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How do you know people are entering pricing info honestly? How do I trust anonymous respondents?

I think it is valuable to step back and see why meetings exist and then try to fix them if they are not addressing their purpose.

Meeting are valuable because they are solving a coordination problem. Without meetings people would be misaligned.

I want to have fun programming but I also want to make sure I am working on things that are important to the business and to the customers. Meetings help in navigating that vague space.

(1337 - 2) * 4 = 5340

P.S. I am not ChatGPT but was unable to stop myself. Also, ChatGPT agrees.

Here is a seemingly counterintuitive idea. Can you partner with them? Together your team could be unbeatable. You provide the engineering, they provide the marketing.

As you point out they have an order of magnitude more users. Evidently they have some skills in marketing and distribution.

I wonder if this is how student behavior has always been. The retrospective view makes the past look better. Ah the good old days when everything was better. See rosy retrospection [1] for more examples.

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

Can you say more? Is this text-to-speech or speech-to-text?

“Then I’m going to a cabin in the woods.”

Consider the campervan.

Could you say more about your analyst job? What kind of an analyst are you? How are you measured?

Not really. I don’t like the output of GPT-based LLMs. The output sounds too flat. It puts me to sleep. So it will likely have the same effect on the readers.

I find LLMs useful for research. If I want to understand a new term or a new area, asking the LLM a few questions is a quick way of getting a broad overview. Frequently specific details are incorrect but I still get a decent overview. Sometimes I ask it to summarize popular books. In the past I would skim through the reviews on Amazon or skim through the table of contents. The LLM’s summary of the book gives me a quick idea of what it is about and if it is worth investigating further.

Both and "cost" and "de-cost" are verbs.

Why is the protester in the picture wearing a US flag on his face?

If like me you like to look at examples of code to get a feel for the language, take a look at https://github.com/berry-lang/berry/tree/master/examples

I like the site, but installable apps already have an app store. Why not target a much more underserved market—the uninstallable apps. Basically an app store for web apps that work on mobile. You could charge users for the apps and then send 70% of the revenue to the app creators.

How is this usable. I see no documentation. There is a docs folder but all it contains is a code of conduct.

According to the article the startup is called "Humanitaria". Where can I find more information about them? Is there a link? I would like to buy a couple of these beds for when relatives visit.

I meant the bed for a normal sized human.

Where can I buy one?

Sometimes there are bugs on the ground.

There is no real answer. Maybe you can try to triangulate between these different ideas. The contradition might be superficial.

For example, if you read Neville Goddard, he has a completely different approach to Christianity.

While this is a touching story, the moral lesson from her grandpa fixing the restaurant table deserves some introspection.

I have been in engineering situations where it is tempting to fix the loose table leg. The problem is that unless I go in every month and fix it I might be making things worse. What we need instead is a process that solves the problem permanently.

Moreover, it is likely the sitaution is much worse than it appears on the surface. The loose leg is a symptom of deeper malaise. It is likely the kitchen is dirty as well. The leg might be the canary in the mine. In fact the whole organization might be rotten to the core.

The real solution is to buy out the restaurant, fire the management, institute better processes, and then to create a culture that values the longer-term view.

The other approach is to do nothing. Leave the table wobbly to signal to other patrons to take their business elsewhere. The restaurant is on its last legs as a viable enterprise. Best to let economic forces shut it down quickly and without ceremony. Then it can be replaced by something with more solid foundations and firmer legs.

There is something about metrics that messes the thing being measured.

Suppose the bank Tim worked at decided to measure the number of pairing sessions each developer participated in—I suspect this too would destroy the team.

When you measure people doing X, you are really measuring people pretending to do X.

There is no win. This is an infinite game.

What was the tiny web app?

This excludes stock grants and options. These might be worthless now but could be worth a lot more when the company goes public or is acquired.

Berkeley occurs 4 times in the list. Similar repetitions occur for other schools.

  University of California, Berkeley
  University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
  University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
  UC Berkeley

Did they change the code of conduct to retroactively put the protesting mods in violation? Reddit management does not realize this but these actions make them look worse and reduces the attractiveness of Reddit as a platform for the 99% readers who are not mods.

I agree with his points. The question is: what are some ways of working fast without being sloppy? Would be interested in how people here do it.

Ironically, you cannot comment on the post unless you pay the annual subscription. A nice little newsletter arguing against optimization but then giving in to optimization in the end.

If the law passes the police will start by intercepting the traffic of all the civil rights organizations that were opposed to the law passing.