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by eismcc 8y ago
Aware of that. Spent 7 years there. It’s just additional context of the speaker.
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by eismcc 8y ago
It’s just the facts. I worked with him at LinkedIn, so I know his history.
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by eismcc 8y ago
Keep in mind, Kevin Scott has made most of his career around ads: AdMob, Google, LinkedIn and now Microsoft.
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by eismcc 8y ago
I suppose it depends how realistic the sim is, but what about drones, conveyors, helicopters, etc?
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by eismcc 8y ago
Agree. It’s also a message to the rest of us that we are likely capable of a lot more than we think.
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by eismcc 8y ago
Interesting article. While there may be nature/nurture arguments here, IMO, first order thinkers are trained to be that way by society and markets. Someone who doesn’t think ahead is more “useful” as a consumer. Someone who doesn’t t
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by eismcc 8y ago
In the movie about 4 students winning the underwater vehicle contest, the MIT team was dinged for not defining the MIT acronym. https://www.wired.com/2014/12/4-mexican-immigrant-kids-cheap...
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by eismcc 8y ago
Freestyle should have continuous outflow while head is in the water so that at breath time, you can get a lung full. This becomes more important the longer the event (eg miles) due to accumulated stress and lactic acidosis due to not breath
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by eismcc 8y ago
What you describe feels more like case classes.
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by eismcc 8y ago
How do you manage combinatorial explosion as states increase?
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by eismcc 8y ago
Good point. Thinking about this more, I’m wondering if OKRs are just s byproduct of abstraction. Management needs to feel like they have a way to have “traction” on things they don’t actually have any real understanding of - eg the code. S
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by eismcc 8y ago
Despite the name and intention, in my experience, OKRs is a prime candidate for cargo culting culture into an org and using process as a proxy for actual focus on outcomes.
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by eismcc 8y ago
If your business is making money on treating issues, preventing them isn’t aligned. Worst case, you neglect issues until they get to a point where you start making money. Legacy dialysis business is a good exsmple - they need ass-in-seats
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by eismcc 8y ago
This assumes that’s what medical companies want. If we get closer to full value based care, then yes.
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by eismcc 8y ago
Having worked on the Windows kernel team, I can say this impressive stuff. It seems early enough to pick a specialty for this OS that it could do well that others may not.
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Ask HN: What’s Your Favorite Technology?
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by eismcc 8y ago
Author references the makemehanzi project: https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
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Prime candidate to add to my http://parallac.org collection!
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by eismcc 8y ago
Seems so, thanks.
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I recall Picasso would nap with a spoon for the same purpose.
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by eismcc 8y ago
As someone who works on an in-memory DB, good advice. You can go far, but it’s worth designing your system with the notion that data could be paged in/out behind the scenes.
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by eismcc 8y ago
Cool! Recommend removing “never played” and using something like “popular” on more played. This way new content doesn’t look like no one likes it.
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by eismcc 8y ago
I use it a lot for ML work. Nvidia-docker makes it easy to setup CUDA and partition access to GPUs (if you have more than one). Docker makes it easy to setup tensorflow, Keras, python, etc. which I find to be a royal pain otherwise.
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by eismcc 8y ago
As in, WNT = VMS + 1
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by eismcc 8y ago
I’d have to say the headless server infra/features for Windows server 2003. The previous dev quit saying it was impossible, but as a new engineer I didn’t know any better.
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by eismcc 8y ago
I was at a book signing at Microsoft after 9/11 and N.S. seemed to believe that The Diamond Age was no longer relevant and seemed to regret even writing it. I wonder how he feels now.
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by eismcc 8y ago
If you are interested in how to build a bot, Manning is having a Go bot competition: https://deals.manning.com/go-comp/ It’s been really fun to work through the books.
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Also, I’ve seen smart people just not have the patience required to work on programs. There’s a level of pain tolerance required for debugging, for example, that some people just can’t handle - or don’t want to.
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by eismcc 8y ago
Everyone I know has different reasons. Some are more altruistic than others. Sometimes it’s done in honor of others who cannot do it, eg disabled, fallen vets, etc. Sometimes just because people want to be more than a desk jockey.
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by eismcc 8y ago
Having been part of the Ironman community for a while now, I can say endurance folks are definitely different than your average person. Often very humble, they like meaningful, big, challenging goals that redefine “normal.”

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