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by brushfoot 6y ago
George Fairbanks's book _Just Enough Software Architecture: A Risk-Driven Approach_ comes to mind. Fairbanks points out that there's risk in every design. How much it should influence your architecture depends on how much it matte
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by brushfoot 6y ago
All that's old is new again. The level of abstraction just keeps getting higher. Someday, ecosystems like AWS and Azure will be as standardized as programming languages. You'll still be writing algorithms, but instead of telling o
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by brushfoot 6y ago
Another of the great melody writers is gone. He will be missed. His Cinema Paradiso theme is one of my all-time favorites -- not the love theme that's most commonly associated with the film, but the main theme, which plays during the
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by brushfoot 6y ago
This reminds me of Vladimir Nabokov's opinion of Joyce. Here's Martin Amis, speaking at Nabokov's centenary celebration in 1999: "[O]nly once, I think, did [Nabokov] bow to a superior talent. Of James Joyce he said, &#x2
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by brushfoot 6y ago
Knowledge work is where the most economic value remains to be added. That's not at all incompatible with biodiversity.
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by brushfoot 6y ago
I'd love to see an Amazon lookalike with solely local results. I.e., local stores list their inventories, accept payment, and do delivery. Does anything like that exist? Marketing and integration would be hurdles: You'd have to
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A Unique Prospecting Method – Anthills(mine-engineer.com)
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by brushfoot 7y ago
I like the Plain Text Project's philosophy. https://plaintextproject.online/ A tool is great for collaboration, but how much do you really need for a personal KB? And how much effort do you want to spend migrating? The
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by brushfoot 7y ago
As someone with a similar setup, I have a Google Doc named "Weekly Scratchpad" with a shortcut on my Android home screen. At the end of the week, I copy anything worth saving into my plain text file(s) and delete the rest.
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by brushfoot 7y ago
It depends on what you're going for. There's some risk with projects, but also more reward. Being marketable requires staying up to date, but it's a hamster wheel: You stay fit, but you aren't moving. With projects, you
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by brushfoot 7y ago
My wife's mom is very similar, from the physical abuse to the insults. Our church friends (those who know) generally get it, but we've had interactions where my wife has been criticized for not having an active relationship with h
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by brushfoot 7y ago
Only because it was Russian. If they'd pivoted to Albania -- boom, instant billionaires.
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by brushfoot 7y ago
This is great news. The data is public; it shouldn't matter whether you hire humans to parse it or develop a bot. LinkedIn was trying to have its cake and eat it too.
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by brushfoot 7y ago
> you should charge based on the value you provide to users Yes, but not infinitely , not for a static product. Otherwise I should also be willing to accept infinite punishment for whatever harm my product does as long as it exists. If
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by brushfoot 7y ago
"Everything-as-a-service" is definitely attractive to us the vendors, but I'm talking about the user experience. With a recurring license, I'd expect: - Cloud computing - Cloud storage - Real-time collaboration
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by brushfoot 7y ago
Strongly suggest perpetual licensing unless this is truly a service, i.e., you're offloading processing to the cloud (which frankly would be a deal-breaker for me if I were evaluating this for a client). If this is a standalone binary,
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by brushfoot 7y ago
> Mozilla needs to [...] move away from Google as their default search engine I hope they consider Startpage if so. That might be an easier switch for non-technical users if they explain it's still Google under the hood, but without
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by brushfoot 7y ago
The site logs each video to your browser's console in the format `Playing {0} in [object Object]`. You can rewatch by visiting https://youtu.be/{0} .
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by brushfoot 11y ago
But performance has less to do with butt-busting than with choices in what to learn/how to spend your time, don't you think? E.g., I could be working long hours manually moving data around, but if you come in and script that, you&
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by brushfoot 11y ago
This seems like the exact type of confusion Graham mentions. E.g., what does Bannon's insistence that public education is necessary have to do with Graham's essay? Graham clearly is not arguing against social programs or a mixed e