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by a4isms 4y ago
> Fundamentally, microservices allow you to isolate state. I can take two services and split them up - and now I've split their state spaces. I can put a queue service between them and now I've sliced out the state of their com
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by a4isms 4y ago
On a smaller scale, this is also true of company cultures. They change when leaders depart for one reason or another, and new leaders arrive or are promoted to fill the vacancies.
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by a4isms 4y ago
You do you, but here's why I don't follow this practice. I start my explanation with an old joke: One evening, I spotted a man staring intently at the ground under a lamp post. "Looking for something?" I asked. "My
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by a4isms 4y ago
Or my favourite flavour of Goodhart's Law: "You show me a metric, and I'll show you a game."
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by a4isms 4y ago
This is like saying that if someone you are considering for a technical documentation position has also written numerous books of poetry, you would consider that a red flag. Likewise, if someone has written a blog full of recreational progr
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by a4isms 4y ago
Yes! If you're making a product for "pure" writers, I'm with you almost 100%. That being said, Markdown has always included the ability to insert custom HTML, because Gruber wrote it to scratch his own itch. He didn&#x27
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by a4isms 4y ago
> Apple users are, on average, much wealthier... That someone willing to pay for a premium product is likely to be wealthy is a reasonable conjecture for items where the item is so expensive that a typical middle-class customer is making
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by a4isms 4y ago
True. In my case, I'm using Github's built-in Jekyll implementation, and I prefer to keep it as bog-standard as possible, so I went with in-browser rendering. I expect that one day many years hence, something will break and my dia
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by a4isms 4y ago
True, but the workaround is to render the Mermaid in the browser. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31275371
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by a4isms 4y ago
Mermaid is particularly easy to embed in online web pages. Naturally, the most robust thing to do is generate a .png and embed that. But if you write in Markdown and have a rendering tool that directly supports Mermaid, you can add your Mer
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by a4isms 4y ago
There's always protected inheritance, a/k/a "was_a," or, "is implemented in terms of." That's like postmodern furniture design. "This couch was_a giant pair of lips," meaning that although i
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by a4isms 4y ago
I’m adding SNOBOL to my list of modernist languages. “Everything is pattern-matching” fits the modernist ethos. On the other hand, what about APL? Although the syntax looks just as much like line noise as Perl’s syntax, it is actually a ver
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p.s. This is fun. So what constitutes a Brutalist programming language? It should be something that: - Exposes the construction materials - Implies mass and permanence - Is usually institutional, e.g. libraries, government buildings, publ
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by a4isms 4y ago
Modernism: "Less is more"—Mies van der Rohe Postmodernism: "Less is a bore"—Robert Venturi ————— Guided by these famous quotes, if I were to call a programming language a "Modernist" language, I'd think of
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by a4isms 4y ago
Great comment! As your link shows, when both annual payout and lump sum are taxed at the same rate (the maximum in PowerBall’s case), the NPV of the annualized payout is less than the lump sum (working backwards) or the FV of the annual pay
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by a4isms 4y ago
The OP may be right in theory: If someone ws just trying to decide whether to play your tournament or stay home, offering a hole-in-one bonus might not have enough of an effect to justify the expense. But in practice, there might be a dozen
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by a4isms 4y ago
As someone else noted, typically they buy an annuity to pay you out, so risk of non-payment is not a significant factor. The annuity is better for them because they don’t have to carry your payments as a liability. The annuity is often bett
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by a4isms 4y ago
Story #3: After regaling me with stories about improbable events and how much the reinsurance company had to pay, the GM of the office I dealt with told me that he owned two cottages: One “entertaining” million-dollar cottage on a lake in M
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by a4isms 4y ago
Story #2 (also, 3, 4, 5, and so on, it’s a common thing for reinsurance companies): Flood happens in a place where floods are uncommon, e.g. Tornado hitting Barrie, Ontario. Home insurance companies are hit with hundreds, even thousands of
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by a4isms 4y ago
Story #1: Young man riding a motorcycle, accident, suffers catastrophic but non-fatal head trauma. Problem 1, part I: Requires assisted living for the rest of his life. Problem 2: He has the hormones of a young man, the muscles of a young m
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by a4isms 4y ago
I used to have a reinsurance company as a client. For those unfamiliar, that’s an insurance company that sells insurance to insurance companies. Example: You buy a $1,000,000 automobile liability insurance policy with a $1,000 deductible. I
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by a4isms 4y ago
People also want to run noisy, polluting dirt bikes and side-by-sides on every trail, everywhere. And people just like you say, "deal with it." And behold, we deal with it by setting access rules. Some wild areas have trails for m
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by a4isms 4y ago
We'll have to disagree on this. What you call a bunch of people having the same taste in clothing, I call social signalling.
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by a4isms 4y ago
In some cultures, perhaps. But I assure you, my n=1 experience is with plenty of companies that switched from a typical jacket-and-tie dress code to business causual, and ended up with a “huge amount of variety:” All of the men wore golf&#x
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by a4isms 4y ago
It may amuse you to know that in some prisons, the guards wear dark-coloured shirts, and their supervisors wear white. The nickname “white shirt” is used for supervisors. Think of that the next time someone says their dress code is for mana
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by a4isms 4y ago
I personally favour not having a dress code. It’s just that I don’t dismiss dress codes as having no purpose. They have a purpose, it’s just not one I agree with. In a related area, PayPal once no-hired an otherwise qualified engineer becau
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by a4isms 4y ago
I used to own steel-toed dress shoes. They exist specifically for "wearing fancy shoes" while visiting factories.
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by a4isms 4y ago
Dress codes have never had anything to do with treating people like children, they have to do with cultural adhesion. We laugh at pictures of managers wearing near-identical suits and ties, and then we can look at a bunch of techies wearing
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by a4isms 4y ago
I write it in that order some of the time… But when I do, I spell out the month because when I say “I was born on June 14th, 1962,” I don’t say I was born on 6/14/62. I also never say 14/6/62. In fact, I almost never say
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by a4isms 4y ago
Please do carry on spreading misinformation about what I think or advocate or believe. You’re doing a fine job of dancing with your own straw man. It seems that I called you out on making a claim you didn’t back up, and you are weaving some

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