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by bjterry 6y ago
This article is good as long as you realize that it is a very company-centric description, as you would expect from a VC. Criticisms of IPOs on HN fall into two buckets, first whether the companies are giving up too much equity and second w
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by bjterry 6y ago
I tried to explain this, but it turns out to be kind of hard, so instead I found a reference for you: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=257 Basically, it makes it easier to compare fuel economy differences at diffe
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yEd is freeware. You can see the license by clicking one of the download links. I guess they monetize it by licensing the underlying diagramming libraries to businesses from the looks of it.
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> it occurred to me that it would actually be kind of great to write tests where the entire implementation including the language itself could be swapped out without really changing the tests. I think this basically already exists with &
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by bjterry 6y ago
I found this talk pretty interesting. Thankfully, the speaker doesn't limit the talk to "starting the debate," one of the world's annoying rhetorical tricks. She actually comes out in favor of an identifiable, different
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by bjterry 6y ago
Yes, I was referring to the context "For the typical Silicon Valley style development role" I mentioned. Part of this may be that we are using different definitions of SLA. Normally when people around me say SLA, they mean somethi
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by bjterry 6y ago
If you have a PR review that takes over 1 hour, it's very unlikely that the reviewer will be applying the kind of focus that it takes to really review. For the typical Silicon Valley style development role. 1 hour SLA would be astoni
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by bjterry 7y ago
I would expect people who take advanced courses to rate systematically differently from people who take beginner courses. For comparisons between similar courses it's probably fine, but would be hard to use the scores to compare the va
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by bjterry 7y ago
You can find their 2018 IRS filing here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/261... I've never read one before, but it looks like their IT spend was $5m of $49m total expenses on page 10.
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by bjterry 7y ago
I interned at a company called Palamida that did this around 2006. They were eventually acquired by Flexera. One of their competitors was Black Duck Software which was acquired by Synopsys.
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by bjterry 7y ago
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao
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Most users of this would never actually click on ad (they are probably already using an ad-block, or are completely ad blind), so that omission doesn't seem that bad.
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> Direct replications, testing the same prediction in new studies, are often not feasible with observational data. In experimental psychology it is common to instead run conceptual replications, examining new hypotheses based on the sam
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by bjterry 7y ago
> You don't think there's anything political about removing yourself from society for 30 years and living in the woods? I think there's something political about it, but I also believe that it could be done for non-politic
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by bjterry 7y ago
Even if many people think that they "aren't very political" and are incorrect, there are some people that aren't very political and this is justified. For example, if you are a 5 year old and you believe you are not very
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by bjterry 7y ago
That response is insane. How on earth could he substantiate it further than the significant evidence he presented? Would it require an admission of guilt from the responsible party?
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by bjterry 7y ago
I find the Banksy identity situation pretty interesting. His identity has been basically known since 2008, but despite that revelation, few articles on Banksy actually acknowledge this fact and state it in clear terms. In 2008 DailyMail did
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by bjterry 7y ago
This outage is only affecting a single availability zone, so taking on the complexity of multiple cloud providers would not be necessary to be resilient against it. AWS best practices would already have covered you.
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> That doesn't sound anything like a surgical team to me. It just sounds like you're mixing experience levels to train new people. I think I'm more saying that we have moved toward a specialization of labor that supports t
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by bjterry 7y ago
Many of your points are accurately stated. Story points are different from man-months because they are part of a continuous calibration feedback loop. They really differ pretty fundamentally from man-month style estimates in waterfall softw
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by bjterry 7y ago
The breed names don't render in Firefox for some reason.
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by bjterry 7y ago
I think that allows library authors to implement against the trait, but then the user of that library can choose which concrete implementation they want to use in their app, so they don't have to have multiple and convert between them.
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by bjterry 7y ago
> Is there a citation I can refer to about this statement? I recently read The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, which discusses this topic in great detail.
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by bjterry 7y ago
Almost every language has a function that returns whether a key exists in the map. In go it would be something like: _, ok := m[thing_to_be_found] So it doesn't matter what you put in there, including struct{}.
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Top journals publish corrections to misreported results 40% of the time(twitter.com)
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by bjterry 8y ago
There are a bunch of different knobs that you can tweak to make this "feel" like the dashers are either receiving the tips or not. 1. Suppose DoorDash provides a minimum payout of $0.01 instead of whatever algorithm they use. Then
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by bjterry 8y ago
It could also be that the marginal traffic or revenue generated by her over the next best quiz author is much less than $200k. If so, having her specifically may only be worth, say, $5k and not worth the hassle in the context of the overall
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I bought a personal pizza at the grocery store with a substitute crust made of chicken meat. It was awful. I think it was something like this: https://www.realgoodfoods.com/product/mixedcases/ I assumed that the c
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by bjterry 8y ago
The biggest signal of someone being an amateur when speaking (or writing) is discussion of the process of creating the presentation. Polished professional speakers don't talk about "when I started writing working on this presentat

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