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by bmiller2 7y ago
The old UX was fine. I really don’t get the push to build this. I haven’t found any value added in the new design at all - has anyone else? If they want to stay ahead of GitHub Actions, they need to make sure their feature set is ahead of t
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by bmiller2 7y ago
Yes
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by bmiller2 7y ago
The absolute minimum number of people may still be significant
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by bmiller2 7y ago
zyBooks (John Wiley and Sons, Inc) | Lead Software Engineer | Full-Time | ONSITE (Los Gatos, CA) https://zybooks.com zyBooks provides online, interactive textbooks for Computer Science and other STEM majors. Our platform serves
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by bmiller2 7y ago
Nchan is amazing
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by bmiller2 7y ago
In grad school, we took an unofficial survey of GRE verbal and quant scores. Far and away, the non English speaking students scored significantly higher than natives. Anecdotally, The non native speakers actually studied in that way you des
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by bmiller2 7y ago
So I shouldn’t thank or say nice things to my team, because they might see it as disingenuous? Seems better than the alternative, no? The article got close to touching on a successful method of motivating, which is making sure individuals’
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by bmiller2 7y ago
I would!
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by bmiller2 7y ago
100% yes. Works with almost everything. Trash guys missed your bin? Blow em up on Twitter. Cable company shrinking your bandwidth? Blow em up. Instant results
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by bmiller2 7y ago
My experience has been that HR stonewalls all efforts to use external recruiters due to perceived cost. Yet at the same time they can’t deliver quality candidates so a position stays open for 6 months; incredibly infuriating.
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by bmiller2 7y ago
In Neal Stephenson’s new novel Fall or Dodge in Hell (spoiler alert), social media becomes all powerful. A tool is created to bombard so much artificially created negative content about a person being cyber bullied, that the effect is to dr
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by bmiller2 7y ago
Source?
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by bmiller2 7y ago
Maybe a gofundme campaign? The platform already exists and is familiar to most people.
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by bmiller2 7y ago
Screen time for children? This is hacker news -the collective groupthink will eat you alive for that suggestion /s
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by bmiller2 7y ago
My guess is either total comp, or hired.com metrics are biased towards the top 10% of candidates / shops.
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by bmiller2 7y ago
Your viewing history is worthless. The aggregate viewing history and patterns of 50 million viewers though? Seems to be a pretty valuable commodity that networks would be willing to pay for.
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by bmiller2 7y ago
It does exist: https://www.hudl.com/ Lots of your local and state tax money for high school / university sports programs gets dumped into it
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by bmiller2 7y ago
If that’s your belief, why bother doing anything productive at all like earning a paycheck or learning a skill. What if you’re wrong? What does that cost you?
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by bmiller2 8y ago
Not only is it great work, it's greatly named work. He's brought such gems to the community as "Experiencing SAX:..." and "Hot SAX", and "Group SAX".
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by bmiller2 8y ago
They specifically used names with minor revisions or tweaks in some of those cases to discourage folks from thinking to recertify the whole vehicle. 1.1 for example was basically an entire new vehicle - physically bigger and revamped avioni
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by bmiller2 8y ago
Imagine a Venn diagram where there is no overlap
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by bmiller2 8y ago
Two reasons why this is interesting: 1. 2+ million plays on spotify, and only 12K in royalties? That seems like a pittance. 2. Provides a good indication of popularity of various streaming services. Spotify has the clear edge, with only Pan
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by bmiller2 8y ago
I think you’ve accurately described the vast, vast majority of production code that’s hasn’t been through a second wave of engineers/management and rewritten. If it works, and requirements aren’t changing, then your MVP has become the
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by bmiller2 8y ago
To be fair, they are operating at a scale probably unmatched anywhere (Facebook?). There isn’t exactly a well trodden path for them to fall back on.
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by bmiller2 8y ago
What I value from DataDog are the vast number of integrations available. Want to monitor and alert on prometheus endpoints? No problem, just set up a little config. Want to monitor your EC2 nodes? No problem just link up your AWS account. W
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by bmiller2 8y ago
Phillip Morris makes money, where’s its value add?
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by bmiller2 8y ago
True, and the lesson to be learned from North Korea is to depose despots with nuclear ambitions early.
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by bmiller2 8y ago
> every dictator in the world now knows that apart from the threat of nuclear war, the American military's capabilities are far more limited than some perhaps had thought Every dictator in the world fears an American military attack
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by bmiller2 8y ago
I used to work at SpaceX on avionics software, in a role very similar to OP, and my experience was similar in some respects. The tech and products were complex. The turnover rate was high and training new hires was a lengthy process. The ne
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by bmiller2 8y ago
From the article, it seemed like the “tech” is just text messages triggered based on flight paths of aircraft. How does that translate to killing more people?

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