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I was tired of forgetting what I'd read. Lessons from a year of research(zainrizvi.io)
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Remembering What You Read(zainrizvi.io)
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Good point, but this sounds like a solvable problem. You would a primary doctor (at a known rate) who would say "You need X, Y, and Z now" and then refer you to a reasonably priced location. He could do that because now even he
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
The biggest problem is not the lack of single payer, it's the lack of price transparency. You have no idea how much any medical service will cost until you get the bill, so everyone is free to price gouge you. An example of how bad th
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Why farmers had to pour good milk down the drain while grocery stores run low(twitter.com)
2 points by ZainRiz 6y ago|0 comments
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
More stories about how covid19 is really screwing up other parts of the supply chain Farmers being forced to pour milk down the drain: https://twitter.com/freshairfarmer/status/124787620556452659... Retail toilet
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Ramadan is starting just in time
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
https://zainrizvi.io It's a bit sparse but I try to post the more interesting things I'm learning about tech, business, psychology, and self improvement. About me: I'm a software engineer and I've spent over
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Sounds like a solution only an econ could think up of, which doesn't take into consideration other external factors that would apply specifically to the person holding the property, such as: - human psychology (loss aversion, endowment
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
+10000 his talks are amazing to listen to
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
It was also really difficult to detect bugs since no good testing paradigms had been established yet. This created an exploitable opportunity for the few who knew how to write automated tests. During the Y2K panic Sun Microsystems (IIRC) an
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Fun story related to this: During the Y2K panic Sun Microsystems (IIRC) announced that they would pay a bounty of ~$1,000 per Y2K bug that anyone found in their software. As you noted, there was very little automated testing at the time so
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
As they say in DC, never let a good crisis go to waste
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
On top of that, right now people are going to be WFH in a house filled with their kids who are also not going to school, possibly having to make sure they're actually taking the online classes their schools have setup from them. Not ex
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The Elephant in the Architecture: Treat Business Value as Architecture Attribute(martinfowler.com)
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
> Our analysis of more than two hundred samples of pay data provided by DoorDash workers across the country finds that DoorDash pays the average worker an astonishingly low $1.45/hour Key words being "provided by Doordash worke
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
I have 0% trust in regulators ability to do this without doing more harm to workers than good
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
This is the system Lambda School is trying to implement for CS degrees, except you study from home, not form Bumfuck :)
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
In unrelated news, the US alcohol-related death count has doubled https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794772148/alcohol-related-dea...
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
In unrelated news, the US alcohol-related death count has doubled https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794772148/alcohol-related-dea...
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Sounds like that could be useful once your customers are comparing you to your direct competitors (especially if they're making similar value claims). Though even then, the features would have to be things people actually expect to get
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Lesson for startup's to take away from this: When advertising, focus on the value you're giving customers, not on the individual features. For example, say "We'll save you tens of man-hours a week" vs "we run
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The curious pattern of preemptively rejecting the solution to your problem[2013](devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by ZainRiz 7y ago|0 comments
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
There's a name for the bias where something seems obvious once you've been told about it, but I can't remember what it's called (I don't think it's hindsight bias...)
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
The number of code repositories I've seen where the database layer was (leakily) abstracted away "in case we ever need to migrate" is WAY greater than the number of code bases where there was actually a need to migrate. Yet
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Frankly, the most surprising thing about this article is that only 49% of people do this. Do the other 51% sincerely try to change their passwords? Or maybe they were too scared to report the truth :P
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Every design is a trade-off decision. The decision here was: For the given budget we have, where do we make the reliability vs data backed-up trade off? Increasing one necessarily decreases the other. The options are: - Increase reliabilit
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Fyi, there's another similar project called gitpod.io Take any github repo, prepend the url with " https://gitpod.io/#" , and hit Enter (so https://github.com/ZainRizvi/UseRWithGpus would
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Is your argument that they could have had 10x less vulnerability to data loss while operating at the same cost and backing up the same amount of total data? (If so, then this really is a valuable skill) Or are you saying that they should ha
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Which contributes to the easy of use/good user experience factor You don't come there for because "it has a consistent user interface". You come there because "it's easy to use!" (and you find it easy bec

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