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by ccmonnett 8y ago
Non-stop as in on all days in Ramadan consecutively. It's quite trendy to do alternating fasting cycles like "5:2" (five days 'normal', 2 days fasting, typically separated). Ramadan is ~30 days of fasting during day
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by ccmonnett 8y ago
If time-restricted eating is having that big of an impact on your life, adapt to it. Eat lunch later on the following days after going out, or - and stop me if this is crazy - don't be so strict about it if your friends want to meet up
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by ccmonnett 8y ago
People train months (and years) to take minutes off their time, especially as their times get lower and the returns diminish. 4% of 3 hours is more than 7 minutes! That could be equivalent to tens of hours on the road. $250 is a _great_ inv
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by ccmonnett 8y ago
If you like this, you (and many others here) may also enjoy this great visual breakdown of how the American economy has changed since the recession in 2008: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/05/
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by ccmonnett 8y ago
No! I was the only engineer at a startup for 18 months (!) and we're now up to 7. Some of the other 6 will never be expected to take on management roles. One of the great things about being an IC at an early company is there is so much
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by ccmonnett 8y ago
Not your OP and not answering your question directly, but the aforementioned "tech-to-housing cost" ratio isn't so straightforward for finding out where to work. For the record, your parent seems to have thrown out Houston an
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by ccmonnett 8y ago
> Then I guess using the id of the tuples to show that they are using the same object doesn't exactly prove the point Without the `del a`, it does, because they both have active references. If they were unique objects, we'd see
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
I am rather optimistic about blockchain for the exact opposite reasons. I don't believe it is "trustless" but rather "distributed trust" or "decentralized trust". Depending on entities like banks to determ
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
I'm looking for one of these 'mirror SFDC (or Zendesk) to Postgres' solutions. No fancy integrations/automated workflows: just back up a Salesforce CRM to Postgres at least every 15 minutes. Fivetran has seemed to be the
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
What have you found in “boom towns” that may be taken for granted (or not exist at all) in “boom cities”? In other words, it’s easy for us to think of things that cities have and towns don’t; have you found a counter example?
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
I work for a company that makes tools for B2B tech support. It helps to work with people that give a darn about support (really helps if they've done it themselves) to know that we're on the same page about helping our customers &
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
I think this piece of advice is extremely relevant for those selling B2B software/products which comes in bigger 'chunks' than your labor which can be sold by the hour. The gist is that while you (as the average B2B startup)
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
I should have known the basketball-gm guy was on HN! Awesome work dude.
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
I use RDB heavily with some Pandas hanging off the side because we haven't integrated them well but looking to improve that. You can get in touch with me if you'd like - I use this handle pretty much everywhere (except reddit ;) )
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
There are several other "no-ops" services that Google offers in GCP that we leverage to great effect (and personally, as the guy who would be doing the "ops" part, really enjoy using). It's quite liberating to be ab
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
I think Docker would be quite happy being the 'next VMware', and as an ex-VMW person myself it's hard for me to fault that, too.
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
A friend who works on NVLink would have a very similar response if prompted. And they were (probably still are) trying some more interesting ways of working around PCIe that were hamstrung by Intel et al, given the control they have over th
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
It might not be read much only because it was recently released but Homo Deus by Yuval Harari is off the chain. This dude can explain grand ideas encompassing human civilization in (relatively) simple, brief, and entertaining language and I
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
Carcassonne is fantastically simple but still very deep/complex strategically. Play without Farmers for a few games before adding them and decide whether you want to keep them or not - they make move planning much more abstract which i
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by ccmonnett 9y ago
Awesome! I saved every one since I've never been to any... can you do the South Bay/Peninsula (anyone else too)? About the OP: I effing _love_ pizza but struggle to make it at home. The quality and quantity of knowledge in this po
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by ccmonnett 10y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. People are getting caught up in Ruby v Java v whatever and not seeing the forest for the trees - you have a valuable perspective and an effective way of communicating it. Appreciate it! May I ask you abou
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by ccmonnett 10y ago
I'm reading this now and enjoy it very much, it's a very fast read by economics book standards. That is, though, because it's not dense with theory for better and for worse. If your expectations are "reasonably entertain
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by ccmonnett 10y ago
Hey, I signed up just to reply! If you want to begin to understand the stuff for fun I recommend the Udacity cluster of data science courses - intro to data science, machine learning, and eventually deep neural networks. I took AI at Stanfo