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Same, the people who are crazy about react are often the people who never understood MVC originally, writing terrible apps in older frameworks like Backbone with jquery code shoved…

Using Kim Malone's radical candor framework http://www.kimmalonescott.com/ The preferred quadrants are: Radical Candor > Obnoxious Aggression > Ruinous Empathy > Manipulative Insin…

Somewhat related, there's a very good post here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/l8/conjuring_an_evolution_to_serve_y... It's about the unintended side effects of trying to be a 'Natural S…

"I came, things got better, I left, things got worse. What do you think that says about me?" Whether it's an engineer, or a manager, or C-level executive, this is very easy to achi…

This article is mostly about scheduling, but a bigger issues is actually amount of actual work. (Ignoring cases where amount of perceived work is important like in Japan) A “reason…

There's an interesting series of tweets here: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa59... It outlines a model of "supernova" companies. Companies that initially…

IMO React is popular because it forces people to understand MVC. I've actually never seen a Backbone app where views render based on the model. It's too easy to just ram in jQuery …

Employees these days have a paradoxical role to fill. On one hand, the value in an employee is the ability to solve a problem. On the other hand, they have to market themselves as …

IMO there is a limited market for mature ideas that is often much smaller than the previous prediction. When startups start meeting this boundary, instead of reigning in expectatio…

One of the theories I have is that the best jobs in the U.S. require you to be culturally american. The U.S is great in that it is far more meritocratic than other countries but at…

Justified inequality is good as long as it filters out high quality from low quality. The genius should be compensated more than the low-life. Systems that classify human potential…

I don't really agree on the hard-wiring. I do think programming is more of a mind based pursuit rather than a socially based pursuit though. "Autistic" tendencies are for the most …

I think the advantages and disadvantages are minor compared to other influences. Many poor immigrants for example speak 2 languages. Yet rich well travelled people also speak 2 lan…

Each social subgroup or culture maintains its identity through shared cultivated interest in some areas, and cultivated disinterest in others. The degree to which this interest or …

The thing I didn't realize about the hiring process before going through it a couple times is that it's not an inherently evil process or system. It's just that no one knows what t…

Imagine you need to cross a tightrope to do something amazing and everyone is afraid of heights. Some forms of criticism are useful but yelling out "Hey, it's 2300 meters to the bo…

First time I've actually sort of understood eigenvectors. Linear algebra was actually the class that made me hate math, after years of loving it in secondary education. Not everyon…

Technology also allows 1 person to do the work of 10 creating a larger supply of unemployed people. Since right-to-live-well is tied to "productivity" and holding a job, technology…

Here's what I personally see: Pencil on Paper vs Vector Pen Tool on Computer. The difference between these tools doesn't matter. Neither will teach you about the importance of prop…

If the results are saying "Self control when hungry is lowered." then I agree completely.

Java itself was once so popular that a completely unrelated programming language, javascript, had java in its name to ride the coat-tails of its popularity. The culture and behavio…

I think Robert Pirsig's concepts of Static Quality and Dynamic quality are a more useful model to view culture. The world that is advocated here is pure dynamic quality, with nothi…

Would thinking of the fourier transform as breaking a signal down into basic elements (like atoms) and figuring out how much of each atom is in the signal? Each different value of …

I agree with the below comments. These types of papers are always emphasizing rigor over actual experience. Many types of "100%" security fail because of this disconnect. Forced ro…