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by blowski 4y ago
Company does rebrand. And right on cue, a bunch of comments saying it's rubbish and unnecessary. Honestly, can't we find anything more interesting to say? Within a few years, this design will be redesigned, and all the same hackne
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by blowski 4y ago
I remember being a naive 20-something and believing they’d find a new way of doing business. Maybe a co-op.
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Consider a ‘dump’ function. By design, it handles anything you throw at it - strings, objects, booleans, etc. It won’t change. That’s ‘Any’. Whereas ‘Unknown’ might be a stepping stone to introduce a more specific type once all the use case
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by blowski 4y ago
I’ve seen first hand people hired who’ve aced the system design interview but then fail to get much done. Building systems in the real world is much more than a few high-level components and algorithms - it’s about all the edge edge cases,
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by blowski 4y ago
I have quite a few books with a pretty cover, pictures, charts, pullquotes, etc.
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by blowski 4y ago
It’s hard to tell between those who know their stuff, and those who are good at memorising all the various courses that tell you what to say. By telling the candidate what system to design you make the latter’s job easier.
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What about parameterised queries?
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Your comment has so many "speech marks" I find it hard to read.
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> It's not that he couldn't, it's more of an arbitrary self-imposed limitation. Feel free to write your own analysis that _does_ includ GitHub pages, and submit here as well. I'll upvote it.
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If that works for you, then great. But others do have different requirements to you, and thus it's useful to see someone compare different solutions.
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This argument works less well for families living in less urban areas.
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by blowski 4y ago
HN FAQs: > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Th
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I do see this a lot. e.g. “Hacker News readers hate Elon Musk yet own Tesla cars”
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Could also be a middle manager in any department.
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That's risk management. If the risk of losing the customers' (or future prospects') revenue is big enough, you should fix the bug. There might also be the risk of fines.
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Anna Karenina. It basically tells you the plot on the first page, and yet is 1000 pages of something incredible. It's like being able to see inside someone else's mind - not being told what they're thinking, but being able to
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It's also something you can do manually with a few admin people, or perhaps using a COBOL script. Innovation means we'll have different ways of doing the same thing.
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My phone is a 4 year old iPhone SE and I’m writing on it now in private mode. I honestly don’t have the same experience as you, it mostly works fine.
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I’d much prefer to talk directly with a founder than watch a pre-recorded video.
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I’ve done a lot of estimating for plans in spreadsheets. It’s awful. I’m really happy someone’s trying to innovate with an alternative.
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by blowski 4y ago
Aren’t we on something like v15.0 by now? First there was software of the Enigma machine variety, then assembly, then massive IBM machines running COBOL, then C, then Ruby/PHP/Python. We could also talk about how networking and pe
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by blowski 4y ago
There’s quite a variety of views when you’re talking about 5 billion people. Though I’m sure it’s true for a lot of them, there are also vast numbers of people who find that style or religion rather distasteful.
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by blowski 4y ago
These days, the WordPress power-users are all doing headless via the API, so there's little push for a better admin UI.
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If they have a monopoly control of the market, then the prices could be higher with sellers having little choice between paying and not selling at all.
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Interesting, I can imagine this being really useful for me as I’m an awful designer and just want a working UI prototype to test user journeys. How does it work with responsive layouts?
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These all seem to be academic studies. I can't see any links that show a fingerprint being reconstructed and then used on a different system.
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> the data can often be used to recreate a fake fingerprint that isn't identical but will be accepted, sometimes even by systems from different vendors Do you have an example of this happening?
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In general, I agree with you. I see it as a ladder of autonomy. The more effective you are operating as an individual, the more you can make decisions for yourself. But there is a lot more nuance than that in the day-to-day life of a busine
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by blowski 4y ago
Good managers can adapt the help they provide to the teams they manage. A team of high-performing engineers needs something different from a manager than a team of low-performing juniors. A team building a new product in a fast-growing star
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by blowski 4y ago
It’s another example of “the tragedy of the commons”. Each individual actor is acting in their own short-term interest, at the expense of everybody’s long term interest.

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