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by ellius 9y ago
I think the problem is drift over time. Maybe you would have used an item, or did use it, but your life has changed--as lives inevitably do--and now you wouldn't use that item under any circumstances. But the thing has become part of y
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by ellius 9y ago
I've seen comments like his and I really don't know if I'm just ignorant or if the other guy is talking out of his ass. I see no way that machine learning as it currently exists could possibly perform the work of coders or an
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by ellius 9y ago
I think the bigger spook will be if the entire market for on-demand drivers suffers a big decline in demand. Izabella Kaminska of the Financial Times has written several articles arguing that the Uber / Lyft model is fundamentally unec
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by ellius 9y ago
I settled on using a mental image due to the fact that I couldn't help controlling my breathing when I focused on it. I find that it's harder to hold your focus on an image than an automatic bodily function, but the tradeoff is th
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by ellius 9y ago
Guilt is a terrible long-term motivator. For me, two big mental shifts made an enormous difference. 1. I had to stop feeling like someone else was going to tell me how to do it or make me do it. Start going to the gym and do whatever exerci
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by ellius 9y ago
I code for a couple of the other groups in my division as a favor. I still run our entire QA group out of a folder called "mock database" for this exact reason.
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by ellius 9y ago
"We are attempting to build systems that we are intellectually incapable of managing."
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The Coming Software Apocalypse(theatlantic.com)
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by ellius 9y ago
bravo
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by ellius 9y ago
Imagine you want to create some new machines. Maybe you need four servers: 2 running Ubuntu operating systems and 2 running Centos. Traditinally, you would get four physical servers together and then manually load an operating system onto e
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by ellius 9y ago
Matt Levine actually wrote about this already and suggested that it's not likely to be insider trading. Buried in the details (according to him) is that these guys moved like <5% of their stock.
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by ellius 9y ago
Saying anything is "just a group" of its constituent parts is misleading and incorrect. Behaviors emerge at system levels that are not present among individual "parts."
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by ellius 9y ago
• The Prize • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich • The Lean Startup • Poke the Box • The Elements of Computing Systems • The Death of Common Sense • Up the Organization • The Personal MBA • The Wisdom of No-Escape • The Adapted Mind • Bra
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by ellius 9y ago
I do fraud investigations for a bank. We spend an insane amount on labor costs because all of our transactional data resides in different systems. Want to review credit card data? Go pull system X. Want to review wire transfers? Go pull sys
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by ellius 9y ago
I meditate. My goal is to be more at ease with my thoughts. I still get anxious and confused, but that doesn't make the effort any less worthwhile. Same thing with simplicity: it's a habit that you build into your work by degrees
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by ellius 9y ago
I'm really going to try to opt out hard on most IoT. Polluting nice, simple tools with half-assed software is no way to build good products.
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by ellius 9y ago
"It's all laissez-faire until shit hits the fan."
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by ellius 9y ago
I act as sort of a clearing house / accidental DB admin within my department. The amount of time I have to spend cleaning up people's Excel input data is absurd.
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by ellius 9y ago
3d printing. My buddy works at a major American industrial manufacturer and the work he describes is fascinating. They're slowly starting to take on bigger and bigger chunks of the overall business as their capabilities grow and differ
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by ellius 9y ago
Yeah I think that's fair. Certainly the hardest problem is the human one. I don't think blockchain is a silver bullet, just maybe it will help. I wouldn't dump millions of dollars into it or anything without some sort of pilo
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by ellius 9y ago
I think for large, dysfuctional corporations, it could potentially act as a single source of truth for certain data sets. In theory you could just use any database, but in practice a lot of times different departments get different setups f
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by ellius 9y ago
I don't see a lot of Columbus, OH on HN so here's a shout out. I'll definitely try the podcast.
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by ellius 9y ago
Yeah I actually took a small interest but good god, this is getting a thousand times more attention than it warrants.
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by ellius 9y ago
I read the whole thing and didn't really see the part where he was an asshole about it. I agree with your general point though that any company probably would've done the same. To me that gives the lie to every company that bullsh
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by ellius 9y ago
So he should be fired for having an incorrect belief backed up by shoddy science?
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by ellius 9y ago
This was an awesome comment. I've been trying to figure this out but haven't known what I was looking for. Thanks for the advice.
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by ellius 9y ago
Is there a good way to learn those skills at a professional level outside of a university setting? I feel like I've taught myself a sufficient amount of front end, back end, ops (Docker, IaC etc), but I'm at a loss for how to test
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by ellius 9y ago
I started doing GTD. I use Calendar for my "hard schedule"—things that I have to do on a specific day and/or time. I use Inbox reminders for my "hey do this if you get the chance." And then I keep my big todo &
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by ellius 9y ago
I recently started using GTD. It's a system with three main principles: 1. You need to get all "open loops"—anything you think you need to do or want to do—out of your head and written down. You naturally get rid of these whe
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by ellius 9y ago
I have zero dog in this fight from a professional standpoint, but you should reflect on why your behavior is frustrating so many people here. A bunch of smart, technical people are venting and saying "IBM says a bunch of shit and doesn

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