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901.
by andruby 7y ago
Are you saying your team of 3 devs are maintaining 1M lines of code? Roughly how many years and devs worked on it in total? I guess I’m spoiled working on a (mostly) Ruby project with ~100K-ish lines of code with a team of 25
902.
by andruby 7y ago
Did your manager mention you at all when presenting this? That's kind of a no-go in my opinion.
903.
by andruby 7y ago
Even if "regular" productive work is hard, you could use the time to learn. Read books, build prototypes, think about the hard problems you, your team and your company are facing or will be facing. This feel like a great way to ge
904.
by andruby 7y ago
> Being aligned with teammates on what you're building is more important than building the right thing. I would write this as: Building the right thing wrong is more important than building the wrong thing right. And I firmly believ
905.
by andruby 7y ago
There are saas tools out there like browserstack.com that allow selenium testing on safari and other browsers.
906.
by andruby 7y ago
My kids play with the bricks I used to play with as a kid. So usually they last for at least 2 generations. And in between, lot's of cousins have played with them. How many other plastic toys have such a long replayability?
907.
by andruby 7y ago
In what way did your personality change?
908.
by andruby 7y ago
Missing In Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_in_action
909.
by andruby 7y ago
Rails uses I18n.locale as a "global variable" to store the locale of the request. Behind the scenes this is stored in Thread.current[]. So if you have a request that sets the locale to non-default one and you perform some work ins
910.
by andruby 7y ago
More discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919347
911.
by andruby 7y ago
Good to know: the lazy block is executed in a fiber, and fibers don’t share Thread.current. It took me hours to debug why Rails I18n.locale was not honored inside the block.
912.
by andruby 7y ago
Did they communicate this reason to you? That seems like a ridiculous requirement. Especially for engineers.
913.
by andruby 7y ago
Did you end up doing something with your prototype?
914.
by andruby 7y ago
I ran a triangle trading arbitrage bot on Coinbase that was profitable at the end of 2017. But a few weeks later, it was losing money on hard to diagnose slippage. The number of “opportunities” also collapsed, which indicates that other bot
915.
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank(twitter.com)
1549 points by andruby 7y ago|468 comments
916.
by andruby 7y ago
Larger discussion on the techcrunch article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21526284
917.
by andruby 7y ago
I'd love to get a little more context. Who applied for the grant? Where was this?
918.
by andruby 7y ago
Which one did they chose?
919.
by andruby 7y ago
I wonder how long untill they pull the plug and people are left with a brick that isn't updated. For that price, have a look at Ubiquity's Unifi line (and Amplifi). Great router, great AP's, frequent firmware upgrades and no
920.
by andruby 7y ago
Indeed. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry did end up writing the The Little Prince [0], a renown novella about a space faring prince. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
921.
by andruby 7y ago
You can't compare the price of the Apollo program with one Mars rover mission. The Mars rover missions built upon the discoveries and experience from the Apollo missions.
922.
by andruby 7y ago
Except Moore's law ended in 2012. Apple and Steve did some truly "breakthrough" product announcements. Steve mentioned this in his iPad announcement. The timing was right, the technology was right, the market was right. It&#x
923.
by andruby 7y ago
What has been your experience?
924.
by andruby 7y ago
I also didn't enjoy Death Note after this event.
925.
by andruby 7y ago
> If it's bad, we can always turn the knob back. Sure, but by then maybe some people or organizations have made/lost millions. So we can't realistically experiment with that (even though I would absolutely love to)
926.
by andruby 7y ago
Is that again a consequence of "sunk cost" fallacy?
927.
by andruby 7y ago
Additional data point for Belgium: €0.04 KWh for gas and €0.30 KWh for electricity. You'd need a COP of 7.5 in order for a heat-pump to be at cost parity of natural gas.
928.
by andruby 7y ago
It’s not a zero-sum game. Both can keep growing.
929.
by andruby 7y ago
This assumes all wafers in process at a given time are 100% waste after a power disruption. If true, that’s brutal indeed.
930.
by andruby 7y ago
Not Apple median wages. That would probably be closer to 2~3 months.

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