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by allochthon 5y ago
I was trying to make sense of these lines from the article. I probably misunderstood. > Twitter has said that it expects a majority of its staff to spend some time working remotely and some time in the office. That's despite its b
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by allochthon 5y ago
I've been working remotely for about five years, now, and I love it. I've always been curious about working at Twitter and Google, and I was vaguely hoping that they'd start looking at full-time remote hires across their eng
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by allochthon 5y ago
That makes me wonder whether an analysis could be done over a long period of time to determine where in the region the user isn't, and thereby narrow down where the user is.
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by allochthon 5y ago
And even beyond UBI. UBI provides a way for people not to be completely washed away in a world with a lot more automation. But in a country like the US, where money is readily translated into political power, having increasing differentia
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by allochthon 5y ago
As a user of other people's popular open-source projects, I generally lack awareness of the effort and investment of time that the maintainers put into the projects. It's always eye-opening and helpful for me to see posts like th
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by allochthon 5y ago
I've noticed that online influence campaigns are starting to really kick into gear. Any comments in news articles posted to the r/worldnews subreddit about the Uyghurs in Xinjiang that do not defend the status quo there will be do
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by allochthon 5y ago
I think it's the lack of price vetting on Amazon's part that makes me hesitant to buy certain things there, e.g., groceries. That wariness happened after buying several packages of dried beans that were also available at Walmart
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by allochthon 6y ago
I like to think of GraphQL as a specific tool to address a specific set of challenges. Is it convenient to be able to batch up a bunch of requests in one go for a frontend JS client? Would it be useful to be able to specify a subset of th
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by allochthon 6y ago
I have the same question as you. Two sources of potential feedback I've found, which are not spammy or unpleasant for people: - Adding an update to an Indie Hacker product profile with a link to a blog post - Adding a post to the &q
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by allochthon 6y ago
Often I'm looking for a Wikipedia page, and it seems that in the past year or so Wikipedia pages have been moved way down on the first page of search results, especially if the topic is a medical one.
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by allochthon 6y ago
See https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based . Seems to be a word that you'll occasionally see on Reddit, etc., but I've never used it that way, personally.
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by allochthon 7y ago
Yikes. This vaguely reminds me of Frostpunk. Things must be getting pretty bad in NYC.
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by allochthon 7y ago
Slightly related. Here is a side project I wrote to keep track of the tons of information I've read about or _might want_ to read about one day, which kind of overlaps with the journal app that was described: https://digraph
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by allochthon 7y ago
I start a timer on my phone and run it up to ~ 8 hours to mark the end of the day. While the timer is running, I don't do anything too leisurely (e.g., playing video games). If I want/need to do something unrelated to work, I st
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by allochthon 7y ago
Slightly related: I'm running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad and the trackpad is pretty painful to use (after using macOS for years). I went out and bought a mouse a few days ago for this reason.
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by allochthon 7y ago
Interesting. 100 years is a long time. Would this be a generation ship [0]? If so, I'm curious about their discussion of the moral and ethical considerations of committing children to such a journey. [0] https://en.wikipe
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by allochthon 7y ago
I'm developing this app, which I'm currently using for a personal knowledge base, but whose ambitions are quite a bit larger: https://digraph.app https://digraph.app/wiki/topics/39b38b69-1c22-
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by allochthon 7y ago
At 200 microns across, I'd be worried about inadvertently causing puncture wounds. (Might be an unfounded worry.)
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by allochthon 7y ago
From my own experience maintaining legacy systems and then re-implementing them — strive for a system that future maintainers will be able to refactor instead of wanting to replace it, whatever that entails. Even if all of what you write w
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by allochthon 7y ago
The statement looks like an assignment, and unless I was really used to seeing it, I would never expect an implicit return.
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by allochthon 7y ago
Hrm. American here. I always say "neesh," and I rarely hear "nitch" from other Americans. Wondering whether this is a regional thing.
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by allochthon 7y ago
Having lived in Oakland for years, as well as smaller cities around the country, I can add that there's an additional appeal to living in out-of-the-way places. It's definitely a different thing from living in the heart of where e
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by allochthon 7y ago
It's a side project. :) The "environment" in this case would be k8s. My (small) point was that that component is straightforward to upgrade if needed.
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by allochthon 7y ago
I like these things about the setup: - Straightforward upgrades of the environment to incorporate security patches - Straightforward deploys - Straightforward recreation of the setup (sort of like what terraform gets you) - Straightforward
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by allochthon 7y ago
I don't think Kubernetes is necessarily overly complex. I use it for a side project, and knowing the config primitives, it's been pretty easy to set up a web app with postgres, redis and a load balancer on a single node hosted on
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by allochthon 7y ago
Looks like there's a mongodb helm chart that uses stateful sets: https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/mongodb
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by allochthon 7y ago
Used to work with Matt Keveney, the author. Pretty cool guy.
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by allochthon 8y ago
I'll just add that good, maintainable software is as much about communication with other devs, in the form of code that they can read without being too distracted, as it is about getting the immediate job done. That requires socializa
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by allochthon 8y ago
I am tackling a related challenge with Digraph, an app I'm working on [0]. My project is focused less on providing an infrastructure for learning and retention, and more on simply organizing the vast amount of information that each of
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by allochthon 8y ago
I wonder whether there's something deeper going on here in the world. The explosion of content on the Internet in the past 15 years has resulted in a great deal of high quality articles and long form journalism becoming readily availa

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