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glued commented on Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later nature.com/articles/s4158... · Posted by u/rntn

JoeAltmaier · 3 years ago

I don't share the prevailing opinion of Gattaca. I recall the main character as lying and cheating to to hide their genetic predisposition to heart failure. So they can take a place on a space mission, endangering a billion-dollar craft and the lives of the other crewman, all for hubris.

glued · 3 years ago

What incentive does someone born perfect have to strive for perfection?

glued commented on I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears twitter.com/sama/status/1... · Posted by u/jger15

crackercrews · 4 years ago

Definitely agree that removing the SAT appears to be related to the upcoming supreme court case about affirmative action. COVID was a good reason to delay it for a couple years. But schools are pushing it out further. That makes no sense.

It seems the SAT is increasingly considered "racist" because it reveals racial disparities in learning. What's next? Get rid of the driver's license test because it turns that white kids pass it at a higher rate than black kids?

Sam mentions that schools could down-weight the SAT but should still consider it. Why don't schools want to do that? My guess: if they have mediocre scores on record for a kid, then admitting him means reporting those scores to USNews. They'd rather not know that the kid has a score that would bring down their average.

glued · 4 years ago

I was on track to go to a prestigious university in high school when my fundamentalist christian parents kicked me out of the house at the age of 16. I ended up jumping around to live with different friends then eventually my grandparents. I had no money and thought I had no future. The stress was killing me, my grades and SAT score suffered. I ended up at a small state school in rural Georgia because of this. Today I work at one of the FANG companies but it was a long and challenging struggle to get here. A single test in high school shouldn’t define your long term success. It didn’t in my case but there are many folks who are living through difficulty at that age.

glued commented on Sony A1 Complete Disassembly and Teardown kolarivision.com/sony-a1-... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

voisin · 4 years ago

What made you buy this over say a Nikon or Canon?

glued · 4 years ago

I have the Sony A1 and Nikon Z7. Started to get into wildlife photography when the pandemic started and the Z7 autofocus failed me. I would take 30 photos of a bird in flight and 1 would be in focus. So I purchased the A1 which can track a bird's eye in flight perfectly. I'm sure the Z9 is a great camera but its too late and too large for my taste.

glued commented on Gas Pump Golf gaspumpgolf.github.io/... · Posted by u/gaws

glued · 4 years ago

mutation observer for perfect score https://gist.github.com/glued/683fbfb663a9199d03da4adac4b80d...

glued commented on Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome zapier.com/blog/actual-im... · Posted by u/gscott

AlbertCory · 5 years ago

I coined the phrase "reverse imposter syndrome" during my later years at Google.

Reverse imposter syndrome is when you think you're good enough to be there, but you're not.

At s company gets bigger and bigger, the talent level has to revert to the population mean. Especially when all FAAMNG companies also covet the highly talented, no one of them can fill its hiring goals without lowering its standards.

glued · 5 years ago

Exactly, and when those folks don't measure up they blame everyone and everything for their problems.

glued commented on Google employees who work from home could lose money reuters.com/world/the-gre... · Posted by u/pseudolus

glued · 5 years ago

Working from home / remote has had significant effects on collaboration and execution especially for more junior employees. Only a handful of more senior engineers have been more productive from my experience. Additionally, company politics are real and if you work remote, you may miss out on opportunities for growth.

glued commented on Kind Engineering [video] usenix.org/conference/lis... · Posted by u/thejokersthief

glued · 5 years ago

One challenge I've seen in practice is that psychological safety is often used as an excuse for why someone is under performing instead of holding them accountable and helping them.

glued commented on I can only think that modern front end development has failed twitter.com/antirez/statu... · Posted by u/gls2ro

glued · 5 years ago

Modern frontend development hasn’t failed, the industry has. Frontend development is looked down on as “not real programming” or “simplistic” but it takes years to master and requires skills of both an engineer and designer. Leetcode and bootcamps will not prepare you for architecting a high performance, scalable, accessible, SEO optimized, visually appealing, usable experience.

glued commented on Figma: The product design team’s process figma.com/blog/inside-fig... · Posted by u/skilled

bjeds · 5 years ago

I'm not a designer and I don't work in a design team, so I don't have much to add to the article. However I worked together with Rasmus during the early years of Spotify. It's now almost 2021 and he is still - by far - the most productive (in the Hacker News sense) and unique person I've ever worked with.

It still boggles my mind that the same person can:

(1) one hand be that stereotypical designer with the scarfs and the small cups of coffee and the Leica cameras, designing user interfaces and logotypes and brands (Spotify logotype, Spotify green color), designing popular fonts for the Internet ( https://rsms.me/inter/ )

(2) on the other hand be a great low level engineer, creating programming languages, virtual machines ( https://github.com/rsms/sol ), text editors, stuff like GraphQL, etc

A one man army for sure.

glued · 5 years ago

Exhausting but satisfying. Design and engineering have overlapping process and goals. Performance, problem solving, structure, creativity, experimentation... Unfortunately I've seen many who want to be both but are a master of none.