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What we don't teach or reward today is the behaviors and engineering process to write high quality code. A surprising number of inexperienced developers do the following: "once I g…

Don't successful drugs also have to pay for the failed trials?

Stoicism was philosophy marketed to and practiced by the Roman elites, so that Logos reinforced the social hierarchy is not surprising. That being said, the philosophy has many pra…

Wow! What do you work on? Is the problem the ability of the candidates -- do you think it's possible for a "good" engineer to get productive on six months?

They shut down in 2023. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184546

There also used to be Triplebyte. It filled a niche of talented people who have bad resumes and don't know anybody. Found a great job through them when I was starting out. Real sha…

What exactly is their intention?

Are there any places like it nowadays?

Living in a city is like being in a trance. The experience reminds me of Insomnia .

> I recall feeling like it was mostly a guide on manipulating people, and it didn't make a great impression on me, personally. Any action will affect other people in some way. What…

There is an excellent old book on the subject, How to Win Friends and Influence People . I was lacking in this area and my career improved greatly after reading it. In general, peo…

{Montana, North Dakota} --> {Washington}?

> by the end you're far more systematic, plus a little bit numb to the effect your decision is having Maybe decision fatigue is supposed to bias humans toward the optimal solution …

I was a grader once. I guarantee if someone gives a good answer they'll get full marks even near the bottom of the stack. For BS answers I'll admit I got less generous as the hours…

> Until the robots can do all of the tasks above and quickly switch from one to another and be highly adaptable in real time based on the needs of the restaurant Ideally if your ro…

> I like to be on teams for which, if new to the team, mostly you notice things being done sensibly (in context), and the 3 things you see that you don't understand, you can just a…

What is the error there?

> but you're still getting slower speeds for higher prices than you should And what is your solution to that?