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Engineering vs. Technology Companies: Telling the Two Apart(ayewo.com)
2 points by ayewo 5y ago|0 comments
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by ayewo 5y ago
> There's an interesting psychological process here that I don't think I've seen described before. That psychological process is actually ever-present, except it just that we often do not notice it until it is explicitly p
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Why disaster happens at the edges: An introduction to queue theory(thenewstack.io)
245 points by ayewo 5y ago|56 comments
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by ayewo 5y ago
You somehow forgot this one that made a showing in 2020: We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775404 - July 2020 (136 comments)
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by ayewo 5y ago
The original author offered additional explanations on HN when the article was re-posted in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TreyHarris
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by ayewo 5y ago
Your project looks nice! 1. I noticed that the signup email comes from papyrus.dev instead of papyrus.so. Any reason in particular for using 2 domains for the service? 2. Do you plan to support adding third-party tracking JS for services li
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by ayewo 5y ago
I think that section of the page could be improved to look less confusing. I made a quick mock up: https://excalidraw.com/#json=5965784438276096,bD8ptwUwiZX9o0...
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by ayewo 5y ago
I'm inclined to agree, but it seems Ubuntu's solution to this problem with "apt install <package> [-y]" where you are presented with a list of dependencies that will get upgraded if you choose to proceed is a muc
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by ayewo 5y ago
Did you switch to a competitor? If so, which one?
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by ayewo 5y ago
Although slightly off-topic, your points are totally valid. I remember reading something somewhere that said that even people whose job it is to digest large amounts of info daily would benefit from ideas expressed in a clear and direct way
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by ayewo 5y ago
Thanks for linking to this nice 40-minute deep dive by Sandy Munro with help from his peers at https://www.3isinc.com
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by ayewo 5y ago
“PSC stands for Performance Summary Cycle at Facebook“ At least according to https://www.thelayoff.com/t/13z18mcE when I searched for “facebook psc”.
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by ayewo 5y ago
Sounds like a reasonable explanation for physical keyboards—if the new keyboard used by the OP was identical to the keyboard on their machine, I can see how Windows might reuse the same device driver instance since it has already been loade
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by ayewo 5y ago
Agreed. The definition of PLG offered by the article suffers from magical thinking by anthropomorphizing products (unless we are now capable of making products that are sentient): “Product-led growth (PLG) is a business methodology in which
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by ayewo 5y ago
I was bit confused while trying to digest the TTL hack up thread, but your explanation completed cleared up my confusion, so thank you for that.
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by ayewo 5y ago
Crazy? I’m curious how you would characterize a cloud-based web browser that is sold using a subscription model? Link: https://www.mightyapp.com/ Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957215
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by ayewo 5y ago
> I don't get the whole "Let's spend weeks rewriting our build infrastructure to save $240 a year" strategy going on here. I think that's because 2 things are at play here: 1. People are busy and often rarely r
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by ayewo 5y ago
The author clearly states that it is a super simple project but I didn't fully understand your comment until I viewed the Python script: https://github.com/calganaygun/MDcat/blob/31c9a4eb29c53d764b... I
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by ayewo 5y ago
On the Internet, unless you sprinkle your words with emoticons, it is hard to convey irony or amusement using text alone. You absolutely have the power to end the controversy by switching to a more mainstream license then adding a clear dis
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by ayewo 5y ago
Roughly how long have you had your Airpod Pros?
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by ayewo 5y ago
You write that: > It’s quite telling that my story described graphic sexual assault of children and you immediately forgot about the victims and made it about the perpetrators. Probably because if you had instead asked: “So, just beca
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by ayewo 5y ago
1. What percentage of your loans end up being delinquent for each of the countries you are in? 2. How do you handle defaults? Your FAQ mentions: If you miss a scheduled payment, Zidisha will issue one courtesy reminder by text message to y
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by ayewo 5y ago
I'm not affiliated to them in any way, so I have no insight into their secret sauce. I shared because their product seems relevant to the discussion.
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by ayewo 5y ago
You claim that: > If you try using ML for test generation, you'll have the same problem you do with GPT-3 prose: it might look plausible at first glance, but lacks coherent meaning. There is a company in this space of generating &
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by ayewo 5y ago
If you are willing to accept web sites (or rather web apps) that are popular among designers, then Figma is one notable example. https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
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by ayewo 5y ago
Many people may not know this but Jeff Bezos clearly has a technical background as evidenced by this blurb from his Wikipedia entry: “graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer scie
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by ayewo 5y ago
> Furthermore, over the years the percentage of paid apps on the App Store has decreased. What this means is that the opposite of what you claim is true: iOS users have been trained to prefer free things. I'm not so sure that it i
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by ayewo 5y ago
> The photography subscription (Photoshop + Lightroom) costs $720 over six years. Given that Adobe offered upgrade promotions (e.g. CS5 to CS6) for about half off, it's roughly the same price as it was before. Very interesting ana
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by ayewo 5y ago
For anyone else that is curious like I was, the #6 answer on that list is from 12 years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/a/140861/
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by ayewo 5y ago
The parameter "si" here stands for International System of Units, or SI for short [0]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...

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