daxfohl

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841.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Looks like he was the only IMO medalist of this year's batch. Is that common?
842.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Yeah, making a 1 year, 5 year, 10 year, 20 year plan and getting started with it helped a lot for me.
843.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Yeah as long as I have a bunch of grunt work, unnecessary fire drills, canceled projects, 2 AM pages, and low pay I'm a happy camper.
844.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Using F# (edit: This made sense before someone uncensored the title)
845.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Mine went away at three months and came back three months later. Plus my dentist said the acid reflux was damaging my teeth. So gave up keto and binged for a few months. Now trying going dairy-free, which feels more sustainable and eliminat
846.
by daxfohl 4y ago
There's also a separate dimension for consuming vs developing. Probably this sits under the category of "too obvious to point out". But still, in large orgs I frequently see wikis that have stuff meant for team members and st
847.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Agreed. Having worked in F# for a few years, I still find encapsulation extremely useful for things like the logging problem discussed in the article. (Another advantage is the ability to specify configurations via IoC frameworks or bespoke
848.
by daxfohl 4y ago
How does this apply to problems like filters and emitters for logging as discussed in the article?
849.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I don't even think it's that different from nuclear. The fact that Iraq had no WMDs (and I have doubts that anybody in the intelligence community really thought they did) got swept under the rug too, after a ton of civilian deaths
850.
by daxfohl 4y ago
We're in a post-truth society. Whether something is true or not is irrelevant.
851.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Yeah my signing bonus is beans now. Fresh college grads are getting equivalent to what my staff offer has become. Maybe that's partially why coinbase rescinded offers, to avoid the senior engineers from comparing their relative signing
852.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Same. (Actually I'm in the really weird position of: manager quit, M2 out with covid, M3 paternity. M4 is even on vacation this week). I half wonder if forcing every manager to take a three month vacation each year would lead to an inc
853.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I have to give them benefit of the doubt. How many things are on my own plate that I haven't done anything about yet? A lot.
854.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Oh you're right. It went over my head somehow.
855.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Don't buy more than you can afford.. That applies in any environment.
856.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Nah, you can always refi if rates go down (after which home values will start going up again), and if rates go up then you can be thankful you have locked in. I never got a house till I had my second kid at age 40. I guess potentially I los
857.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I mean, most of the jobs went to the suburbs in the 90s because of cost and convenience, then boomeranged back to the city for (culture? fun? actually idk why; I liked suburbs better). So, no reason history won't repeat itself.
858.
by daxfohl 4y ago
More appropriate interview would be "figure out how to get permission to change this setting"
859.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Sounds like the ideal is to frame the food system after the US medical system. You can't find out what something is going to cost until after you've eaten it. You have to have food consumption insurance to get things at reasonable
860.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Haha yeah I think I've probably predicted collapse annually since like 2010. So either you can safely ignore me, or we're due for a 12x apocalypse.
861.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I think what's looming feels worse than 2000. 2000 was just a hype bubble of the previous 2-3 years that burst. That actually worked out great for me, as my company just offered unpaid-but-full-benefits sabbaticals. This feels like the
862.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Even with the cost of medicine going through the roof, college kids don't incur a whole lot of medical costs on average. So it's surprising the university would need to spend so much there.
863.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Or knowing Amazon, they'll probably revert theirs.
864.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I wonder if Microsoft will reconsider their pay bumps.
865.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Side note is that if the rule is to have exactly the same number of kids as your mom, then the average asymptotically approaches the woman of the first generation who has the most kids. So the king did better than nothing.
866.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Imagine a population of 2 women, one who has 2 children and one who has 100. Average is 51. Next generation 2 women have 1 child each and 100 women have 99 each, so the average is about 98. Eventually it will go down to zero, but initially
867.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Yeah, I hope it works! Prior to MS I was the solo dev for Smilebooth (a photobooth company), and when I joined Edge Zones my north star to shrink the minimum footprint (I think it was three racks initially) so that you could load an edge zo
868.
by daxfohl 4y ago
And disclosure, I used to be on Azure Front Door team and was the lead for Azure Edge Zones development. I really wanted to do something like fly with that. But it turned out that too many people wanted too many different things. Some neede
869.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Neat, I'd say that is absolutely HN frontpage worthy!
870.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Heroku was magic for hosting college projects of 2010's complexity. The failure wasn't in the prohibitive cost at scale (though that factor didn't help); it was that for most real-world stuff we need IaaS, not PaaS. That has

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