MrAwesome

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by MrAwesome 4y ago
Author here - a few months after the time of this story, we reoriented around a single purpose for the team, "Automate ourselves out of existence". It took a few months to remove all of the dependencies, tag all the alarms, train
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
In my time in SRO at FB, we actually had an alarm that would fire whenever enough #facebookisdown posts were made on Twitter!
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
Yeah! By the end of my time on the team, checking the news when I saw a rapid change in traffic was second nature. And later on in my career becoming interested in markets, even more so. Forex in particular - markets with trillions in daily
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
Author here, and that's exactly right! I think it was in my second or third month on the job. And I really agree with your second point too! Without that in-person transfer of tribal knowledge, it would have taken me ages to learn the
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
OP of that thread here. Wanted to say that the first paragraph of your reply is the perfect encapsulation of what I wanted to get across in that post. It's not about the disaster scenarios, it's about the fact that these scenario
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
Pardon my ignorance here, but do you need to pay gas fees or buy tokens to transfer/mint?
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
A currency is generally intended mainly for commercial purposes, isn't it? I think the word commercialized isn't quite right for what I mean then. So more specifically, I mean: "not for the purpose of creating or transferring
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
I am not aware of any non-commercialized crypto anything (from my understanding, this is sorta by definition, but maybe I'm missing something). Do you have any examples?
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
Yeah, as other commenters have said - the curtains are for bright city lights I can't turn off. Personally, I have a simple electrical timer set to turn on a bright sunlight bulb at 6:30am, and I open the curtains during the day. You&#
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
It seems like there has been a lot of buzz lately about the importance of reducing light exposure at night and the impact it has on your health. I can certainly speak to it anecdotally - getting a nice pair of blackout curtains and putting
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by MrAwesome 4y ago
That's all platforms - I also had my doubts, but if you switch to the mobile view, it does appear that Android has dipped in percent the last few years: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldw
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Folding Ideas on YouTube put out a documentary on YouTube which I think is a great example of this approach (complete with a nifty and thorough visual experiment on the roundness of the Earth, and a still-topical plot twist halfway through)
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
This book helped me learn how to be a better listener, I highly recommend it: The Lost Art of Listening, by Michael P. Nichols https://www.audible.com/pd/B01M0D1LT5?source_code=ASSOR15002...
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Check out the Rock Band video game series, they had a really nice (non automated) version of this: https://youtu.be/pV9_O9bKiLg
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Traditionally, the second one is viewed as terrifying because an alien race may see us as a potential future threat. In a lot of science fiction, they see some violent/awful news from Earth indicating that we're monsters, and deci
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Oh, and of course: Super Smash Bros. Melee, whose bugs & quirks led to the most transcendent and buttery smooth movement system imaginable.
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Been thinking about this a lot lately because I've been reading that Don Norman book, so I have several examples on the brain: - 2000 Toyota MR2 Spyder. For me, it's the perfect example of explicitly choosing qualities to sacrific
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
This, and the comment above about 2 through a billion, seem pretty spot on from what I know from talking to people still working there.
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Ex-FB here. My guess is that it's primarily a combination of two factors: 1) Someone / some org was slow to notice that this was happening. 2) Bureaucratic muck slowed resolution down. Even once escalated, there would be a lot
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
DK! Happy to see a new project from you. I'm a die-hard Hide Feed fan. This reminds me fondly of using Vimperator macros and link hints to automate tasks back in 2007. It has always surprised me that the most widely-used UI paradigm la
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Perfect, thank you. Looks like an invitation code is needed to sign up, if any generous soul would like to send one to glenn.hope[at]protonmail.com I would be forever grateful!
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Does anyone have a list of good resources / tools / communities for solo creators? I recently decided to take a solo project and run with it. The technical promise is real, and I'm excited about my vision for it. Unfortunatel
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Several years ago, when I worked at FB, I ran into a similar bug on an early internal version of a Messenger rewrite. Sent pictures to one chat, showed up in another. My bug report on it kicked off an absolute maelstrom of dev activity and
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by MrAwesome 5y ago
Lovely! Really excited to see any progress in this space. I found long ago that I thrive most in a terminal-only environment when I'm trying to maintain focus. The browser is my primary reason for running a graphical environment (and o