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Engineering Levels at Carta(medium.com)
1 points by amgreg 5y ago|0 comments
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by amgreg 5y ago
"Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by amgreg 5y ago
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (1) does not
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by amgreg 5y ago
I am disappointed at several comments on this thread. Professor Hewitt, I personally think you've enriched the community by putting these claims here. They've led me to read more about several things, which I will list here for
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LinkedIn confirms service is down(twitter.com)
9 points by amgreg 6y ago|0 comments
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by amgreg 6y ago
I use the Remote Development extension for Visual Studio Code, which, among other things, allows you to attach an editor window to a running container. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers
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by amgreg 6y ago
Brex?
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by amgreg 6y ago
https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5ed57622ee14fb96d022d544/5f6... Is this list representative of the entire scope of the sprint? Unclear from the article. If so, while the sprint was arguably successful in that the eng
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Ginsburg Supreme Court: Republicans secure vote for replacement(bbc.com)
2 points by amgreg 6y ago|0 comments
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by amgreg 6y ago
How does one find dupes? I searched by URL before posting but nothing came up.
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How the oil industry made us doubt climate change(bbc.com)
2 points by amgreg 6y ago|2 comments
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by amgreg 6y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463423
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by amgreg 6y ago
What I like most about some experienced engineers who have been at companies from the beginning is that they realize the needs of a small-team, cash-constrained, rapidly growing company are different from that of a dozens-of-teams, complex,
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by amgreg 6y ago
> Still alpha: spec is still alpha and it looks like it will remain like that since the intention is for spec2 to completely replace it in the future. Out of curiosity for the folks in the know: why is this the state of affairs? Where
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Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (2017)(nathanmarz.com)
152 points by amgreg 6y ago|37 comments
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by amgreg 6y ago
I think what the author would take issue with is this notion of “has to.” His point is that non-bank corporations can empirically create money (ie people will treat the IOUs as money), even if they may not be legally permitted to do so.
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by amgreg 6y ago
Bob Metcalfe, self professed “conservative hippie,” inventor of the Ethernet, founder of 3Com, of Xerox Parc fame, has this to offer: > One of the few things that government should do is finance research, because — I have learned from ma
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“The Mess We’re In” – Erlang Inventor Joe Armstrong (2014)(youtu.be)
1 points by amgreg 6y ago|0 comments
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by amgreg 6y ago
> Some teams are happy to use Elixir to write web applications, to fit it into their pre-existing microservice deployment model. I urge developers to reach for those bigger thoughts that fault tolerant lighweight processes enable. You ca
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by amgreg 6y ago
The author explains the following, regarding Vitamin D studies: > Most studies follow this pattern: Two sets of people are evaluated. One set has a certain disease (diabetes, for example). The other set does not have the disease. Vitamin
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by amgreg 6y ago
Open source vs closed source aside, why would one use Crux instead of Datomic?
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Companies can’t do much research unless they’re monopolies– Bob Metcalfe [video](youtu.be)
2 points by amgreg 6y ago|0 comments
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by amgreg 6y ago
Have you tried shadowcljs? Its default (:shadow) option is to use advanced optimizations only on your code; it will not run advanced optimizations in libraries but will include them minified. For me, this has struck a good balance and deliv
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The Google ‘vs’ Trick: How ego graphs can help you learn about AI(medium.com)
2 points by amgreg 6y ago|1 comments
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by amgreg 6y ago
Thank you for this angle. This may have changed, but when I studied EU Law about eight years ago, the Parliament didn’t actually pass laws (despite the name) — I believe this was reserved for the Commission, who are unelected. If that’s r
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by amgreg 6y ago
Has anyone here been involved in the lawmaking process? I’m curious to know whether the lawmakers had a good grasp of the technologies. I’ve always suspected the cookie law was written by a technocrat, clueless as to how the targeted tech
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by amgreg 6y ago
So comments actually work against it?
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by amgreg 6y ago
I’m curious to understand HN’s algo: Why has this thread, with over 1299 comments, decayed so quickly to the bottom of the 2nd page?
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by amgreg 6y ago
> I run a company, but I've found a way to do that with very few meetings and very little email. Most weeks I just have one meeting and many days I don't send a single email. I'm very curious to know what your secret is!
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by amgreg 6y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Portal?

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