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by cyode 4y ago
I’m sorry you experienced that. Do you feel like it left any lasting effects?
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by cyode 4y ago
Back in the 90s as a kid, one year I got a handheld 20 Questions electronic game as a stocking stuffer for Christmas. I remember being astonished that this dumb little plastic pod with rubber Yes/No buttons and LCD screen "beat me
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by cyode 4y ago
Stripe set a high bar today in terms of severance, you can almost guarantee Twitter’s terms aren’t going to be as generous.
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by cyode 4y ago
Since this is Coinbase we're talking about, I assume the last $3M went to fees.
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by cyode 4y ago
+1 re the login/location gripes. Also, I immediately thought this would violate Wikipedia's "No original research" policy, but looks like images are exempt[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip
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by cyode 4y ago
> Experience shows the best approach is to “just do it,” when a confluence of indicators occurs like now. Accomplishing the "buy low" objective successfully means not attempting to "buy lowest.” Language like this really d
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by cyode 5y ago
It's been a few years since I read this (when I briefly considered switching from software engineering to management) and the one thing that stuck is the advice to "start with heart" during your crucial conversations. Trite i
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by cyode 5y ago
Bit off-topic: can anyone recommend resources (videos/papers/tutorials) that could help me learn how QR barcode detection and scanning itself is implemented? I've been thinking that building a basic scanner from scratch (i.e.
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by cyode 5y ago
My mind is blown. Reflecting on a lifetime of getting declined filling web forms in with a wrong CC number, billing address, expiration or CCV, I...don’t think I’ve ever misspelled my name. Trying this out on my next purchase for sure.
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by cyode 5y ago
What's a hood experience?
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by cyode 5y ago
+1 exactly what I was wondering. And if it is, what’s stopping a company from defining the culture as, “It’s ok if you want to talk about this at work, and it’s also ok if you don’t want to.”
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by cyode 6y ago
While I didn't learn anything useful from the article, TIL the idiom "old chestnut". What an excellent expression!
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by cyode 6y ago
Nice, I love Minesweeper. By the way, the link to your blog post is incorrect in your README.
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by cyode 6y ago
> There are many ambiguous date formats, but this is not one of them. The comment you've replied to is a counterexample to this claim.
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by cyode 7y ago
If you have remote teammates or may have any in the future (i.e. if your company allows remote engineers), a culture of writing things down is imperative.
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by cyode 7y ago
Having a button to toggle on/off rounded e-notation (e.g. 1.2365479e+45) could make comparison easier as well. Nice job with this, I learned something new today :)
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by cyode 7y ago
They could be paired with wireless headphones distributed to attendees, similar to silent discos. You could even pipe music to the masses, along with explosion sfx synced with the drones.
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by cyode 7y ago
Lots of comments here about what this means for CircleCI. Found it interesting that CircleCI's CEO has a testimonial in the "What our community is saying" at https://github.com/features/actions : “CircleC
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by cyode 7y ago
Human drivers today reliably stop for jaywalkers. I imagine jaywalking rates in a total self-driving car world be about the same.
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by cyode 7y ago
Nothing, unless they aren't interested in being and carrying out the duties of a project manager. "Soft skills" like developing team processes, improving internal documentation, and even helping other engineers on the team ca
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by cyode 8y ago
When I first learned about W3W, I immediately wondered if this same process of mapping n-word tuples across a discrete space could be applied to time. Similar to GPS coordinates, Unix timestamps like 1293432531 don't communicate much t
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by cyode 9y ago
Surprising to me is seeing that some of the papers cited here were published in the mid-90s. That's 5 or 10 years before when I would've guessed. Makes me think of Ada Lovelace and how awesome the mind can be when grappling with t