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by fogzen 1y ago
Poor choice of terminology. Why not “Deprecated-After” or something actually descriptive. “Sunset” is marketing speak.
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by fogzen 1y ago
Almost. It’s a process problem. But the process is a step above the organization. It’s a socio-economic process that incentivizes these problems. It’s capitalism that’s the process problem. That’s the process that introduces the problem
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by fogzen 1y ago
Love this (as someone with a love for rugs). Thanks for sharing.
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by fogzen 1y ago
It might be worth it if it reduces bugs. If you’re running a payments company maybe working software is more important than saving a buck and shipping a day earlier. Braintree was a pair programming company for example.
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by fogzen 1y ago
I think there's a tension between databases as programs to store and retrieve data quickly, efficiently, and reliably vs. programs to enforce business rules and domain modeling. I am firmly in the former camp. In my opinion databases s
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by fogzen 1y ago
I haven’t worked much with BEAM/Erlang but having worked with real distributed applications I’m quite skeptical there’s much value in helping me send messages over the net between processes. That’s the trivial part of distributed syste
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by fogzen 1y ago
I think a ban on the solicitation of tips, including tip jars, would be practical and easy to implement. It would still be legal to tip if not asked/prompted. That would make the tip prompts on payment terminals illegal, as well as tip
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by fogzen 1y ago
Sure, they’ll get into Ubers, Waymo’s, and Robotaxis. But almost every American will still drive themselves in their own car. The world of personal transportation looks exactly the same as it did 30 years ago. Don’t forget self driving taxi
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Startup Lessons (2013)(defmacro.org)
3 points by fogzen 1y ago|0 comments
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by fogzen 1y ago
Yes, for some kinds of operations on some kinds of data structures. The keyword/property is "monotonicity". Monotonic functions are guaranteed to terminate under fixed-point semantics. Look into Datafun: A total functional l
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by fogzen 1y ago
I think this area is still under explored. I built one of my startups using only PostgREST as the backend, and it was honestly amazing, despite the limitations. The main technical challenge was migrations and interfacing with external syste
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by fogzen 1y ago
The mushrooms are speaking, but not in words, rather in ripples of being. The currents beneath your feet are alive. They hum of moisture, hunger, damage, alliance. It's not a conversation in alphabetic language, but a resonance—a conve
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Fight for Your Right – To Focus(gapingvoid.com)
3 points by fogzen 1y ago|0 comments
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by fogzen 3y ago
Marriage is a commitment to stay together for life. Family is the most compelling reason to make such a commitment, as children are naturally a lifelong relationship and long-term shared responsibility. Caring for the spouse is an extension
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by fogzen 3y ago
This is deeply connected to the drop in childbirth. Yeah, if you don’t want children and you just have a friend you have sex with, why get married?
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by fogzen 3y ago
There are no rules against publishing or teaching dhamma in the vinaya except for the (outdated) rules about which specific persons cannot be taught. “Monks, do not wage wordy warfare, saying: 'You don't understand this Dhamma and
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by fogzen 3y ago
Hey it’s your email, trust Google with it if you want. Just know if you ever run into a situation there is no support and they will not help you regain access.
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by fogzen 3y ago
My wife lost her life’s email despite knowing the password. Google didn’t recognize the device, asked to verify using a phone she doesn’t have access to anymore. Despite knowing her login and controlling the recovery email, she couldn’t log
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by fogzen 3y ago
The exact same, maybe using AI on the backend to improve results, maybe for language translation. But AI is useless in search for the most part. People are looking for a specific thing quickly with the least typing. People don’t want to hav
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by fogzen 3y ago
Doing only what you enjoy prevents you from getting what you want, if what you want requires action you don’t enjoy. If the pain of not being where you want to be is greater than the pain of remaining where you are, you’ll take action. It’s
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by fogzen 3y ago
It's not as complicated as you're making it out to be. You don't need to moisturize, meditate, or keep a journal. If you work for someone else, you don't need to plan your day. Just show up for work. If you don't ha
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by fogzen 3y ago
Having worked with dozens of startups, "build-your-own-workflow" is a giant mess of one sentence tasks in Linear or Asana. The debate over user stories seems like one of semantics. Stories exist regardless of whether they are call
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Ask HN: Why are software project management tools little more than todo lists?
3 points by fogzen 3y ago|2 comments
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by fogzen 3y ago
"Engagement" can mean completely different measurements. Clicking headlines is a measure of initiating attention, video watch time is a measure of maintaining attention. Maintaining attention seems like a great measurement of the
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by fogzen 3y ago
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal“ — Earl Nightingale
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by fogzen 3y ago
We can choose our social role. We can choose the market we want to serve.
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by fogzen 3y ago
They always were liable. But of course, people would have to show they were actually harmed in some way by being “tracked”. GDPR makes it illegal to collect data that doesn’t cause any demonstrable harm to anyone.
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by fogzen 3y ago
The cookie is the same for all users. There is no value unique to each user. All that is logged is “a visit to this page occurred at X time” and if the request contained the cookie then it is marked “unique”. The cookie value is the same fo
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by fogzen 3y ago
I didn’t realize that. That seems pretty stupid. The system I describe doesn’t log any personally identifiable information.
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by fogzen 3y ago
I don’t get it. Why not just set a 24-hour cookie scoped to the path, and every request without the cookie is logged as a “unique visit”. That gives unique visits by device within a 24 hour period, per page, with no logging of any ID/I

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