erik_seaberg

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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
I don't start working on something hard just before leaving home, like I don't start before a meeting. It's the surprises that really tear up the workday.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
It's all guesswork until we start measuring the impact of interruptions in open plan offices vs. homes (which is going to vary with families).
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
I don't try to add any pressure, but going on call will require some resilience from each team member.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
They tried remote body shops, which was a disaster (we had "tested deliverables" that didn't compile). This time there seems to be more emphasis on opening your own remote office and hiring the strong candidates there.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
They expect you to compete with nearby employers. If not, you should hire from less active markets and probably go more remote.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
> when work is done, I leave, and it's done. To quote Dilbert: > Now let me get this straight. The time I spend in the shower actually thinking about solving problems is not "work." The time I spend at the office atte
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
I thought inetd let you conserve memory because rarely-used daemons don't need to run continually.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
Transit sacrifices speed for efficiency--long headways, meandering routes, sometimes cumbersome crowds, nothing for the last mile. To be fast, a system needs to arrive on demand and go point to point, which implies a lot of vehicles that do
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
GPUs live in desktops and phones, but apps live in remote datacenters, so the future seems to be sending rendering commands to Javascript frontends on end users' browsers.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
I'm still peeved about the bot that scolded us for the word "Mastercard," which was not only a household name but also an enum value on the wire that payment processing absolutely had to support.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
FPS death has also been the least !!fun!! way to lose a game of Dwarf Fortress, even before it had a GUI.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
https://docs.ambar.cloud/ says the author's org is polling PostgreSQL (or MySQL) tables and producing records for JSON/HTTP consumers. As for me, I think a Kafka broker quorum is hard to beat for a fast and durabl
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
tl,dr: an interpreter for MS-DOS and CP/M from the 1980s, no longer sold.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
I once drove a shuttle that ran on compressed natural gas from the airport, but liquefied sounds more demanding to handle.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723600
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
USPTO has broadened "obvious" recently, partly because of a court ruling that held "A person of ordinary skill is also a person of ordinary creativity, not an automaton" (meaning that the total prior art doesn't nee
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
> come to the table with your internal and external research done, with a clear list of requirements, an executive sponsor with actual decision-making power Putting an executive on the phone is not going to happen that early. A lot of ve
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
I agree that their "availability zone" story isn't solving the problem, so a quorum should span regions rather than just us-east-1a through 1e.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
With serious users, I would feel compelled to warn about the outage risks I were taking.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
Sorry, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.2?topic=statement-ex... seems to be demonstrating a language that is not memory-safe (maybe it used to be, but how?) COMPUTE SIZE-NEEDED = LENGTH OF OBJ + LE
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
C is much older than Unicode, so it's not that surprising that some systems are still using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_646 and replacing some reserved punctuation (e.g., curly braces) with their co
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
There isn't power a few blocks down the street from an apartment. Deploying millions of ruggedized outdoor chargers would be a big job that I haven't seen starting.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
"Used in anger" means for a serious goal. It's an analogy for firing a gun in combat rather than just for training or testing.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia... , though the winner's policy will start after January 20.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
Any garbage collected language avoids a lot of disastrous undefined behavior.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
Besides removing distractions, having more money raises the limits on what you can build before it needs to become self-sustaining. Retirement should be a consolation prize but not the entire goal.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
When you have reason to expect litigation you have to start excluding relevant docs from your normal retention policy.
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
> When a party reasonably anticipates litigation, they have a duty to preserve documents and electronically stored information (ESI). This duty is codified in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 37(e). I don't like this (it
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
> Having to page someone on vacation is a very very broken organization. I agree, I'd like to see enough written down that no outage ever has a bus number of one. But I haven't been seeing that anywhere. I've resorted to t
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by erik_seaberg 2y ago
Seems pretty normal from two Bay Area startups and two FAANG-sized orgs. Primary should respond, secondary shouldn't be disturbed unless primary seems incapacitated (no pager ack) or is at wits' end. Edit: I should add that the

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