beckingz

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by beckingz 4y ago
My understanding is that it effectively killed FogBugz as the software aged. This led them to build Trello though, so maybe not a bad outcome?
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by beckingz 4y ago
Invalidating the metric after it becomes a target means that the metric is no longer an indicator of performance, so you have no guarantees that an increase in the metric results in an increase in performance.
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by beckingz 4y ago
A weapon system that isn't used is what we want to see more of.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Right, and if you hallucinate at incredibly high speeds it looks like magic!
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by beckingz 4y ago
I strongly recommend releasing it even if you don't think it's good. I wrote a book, and I don't think it's especially good, but I've gotten a lot of respect for having published it because people think it's ha
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by beckingz 4y ago
You've got this! Money can be exchanged for goods and services, and the demand for software services is still near an all time high and will tends towards increasing for a long time. As a seller of software services, don't take it
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by beckingz 4y ago
I've had hot referrals that I haven't followed up on because I couldn't be bothered to put all the sections of my resume into their applicant tracking system...
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by beckingz 4y ago
The best part is hot referrals to a large company, when they ask you to apply for the role a day AFTER receiving a verbal offer.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Got the first verbal offer 3 weeks after getting laid off. Market is still hot for data people here in DC.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Stable Diffusion is literally doing this. It uses algorithms developed to increase the resolution of blurry photos!
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by beckingz 4y ago
A large computer is radically CPU overprovisioned for most workloads.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Even if this is off by two orders of magnitude and it's only 100,000 companies that need distributed compute, that means that almost all companies just need a single large computer. Looking at the distribution of companies by employee
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by beckingz 4y ago
Meetup.com is a great place to meet other technical people in the area!
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by beckingz 4y ago
Startup Scene is quite vibrant. I've spent most of my career here in startups or private companies. I highly recommend Northern Virginia (Ballston/Rosslyn) near the metro or Bethesda just across the border in Maryland.
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by beckingz 4y ago
The follow up linkedin to at the end is full of more specific guidance on how to do this.
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by beckingz 4y ago
So how soon do we get sqlite extensions in the browser with WASM?
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by beckingz 4y ago
The rent is too damn high. Not quite NYC/SF levels, but it's close in most of the DMV.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Better to parse it as "position yourself to be better positioned in the future as the environment changes" I think.
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by beckingz 4y ago
The greater DC and Bay Area have the top 8 counties by median household income, and 13 of the top 20 counties. [0] Sure, it's just a bunch of doctors (NIH), lobbyists, defense contractors and government lawyers that skew that towards o
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by beckingz 4y ago
People use technology to manually curate the better bits into things called books, and sometimes implement them on physical biodegradable materials to serve as offline backup and as a low bandwidth distribution method.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Not to mention dozens of authorization redirects. Absolutely infuriating.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Citation needed? Your link is for an old covert drug research program?
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by beckingz 4y ago
It is. Some vegetables are blasted with radiation to sterilize them so they last longer in shipping.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Honestly, yes.
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by beckingz 4y ago
I ran Factorio on a ASUS laptop that I had removed the screen from (to build an external monitor). Headless Factorio on a headless laptop server. (screenless?)
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by beckingz 4y ago
Large organizations value predictability.
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by beckingz 4y ago
We expect much much much nicer things.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Voltage isn't fixed across a discharge cycle. As a chemical battery discharges, the voltage drops, so at the same load in amps you get less watts later.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Making work legible can be good for the workers as well! Sometimes. Often not. Jira Metrics / LoC can be used to help justify promotions and raises. Or wrongly deny them!
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by beckingz 4y ago
Manager Tools is a good podcast.

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