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by dfcowell 4y ago
All valid criticisms, especially the slowness and heavy page sizes. Another perspective on 3 of your points though (and a free quality-of-life tip!) > For a while, we had tickets in done states that just roll over to the next epic, like
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by dfcowell 4y ago
There are plenty of sub-500k TC engineers getting around, and the vast majority of companies are “lower-tier” by your implied definition. These companies won’t succeed if they try to act like they’re working with mature engineers, because t
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by dfcowell 4y ago
> what concrete value comes from assigning fairly arbitrary effort estimates in this fashion? This sounds counter-intuitive, but I’ve found in many teams the value of story pointing is to instigate healthy conversations about requireme
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by dfcowell 4y ago
Yeah, I missed that they were the sole engineer. That changes things dramatically.
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by dfcowell 4y ago
I did miss the word “sole.” Good point.
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by dfcowell 4y ago
OP didn’t state where they are from, but there are plenty of places where it is extremely hard to fire, even if an employee is consistently underperforming. Not saying that this is the case in this circumstance (I don’t know OP,) but the “y
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by dfcowell 4y ago
To his credit, it wasn’t for lack of trying. He was in a lot of pretty good rooms.
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by dfcowell 4y ago
It might be helpful to think about what you mean by “help.” It sounds like people fairly frequently come to you for your opinion, to get an answer to a question or to solve a problem. It is extremely easy to give them what they’re asking fo
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by dfcowell 4y ago
Some people find it genuinely motivating working alongside other people working hard. It’s not so simple as someone being a slacker or not.
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by dfcowell 4y ago
Salesforce bought Heroku in the early days of the “Salesforce Platform” product era. I wouldn’t be surprised if Heroku tech underpins a big chunk of the AppExchange developer experience.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
I have scanned “real” signatures in blue and black with 3 different pens as transparent pngs for exactly this reason. Best 5 minutes in Photoshop I’ve ever spent.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
How deep does the rabbit hole go? Wow. Worth digging around in for sure.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
No, I don’t work for Rakuten, but the in-person apology from an appropriately senior person is hugely important for large Japanese organizations. In my current company I have the opportunity to work with several large Japanese banks. Variou
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by dfcowell 5y ago
Technology definitely will not. Fundamental knowledge may be resilient in the face of change, but the skills you need to cultivate to navigate that change and operate effectively in society and business are evergreen. Learn how to reason ab
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by dfcowell 5y ago
This. All of business and government runs on fax machines and Excel here.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
> You could have a currency where taxes are already built into the transfer system and the government is funded by those transfers. Like a consumption tax/sales tax/GST?
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by dfcowell 5y ago
I’ve been getting into cycle touring throughout the pandemic. The longest I’ve gone in a day is ~100km through varied terrain with plenty to see along the way. The thing that blows my mind about this attempt is that it’s cycling ~225 times
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by dfcowell 5y ago
If you have file history enabled, you might be able to get back one of the intermediate versions? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/file-history-in-...
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by dfcowell 5y ago
An abuse complaint to their web host or domain registrar would be the first place to start. infosniper.net is one place to start, any random Whois provider will turn up their registrar.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
I think you’re talking about Leap Motion, not Magic Leap. I made the same mistake until I dug into the article.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
Unfortunately the article doesn’t provide enough explicit detail to be 100% sure one way or the other, however my read is that it’s probably the grid. > Individual data centers were reporting dips in power usage in the range of tens of m
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by dfcowell 5y ago
All of the components in the supply chain will be rated for greater than max load, however power generation at grid scale is a delicate balancing act. I’m not an electrical engineer, so the details here may be fuzzy, however in broad stroke
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by dfcowell 5y ago
This is a great short film that goes into detail about the project and the challenges faced in getting it off the ground: https://youtu.be/3VZSJKbzyMc
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by dfcowell 5y ago
iPhones are already compatible with iQ charging, the dominant standard for this kind of thing.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
I just want that to replace the ugly as hell, never-updated-since-day-1 meeting slots UX in Google Calendar.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
Unless you’re a very large organization, you’re not going to be managing each of those components individually. The “Omnibus installation” as they call it is pretty easy to use. Just bring a Postgres DB and a redis instance.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
It is. Source: asked my colleagues who are in Tokyo.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
Sounds like Mark Rober to me.
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by dfcowell 5y ago
The difference is that the IPA tells you how to use your anatomy to create the right sound. Someone with the right knowledge can look at a word in IPA and know how to construct it to get an accurate reproduction. You might be able to hear
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by dfcowell 5y ago
Microservices are a solution for scaling teams, not software or infrastructure. (In other words, you're 100% spot on!)

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