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Re: Be Kind

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Post by cortesoft »

abhi_kr wrote: post #445
cortesoft wrote: post #348

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I always make an example with coin flips to show how this is true.... lets say heads is success and tails is failure. Flip 100 coins. Take the ones that 'failed' (landed tails) and scold them. Flip them again. Half improved! Praise the ones that got heads the first time. Flip them again. Half got worse :( Clearly, scolding is more effective than praising.

Except, coins are not humans with emotions, and neither can they dupe probability to improve their outcome. The 50 heads(success) that you left are not going to do any better than the 50 tails you scolded. You are just changing the sample space in a biased fashion to prove your point.

I think you are totally missing my point. The whole point I am trying to make centers on the fact that the coins are all actually equal. The observed difference in performance is entirely due to chance.

While, of course, human performance is not always equal in the same way our coins are, the fact that performance (or whatever it is you are measuring) will still regress towards the mean still holds true. The coin example just gives an extremely obvious demonstration about what is happening when things regress towards the mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

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Post by SadWebDeveloper »

ceronman wrote: post #258
SadWebDeveloper wrote: post #243

> Jr Dev > Access to production > With clients that need the service running 24/7 Oh boy... is he used to work on facebook? when i was a jr dev, i didn't have access to production everything went to source control and then tested by my project technical leader and qa. This ensure that i won't do this things since my changes getting reviewed and tested plus we have reproducible builds that anyone can verify and contin…

I disagree. I work for a big company with a big product that shouldn't have a single minute of downtime. We let new devs deploy to production from day 1. We have ways of mitigating the risks, like a very sophisticated monitoring and the ability to rollback changes in seconds. Yes we sometimes have outages, and we lose money. But in our experience, empowering developers is much more effective than handcuffing them. Th…

I think in your release model are forgetting about development and the staging areas that most devs can run or well use freely before ever going to production. Those are the places where the developers not only have access but are also encouraged to disrupt, destroy and let their creativity run before going to production. Giving access to production from day 1 its a disaster waiting to happen and m pretty sure stoling ip or databases aren't part of your monitoring software scope nor being able to detecting malice.

Re: Be Kind

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Post by mavsman »

I have wept in the night For the shortness of sight That to somebody’s need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret For being a little too kind.

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Post by Sire »

"Blame is not for failure, it is for failing to help or ask for help." It changes everything. Usually attributed to the CEO of The Lego Group, Jorgen Vig Knudstorp.

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Post by danohu »

justifier wrote: post #87
endymi0n wrote: post #25

When he returned to the air field, Bob Hoover walked over to the man who had nearly caused his death and, according to the California Fullerton News-Tribune, said: “There isn’t a man alive who hasn’t made a mistake. But I’m positive you’ll never make this mistake again. That’s why I want to make sure that you’re the only one to refuel my plane tomorrow. I won’t let anyone else on the field touch it.”

this is a great anectdote, but the reason i am replying to your comment is because of your user name i am a huge fan of the turn of the century dancer isadora duncan and her lover who she first had a child with, the theatre set design theorist, edward gordon craig who she affectionately called endymion a complete aside, but if you have, or anyone reading this has, yet to read duncan's autobiography 'my life' i highly…

I'm now reading My Life because of this comment. I'm greatly enjoying it so far -- thanks!

Re: Be Kind

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Post by gavman »

ianai wrote: post #296
gavman wrote: post #78

This was so nice to read. I think back to my very first coding internship after my freshman year of college when I messed up big time. I made a bad mistake that ended up forcing my supervisor to put down everything he was working on for a full afternoon and do an emergency fix. I so vividly remember sitting down in his office, trying to just calm down and keep it together. He never got upset or annoyed (at least he n…

To follow up, have you had interns yet and how did you treat them?

I had an intern for the first time last summer! I tried my best to focus on being as encouraging as I could and helping him whenever he ran into trouble. He clearly was working very hard and doing his best, so I focused on being as supportive as possible and praising the work he did (which was very good!). If I'm being honest though, we was a really terrific intern and we never ran into a situation like I did, so I wouldn't say it was much of a test :)

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Post by ninjakeyboard »

dahart wrote: post #389
hilop wrote: post #387

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean "reversed"? DK says that both low and high skilled people estimate themselves as close to average, due to the obvious bias in one's available data

I mean that for difficult tasks, people who are unskilled rate themselves as unskilled, and people that are skilled rate themselves as skilled. "Our studies replicate, eliminate, or reverse the association between task performance and judgment accuracy reported by Kruger and Dunning (1999) as a function of task difficulty. On easy tasks, where there is a positive bias, the best performers are also the most accurate i…

To clarify, I think what he is saying is that the effect exists on both ends. On the low skill side it's over confidence and on the high skill side it's imposter syndrome. It's the same effect. You are both saying the same thing.

Re: Be Kind

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Post by jakub_h »

openasocket wrote: post #96
coldtea wrote: post #91

> That’s why I want to make sure that you’re the only one to refuel my plane tomorrow. I won’t let anyone else on the field touch it. ...he said, before his final fatal flight. Apparently some people DO do the same mistake twice. ([Edit] to avoid confusion: My addition is about giving a different twist to the story, to show that it's not a given that people who made a mistake will not be prone to repeat it. Some peop…

I don't know if you're being snarky or not, but Bob Hoover is still alive

This Bob Hoover? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoover
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