Hacker NewsJul 16, 2024
My pet theory of how great software gets started
https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/my-pet-theory-of-how-great-software-gets-started/
#ycombinator #against_entropy #fun #heuristics #psych_flavored #software_dev
My pet theory of how great software gets started

(Inspired by yungporko’s Ask HN post, which got me thinking.) Pretty much every community, dojo, workplace, subculture, scene you can imagine in the modern day had a software sub-scene embedded within it. It can be as small as “that guy who does our Excel”, or as large as the scene itself . This is owing to the fantastic generality of software as a way to make almost anything more efficient, but we won’t go on that tangent now.

 Hacker NewsMay 28, 2024
Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal
https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/doing-is-normally-distributed-learning-is-log-normal/
#ycombinator #communication #econ_flavored #law_of_diminishing_returns #productivity #psych_flavored #the_medium_is_the_message #time_management #software_management #software_dev
Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal

There are few things I think about more than the essays on gwern.net, and there are few with as satisfying a theoretical payout to contemplate in my orb as his essay on “leaky pipelines”, aka log-normal distributions. The skulk: Say you’re working on a Laravel web app. You’re about 90% sure you know how to start the app. You’re 80% sure you know how to handle the infra you’ll need to get it online.