Good thing I'm a savvy and literate professional capable of following several pages of directions including a 7 step resolution path leading into a 40+ page web application TO PROVIDE THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION IT ALREADY RECEIVED AND KNOWS TO BE TRUE BECAUSE IT IS A DB LOOKUP.
@patio11
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Healthcare.gov State Machine Error: Citizenship Status Misclassification
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An example of "I certainly understand why you have architected system to work this way, but NO PERSON WANTS IT TO WORK THIS WAY" from the healthcare dot gov state machine, which wrongly came to believe Ruriko was a citizen then got confused. I sent in green card. Note bold bit.
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Equity Value Creation in AI Enterprise Development
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That’s not the correct way to interpret that. The correct way is “Supposing your combined enterprise creates massive value in the world, massive value must accrue to equity holders or we are not interested.”
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Tech Industry Career Paths Beyond Traditional Parental Roles
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A thing I often think about the tech industry is “If you assume your default location in the economy is doing what your parents did, a) good news for me, I am not an error-catching bookkeeper-paralegal in railroad real estate department b) railroad still needs McKenzie-likes tho”
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Founders Attention to Detail Drives Startup Culture
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Not to toot our horn too much, but a useful takeaway for other startups: the founders demonstrating that they can drill to arbitrary detail or take a note to follow up with someone who can, and *actually doing this*, is a powerful thing for culture.
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Real-time bug identification practice for continuous quality improvement
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My favorite part of this practice is the last question is “What are we doing wrong?”, followed by a prod similar to “No, really. Something is broken. What is the most broken thing you’ve seen?” Bugs get filed in substantially real time where appropriate. https://
x.com/ZacharyDeWitt/
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Skill Development Strategy for Emerging AI Challenges
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“Are you worried?” No, because I have put an absurd number of skill points into being good at this sort of thing. But I imagine typical family who had been here for <2 months would be sweating bullets at the moment.
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Washington’s Software Project Challenges Echo Across Decades
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Interestingly this software echoes a decade later, both in Washington’s learned helplessness about doing software projects and in a “fun” loop I am going through at the moment.
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First-person account of healthcare.gov rescue effort
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A nice first person account of the healthcare .gov rescue effort:
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Why Billion Dollars Cannot Simply Buy Software
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https://
overcast.fm/+BA27sWp9vs My single favorite line, from a discussion of why taste is necessary for software development and why large organizations can’t simply buy it, paraphrased: @patrickc
: “You can’t simply turn a billion dollars into software. Just ask the government.”