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by beardedetim 4y ago
ah, the good-ol 'Every other release is the good one' MSFT that we came to know and love!
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Maybe there's two sets of ads being discussed here: exposure/top of tunnel and conversion/bottom of funnnel?
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Exactly the right term to use: Expected Value. If we have 1/6 chance of winning and each win gives us 6x, we have an EV of 0. Poker is a great game to learn to understand EV/variance.
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Microblogs are _the thing_ just have always been "too early". Not sure _how_ this will work but I strongly believe that microblogs are the _end goal_ here.
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by beardedetim 4y ago
On my wife's iPhone, they have groups that allow _certain people_ to contact them with _everything else_ being disabled. I would assume there's similar settings across devices.
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Not OP but I do both. I pay for a fastmail account and have <myname>@<one of their domains> which all my _personal_ things go to and then I have my business emails all route via their Aliases and certificate pointing. There have
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Have been rocking Elementary for a few years now as my main Linux desktop. It has some quirks here and there but most of them are probably User Error to be honest. It's basically Ubuntu++
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by beardedetim 4y ago
> making sound decisions ... Is a skill I agree! It sucks that most jobs don't care about paying for that skill though.
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by beardedetim 4y ago
> If you only make enough enough predictions then some of those will turn out predict the future correctly. If we have a coin and we say "It's 50% chance it lands heads" and it lands tails, were we wrong? If we have a 20-s
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by beardedetim 4y ago
GrubHub?
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by beardedetim 4y ago
As an Interviewer: I think it's helpful, in order for me to understand the person I'm interviewing, to pair program on a problem together. I don't think it makes sense for them to LeetCode an algorithm in front of me; I think
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by beardedetim 4y ago
There are pressures, making it a choice of the actor. That actor will have consequences regardless of what choice they make. I disagree that 'i needed money' is a valid excuse to do things you morally disagree with. I also disagre
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by beardedetim 4y ago
> If while reading a document, you find a mistake, instead of changing it, the normal reflex is to create a Jira ticket? I would say the first reaction is to create the PR to make the fix. Then, while CI is running, I create the JIRA tic
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Ethically dubious, sure. But legally?
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Are you counting Chef/Ansible/Puppet/etc as things that came during the cloud era or that those things were not used to solve the problems you raised before the cloud era?
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by beardedetim 4y ago
> giving each kid a therapist is not feasible. Why not? We expect a healthy child to have a doctor, a healthy child to have a friend group. Why not expect them to have a mental doctor/therapist?
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by beardedetim 4y ago
> The struggle is between creating simple solutions vs over-engineering for future proofing. I'm pretty sure I'm biased towards simple solutions. I want to encourage you to keep learning about your own biases here but to contin
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by beardedetim 4y ago
I think it is but it's worth asking ourselves: is a global fold system worth the trouble we have to go through?
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by beardedetim 4y ago
I once heard that you're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time around and the older I get the more true that rings. I try to be _really_ particular with the communities I join and I have _no qualm_ removing either people
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by beardedetim 4y ago
> Help me understand why Wall Street greed would prefer trains that derail to ones that don’t? I don't know if it is true that they _prefer_ trains that derail vs ones that do not. I can try to understand their _incentives_ though.
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by beardedetim 4y ago
> But using a database to find a recipe has never been interesting to me, personally. I've built a few toy apps like everyone else and found the same feeling when it was just a CRUD listing app of recipes that I could search. What I
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by beardedetim 4y ago
In USA this isn't true. We bought a house using an FHA loan and put down less than 5% and our interest rate was lower than 3% if I remember correctly. Maybe not as reasonable as you are imagining but it was really low in our mind.
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Ah, the goat farmer fantasy that always seems to come _at the cusp_ of the solution.
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Yup yup yup! Good shouts all around. Already reaching out to people directly!
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Ask HN: How to Publically Ask for Job Recommendations
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by beardedetim 4y ago
Usually the difference is the "mailbox" an actor has, making the difference more about the level you're calling an actor more than the differences in any code you might write.
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by beardedetim 4y ago
This has been my experience as well along both sides of the axis. If you're not "Lets Go Brandon" or whatever the equivalent is on the left, you usually are reasonable and have valid opinions. Even more so, we usually share t
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by beardedetim 4y ago
My experience matches yours and I've always thought it was due to trust. Leadership doesn't trust their team and have no idea if they're being productive or not. So they use "at desk not talking with head down" as a
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by beardedetim 4y ago
.catch() returns a promise so you can call the then method on it again, yes. If you throw from either catch or then it will trigger the next catch method.
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by beardedetim 4y ago
I've never thought of a PR as causing conflict. For sure, you're right now that you've explained it, but as an engineer I've never felt that way. But I'm okay with the conflict! There should be conflict at work! Ide

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