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Being retarded enough to shit all over a codebase that you just met means you are a garbage employee who should never have been hired because you're a fucking boat-shaker. So go di…

Literally declaring yourself the winner of an election that you solidly lost and then repeating that claim over and over again as your supporters rile themselves up and prepare for…

Have you ever heard Kara Swisher go off on this? She's vicious on the topic.

Don't forget GA - Dems won full control, and will now have at least some ability to legislate. So Twitter et al need to be thinking about how to get ahead of the complaints that th…

Yeah, so much of Google's culture is already about slowing down work so that it takes 10 (5 eng ICs + lead, analyst, manager, PM and PgM) to do the work that 2 engineers would do w…

If you make these things Big Process, each of which requires spreadsheets and certification by high level manager and weeks of delay, etc, then yes, people will think of them as me…

I personally just think everything works better when the best people are in charge and rewarded for being the best. Yes, there's tons of luck, and it's not fair in any "everyone de…

And people from neuro come into AI for short rotations pretty regularly to do astoundingly naive work there which amounts to nothing at all. Maybe both fields could stop flinging s…

There can be and often are, because it's important to account for future expected flows - credit that's been extended and is due to be repaid, for instance, has to be accounted for…

> IA will also remain quite essential, because for the foreseeable future, computers will not be able to match humans in their ability to reason abstractly about real-world situati…

Two monitors doesn't work great for me because I always feel like one is "primary" and one "secondary", where all the crap like Slack and email that distracts me goes, which just h…

Twitter's CEO is basically an absentee leader, time-splitting with his other company which actually makes money and spending his free hours sucking up to rappers because he is desp…

Until a rollback due to a failure itself fails on a complex stack and prod is hosed for hours while you try to figure out how to unfuck. Maybe CF has gotten better, but I'm not sur…

Evil enough that new mocks should be banned by fiat and enforced by code that requires rarely granted permission to override against projects that are 5 years old and already have …

It's fairly normal for a big company these days: extremely slow pace, red tape all over the place, your level matters more than your skill. It's an engineering-led culture so there…

Java was a good syntax . The language itself had way too many limitations back when Sun ran it, for really dumb reasons proffered by too smart for their own good people. I was sadl…

Bayes has you covered, if your priors rank something as exceptionally likely or unlikely, then you probably shouldn't pay much attention to new information (especially when it's fr…

If other people want to pay more for your place, why should that place's owner be forced to let you pay less than they could make with someone else? Seriously. What is better about…

Fixing a bad law is fine, but you can't propagate that back just because you wish you'd thought of the edge cases then. Or at least you shouldn't, if you have any sense of fair pla…

It wouldn't be a README if it wasn't out of date and inaccurate.

Yes, that is what happens when direct democracy is allowed, anyone who can influence public opinion (rightly or wrongly) can make whatever laws they want, and it's a big reason tha…

Most people strongly disagree with you. You need to offer an argument, not an assertion, since you're callit for a major and unpopular change. And if like many of my lefty friends …

If you fail based on any of the "would be nice to know" items, you were never going to succeed. Find another few founders, ask them what they use. Find another few who use the same…

Actually it's quite easy to cast electromagnetism into a purely geometrical form, you just add a few extra curled up dimensions to a flattish spacetime in general relativity and yo…

Part of the problem is, a lot of the best people in this field don't even realize how fuckin hard they had to work to get to the point they're at, because they didn't think of it a…