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by beckingz 4y ago
Good for the author! Find a thing that works for you, make it work for you and the people around you, win!
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Putting ~1-5% of your stored energy towards keeping the grid running and affordable means that you rarely have to use the other 95% and pay less overall.
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Listen to some drum and bass.
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"To unlock more Dopamine Crystals, please do this Mechanical Turk task and complete a side quest for Pepsi flavored Vat Fluid"
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I think there was something about it in the Google SRE book? https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/
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Agreed! I really like this, but not being able to go slightly faster with arrow keys was aggravating. Cool explanation though!
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Going all in on microsoft is a solid move. It's a powerful platform. Going half in on microsoft is terrible.
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control structures and error handling sound like essential complexity to me, as that's effectively business logic / system requirements.
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Yeah! And the whole thing about fourth generation languages fits in there too: Using a modern high productivity like Python, Ruby, or Javascript will enable faster iteration and software growth. Note: sometimes Rust or another lower level l
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So in short: - Hire good people - Use off the shelf tools when it makes sense - Prototype rapidly - Develop systems iteratively
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Bioaccumulation! Some companies are looking at this for nickel mining: grow trees that leech metals out of the soil and end up with metal concentrations that are competitive with ore!
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Yeah Stitch is great and far more affordable. Some weird limitations around postgres and datatypes (BC dates will clog it), but if you actually validate your data you won't have any problems.
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I wrote hundreds of thousands of words on role playing forums back in the day (Freelancer Discovery RP was a great time). Writing ~100 pages per semester in university also helped. Publishing a book made me realize how bad my writing still
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That's right. Most problems don't warrant deep learning with the current state of the art.
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Many real world problems that result in data are decidedly medium: small enough to fit in excel, large enough to be too big to comfortable handle in excel.
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Flip a coin and it will make your decision for you.
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That's a huge amount of working capital at Ford! Wow.
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A much better understanding of what it means to manage software engineering projects and work within a software engineering organization. These understandings are valuable as an individual contributor: you are more self managing, which incr
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Like an online chamber of commerce.
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Solid recommendations. Mythical Man Month and Peopleware have been the best books I've ever purchased from a financial return on investment perspective. Required reading for any technology professionals.
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But sometimes, a good DBA or MBA makes your business a whole lot better.
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All of them. regular application development is the easier to get though.
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New SE is... fine? ~10-20% better on every dimension than my old android phone.
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What's BOPIS?
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The tobacco companies.
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2 quarters of negative growth is how recessions are defined. Another point of evidence suggesting that the answer to every news article with a question mark in the title is "duh"
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Map every city in the US and world? Now that's a lot of work.
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Several years ago I saw an ad on Tumblr (I know, I know), for a strange meme site. After seeing several hundred of these ads, I got curious about how it could be profitable to run such nonsense and clicked. Content that was just funny enoug
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by beckingz 4y ago
Exactly. The risk/cost profile for migrations is bad: If it goes well, decent return. If it goes poorly, catastrophic.
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You have to be liked and effective, or at least appear effective. Or maybe I've just seen people get burned by spending too much time trying to get people to like them.

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