efsavage

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by efsavage 4y ago
64.56432% of significant digits are misused.
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by efsavage 4y ago
On the types of projects I mentioned, and I assume to an even greater degree for spaceships, the details are in the spec, which is stamped by an engineer. If you're installing a curb, all of the dimensions are there, the finish on eac
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by efsavage 4y ago
In the US, on large structural projects, things are generally well-specified, either by standard code, or long before the project goes to bid. The owner (usually another firm representing the government that's paying for it) and the c
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by efsavage 4y ago
A better way to align incentives would be to have the bids specify fixed profits and a value engineering process. You bid $10m + $1m profit. The project baloons to a $20m project, you still make $1m. The project meets it's goals wi
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by efsavage 4y ago
If you go into a brainstorming session with the expectation that you will choose anything, you're right, they are usually going to fail. If you go into them with the sole purpose of exploring a problem space and gathering a diversity
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by efsavage 4y ago
Also, the fact that all of these partners are depicted on the edge/fringe, with a big gap in the center, might be a little too accurate.
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by efsavage 4y ago
I really like their Android and web clients. I don't use a lot of advanced features, but find it to be very responsive and handles everything I do very well. Prior to switching to Fastmail, I used to have my mail forwarded to Gmail b
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by efsavage 5y ago
The biggest differentiation for me between Git and Mercurial is that Mercurial is far better for code reviews because it manages stacks of "as small as possible" changes much easier. The git workarounds I've tried to repli
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by efsavage 5y ago
> mostly backed by hundreds of thousands of Mysql instances Kind of. It's part of the recipe but one you find at these large tech companies (I've worked at FB and GOOG) is they have the resources to bend even large/standa
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by efsavage 5y ago
95% of the ratings I leave aren't 5 stars, so that number triggers my fake-reviews alarm. I'm generally far more suspicious of a 4.9 rating than a 4.2.
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by efsavage 5y ago
And despite all that, by the time it was released, it was really not very impressive graphically, which was all it had going for it since it was a terrible film.
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by efsavage 5y ago
+1, being a parent hasn't made me (more) boring. Sure, I went to work for a large company instead of startups so I have a better/regular paycheck, and I may not play as many games or drink as many beers with friends or hack on as
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by efsavage 5y ago
Boston will certainly be one of the boss levels for AI drivers to try and beat, but even then, there's massive value in them working for even 50% of the roads out there. If my robot car said "I can take you from Rhode Island to M
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by efsavage 5y ago
As someone who has probably experienced it, I wonder if ageism is more or less prevalent in remote jobs. I suspect, with zero evidence, that it might be diminished a bit, and could even be an asset since you've got a proven track reco
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by efsavage 5y ago
House values are driven by what people can afford, which is heavily influenced by the interest. If you can afford $1k/mo and 10% of that is interest, 90% is going to principal and you can figure out the math on what your total princip
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by efsavage 5y ago
As a hobbyist woodworker, it would be interesting to try some of this wood. Have you explored any of the woodworking/utilitarian properties of the wood yet?
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by efsavage 5y ago
There's a kernel of truth in the humor here. The healthiest family I've known are not coincidentally also the most ruthless when it comes to the food that comes into their house. They are pleasant about it, and relax their stand
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by efsavage 5y ago
Many people like exercising just before they eat, especially if you're doing weight training. However, if you're _performing_, instead of exercising (like running a race) then you'll likely want to eat before you start.
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by efsavage 5y ago
Indeed, when I told friends/peers I was working at Barnes and Noble they almost universally assumed I was building their website.
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by efsavage 5y ago
I did, and I really enjoyed it! It was not a sustainable financial option for me (I spent far more than I made there due to the employee discount) but was successful in that it gave my life a bit of cadence while I recharged for a few mont
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by efsavage 5y ago
I once took a break from software and applied to be a cashier at Barnes & Noble (just to get out of the house). It was entertaining to watch the manager hastily scan the application for a $7/hour, 10 hours/week job and then p
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by efsavage 5y ago
Bug is used very broadly, any issue/task is a bug, some of which are of type "Bug".
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by efsavage 5y ago
> However, if you’re still developing the interface definition itself, TDD just wastes time when it transpires the interface you envisaged and wrote tests for doesn’t quite match up with the implementation as you write it. This sounds li
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by efsavage 5y ago
Pricing is a required signal for me to understand if the product is even worth the time to try. I don't want to spend hours or more tinkering and then find out the pricing is bonkers. Seeing "coming soon" and "enterpris
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by efsavage 5y ago
IANA data scientist, but I would hope that 4 decimal places in the context of psychology would trigger anyone's BS meter.
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by efsavage 5y ago
See also: The license :D
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by efsavage 5y ago
I once almost completely automated my job, and didn't hide it. The job was to load data files into the backend system. The problem was there there were almost as many formats (~80) as there were partners sending data (~120), not just
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by efsavage 5y ago
If Apple wrote a search engine, would it only return one result? (the right one, of course...)
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by efsavage 5y ago
I've long advocated something generally like this, for patents and other IP as well. I would propose a longer initial term (~30-50 years) since the nature and value of IP has changed significantly since the 1700s. I would also put an
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by efsavage 5y ago
> They employ nobody in the OSM community. If they are contributing data, they are part of the OSM community.

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