I don't think shipping every week is a good idea or sustainable. At what point do you take away features that are no longer useful or don't work out? Or does the ball of mud accumulate forever?
Readit NewsOne area where curation will fail is in "fancy bias". As in, the same bias that keeps crowd pleasing entertainment from winning awards.
People who are in the curation business (critics, reviewers, etc.) tend to favor things that make themselves look good to other people in the curation business. That is often opposite what the "unwashed masses" of people enjoy.
Prime example - Michael Bay movies. Michael Bay makes big, loud, entertaining movies with lots of explosions, bright lights, shiny objects, violence, and sex appeal. A "curator" is usually too snooty to recommend a movie like that.
An algorithm doesn't much care if a movie is artfully crafted, it only cares if people watch what is recommended. In the long run, an algo is more likely to give people what they want than a curator is.
If anything, curators over the long term seem to make a living telling people what they aren't supposed to like (or have access to).
programminggeek commented on The case for national paid maternity leave scopeblog.stanford.edu/20... · Posted by u/chmaynard
One could make a case that the nation was better off when not everyone was forced into being a two income household and more parents stayed home to raise their children. Closer knit families, better long term relationships, more skills and wisdom passed down from generation to generation.
Paid maternity leave doesn't fix time apart from your children over the first two decades of their life.
programminggeek commented on Cycling to Redefine Urban Mobility in the Era of Coronavirus finishermag.com/cycling/c... · Posted by u/Stubb
Sounds a lot like "This Is The Year Of The Linux Desktop" meme articles from the early 2000's.
programminggeek commented on How we successfully handled 2.5x traffic in a week engineering.khanacademy.o... · Posted by u/talonx
On a largely content based app/site, most of "scaling" comes down to caching. However you do that is up to you, but somewhere between caching at the browser layer, proxy layer, web server layer, or memcache layer, things should be fast and scalable without getting too fancy.
programminggeek commented on Pair Programming Economics wiki.c2.com/?PairProgramm... · Posted by u/guilhermekbsa
Some people hate pair programming. I happen to be one of them. It kills my personal job enjoyment/satisfaction and if I was coerced into pair programming too often, I would find a job elsewhere.
So, the cost of losing one or both of the programmers in the process must be considered too.
programminggeek commented on The boss who put everyone on 70K bbc.com/news/stories-5133... · Posted by u/orjan
Note that this story has been told and retold for years. Whatever difference in pay he paid has more than paid for itself in press attention and marketing.
programminggeek commented on All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen polygon.com/2020/1/14/210... · Posted by u/MBCook
I think Kinect would have been fine if they didn't bundle it with the XBox One.
As in, it would have been a solid niche input device, but most games don't need it or benefit greatly from it, so adding $100 to the price of the console made it bad business.
There is some amazing technology there, but as a gamer it didn't make me want it. It was like VR kinda still is - a very cool niche that hasn't caught on yet.
It's okay for niche products to exist and be profitable if you don't require them to sell millions of units.
We have a collective based system, not an individual based one. So everybody goes to the same schools with the same curriculum with the same baseline opportunities.
It's not optimized for individual success at all. So the people who win are those who take individualized action above and beyond the norm.
If you do what everybody else does, you get what everybody else gets.
Logos, Ethos, Pathos: you need all three. "This is true. I am trustworthy. This true thing is important."
It is very frustrating, especially to many of my fellow scientists, that bellowing "THIS IS TRUE" as loudly as possible is insufficient. But it is insufficient.