iratewizard (u/iratewizard)

iratewizard commented on The Big [Censored] Theory pudding.cool/2022/08/cens... · Posted by u/feross

This seems untrue. Do more than a fraction of a percent of Chinese people watch the uncensored versions of things?

iratewizard · 3 years ago

Agreed. It's easy to handwave it off. Americans churn out propaganda and inject it into every form of media it can. Similar to preservatives, some media is more nitrate than meat. China cuts it out because it says it's unhealthy to consume. China can do that overtly in it's culture war because it has never guaranteed not to.

iratewizard commented on Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple quantamagazine.org/old-pr... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

cauefcr · 3 years ago

And that's how you scale mental problems on the cheap, just double the kids again.

iratewizard · 3 years ago

The cheapest way to scale mental problems is to use the state to replace the father's role in a family. I know plenty of large families with perfectly well adjusted kids. I can't say I've met any well adjusted kids raised by a single mom.

iratewizard commented on Why is this colorful little wheel suddenly everywhere in Japan? nytimes.com/2022/08/25/bu... · Posted by u/Thevet

CapricornNoble · 3 years ago

Okinawa is derided as being "a time warp 10 years behind mainland Japan". The first Don Quixote was opened shortly after I got here (2011? 2012?), we just got 7-11 konbinis within the past 5 years, and we are still waiting for our 1st Costco to be built.

I've never seen these wheels. Maybe in 2032? shrug

iratewizard · 3 years ago

Hopefully it'll be dead before then. Sociopathic power whores create and ride these grand gestures everytime the old gestures start to slow down.

iratewizard commented on Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple quantamagazine.org/old-pr... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

tartoran · 3 years ago

Kids are not some kind of start up scaling problem. Kids require a lot of resources and attention, no wonder parents opt for a smaller number which still is a challenge but a manageable one

iratewizard · 3 years ago

When you have a lot of kids, the older ones take care of the younger ones. 8 isn't too different from 4

iratewizard commented on Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus blog.zulip.com/2022/08/26... · Posted by u/williamstein

galangalalgol · 3 years ago

How would you rate mattermost and zulip compared to slack and discord? I've only used slack, mattermost and skype. Of those I prefer mattermost by a fair margin, but I'm still not sure I like it. It seems like the ui could be better. Something about the way both it and slack handle channels or groups feels clunky.

iratewizard · 3 years ago

Guilded over discord in my opinion. More features like forums in a channel. Long term, I only see discord and their company culture turning it into twitch or other zealot infested dumps.

iratewizard commented on Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus blog.zulip.com/2022/08/26... · Posted by u/williamstein

joshstrange · 3 years ago

It's very similar to Salesforce's Heroku move. They either just don't care about that sales funnel and they remove it completely or they will keep squeezing until they kill it.

iratewizard · 3 years ago

Salesforce doesn't care. There about to roll out slack-first infrastructure that turns slack into the only chat-based CRM. Their core users aren't on the free model. They're paying a small fortune for Salesforce and see Slack's cost as a drop in the bucket.

iratewizard commented on Stop saying 10x developer earthly.dev/blog/stop-10x... · Posted by u/Hbruz0

iratewizard · 3 years ago

The author is being overly semantic about a widely observed phenomenon in order to sling his devops. He's saying the phrase isn't good because a 10x developer given grunt work couldn't actually churn it at 10x speeds, but they're capable of doing complex work 95x+ faster than an average dev. It adds nothing to the discussion and is feel good drivel for insecure developers.

iratewizard commented on Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection vox.com/features/23191527... · Posted by u/smn1234

badpun · 3 years ago

> Selfishly, I really want the USA to bring city centers back to livable levels by banning most cars and redesigning them for humans. Otherwise I'm absolutely going to end up moving to Europe eventually -- likely the Netherlands

There isn't a single US city which meets your criteria?

iratewizard · 3 years ago

Cities in the US with strong public transit have only ended up building moving toilets for the homeless. There are a number of bigger issues that come first before billions more in public funding goes into larger wheeled toilets.

iratewizard commented on I'm an 18 year old developer. How do I become one of the best programmers ever? · Posted by u/owenpalmer

iratewizard · 3 years ago

Traverse these trees diligently: https://roadmap.sh/frontend https://roadmap.sh/backend

Every year learn a programming language that is a whole new paradigm. Stack-based FORTH, a Lisp dialect like Clojure, x86, etc. Do this while getting as strong as you can in your main language(s). Write your own simple scripting language that solves a problem you actually run into. Maybe something like a tool that scaffolds code for you.

If you enjoyed that, take it even further. Get familiar with some more advanced data structures and patterns. FSA, abstract syntax trees, bloom filters, compressed bit vectors. Build an API, a framework and an engine to get deep into the world of being a code steward. Learn how to write and document code that goes into central infrastructure.

While you're doing this, get something like FB reader and pay $7 for premium. Have it read the SWEBOK out loud to you. Get deep into understanding software design, construction methods, testing, maintenance and all of the moving parts in the E2E process.

Note that above isn't necessarily good advice, just like all of the advice in this thread. "having fun it" or "doing hallucinogens" or "listen to some online courses" won't accomplish your goal. If some of the things above resonate with you, go for it. Mostly, just fuel your curiosity without burning yourself out.

Look at what more successful people are doing, deconstruct how you could do that yourself, and keep doing it until "more successful people" are few and far in-between.