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by ebiester 5y ago
That's already a problem in the office culture. I may be able to tell if you are diligent, but I can't tell if you are productive. And as a manager, I would rather have three hours of effective work than 8 hours of ineffective wor
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by ebiester 5y ago
How do you do that when everyone lives x,000 miles away now? Why would I stay in <big city close enough to commute> and pay <outrageous> rent/mortgage if I'm remote? (Honest truth: that's what remoter weeks are fo
903.
by ebiester 5y ago
/orders /orders2 /orders3 /orders4 /neworders /getordersbutonlythistype
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by ebiester 5y ago
"That said, I can’t agree with the author’s argument that we need to put a legal upper limit of 35 hour work weeks on everyone. That wouldn’t actually solve the problem of certain people abusing systems to work less than others. It wou
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by ebiester 5y ago
This gets to intent. What, in the code base, does char_a mean? Is it append_command? Is it used in a..z for all lowercase? Maybe an all_lowercase is needed instead. I know that it's an "A". I don't know why that matters
906.
by ebiester 5y ago
Clinical trials are quite often global. I'd imagine any vaccine effort would be too.
907.
by ebiester 5y ago
Amazon shares, relative to revenue, were absurdly overvalued for over a decade. Then they weren't. The argument for Tesla, much like Uber, is that they are going to figure out the rest. It's really almost a faith based investment,
908.
by ebiester 5y ago
You miss the point. Lil Nas X and The Weeknd are placed in R&B almost exclusively because they are black. In your eyes, sung by a white person in 1986, would be synth pop. Did Billy Ray Cyrus make Old Town Road suddenly country? Is Mont
909.
by ebiester 5y ago
Great: Now do the same for everyone. Let everyone sign up for an AWS educate account with limits they choose.
910.
by ebiester 5y ago
This is a descendent of a 1990 Usenet post. "Problem #2: is that white noise, or is it a one-time pad ? I dunno. Awfully hard to prove, isn't it ? Unless, of course, I left my radioactive source and oscillators lying around. Big d
911.
by ebiester 6y ago
Even still, you're balancing the number of people dying from the lockdown against the number of people who would have died if the hospitals would have been completely overwhelmed (a la NYC, Wuhan, India, and Italy in various times of t
912.
by ebiester 6y ago
Providing useful information for free is a loss leader. Information may want to be free, but its creation is still expensive.
913.
by ebiester 6y ago
Does everyone on the team need more than a basic understanding, or can you rely on one or two on your team to handle the 5% cases? I think that's the distinction here.
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by ebiester 6y ago
You basically can look up just intonation versus equal temperament for the basics. https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/scales.html gives the mathematical answer but doesn't get into the history. A clause that says "
915.
by ebiester 6y ago
More importantly, there are likely billions of lines of java code in production at this point, and just having that as an option matters for those code bases. It might not be what you choose for a new company, but it may not be fashionable
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by ebiester 6y ago
What we really need is white paint in the summer, black paint in the winter - reversible roofs, if you will. That said, in the desert southwest and many places in the world, white roofs are common. I wish it were more common in the southeas
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by ebiester 6y ago
Companies aren't static. I'd consider Heroku (or similar) to start, but once I had funding/revenue to support having ops, I would transition away. However, once you have developed a workflow, going back in developer experienc
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by ebiester 6y ago
I once worked at a place with a strong, great culture. They acquired another place with a strong, great culture. The cultures were diametrically opposed. It turned into an awful culture for both. People find like-cultured people. Don't
919.
by ebiester 6y ago
Wework has received 20 billion dollars of funding. It will take a long time for that money to be recouped, if it ever is at all. Source: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wework/investor_fina...
920.
by ebiester 6y ago
To my ears, Iglooghost sounds like an extension of hyperpop. Listen to "Super Ink Burst" after "Immaterial" by Sophie.
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by ebiester 6y ago
It often means that your manager is doing nothing but the administration around management, and your team leads are pseudo-managers. There are three forms of management: The team lead as manager, the manager that has 2-4 teams and is respon
922.
by ebiester 6y ago
If you are willing to pay for something that is free, it generally means you have more disposable income. It's not that you become more valuable, it's that the remaining cohort becomes less valuable. Few people making $30,000 a ye
923.
by ebiester 6y ago
Spoonful is approximately 20ml, but the recipe author is saying the exact measurement is not important and that this is a particular lever to adjust for taste. (A spoonful of sugar means that some people will prefer this sweeter and some mo
924.
by ebiester 6y ago
I think the article is talking about internal documentation rather that user-facing documentation.
925.
by ebiester 6y ago
> Not really - you could write cross-platform GUI applications from a single code base in 1996 if you wanted to without using Java. It was unpleasant, but it was absolutely possible. Right - as seen by Netscape. We can also speak about c
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by ebiester 6y ago
But nobody chose the alternatives. Java or single operating system applications were the alternative. Where would we be today if you couldn't swap between Mac and Windows laptops -- or worse, had to have both -- because you depended on
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by ebiester 6y ago
This whole article seems to be cribbed from Range.
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by ebiester 6y ago
Considering how famous this restaurant is, it may confound discovery.
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by ebiester 6y ago
The cost is less Tidal and more the Ascap and BMI licensing. It looks like there are companies who will bundle the cost of licensing into your monthly fee, though.
930.
by ebiester 6y ago
A few questions... 1. If someone was promoted from within at another company, should their next job be a senior engineer again? Should we have our managers grinding leetcode when they're looking for their next position? If there is mor

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