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Thanks for the link, although I believe we're now in a place where "relative impressiveness" is all-but-meaningless. These are all impressive stories, and trying to figure out which one is more impressive is a little like sit
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Pairs nicely with the story of bailing out of an SR-71 Blackbird: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-71-pilot-explains-how-he-... Recent HN discussion (including links to prior discussions): https://news.ycombina
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No, even when I put together a PC, I was putting chips and boards together. But as a boy holding that memory board, I was looking at the cores that held individual bits of memory. Instead of connecting things with ribbon cables or whatever,
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My mother was a systems analyst in the 1960s. She got a contract as part of a team installing a brand-new IBM/360 at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, her job was to write administration software. She told me it was a top-of-the-lin
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I agree with you! I also don’t really agree with the ban, and seriously doubt that they have any reason other than, “We dunno what this is, and are too lazy^H^H^H^H busy to think it through, give a decision, and deal this the precedent of a
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I'm not entirely sure that is a nonsensical argument. I am permitted to use any client I like to perform SQL queries of our customer data, but if the client were to happen to route the data through a third party, I would be in employme
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I agree with you for the way in which “great” is used as a measure of quality. But ”great” can also be used as a measure of size and/or impact, e.g. “Sir, your investment proposal contains a great deal of bullshit.” In that sense, web&
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I agree that adds considerable depth to the value of the quote, and connects it to the conversation he appeared to be having, which is about the first line you've quoted: There is no such thing as being a Liberal or Progressive, there
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> one set of rules for the poor, another set of rules for the masses. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds b
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Also, speaking very specifically about Rails, every architecture is composed of design choices that make some things easy, and other things hard. The default "Rails Way" has a particular dynamic around REST and CRUD that makes it
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100% worthy observation from my career experience. Choice of a framework both attracts a certain type/subculture, and repels another. Example: You have an old app that uses Backbone+CoffeeScript for the front end. If you stick with tha
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> Anecdotally, the only framework-based projects I've signed on to ended up incurring more onboarding time because I had to learn the framework, how the framework does things, and then how the team does things in the framework. All
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I'm so old, I thought of the productivity suite from the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_(office_suite) I still think about that suite, because it had a certain kind of elegance: Everything was fram
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1. Every sufficiently complex framework-free application contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a framework. 2. If you have a talented team, that half of a framework can be much better than usin
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Her “Mingus” album from her jazz period opens with “Happy Birthday Rap,” in which she calls out, “play that weird minor chord.” If anyone knew weird minor chords… It was Joni.
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Not a modern player, but the great Joni Mitchell used alternate tunings so much, she claims that only a couple of her songs were in E-standard tuning.
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This is the format in a lot of tournaments where a pro is paired with an amateur. For example, in pairs snooker or pool, there are two ways to arrange pairs: Alternate innings and alternate strokes. With alternate strokes, the better player
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Postpartum depression[1] is an example of a something that is _both_ "mental health related" and "pregnancy related." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_depression
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Two discussions about state machines on HN from 2018: 1. "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State Machine" link: http://raganwald.com/2018/02/23/forde.html comments: https://new
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The five pillars of revenue are: 1. Selling a thing. 2. Selling add-ons and upgrades to a thing. 3. Selling other things to people who bought one of your things. 4. Preventing people who are subscribing to your thing from switching to someb
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Something, something, "put the armour where the holes aren't." If you are selling a lot of phones and tablets and laptops with your apps and platforms as they are, you don't want to invest billions in making them better
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> What is the point of giving stock priced on the vesting day? It has no chance to go up or down between the grant and vesting date when it is sellable. It would be the same as a cash bonus with an X year delay. An excellent question, so
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Given a certain dollar amount (e.g. X% of salary), the number of RSUs to grant is calculated by dividing the dollar amount by the market price of the stock. There are two common ways to calculate the market price of the stock, and the diffe
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An irrelevant story about Yvon's climbing days: In 1967, he met a young woman named Joy Herron, and they went climbing together on a new route. The route is named "Jump for Joy" after her. https://www.mountainproje
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Or the autopilot computer ejects by itself with a small parachute. Very Looney Tunes!
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Bombardiers will issue a stream of Québec sacres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity
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More than a decade ago, I blamed the victims. I still do, in a way. When you build on top of someone else's platform, you are engaged in digital sharecropping. The platform owner acts like they own your customers, and you are tilling t
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I did not know that Polestar service is optional with Volvo dealerships! Maybe that's exactly what GM does not want to happen with Cadillac and Buick EVs.
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> transition to DTC? I see it as being less about selling direct to consumers and more about building an EV brand with a strong service story. Right now, there is a perception that Tesla ships cars with superior technology, offers a supe
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"Developer wages would crash through the floor and all the way down to the centre of the Earth if ad blockers really took off without users also accepting micropayments or subscriptions for web services at the same time. Maybe we shoul

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