge is in general not novel. There are clearly established best practices that have stood …

If this were true then software engineering jobs would have all already been offshored. Software is much closer to a competitive race where small improvements in ability give compl…

> I like this article particularly because I think the trope that there's something unique and different about software engineering is pretty toxic The ratio of software engineers …

> would have both required Ukraine to almost entirely disarm and also allow Russia to veto any future military partnerships Ukraine might have including non-NATO ones. Ukraine now …

> I live a 5-minute bike ride away from the Delft Technopolis, and 20 minutes by train to Leiden's Bio Science Park. Where you live is comparable to somewhere like Raleigh and not …

Most people in mainland Europe are poor by American middle-class standards.

> Maybe they think politicizing the whole executive branch is a little distasteful They believe it has already been politicized by people who hate them.

> Is that just how CRM systems are? Is everybody just doing it wrong? What's the deal? These kinds of tools cover 80% of what you want to do out-of-the-box. For the remaining 20% t…

> in order to catch up in other parts of the business or figure out what markets to put your new productivity toward. Product can come up with and design features an order of magni…

> I don't think anyone can get numbers, but partial ordering is much easier. Agreed. > If Steve and Susan are in different part of organization, the answer is "cannot compare". If …

> This is moving goalposts. Then I shall move the goalposts. Can you address my shifted goalpost? I personally did not interpret the author as literally meaning there is no such th…

> I just don't seem to struggle, as others claim to, in measuring productivity. Because you are measuring at a very broad and basic level. Steve is more productive than Susan. Grea…

> Don't you think that giving up after n=1 attempts at measuring software productivity might be a tad too fast to draw a generalized claim of impossibility? Software developers sho…

So how do you stop this from happening? The OP pointed out a highly informative and important point and the majority of the negative responses to it have been from people who want …

That is not true either. There is very little innovation happening in European countries where college is low/no-cost. They have less innovation than the US does despite our terrib…

Completely incorrect. We have made incredible improvements in alleviating poverty and suffering over the past 50 years and yet innovation across almost all fields has slowed to a c…

Can current techniques be scaled/improved/optimized to do this or do we need new techniques? It took 30 years in the generative art world to move from cave paintings to the level t…

> Give it time. Progress is fast. Why pick 2020 as your starting point? That is simply around the time the current set of techniques came about. We had generative art back in the l…

> Honestly, you're trying to claim that intuition is the foundation, when it's almost as bad as blind luck. Why do you think this?

You misunderstand. I'm saying intuition in a complex space we don't understand is less reliable than intuition in a simple well understood space. Recognising that someone is angry …

I suspect the scientists intuition is less reliable because the scientists are acting at the limits of our understanding. Even then it is still a critical component. For those of u…

> Entire science is basically testimony of how our intuition lead us astray and why we need to be disciplined about looking at data, evidence and crafting experiments. This is not …

> Your gut feelings want you to slam down McDonalds cheeseburgers one after another, day after day. Are we talking about the same thing here? When the article is talking about gut …

> My gut tells me to do stupid shit all the time Does it? Can you provide some examples? My intuition rarely lets me down. Perhaps you don't have enough experience in the areas whe…

> Otherwise, immigrants are generally taking jobs that Americans won't do. Because the pay is terrible. Start paying well and plenty of Americans will want the jobs. Working a low …