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by bsuvc 3y ago
> And every two weeks during my 1:1 discussions with each engineer, I would also pull up that individual’s personal velocity chart and use that to guide our performance discussion. If their chart is on an upward trend, I would congratula
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by bsuvc 3y ago
More and more, I'm starting to root for Zuck in the fight.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
I use ORMs to create custom line of business apps, mostly CRUD-ish and it works fine. The ORMs I've worked with have a way to write your own queries if the need arises.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
> The proper way to build a data layer is one query at a time, as a string, with string interpolation. Surely you mean a parameterized query string and not string interpolation, which is susceptible to sql injection.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
> MS Teams, makes me wanna stop working all together I think this is what some people just don't understand, especially executives or managers who are too far removed from individual contributors' day-to-day activities. The wro
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by bsuvc 3y ago
I am curious based on your opinion of this. Do you work in academia or business?
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by bsuvc 3y ago
AI is a new kind of leverage, and you will need to figure out how to adapt and use it. I think you probably have more time to do this than the hype would like you to believe though. If you've reached the top 5% in your field, I'm
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Who knows, but we live in a world where some people even consider “view source” to be hacking and attempt to prosecute them. https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/15/missouri_html_hacking...
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by bsuvc 3y ago
> They're thriving elsewhere. I'm not so sure, based on my anecdata: In my Midwest city, out of 8 traditional malls I can think of... - 3 have totally closed and are being torn down - 4 are drastically lower quality, lost their
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by bsuvc 3y ago
> Federal bailouts are SF's only hope. Wouldn't that just enable more of the policies that led to this? And why would it need to be federal? This sounds more like a California problem from across the country.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
It's definitely a gamble building your business on top of another, much larger company's product. It's called platform risk, and while every company has it to some degree, if your business is solely dependent on a third party
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by bsuvc 3y ago
They tend to lock issues frequently. Presumably it is to prevent people discussing problems at length. I don't know any other reason they would do that. It seems to go against how most other organizations use GitHub.
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Perfect, thank you so much. That was an interesting read and exactly what I was looking for!
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by bsuvc 3y ago
> In February of 1993, the University of Minnesota made an announcement. In specific commercial usage of the protocol, they would be charging licensing fees. Not large fees, and not in all cases. But, in some small way, they would be res
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by bsuvc 3y ago
Cash is important to preserve freedom. Otherwise the centralized digital currency road someday leads to a bureaucrat locking your account because you wrongthinked. You can already catch glimpses of this with payment processors refusing to d
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by bsuvc 3y ago
There are better alternatives UX-wise for both of the examples you gave. Visual Studio -> Jetbrains. Windows 11 -> Linux (or Mac) While VS and Windows have gotten worse in recent years, other software like Jetbrains IDEs and Linux UX
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by bsuvc 3y ago
What I find interesting is that something can suddenly get a lot of media attention once it has a catchy name to describe it, like "quiet quitting". I suspect it's not a recent phenomenon, just that it was recently given a na
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by bsuvc 4y ago
This is what I was thinking too. Often when I find a response to be lacking, I try again with a better prompt and get the kind of response I was looking for. Part of AI's effectiveness is in the human's ability to prompt well.
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by bsuvc 4y ago
> I will freely and safely walk anywhere in the City at any time of day or night. Please don't. This is not safe, even if you have managed not to be a victim so far.
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by bsuvc 4y ago
Yes. I am disagreeing with dang.
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by bsuvc 4y ago
Everything you say can be true and it doesn't change the fact the HN would be worse because of it. HN is a place I come to escape the rest of the internet. I hope it doesn't get ruined by politics, like everything else in the worl
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by bsuvc 4y ago
Hacker News is better without unrelated political news.
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by bsuvc 4y ago
> While Altman’s lack of initial equity reportedly gave investors pause in 2019... Initial equity. Doesn't say anything about whether he has an agreement in place to receive future equity. Does he have any options or warrants? I
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by bsuvc 4y ago
"how can I make this about how I hate the US?"
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by bsuvc 4y ago
To which specific type of human are you referring?
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by bsuvc 4y ago
As someone who has purchased a lot of supplements over the past few years to (try to) deal with a health issue, the biggest problem I face is fake/untrustworthy reviews. Either outright fake reviews, or reviews that were "bought&
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by bsuvc 4y ago
I am only calling out your strawman. If you want to pick up your toys and go home because of that, good.
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by bsuvc 4y ago
It's only fair, because I didn't say anything about executives in my original comment. Please don't make strawman arguments.
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by bsuvc 4y ago
Are you saying the deposit holders (customers of the bank) are to blame?
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by bsuvc 4y ago
I am not defending SVB executives. Don't you understand the difference between deposit holders (customers) and the executives and investors in the bank?

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