JohnHaugeland

in 1992 middle management was 9.2% of the workforce. in 2022 it was 13.1%

use data when you make claims

slackhubbingface by twitter guy?

every kind of no at once

there’s nothing i want more than to make my game dependent on a tool whose pricing isn’t announced

just use WINE or docker

bricks and minifigs is going to lose a hell of a lot more than this 10% in business

regardless of the law, it’s a very stupid move on the company’s part.

if they had half a brain they’d pay double the commission and pretend it aas internal miscommunication. $40k is cheap versus the pr hit they’re taking right now

the court disagreed

waterfall doesn’t mean writing down decisions

it’s not that your point is being missed. it’s that some people don’t agree with you, and the personal attacks aren’t helping

insults won’t convince people to agree with you

sometimes people just have different belief systems than you, and that’s actually okay

i don’t really care if my salable work product is banana sourced

brook’s law is probably not true anymore

why would we believe skeptical randos on social media?

he has access to the real numbers and a legal risk from lying publicly. it does him no good to lie about this.

the claim that they suspect something is adequately backed up by saying “i suspect this”

nobody needs to prove their suspicions

there is no burden of proof on someone who says “i suspect”

that's what the person you're replying to was referring to

holy shit, how am i the first person in the thanks list? half that list deserves it more than i do, especially dave, liran, and jason

i miss jaeden. i hope he's well

This seems like a tragedy of the commons -- GitHub is free after all, and it has all of these great properties, so why not?

because it's bad at this job, and sqlite is also free

this isn't about "externalities"

You might be surprised. The studies say it's a primarily negative impact, especially in math and college attendance.

https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/research/the-test-score...

the big problem with quantum advantage is that quantum computing is inherently error-prone and stochastic, but then they compare to classical methods that are exact

let a classical computer use an error prone stochastic method and it still blows the doors off of qc

this is a false comparison

that's a fantastic book; one of the best i've read, and i'm glad to see it get brought up

but also, the book anti-patterns is pretty clear here

If a pattern is a common problem

it isn't, is the thing.

if you read the book design patterns, they spell out what a pattern is.

if you read the book anti-patterns, he spells out what an anti-pattern is.

people have gotten the wrong idea by learning the phrases from casual usage.

i thought these were nervous systems until i started reading comments

these aren’t anti patterns. these are just things you shouldn’t do

that sentence starts “in the popular imagination”

but in theory Markov chains have enormous expressive power.

as long as you don't care about the quality of what they're expressing. there's a reason they never did anything better than the postmodernism generator.

putting paint in a cannon has enormous expressive power too, but if you aren't rothko, nobody's going to care

Presuming this is just incompetence instead of malice

why would you make this presumption?

november 5 2024

having been there does. there is no shortage of old wood and pottery

believe fewer unevidenced claims

ironsource was the owner and runner of the largest sleazy game ad network, which was unity specific

unity was dying for lack of revenue

Subtext: the unauthorized modification was resistance from someone who didn't want the subtle version going unnoticed