offices

Google Maps has a pair of buttons for you to confirm or deny that a hazard like a stopped vehicle is still there. But they're right next to each other. Two buttons that do the opposite from each other, irreversibly, and they're millimetres apart. Pressed while you're navigating a hazard.

On one hand I've always been irritated by car reviewers complaining that a car has 'weird' controls, failing to take into account that most of us aren't driving a new car every week and will just adjust to what we use.

On the other hand, some cars are destined for fleets, and all may need to be operated by a stranger in an emergency. There should be a common configuration for features related to safety and velocity.

Even if we achieve that, there are still closed-gardens to open

Dishwashers are quite noisy. Honestly, have you had your ears cleaned recently? It could change your life.

That pseudo-potentiometer is sick

Then there are infinity-x engineers, because some problems just aren't solvable by the worst engineers. Or even typical engineers.

It wouldn't take them 10 times as long as Linus to make Linux or git, social context and all. It just wouldn't happen.

So what's the useful takeaway from this topic we spend so much energy on? 'Hire people who are good'?

The same reason shows why the bimodal and 'branded' name is such a strange thing to focus on.

Why only 10x? And why not try to make your 1x into 2x?

It's like if sports fans spent all their time talking about a potential player who could deliver exactly 10 times more goals than everyone else. Why is this a topic that needs to be brought up so often? Why have we 'software engineer'-ised the idea that some people are much more important for productivity?

It seems this would solve the problem with normal roundabouts where you have a lane you should be following but know that a vehicle in an adjacent lane is likely to infringe on yours.

>Anyone that ... has had a physical job knows that doing something 26 times in a row is basic stuff of any worthwile endeavor.

I have. There were an awful lot of electric tools doing things that used to require manual work. And they were used even the old guys who were fighting against their broken bodies to work for long enough be able to retire.

The unspoken assumption about salaries are that we picture earning that amount for the rest of our careers. $500k at one job feels much more secure and mortgage-able than $500k dependent on maintaining an illusion and level of work that will lead to burnout.

IME it feels like companies/managers haven't realised the power this gives them. Some are still using formal probation periods - remember, a probation can't remove legal rights, only delay additional rights - and undergoing normal redundancies rather than cheaply cutting the newer employees.

In TFA, it's 3rd-party software.

>if the idea is to maximize the open space / city size while maintaining a fast transit system

Then it's Goodhart law in action. A fast transit system is desirable because it's a proxy for low-friction travel. This has the speed and the friction.