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by gav 5y ago
I've worked for a hardware company where our employee badges were tracked throughout the building, you had to badge in and out to go to the bathroom, which could be tracked I guess. I didn't really have a problem with it, I feel t
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by gav 6y ago
A $200 air purifier can make a world of difference: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier... (I own a Coway Airmega 200M.) I bought a Temtop monitor to verify if the "smart mode" (
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by gav 6y ago
I think of it more as a BBC thing than a LinkedIn thing: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/email-like-bbc/ If you're trying to get your point across to busy people, short paragraphs help.
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by gav 6y ago
They both look really interesting but suffer from the same issue: top-down vs. bottom-up adoption. There’s no way I can convince everyone to choose a new system for email just to collaborate with me.
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by gav 6y ago
If Google could integrate Gmail, Google Docs, and Chat to make this happen it would make a huge difference to me. I spent a lot of time collaborating on incoming and outgoing email with a combination of Docs and Slack. This also has the ten
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by gav 6y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but the license itself is terribly general and broad: > Any purpose is a permitted purpose, except for providing any product that competes with the software or any product the licensor or any o
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by gav 6y ago
Estimated reading time: 22 minutes, 45 seconds. Contains 4552 words Plus it's a poor use of half an hour if they can change things anyway: > Prezi may revise these Prezi Business Terms and Conditions. If Prezi makes material revisio
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by gav 6y ago
Have you looked at a double drawer dishwasher: https://www.fisherpaykel.com/us/dishwashing/all-dishwashers/...
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by gav 6y ago
> But they are still buying it and still taking the risk that it won't sell. I don't know about Costco, but the big box stores don't carry any risk. If the product doesn't sell then they return it and deduct that off
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by gav 6y ago
There's a setting you can turn on called "Automatically add Google Meet video conferences to events I create"[1]. I tested on a new account and the default was on, which you might argue is bad, but when I tried to create my f
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by gav 6y ago
It looks like they won a IG Nobel in 2011: https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/#ig2011 And it's in the National Museum of Scotland: https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/s
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by gav 6y ago
I see this issue a lot with social media, everyone wants to have share buttons and so on, but few step back and think about if that even makes sense and if their customers even want to engage with them in that way. There's a perceived
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by gav 6y ago
You’re generally trying to make a burglar rob somebody else’s house instead of your own, which is why things like visible cameras, nighttime lighting, and dogs are more important than locks. You can’t really defend against a determined adve
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by gav 6y ago
Short answer: generally it costs more money for worse results. Longer answer: doing things in-house that are outside your core competencies and/or value creation model is a poor use of scarce resources (both capital and human—predomina
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by gav 6y ago
I was on a project where a recently hired Senior Java Developer managed to avoid committing code for three weeks with various excuses. When we finally looked at their code, it was a couple of hundred lines code that looked like Java, but wi
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by gav 6y ago
Security training improves security but it doesn't get close to stopping 100% of attacks. I know it's obvious, but it feels like it's only obvious to those that think about security. It's the same reason that putting you
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by gav 6y ago
When I do that that I get political adverts mixed in with meal-kits, diets (I'm not sure what they're trying to sell), and exercise equipment. It's pretty awful and I'm waiting down the seconds to hit skip. It's lik
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by gav 6y ago
I do the same thing. However, it won't save you if realize that there's an issue after you commit. Maybe I'm just paranoid but I like to have both a snapshot before a major change, plus I'm fond of having a spare (via de
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by gav 6y ago
I'm not sure if it's just me, but when I see DELETEs that use CTEs like that I start to get nervous. It's easy to get wrong and it's hard to undo. I like to have an intermediary table where I can verify what's going
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by gav 6y ago
You can add domain-specific validations that are hard or impossible to capture with database constraints. For example, I built similar tool that you could write simple rules to validate product data. This would run every night and generate
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by gav 6y ago
It's a hard problem to solve: getting to some useful amount of "done" where it solves actual problems for customers is a long way from delivering a truly polished, quality product. There's diminishing returns from 80% to
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by gav 6y ago
> This is something I've struggled with in the past too, my job is basically to put people out of a job by replacing them with software, and those people might then suffer because of it. I spent five years working for a small compan
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by gav 6y ago
Sometimes not that simple, the attack could have corrupted or deleted the backups, or the backups themselves could be the source of reinfection.
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by gav 6y ago
As a Boy Scout in the 90s we used methanol stoves (Trangia) and lanterns, in the UK it’s untaxed alcohol. Spills were common, as was pouring it in your hand or boot, igniting it and running around in the dark. I’m sure we came into contact
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by gav 6y ago
It's funny you say that, I've seen people pick a tech stack based on developer cost. Maybe five years back I had a client in NYC who had a predominantly Java stack, but due to internal politics, wouldn't pay more than 135k fo
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by gav 6y ago
There's a huge potential in mining search data, especially if you can group top-of-funnel vs. bottom-of-funnel searches to see where failures are occurring. Segmenting queries like "zm950" against "shoes" or "n
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by gav 6y ago
There's a type of exercise where you're not asked "I want to do $x, how do I achieve that?" but instead are asked "I don't know what to do, can you find out?" where the scope might be anywhere from "p
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by gav 6y ago
Here's one such encounter: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1283452585945583618 What rights do you have resisting being grabbed from the street by somebody who isn't identifying themselves as law
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by gav 6y ago
A former employer bristled at the cost of Slack[1]. Why should we pay for Slack when we already own Teams? Everyone will just use Teams. About a week later I was on 4 unofficial Slack workspaces. They also mandated Teams for meetings, which
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by gav 6y ago
The book that inspired the series is also great. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn

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