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I disagree, based on this articles logic everyone should strive for a perfect codebase which is impossible.

You will always run into issues because code just like matter decays to entropy.

From a capitalist standpoint your comment makes sense but from a larger picture perspective negating knowledge and the spreading of said knowledge for monetary pursuits is an overall net negative for our species. I don’t have an answer on how to solve apart from coming up with a better alternative to capitalism

I do wonder though if you travel at the speed of light wouldn't your ship break apart even if you accidentally hit a tiny rock in space? Maybe even dust?

It really takes obsession, you have to be obsessed with what you do to output > 40-50 hour work weeks. <—- this is excluding extremely high pay which can be another motivator albeit a short term motivator

I highly doubt a single person created the wheel out of nothing. The idea of a circle is part of our innate biology we are hard wired to recognize or create circular shapes.

Most likely several people tried to create the wheel and ideas on what to do with a circular shape were thought of, some cross pollination from physics resulted in it being used for transportation.

So I’d argue it was not done on a sunny day but mostly as an obsession just like most every other game changing idea

Great article, I have a question pertaining to Time series data. Would this work well on a smaller dataset of pre processed sensor readings for HAR?

I would argue that DDD is not as efficient if your optimizing for speed and efficiency.

The problem is that there is now another variable you would need to keep track of: your UML diagrams / documents.

I guess creativity comes into play. For example if I am designing a video editing API. I could think bottom up and start from frames/buffers maybe. I might reason that I require a:

- Renderer - Singleton that is an editor which holds our sequences - Interfaces that can be exchanged for different types of editors - etc.

However the other approach is top down. Imagine how the ideal api looks like and go from there:

editor.addSequence(sequence) editor.process(item: [ .transaction(action: editAction), .transaction(action: saveAction), .transaction(action: finishAction) ]

^ so for example I might start from there and build the system from that point of view.

Anyways would appreciate more of a discussion here.

Our own optimism drives us to stay evolutionary fit. Which is great for us. I just wish I could see the full picture one day.

It’s mind boggling to think everyone who has lived on this planet died with an incomplete picture and understanding about the true nature of the universe.

It’s not a gender thing. Although, it’s a mental issue —> narcissism, pride, ego.

These traits exist in each and everyone to some scale of a degree.

But I agree, as someone who used to be super passionate about research. I would say seeing highly regarded individuals fabricate data and assume wrong assumptions, in order to appear respected and important, did dissuade me and me think of the research industry in a different light, one of a business.

There are many smart scientists, and they are working hard. The ones that have the resources and means to influence academic papers, experiments and grants are able to influence particular theories and experiments over others.

️ that can lead some theories, your example dark matter is a perfect example to be more accepted than questioned.

There are many instances in history of “embarrassingly,”:

• The theory that the earth is not the center of the universe - people persecuted sometimes killed for different assumptions. • Spontaneous generation, the idea that life just arises out of nothing, at the time period this was accepted and other ideas disregarded which led to many lives lost due to disease. • Mental illness assumptions in the past led people to view people with mental illness as possessed by demons, etc. leading to cruel and unusual confinement for these individuals • Lots of other examples

I would also propose that when observing our primate ape cousins even the smartest monkey to us appears to be “embarrassingly” putting together a coherent picture of actual reality.

Then that proposes an interesting thought experiment. If we encountered an alien species with as much intellectual distance from us as we are to the monkeys, then how would our most innovative theories fare against theirs? I would imagine we would be seen as “embarrassingly,” able to put even a fraction of the puzzle together.

We have our senses, and therefore we design our materials and probes to match our senses. Sometimes we can imagine high dimensionality in say the form of a tensor? Sure. Maybe we don’t have a complete picture so we build and optimize tools only related to our own sense processing. What if there are more than our senses, and we are incapable of seeing a deeper image of reality? What if have the senses of a snail as a comparison to an even more advanced species.

This does beg the question that what if we as a collective also encounter these sort of defects.

For example on a macro scale based on our vantage point from our planet we only have a visible and limited line of sight to specific areas of the galaxy and the visible universe. The same could be same for the atomicverse.

What if we are incorrectly making assumptions about things because we don’t see the full picture of how things actually are conceived, embarrassingly so. On the magnitude of way far off.

A subjective point but:

Chinese manufacturing work ethic > Indian manufacturing work ethic.

This will be disastrous short term.

Anything to get clicks right?

Uranus IS interesting as it’s the only planet which is turned on its side relative to the spin and orbits of its sibling planets.

Just because it doesn’t have swirling clouds due to the extreme cold doesn’t mean it’s not interesting.

Err flaws in your argument but orangutans also have opposable things..

Can you expand more on what you mean by “this is why I think that the current hardline focus on escaping the reality of a changing world is going to be short-lived. At some point, as traditionalists get more of what they want, the idealists of the world will pull away to such an extent that their new normal will have the wholesome things manifested rather than just shadows of what once was.”

Or it could just be a side effect of weightlifters / bodybuilders eating more than normal people and thus “working out” their tongue more?

Middle eastern male,

2014-2015: Consulting gig while in college, initial $10,000 bid. Signed Maintenence contract for $60/hr ~ $125,000 / year

Ended up with $34K total earned due to me studying as a full time student.

2015: First real job in SF California at startup. $110,000, $5K sign on.

2016: Promoted to $125,000

2018: Received offer for $180,000, counter offered to $180,000, took counter offer.

Your post is extremely naive.

Employment has been around since agriculture. Peasants didn’t just sit around to be forced around to do a Duke or Kings labor work by force. Guilds existed around those times and anytime there is supply and demand there is leverage and power. These guild could contract their services in exchange for currency and recognition. These feudal lords had to negotiate and bargain for steady employment. Contracts were signed for steady pay and consistent labor.

I am inside a survey designed to get demographics for HN.

Salary is too low for an iOS AND Android engineer.

Money spent on NASA has provided significant breakthroughs in science that includes the internet, MRIs, ear thermometers, automatic insulin pumps, implantable heart defibrillators, fiber optics, light emitting diodes for brain cancer surgery, programmable cataracts, long distance telescopes, solar energy, artificial limbs, memory foam, shoe insoles, smoke detectors, water filters, enriched food, and tons of software.

Smoke alarms alone have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

Imo Googles new material design is not impressive. It does however help developers who are not good designers build a cookie cutter app.

Hey billionaires are people too.

Google can you please take control of your Android API, make it match iOS's slickness and UI, and be more controlling on getting your manufacturers to update their phones?

Can YOU PLEASE work on the perception the public has that Android is for cheap people? And the preferred upper class phone is iPhone?

For gods sake your iPhone apps are better than your android apps. Do you not see a problem here? Your developers and engineers think less of your platform.

There is a blatant stance on Silicon Valley as Android is second tier. Change this perception ASAP.

Sex drive and libido is a function of hormones in your body, and nitrogen retention. My guess is that your Estradiol is fairly high and your testosterone levels are below average resulting in a diminished sex drive.

There is nothing wrong with having lots of sex and liking sex, it's a natural state our body desires and you can still get the work you want accomplished and have lots of sex.

I used to live at the Negev, it is not an accurate depiction of startup culture in San Francisco. For starters, it used to be a place that hosted regular Hackathons, tech talks, and other tech related stuff. However it soon turned into a druggie fest, at one point I even saw a girl doing cocaine in the main communal area. I don't think I would ever live in the Negev again, but I did meet a few people that were very nice.

The Negev is a small microcosm of start up culture in the Bay Area.