Readit News> So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will.
Thank you!
https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/513/stories-from-python-...
Bad PM: I need to make sure I am not wasting time building the wrong thing. So I am forced to be "distracted" and play the role of a PM.
Good PM: I need to stay focused building. The PM has already done a great job figuring out what needs to get built. They have given me a good mental model of how the customer thinks.
Sure some facetime with customers is good but the article has a simplistic conclusion.
We must remember this not only when it produces papers we disagree with, but - perhaps more importantly - when it flatters our preconceptions. Agreement is not immunity from bias.
The field remains trapped in a reproducibility crisis. This result, like those before it, stands to be unreproducible, if scrutiny even comes. Until then, the weight we should assign it should be zero.
Down votes = confirmation bias
That said, it's not devoid of value. The issue comes when we treat it like a hard science. If instead we approached it more like sociology and anthropology, things would make a bit more sense.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2241348/what-are-unicode...
Still have more reading to do and a lot to learn but this was super informative, so thank you internet stranger.