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by beckingz 4y ago
7 days * 24 hours = 168 hours per week. 90/168 is only 53% of the total hours in a week, and leaves 78 hours for non-work, or 11 hours per day. Which is an insane amount of time and probably does not actually increase productivity. The
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by beckingz 4y ago
Oh this is cool. It's a shame that the WMATA bus data here in DC is so bad. The APIs are fine, but the data is all over the place.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Kittens Game is so amazingly brutal. Numbers go up, but at what cost! (hundreds of hours)
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by beckingz 4y ago
The best part is that doing analytics via the command line often means that you're doing analytics locally, which often gets you performance superior to a small computing cluster.
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bring back the fail whale!
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by beckingz 4y ago
(chuckles) I'm in danger. Nothing profitable makes it out of the near future I suppose.
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Though good agile development/product design also spends a lot of time up front determining what is most valuable to do next.
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by beckingz 4y ago
""Considered harmful" considered harmful" considered harmful. There are only two hard problems in computer science: "cache invalidation, naming things, and humorous recursion.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Worst. He was great at hiding how much damage he was doing though!
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Do note that D3.js is a lower level library, so you will end up writing a lot of code to build a chart.
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by beckingz 4y ago
I was able to find this by searching for 'gimp download', and the gimp.org displayed ad redirected to 'gimp dot monster' and looked pretty good otherwise. This is amazingly frustrating because I've wasted weeks of m
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by beckingz 4y ago
This is exciting because it could reduce the capital expenditure needed for hydrogen production. The biggest reason we don't use intermittent electricity generation (wind, solar) for hydrogen production or desalination is that a signif
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by beckingz 4y ago
The parent comment said that non-autistic people often assumed that people knew what they knew and failed to communicate.
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Even our new technology is haunted. Random changes to Jira configurations with nothing in the audit logs... Ghosts in the machine, spirit in the system, hear the whispers, screams are distant.
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by beckingz 4y ago
please open source this data store.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Thus, by reading 1000 HN comments per day I have the chance to learn 10 useful things. Worth every second. :)
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Sounds like they were years ahead of their time.
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They're down to $369k of revenue per employee, down from $434k in Q3 of last year. Which is still insanely good.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Having a full team that can operate autonomously is the only way to scale effectively.
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by beckingz 4y ago
If they don't have enough soft-skills the hard skills aren't worth retaining in a typical corporation.
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by beckingz 4y ago
You're talking about analytics not data engineering. But yes, Data Analysis still needs more of this, though the smarter folks are getting on the Analytics Engineering / DataOps trains.
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I'm going to use "Lake Shanty" in the future. Powerful phrase to describe what happens when you run aground on the shore of a data swamp.
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by beckingz 4y ago
The secret to getting rich quick is to get other people to pay you for the secret to getting rich quick.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Exactly. Gotta also build a company to deliver product and capitalize on the product market fit.
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For small construction companies, you get this type of thing all the time with more senior tradespeople.
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It's donkeys all the way down.
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The math checks out!
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It's a scam but sometimes it pays off.
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Quit your job! Softskills.audio
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So the repercussions are more competition and less large companies buying smaller companies and running them into the ground?

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