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by bulatb 9y ago
The assumptions I'm making are: 1. There exists, for many tasks, some indivisible, minimal unit of value created by work. If you need your car today , but your mechanic left an hour early with the engine disassembled, it doesn't
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by bulatb 9y ago
If your high-priority task takes N hours, and you only work for N-k hours, you won't finish your work. You can't just magically do more with less. Working longer is a proven way to finish work that takes more time. Prioritizin
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by bulatb 9y ago
I think we're mostly in agreement. Almost nobody needs Flask, and almost everyone should just use Django. Flask is only needed if your architecture is extremely weird in a way that would have you fighting Django in the core of the app.
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by bulatb 9y ago
A large web application that's outgrown its framework to become an application which includes a web interface is one of the better candidates for something like Flask. Since it don't try to be responsible for everything from ORM
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by bulatb 9y ago
A guesser answers the question: what encoding did they actually use? FTFY answers the question: What horrifying sequence of encode/decode transforms could output this sequence of bytes in UTF-8 that, when correctly decoded as UTF-8,
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by bulatb 9y ago
Have you looked at git-filter-branch ? The BFG program in this guide [0] seems reasonably close to #2. I don't know if you would need to manually trigger garbage collection in the remote repo, or how you'd do that. https:/&
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by bulatb 9y ago
Does that mean "many people who work at a startup later start one" or "of people who start startups, many have worked at one"?
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by bulatb 9y ago
I think it's the opposite: it feels like this law might create an incentive for certain people to go first and thereby change the meaning of not going first for everyone else. But I can't support it, so I'm probably wrong.
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by bulatb 9y ago
It feels like there's some value in disclosing that's greater than the risk of leaving money on the table if the other groups behave as expected, but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe just one of those economic fallacies.
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by bulatb 9y ago
HN counts to 3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4/1, 8/2... :) I figured it was common enough for employers to check since they can buy the data, but I have no idea.
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by bulatb 9y ago
Those people are still in 3, but as you point out, being in 3 is not a reliable signal of anything if they're the majority. That's a good point.
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by bulatb 9y ago
> Salary history may be discussed if an applicant “voluntarily and without prompting” discloses salary history to a potential employer. People who believe they're highly paid might find it advantageous to disclose that: they'd
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by bulatb 9y ago
The tone and manner of your argument don't make think you're interested in understanding the opposing side. Trying to debate with people who insist the structure of the issue is exactly what they see though their ideological lens
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by bulatb 9y ago
Zulip's post on their experience with mypy got some discussion last year. 221 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703008 Blog post: http://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-ty
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by bulatb 9y ago
Someone saying "our" does not imply that you are part of "we." Our president is not your president.
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by bulatb 9y ago
Once you add the standard set of IT shitware, Serious Enterprise Endpoint Security, legacy line-of-business apps, and poorly written drivers for the cheap components in those systems, 8GB/i5 is closer to a reasonable minimum for usabil
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by bulatb 9y ago
This post is in Ask HN, which is for questions. Show HN is for project show and tell. High-ranked posts from both of those will show up on the front page, along with article submissions. I have no idea how to actually submit a post to Show
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by bulatb 9y ago
Maybe AppCanary? https://appcanary.com
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by bulatb 9y ago
More like hungry bears.
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by bulatb 9y ago
Naming things is hard because a proper name imparts the essence of the thing you're naming. To understand the essence of the thing, you have to understand what role it serves, what else it interacts with, and what part of that is inter
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by bulatb 9y ago
Any RPC-style endpoint can be represented in REST by exposing the resulting event as a first-class object you can read and write. Turn your verb into a noun: instead of " move $10 from Alice's to Bob's account", your
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by bulatb 10y ago
> someone that appreciates aesthetic, design, and people > [can] create a frontend > someone who can write a compiler from scratch Hey, that sounds like me. At least, I've done those things. I've also found it
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by bulatb 10y ago
Your site is showing a certificate error. The certificate it's serving was issued for a different domain.
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by bulatb 10y ago
> the fan always runs Are there laptops where it doesn't? I've had 4 different models from 4 different makers, including a MacBook Pro, and every one has run the fan 100℅ of the time.
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by bulatb 10y ago
It also implies it's somehow wrong to offer an employee of another firm a better deal than they're currently getting. Well-mannered firms don't do that sort of thing, you see. It drives the wages up.
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by bulatb 10y ago
> by definition - if they're qualified, they will get hired It sounds like you're explicitly committing the No True Scotsman fallacy. It's also an example of Goodhart's law: the people getting hired are demonstrably
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by bulatb 10y ago
Please forgive my bluntness, but my takeaway is that you're simply being outcompeted. If the company pays less than others and its candidates are taking better offers, why should that mean it's a job-seeker's market? Whether
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by bulatb 10y ago
> There is no reason or law that prevents us from acknowledging our failures I'd argue that there is. That law is Goodhart's law. [0] As long as there's a benefit to having people think you're right—in terms of cr
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by bulatb 10y ago
Using artificially complex, unfriendly tools is a form of honest signaling. [0] Making tools complex and painful, denying their complexity, and scoffing at the very notion of allowing a non-expert to accomplish what before required esoteric
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by bulatb 10y ago
An application has specific features. A platform gives you the ability to build new features by connecting or extending a set of primitives. When an application can be customized in many different ways, especially with hooks for custom code

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