Eiriksmal

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by Eiriksmal 8y ago
>Teams hold more meetings when they don’t have enough important work to do otherwise. This is... quite the statement. Teams hold more meetings as the size of their organization increases and any one individual cannot complete the work on
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by Eiriksmal 8y ago
Coke BlāK. It shouldn't have worked, it's a terrible idea... But why did it taste so incredibly good?
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by Eiriksmal 8y ago
This comment is another "please don't stop" reply. The very, very rare occasion when Hacker News flashes up a gem of a true hacker keeps me coming back. Skinner's box has me trapped here. I look forward to the underwater
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
Lawn Love (YC S14, https://lawnlove.com ) | Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer | San Diego, CA | FULL-TIME ONSITE We're Lawn Love, a new type of lawn care service. We bring software and data (truckloads of data!) to the spr
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Google Maps JavaScript API not loading closest zoom level(stackoverflow.com)
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The Case for Tesla(thetruthaboutcars.com)
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
I've kept a bookmark of all the Software Engineering Daily podcasts discussing ad fraud ( https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/?s=ad+fraud ) that someone linked to on HN. Uber has some pretty interesting claims in this a
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Uber Sues Mobile Agency Alleging Ad Fraud(wsj.com)
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
I thought that, too... until it was time for me to buy a house. Then I discovered most home owners are just as miserly as landlords. Hacky, quick DIY fixes? Check. Cheapest possible repair/replacement option chosen every time? Check. O
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
Good eye. @ignostic, it's reporting the highest percent chance of precipitation by month, not lowest, in the textual summary of both cities. "The lowest chance of rain and snow" blurb is correct.
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
I love your weather summaries. Your formula nails it with this one: https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-san-di... Most weather summaries seem to miss that early/mid-September is significantly hot
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How I use GitPrime metrics with my small team(gitprime.com)
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
Who owns MySpace now and why does the author's screenshots have varying typos? The "email found" prompt changes from "...Please remeber [sic] update your email address after you log in" to "Please remember to u
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
Great question. Mostly the latter. We are using GitPrime to track some basic metrics, but don't have anything structured that we're tracking outside of their measurements. We have trouble estimating how long projects will take, wh
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
Thanks for this. You're absolutely right, of course, this is A New Job, not a slight re-spin of the old position. Decisions you make now affect people as well as code. This is critical to keep in mind, thank you.
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
Thanks for these. I've got Behind Closed Doors on order from a previous recommendation in this thread, but The Manager's Path appears to be especially apt! I've read the MSMS essay a few years ago, but had completely forgotte
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
Interesting! I've read The Goal before and found it fascinating, but difficult to tie some of the prescriptions to our roles, in particular. It encouraged me to view more of, well, the goal of the company and how we're a machine t
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Ask HN: What books can teach me engineering management skills?
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this, but AR puppets are much less creepy than complicated, real-life marionettes, apparently. I definitely like the interactive nature of the burping dinosaur, especially the fun particle effects of his b
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
This Ferrari point is especially apt because many of the commenters here are stating that no, their college professors and lecture experiences weren't better than YouTube offers, but look at all the great people I met and interacted wi
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
This tool provided some more insight into what the EFF already revealed about my browser: Yeah, my Fedora 24 Chrome UA string is fairly rare, but it's a unique (or nearly unique) font stack that rolls up into 18+ bits of entropy to nai
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by Eiriksmal 9y ago
You'll be disappointed to know that project was axed more than a decade ago. The tech is incredible, but the only manufacturer they could interest in that level of performance at that high level of cost (Ferrari) had serious issues wit
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by Eiriksmal 10y ago
I was really looking forward to that write up, as well. Unfortunately, the author must have some rule about not breaking the fourth wall. Or they avoid softballed summaries?
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by Eiriksmal 10y ago
For those who missed it, n-gate satirizes some HN posts, to the delight of all: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
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by Eiriksmal 10y ago
So he's specifically referring to collision on the same channel, not that a device connected to Router A on 2.4 channels 1->4, but can also see Router B on channels 10->13 has to wait to transmit data back to Router A.
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by Eiriksmal 10y ago
Wow, that article taught me that our office is probably using the wrong setup for optimal VoIP performance. When I started, I bought us an Asus RT-N66U to replace the ancient 802.11g router that was powering the 5 computers, 4 smartphones,
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by Eiriksmal 10y ago
Interesting observation. Maybe the answer is it that a behemoth like AWS does this because they _can_ get away with it. In contrast to AWS's cascading failures, the GitLab outage was a mere blip. Because they are several orders of magn
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by Eiriksmal 10y ago
This comment chain is now sufficiently deep for next week's summary to be something like "A Hackernews finds n-gate.com, despite its inability to use a computer. Frantic discussion ensues from their mother's basements on whet
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by Eiriksmal 10y ago
>I think the idea of "victim-blaming" has morphed into its own beast. We're so scared of doing it that asking for evidence or asking critical questions is now in a weird way associated with victim blaming. This is a critic
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by Eiriksmal 10y ago
+1. I'm still using a Samsung Convoy 2 (2010) because the only thing it can't do is group texts. They come in as the MMSes they are, but I can't see who else was included. So far, in all my years of owning this phone, it&#x27

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