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by YouWhy 4y ago
What I like about this construct is the fact that it uses the looser JSON semantics for the typically ad-hoc nature of recovering deleted entries - which does not necessitate the full power of referntial consistency. What I'm not sure
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I agree. Further examples are: - non trivial hardware - games I think it generalizes to a conjunction of: a delayed-value AND a need for narrowly-specialized-execution. One reservation is that I do think that as startups such organizations
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by YouWhy 4y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Optimizing people's professional well-being is a bit akin to engineering: a good practitioner can describe their potential strategies, their relative merits and consequences, and interactively - at least to th
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I worked once with a Turkish guy who immigrated to the US. He's a great guy, smart, organized and well spoken. He started his own business in the US a few years after our joint work. He confided in me once that as a college student in
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I have converged to a single (compound) criterion: "Who are going to be accountable for my professional well-being?" This encodes inside that I have partners in the organization, whose success is associated with mine, and who have
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by YouWhy 4y ago
The Long Lines are a remarkable engineering achievement in two senses: 1. They are a milestone of microwave RF transmission coming to maturity, and being widely and economically used. This includes such aspects as analog transceiver front-e
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by YouWhy 4y ago
A minor thought I found inspiring many years ago: the Central Limit Theorem may be considered a statement about dynamic processes in the functional space of distributions. If you consider the operator of convolution (rescaling for unit vari
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by YouWhy 4y ago
The people staffing senior leadership in pharma/biotech are typically either former PIs from the academia, or people who could have been PIs but chose to go straight for the industry. They have more cash to play with, but their leaders
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I am a career SW engineer that has worked on genomics in a startup. The field is genuinely exciting. The endemic disease of the field is the leadership. A leadership made out of Principal Investigators forged in academia, appear simply inca
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I must say that the entire phenomenon of mainstream media covering UFOs seems to me a cynical bait tactic borrowed from media targeting the conspiracy theory/head case crowd. I never once saw even an inkling of journalistic value aroun
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by YouWhy 4y ago
The post spends a lot of words circling the core point without engaging it directly. The point, IMHO, is: like Genghis Khan, Zuckerberg is an empire conqueror rather than an empire maintainer (*). Everything MZ built up to now has been unre
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by YouWhy 4y ago
Tl;Dr: I'd give about 80% likelihood to a wave of content and community toxicity going forward. (Edit: I assume the question is about using Twitter; the answer indirectly addresses working for Twitter as well) Established communities a
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by YouWhy 4y ago
tmux is a fantastic tool, but it tends to intimidate naive users. My way of reassuring them is telling that they only need to remember one key shortcut, namely Ctrl+B at once followed by "?" to get to the help screen. I can't
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I have nothing but respect for ESR, however in this piece he skims the existence of an immense economic demand for - building software that's highly unappealing for anyone with even a trace of artistry in them. In particular, this incl
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by YouWhy 4y ago
Beyond functional programming as shared by other people on this thread, the programming style that has most affected me was separating major layers of a SW stack - in particular, the data model, the business logic and presentation. This sou
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I think this is the perfect place to host development of `sl`
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, nor a US person. Since that employee being around is an ongoing net loss for the company, you could consider quietly sending them off to garden leave to end on the day after vesting, conditional on signing a severance agr
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by YouWhy 4y ago
Very good read. I'm appalled that 256KiB of state is needed (the flawed implementation being replaced required only 10KiB). Considering how contrived the randomization scheme is, I wonder if changing the paradigm to something simpler c
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by YouWhy 4y ago
On the face of it, making an add-poisoned product have more ads is likely to make it more toxic. What am I missing?
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by YouWhy 4y ago
Having had a short and unpleasant stint at a BigTechCo, it's my projection that pushing hard to make it will likely get you into a bad team - one of those 50%-90% at each corp where people are set up for failure and spend years perseve
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I wonder if there are more heuristic workarounds of this kind just lurking out there and hindering major performance wins. On the face of it, I'd expect the major players (RedHat/MAGMA) to be profiling the heck out of common SW&#x
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by YouWhy 4y ago
Knowing the beast firsthand, there's no trace of doubt in my mind that the convergence to a junk product outcome involved a monotonous increase in ad revenue and likely, engagement metrics. There's a tragic dimension that a system
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by YouWhy 4y ago
In the non-US site that I was a part of, there was a separate category of positions whose job descriptions included a very specific "advanced" skillset intersection, for example, resource profiling + React, or OS internals + DevOp
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by YouWhy 4y ago
TL;DR: specialize in a niche field such as advanced web development or production engineering; you'd be able to be interviewed for your skillset outside of the crowded leetcode funnel. Proper disclosure: worked for BigTech (hated it).
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I've been lucky enough to have gotten on a boutique track early in my tech career; accordingly, I enjoyed my professional well being having often been catered to, and I made a principle out of minding others' well being as well. I
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by YouWhy 4y ago
Bret Devereux has recently written a great piece on foraging in ancient warfare [1]. TL;DR: foraging adds an unbearable burden on an already suffering populace. I can see why the countryfolk of Malakopi/Derinkuyu would go to almost an
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I often analyze tools as reduction from the space of problems × resources to the space of outcomes. Let's consider Snowflake in this paradigm - Problems: analytics on data that is not laid out in a way that's directly accessible f
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I strongly favor the Linux\Linus "don't break userspace" attitude than what has just happened for glibc. This is especially salient given that the DT_GNU_HASH format is not even documented. Leaving it as the only-option-by-de
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by YouWhy 4y ago
The narrative minus the irony sure sounds a lot like what one of the adtech giants was doing. Might have been the cause of them having lost circa 50% of market cap when the chicken came to roost.
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by YouWhy 4y ago
On the face of it, $27M/209 is approximately $130k and not $245k. Am I missing something?

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