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I will grant there are better denominators, but I wouldn’t say it’s useless , especially if we could assume we’re comparing similar services to each other (e.g. city rideshares), a…

Yeah, number of crashes is absolutely useless as a data point without something like miles driven as a denominator. Not to mention, even without that, this data is apparently suspe…

I’d very much like to see some citations for those numbers, but my intuition is that the premise is likely valid, and that AI based personalization will likely lead to increased co…

Generously, I think the article is presenting it as a thought experiment to make sure you’ve thoroughly explored the solution space, while not literally recommending that you neces…

Yes, which the article mentions: “So you get maybe 2x higher quality code for 1.25x the time — this trade is usually a good one to make on projects you'll have to maintain for a lo…

Did: read to them every day. Purchased: their firstnamelastname.com domain name.

I know Karpathy explicitly says that learning doesn’t have to be not fun either, but it reminds me of the book “A Theory of Fun for Game Design” by Raph Koster [0], which offers a …

Fair enough. In general, I think the interview is a pretty lousy way to measure how good a software developer is.

I suspect the interviewer would have likely been fine if they’d been able to explain chained comparisons and how they work. I would probably consider the interviewer using them wit…

That’s funny, I hadn’t thought of that. It very well might be true that turning pages is easier for people with more moisture in their skin.

At a former company, we were all issued YubiKey Nanos, which just never worked for me. None of my coworkers had a problem, but I couldn’t get the damn thing to register a touch no …

As a woodworker, I wouldn’t say those six cuts would be “easy”, unless you weren’t especially concerned about keeping all of your fingers!

This is a list of diseases, not data about how many people get sick from contact with dogs.

At one point in my career, I used Microsoft SourceSafe, which is a pretty descriptive name. Seems like the exception here, though.