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The Tolling Bell(americanpurpose.com)
5 points by eigen-vector 6y ago|0 comments
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
Assuming COVID ends up as less of a threat towards the end of next year, this might be good timing in favor of employees. Travel (and market sentiment around travel companies) might pick up right around the time when their lock-in period ex
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Paint it Black: A song about Red-Black trees(gsc-history.cs.washington.edu)
2 points by eigen-vector 6y ago|0 comments
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
+1 on chime being an awesome video conferencing tool. My P99 experience with chime video meetings has been stellar.
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work for AWS. Slack clearly is the superior IM product. However, I am skeptical about this move as I'm concerned about the brain cycles that need to go into 'managing' my Slack. I have used Slack only in a limit
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
This is cool. Just to give you some product validation, this is essentially what WhatsApp was before it became a messaging service. The 'status' that you see when you look at your WhatsApp contacts was the entire app; launched to
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
This goes hand in hand with writing. (Good) Writing involves thinking deeply about an idea or a topic. Many good writers appreciate critical feedback, this involves getting your ideas validated or invalidated. It is quite easy to be in an e
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The Miracle Sudoku(youtu.be)
4 points by eigen-vector 6y ago|0 comments
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The Miracle Sudoku [video](youtube.com)
596 points by eigen-vector 6y ago|143 comments
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
Personal opinion: Like most productivity tips, you don't have to hack your way into making reading a habit. A lot of the effort gets lost in the process itself. What I've found works for me is identifying the right kind of book(s)
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Media, Regulators, and Big Tech; Indulgences and Injunctions; Better Approaches(stratechery.com)
3 points by eigen-vector 6y ago|0 comments
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
I intended it to be a comment on how security is a reason why this was purportedly removed and that I understand, but I see that I muddled my statements there.
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
If the phone numbers were of your users you were presumably unauthorized to sign up for a different service using those. That is sketchy.
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
This is quite unfortunate. In countries where whether the people have access to internet or not is under the control of the government, this was a neat work around to get voices heard. In the recent history, an 'internet lockdown'
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
Not to be confused with The Broken Windows Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
If you're using Android you should be able to use user-profiles. You can create a profile with limited things in it, one of which being web access to generate this proof.
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
Are you still employed at said big company? Usually the fastest path for somone in your situation would be to slowly transition into a programming role in your company. Some companies even have a well defined system in place for such transi
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by eigen-vector 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work for AWS. A counter point to think about. Archival storage needs to inform engineering behavior as well. If I'm archiving something knowing that retrieval will take longer or is expensive, I will make smart decisions
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by eigen-vector 7y ago
That's awesome. I certainly missed this bulletin!
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ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' free to download(dl.acm.org)
421 points by eigen-vector 7y ago|60 comments
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Ask HN: What are some mechanisms you use to deliver things as a team?
1 points by eigen-vector 7y ago|0 comments
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Music on Demand(1995)(wired.com)
2 points by eigen-vector 7y ago|0 comments
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by eigen-vector 7y ago
Thank you, dang! This is certainly a more accurate title.
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by eigen-vector 7y ago
This was not exactly a Jeff Bezos mandate but the result of an engineering brainstorm. The mandate came more out of a "how to scale Amazon for the next decade" discussion. In large companies, one where distributed/independen
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Amazon S3 Introduces Same-Region Replication(aws.amazon.com)
16 points by eigen-vector 7y ago|1 comments
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by eigen-vector 7y ago
I agree with you, the article could have omitted the mention of the thundering herd and would still not feel any more incomplete. I think it becomes a thundering herd problem when every request that's a potential cache miss tries to ob
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by eigen-vector 8y ago
I like the cached thoughts[0] theory better. It is a more eloquent explanation/argument of a similar concept. [0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2MD3NMLBPCqPfnfre/cached-tho...
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by eigen-vector 8y ago
Define the customer experience. If you have a Product Manager who is involved with the project, you would ideally meet with them ahead of putting together a technical design document and discuss what the customer experience is going to look
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by eigen-vector 8y ago
That's my entire comment about. The Gates line made sense when platforms brought infrastructure. It doesn't when the platform is less about infrastructure and more about providing an audience for the services built on top to succe
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by eigen-vector 8y ago
Pertinent to revisit Yegge's famous platform rant[1]. Companies like calling themselves platforms—more so in the modern times—because they can usually provide one or dimensions of value. For everything else, they need external entities

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