SaltyBackendGuy

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by SaltyBackendGuy 11mo ago
> For one there is no indication that parents are any more literate in regards to digital practices than their kids This one hit me recently. My 4th grader has a friend who is on tik-toc and has a phone. Me, living in a bubble, where oth
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by SaltyBackendGuy 11mo ago
One of the scariest quotes I read from Why Markets Fail - John Cassidy, is a quote from a big wig at a large financial institution. While acknowledging being in a bubble the quote was "While the music is playing, you have to get up and
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by SaltyBackendGuy 1y ago
Isn't this just baked into the social fabric of humanity?
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by SaltyBackendGuy 1y ago
Exactly. You want zero risk asymmetric payouts.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 1y ago
This is my take as well. Nothing will improve until we roll back Citizens United.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 1y ago
I am the Chief Apology Officer. "We're really sorry it broke again, it wont happen again.. again"
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by SaltyBackendGuy 1y ago
> But worth a shot. Worth betting the entire US economy on it?
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by SaltyBackendGuy 1y ago
Aggression generally wins the day but pay attention to the size of the bets and their position. Generally, you want to make a lot of small bets to show action (they can fold for a minimal investment) and leverage table position to make othe
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by SaltyBackendGuy 1y ago
As a somewhat accomplished self taught outlier as well, my perspective is slightly different. While it's absolutely possible to no have a degree and succeed in megacorp, don't discount the randomness (luck) involved in getting the
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by SaltyBackendGuy 2y ago
Ah got it.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 2y ago
IDK why but it ironically brings me joy to find typos in old code. Maybe a reminder that we're all human (well back when code was written by humans /s). https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collect
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by SaltyBackendGuy 2y ago
This is what you're looking for right? https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
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by SaltyBackendGuy 2y ago
> We can bring that back. I agree with all of your points. I am not 100% sure how to do this (if anyone has guidance I would appreciate the insight). My personal anecdote is that my 8yo goes to school with other children who's paren
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by SaltyBackendGuy 2y ago
+1 for "How Big Things Get Done". It changed the way I run projects. I got lucky in the sense that I was able to convince my corporate overloads to allow us to have separate Discovery and Delivery goals, on the premise that discov
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by SaltyBackendGuy 3y ago
We've found it really nice for worker queues for specific workloads that fire infrequently'ish.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 3y ago
IMO the quest lines and the powers are very Skyrim'y. Combat is undeniably Fallout without vats, which I think is a good thing.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 3y ago
We use PG Notify at work extensively and it's the source of a lot of pain and suffering. Not because of the functionality itself, more so because what we did to ourselves by using it in the way we did. I think this could be great for c
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
I just started using Logseq and I am blown away with how amazing it is.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
> I believe most employees simply put in less hours when working from home From my experience and observations I've gathered from my teams, my conclusion is the opposite of this. I have to regularly tell folks to watch out for burno
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
I listen to the soundtrack while working. It's truly amazing.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
> big brain type system shaman often say type correctness main point type system, but grug note some big brain type system shaman not often ship code. grug suppose code never shipped is correct, in some sense, but not really what grug me
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
Thank you for this bit of history! Looks the benevolent dictator wins again.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
When in history has that not been true?
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
> whereas Apple primarily makes money from selling devices I wonder if Apple is predicting that this wont be the case for much longer (lack of real innovation (excluding the M1) and market saturation), so they're being proactive to
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
I just found this out. I thought by unsubscribing from the boosted posts that I would win back my feed... I was wrong.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
Maybe deal with it the same way you would with any other discrimination situation?
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
> I question how desirable that even is I am with you, but I am a bit more cynical after watching my 6-10 year old nephews get into gaming. All they care about are the skins, it's insane to me but they really like it. Knowing that m
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
Ha looks like I dodged a bullet. I graduated Dev Bootcamp SF in 2014 and one of the few interviews I could get was a shop that claimed to be "Meteor Pioneers", their entire stack was Meteor. They ended up ghosting me in the final
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
This has been my experience as well with AWS Step Functions. Obviously your use case is critical to the architecture decision. For us it's made automating workflows a breeze.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
The biggest issue I've seen with OKRs is that it just turns into a game, and then proceeds to get "gamed". Separately, there has been more than one occasion where we chose to work on something OKR related but ended up providi

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