The Zen of Parallel Programming
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The Zen of Parallel Programming
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#2This resonates with me. On the one hand I feel like my team is spread too thin all the time, scope and complexity is just too broad - and at the same time I'm pretty sure nore headcount could only improve it to a certain degree.
I like the part about synchronization and honesty. And I'm certain every time I get annoyed that someone is not as open with me as I wish they were, there is a part in there that myself contributed to that.
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#3CS101 Day 1: Learn about Divide and Conquer in depth. Honesty forms the ability for controlling signal strength, avoiding impedance mismatches or logically, synchronization between the divided slices.
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#4Another parallel from the Western tradition: ‘homologia’, translated maybe best as congruence or coherence. A Greek Stoic concept of the mind/body/entire organism in alignment, caused by reason and feeling being in harmony.
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#5Another parallel from the Western tradition: ‘homologia’, translated maybe best as congruence or coherence. A Greek Stoic concept of the mind/body/entire organism in alignment, caused by reason and feeling being in harmony.
There's a woman I read about a while back who did here PhD thesis on the notion that David Hume's contribution to the Enlightenment was inspired by conversations with a Jesuit monk who had returned to France from a long engagement in a Buddhist area of India. DDG is telling me it might be Allison Gopnik but I've no recollection of the name, only the contents.
She proved that he made a trip to a town where the monk lived after his return, and the library contained a copy of his reports. She could not prove more than opportunity but she strongly suspects that Hume not only read the report but may have met with the monk as well.
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#6Another parallel from the Western tradition: ‘homologia’, translated maybe best as congruence or coherence. A Greek Stoic concept of the mind/body/entire organism in alignment, caused by reason and feeling being in harmony.
There's a woman I read about a while back who did here PhD thesis on the notion that David Hume's contribution to the Enlightenment was inspired by conversations with a Jesuit monk who had returned to France from a long engagement in a Buddhist area of India. DDG is telling me it might be Allison Gopnik but I've no recollection of the name, only the contents. She proved that he made a trip to a town where the monk li…
I found elsewhere referring to her as an "independent philosopher", but maybe Rachel Paine? https://archive.philosophersmag.com/was-hume-a-secret-buddhi...
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#7Fred Brooks and the mythical man month observed that communication between people expands faster than linear, and that adding more people to a project makes it later.
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#8Fred Brooks and the mythical man month observed that communication between people expands faster than linear, and that adding more people to a project makes it later.
I wonder how much a good process of meetings, tickets or whatever sort of documents etc for handling new ideas and features would speed this up or bring it back to linear. I've been in some orgs where good organization at the level above me can make the required communication between me and other dev teams lower and let us live in "good" silos
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#9Another parallel from the Western tradition: ‘homologia’, translated maybe best as congruence or coherence. A Greek Stoic concept of the mind/body/entire organism in alignment, caused by reason and feeling being in harmony.
There's a woman I read about a while back who did here PhD thesis on the notion that David Hume's contribution to the Enlightenment was inspired by conversations with a Jesuit monk who had returned to France from a long engagement in a Buddhist area of India. DDG is telling me it might be Allison Gopnik but I've no recollection of the name, only the contents. She proved that he made a trip to a town where the monk li…
I don't understand what you just wrote has to do with anything here.
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#10Fred Brooks and the mythical man month observed that communication between people expands faster than linear, and that adding more people to a project makes it later.
I wonder how much a good process of meetings, tickets or whatever sort of documents etc for handling new ideas and features would speed this up or bring it back to linear. I've been in some orgs where good organization at the level above me can make the required communication between me and other dev teams lower and let us live in "good" silos
What really seems to make a difference is how well the project and the organization are at being split into indepedent groups.
I've been on projects where everybody needs to know everything, and on projects where many groups can be insulated from others.
The more your group can work without needing a meeting with other groups, the more things can progress in parallel.
Some projects won't work well with that constraint though. And some organizations won't either.