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by allochthon 5y ago
One small thought — having the search engine be configurable, so that the user can specify which sources to give priority to (e.g., Reddit, NYT Wirecutter, Wikipedia, etc.), would be an incremental improvement.
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by allochthon 5y ago
It's definitely happened from time to time in my experience. If I had to guess, Google PMs really don't like blank search result pages.
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by allochthon 5y ago
Performance reviews definitely feel like a flex of some kind, apart from any legal CYA. I have never wanted a performance review. It feels pretty easy to know where things stand just by assessing the quality of communication and where thi
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by allochthon 5y ago
Stack ranking is not my cup of tea at all. But, yes, I'm kind of leaning against performance reviews as well. It's an open question in my mind. I appreciate that big companies might have a challenge on their hands, and I don&#x
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by allochthon 5y ago
This kind of performance review funkiness is why I have resisted stepping into managerial roles.
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by allochthon 5y ago
I'm curious why these practices continue despite what seem to be obvious deficiencies.
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by allochthon 5y ago
That sounds pretty depressing. I do not think I would ever want to work at Amazon, or at a place like Amazon. The whole performance review thing feels like a proxy for something else I can't quite put my finger on, but feels creepy n
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by allochthon 5y ago
The discussion around "boring" technology is an important one. Where to draw the line will be pretty context-dependent. An aerospace firm will put the line here, and a tech startup focusing on a low-risk use case will draw the l
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by allochthon 5y ago
Adjacent to what the author is doing, I manage my bookmarks in a web app. The main principle is that it should be possible to add any link, no matter how trivial, and have a good chance of finding it later on. (Eventually, in the far-off
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by allochthon 5y ago
Oh, man. There's some bad code out there with my name on it. It took me years to move beyond the stage where my opinions meant more to me than those of my teammates. I am sad that I was such a boor for as long as I was.
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by allochthon 5y ago
> The touch pad becomes hypersensitive. I haven't seen a lot of the problems you're seeing, but I definitely have seen this one. Not only is the touch pad hard to use because it's very sensitive, just using the builtin ke
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by allochthon 5y ago
It's definitely an arms race. Sort of like tax avoidance. As long as you have search engines ordering results, I guess you'll have people who seek to game the results. The question for me is whether what Google does can be impr
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by allochthon 5y ago
This is the kind of recipe I see most often when searching for recipes. I wonder whether GP was a little lucky with his/her three links. (The lasagna recipe was an example of an SEO'd recipe.)
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by allochthon 5y ago
> I think building search vertical that are hand-curated would be very interesting to see. That was my inspiration behind a side project I made a few years ago — a decentralized, hand curated "search engine" [0]. Never got bey
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by allochthon 5y ago
> Google often seems to no longer support mandatory include/exclude search parameters I've noticed this, and it's frustrating. I have assumed it's intentional. I am left to guess as to what a change in this behavior
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by allochthon 5y ago
Silicon Valley, i.e., the California tech scene.
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by allochthon 5y ago
I like much of what the author is getting at. Not all dictionaries are not equivalent, and you can really see the difference when you start paying attention. But his prose is overwrought and distracting. The best acting doesn't draw
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by allochthon 5y ago
> Are most of us secretly lying about how much we are working? I'm pretty good about putting 7-8 hours of work a day. There are a few days a year when I'm less productive.
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by allochthon 5y ago
Just my own taste, but after Sicario and Blade Runner, Villeneuve has become one of my favorite directors. I'm looking forward to Dune.
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by allochthon 5y ago
> It's not necessarily a web technology And honestly, I've been toying around with an Actix web server written in Rust, and the experience is not bad. As someone new to Rust, the main pain points have been along the lines of f
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by allochthon 5y ago
I'm new to Rust and am far less along than you are, as evidenced by this project. I noticed that in the few files I spot checked, there aren't many/any tests. Without any context or opinion, I'm curious whether unit an
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by allochthon 5y ago
I can relate. When I lived in the Bay area, I started getting nervous in my late 30s that it would become harder and harder to find my next job in software development. I've since discovered that this seems to be a regional thing. I
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by allochthon 5y ago
I used to have a similar impression. Gradually my view has changed. I now see it as one of the best sources of information on the internet on specific topics.
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by allochthon 5y ago
Reddit is one of the sites I use the most. I hope they can figure out a financially sustainable model without becoming obnoxious or, eventually, being bought up by a private equity firm.
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by allochthon 5y ago
> a more general overview of why any proof that P=NP will likely show up first not in an academic journal, but in a catastrophically massive security breach that lays bare all of the secret information from multiple organizations simulta
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by allochthon 5y ago
Can someone in the know unpack what's going on here for a less-informed audience? I know vaguely about the outstanding question of whether P = NP, and how it's generally thought that P is not equal to NP. But beyond that most of
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by allochthon 5y ago
Kind of going in the same direction, I wonder whether it would be good to have children start out learning math in the context of accomplishing concrete, real-world tasks that require mathematical problem solving, and then only gradually ab
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by allochthon 5y ago
Technology, surveillance and privacy in China is an ongoing topic of interest here and in news outlets. (Obviously it's a topic that's of interest in relation to other places as well.) The excesses of one generation can lead to th
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by allochthon 5y ago
In the US, I prefer walmart.com over Amazon for groceries because they do their usual price vetting, whereas you can end up paying three times the normal price for something on Amazon if you're not careful.
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by allochthon 5y ago
One of the hard problems of comment sections and forums is ad hom, incivility and lack of decorum. In cases of trolling and borderline behavior, it seems fine to just ban the offenders if there's a signup process. It would be nice to

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