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The best "architects" serve as facilitators, rather than deciding themselves how software is built. They have to be reading the code, but they don't themselves have to be coding to…

This is where an architect is useful, because they can ask "why?" Sometimes there is a reason! Sometimes there isn't a reason, but it might be something we want to move everything …

Why are you rewriting the same application a second time? I've personally yet to have a situation where that comes up. And every application I've ever worked on has its architectur…

XP putting a customer on the team was the best thing in the methodology. Replacing those with business representatives is one of Scrum's original sins.

The problem isn't programmers: it is cheap-ass executives obsessed with compliance. Good software designers are facilitators. They don't tell people how to build software, but say …

No: I've been at plenty of places where we get to continuous deployment, where any given change is deployed on demand. What is wild is that they are deploying without first testing…

I have seen issues like that. Rebooting has always fixed it, but it is notable. I really wish they would hire a strong frontend team. I can almost always figure out what happened j…

It also suggests to me a more-professionalized R&D culture. Tesla claiming it planned to implement self-driving with just cameras has always meant I don't trust anything they touch…

HP did write their own operating system: HP RTE. It wasn't until decades later, after the platform became commodified and they stopped designing their own chips, that they went wit…

It is nice to see a car company investing in a sensor platform that could actually safely self-drive. It is unfortunate that the existing market participants seem hell-bent on dest…

Even just paying for the roads for these cars to drive on is a challenge with the lack-of-density they require. So many suburbs with large lot sizes just learn to live with the pot…

Don't forget to create an index on the composite key [number, is_even]!

He is a pro-authoritian-control Democrat, so it is unsurprising that he is more worried about control of information than he is the Constitution. His background is in finance and h…

America has been subject to a thirty-year propaganda war by foreign actors. Information in America is free as in speech, not free as in beer: money talks louder than truth. That ha…

We aren't concerned only about existing addicts, but potential future addicts. Especially for something like social media with strong network effects, where decreasing use is non-l…

That is Hank Green's Focus Friend is for, right? Adults actually are trying to solve this problem.

Do you have evidence that it hurts elsewhere? It isn't like the left was doing well in rural America before social media: people in the urban cores just didn't know what was going …

And there are 31 year old Dems who sound like James Carville reincarnate. Unfortunately, the young Dems with the biggest fundraising rolodexes are usually the ones supported by the…

The toxic impact of Fox News is longitudinal, rather than being about a single election, and mostly acts by pushing conservative parties to the far right: https://www.brookings.edu…

It is less that it swings elections, though it has marginal effects via voter mobilization, and more that it keeps candidates from even running at all: https://data4democracy.subst…

Which is why parliamentary systems are so much more stable than first-past-the-post. They let voters express their preferences, and leave building the coalitions up to the politici…

Social media has caused at least two genocides so far, and their data centers and AI slop are helping drive us towards an earth incapable of supporting human life. So what you are …

Suppressing the evidence of it doesn't make it not so: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/meta-project-mercury-sh...

That makes me wonder, if only teenagers could vote would they ban adults from social media?

Kids pretending to be adults know they are doing something wrong. They are likely to practice acting like adults, don't pressure each other to join, and are harder for predators to…