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by gav 6y ago
If you had to show id when redeeming gift cards over a certain amount, merchants could use this to track down "runners". Though I imagine that a lot of them are probably recruited in a similar way to the work from home scams. The
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by gav 6y ago
I worked on a webapp that our team inherited which had 400-800 line controllers (and one that was a little over 1200 lines). When I first started looking at the code I was horrified but then I realized that everything was self contained and
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by gav 6y ago
There’s a Nathan Pyle comic with this advice: https://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/business_insid...
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by gav 6y ago
Living in Vermont for five years taught me that while a 4wd is a better choice for bad conditions, it's because they are less likely to get stuck with spinning wheels, but they don't stop any faster than a 2wd. I would see way mor
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by gav 6y ago
All the confusing doors they show are "Norman Doors": > A so-called “Norman Door” has design elements that give you the wrong usability signals to the point that special signage is needed to clarify how they work. Without signs
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by gav 6y ago
I often use doors as the introduction to understand affordances. It's crazy that we've had doors for 5000 years and we still make them hard to open. See "Norman Doors": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9
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by gav 6y ago
If your app involves a lot of data crunching and that crunching is the bottleneck, then it makes sense to optimize that part. It's better to have something slow and correct to optimize, so writing it first time round in a slower langua
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by gav 6y ago
> tech stacks are important I'd argue that tech stacks are unimportant 99% of the time. It really doesn't matter if you use Java or PHP or Python or Node. Failures that I have seen due to the choice of tech stack include: - Tec
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by gav 6y ago
> pedal assist I can’t wait for pedal assist ebikes to become more affordable. It opens up biking as an option for a lot more journeys, not just for lower-fitness people, but in regions where it’s hilly. For where I live in Los Angeles,
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by gav 6y ago
Whether or not you agree with email tracking, the language feels a bit like propaganda: "YOU'RE PROTECTED. WE BLOCKED A SPY TRACKER IN THIS THREAD" "A spy tracker" seems a bit dramatic and it's far from a neutr
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by gav 6y ago
Not a dumb question, it does prevent it. However the majority of people enable remote images so distinguishing between images and trackers is useful.
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by gav 6y ago
> Self consciousness is an interesting problem. I prefer seeing faces on the screen during the stand-up (such as it is in the days of COVID), but I was told many hesitate to be on camera. Getting people to turn on their cameras has alway
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by gav 6y ago
> use neutral tools like email Email might be a neutral tool, but not using a tool like LinkedIn is worse because you're restricting your hiring pool to immediate connections. For all its warts, LinkedIn allows job seekers to connec
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by gav 6y ago
Most of the issues I have with ambient noise on call could be solved with people investing in a better headset. It's a significant improvement over using your laptop's built in one. The issue I find a bigger problem is lag causing
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by gav 6y ago
I think this is important and requires a big shift in how most organizations think of QA. A lot of QA being done is very mechanical and and done by junior staff offshore to keep the cost as low as possible. This causes the value to be low t
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by gav 6y ago
Builds are ways of trying to avoid the audience reading ahead and getting to the conclusion before you've told the story yourself. For example, if you were explaining your business plan that had three steps: Phase 1: Collect unde
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by gav 6y ago
The only two rules that I think matter are: 1) make the presentation interesting to sit through 2) have something that you are convincing the audience to do, you should be telling them to "do X" not just tell them "about X&qu
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by gav 6y ago
How I think about a situation like this is that your new manager has given you new information that you need to decide what it means. Either: 1) You've never been in a safe space with room to fail, you've just been operating under
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by gav 6y ago
“If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.” -- The Dalai Lama I've spent a lot of my career working to corr
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by gav 6y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Los Angeles, remote for now I'm an experienced technologist/strategist with 20+ years experience helping (mainly e-commerce) teams and organizations be more effective. - You need help with your engineering t
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by gav 6y ago
While the idea has some merit in making the cost of repeat offenders expensive so that the force polices itself to protect their pensions, it is unfair to penalize those that have no control including officers that have already retired. I t
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by gav 6y ago
The advantage of being colocated in an office is collaboration--being able to work together in close proximity--and community--adhoc gatherings in communal areas. Take out these things to make the workplace safer and I can't see many a
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by gav 6y ago
When I'm thinking about data stores in large systems I like to break them down depending on how they are used on two main axes: is it fast/slow moving and durability from "we don't care" and "we must never lose
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by gav 6y ago
I tend to find people who argue with me against MySQL bring up things that haven't been true in a long time such as Unicode or NULL handling. I'd probably choose Postgres over MySQL for a new project just to have the improved JSON
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by gav 6y ago
If you add the gawkextlib/timex library you can get access to strptime. https://sourceforge.net/p/gawkextlib/code/ci/master/tree/
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by gav 6y ago
Bill Werbeniuk[1] might disagree. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Werbeniuk
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by gav 6y ago
Back in the early 00’s I worked for a tiny web design agency that mainly did e-commerce (Yahoo Store, post-Viaweb). As you might imagine the first week or so of January was sleepy, people are coming back to work, sales are low, nobody is go
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by gav 6y ago
There's some non-free options: Editing/Form Fill/etc: Nitro[1] Signing: Nitro[1], HelloSign[2], airSlate[3], Smallpdf[4] (limited functionality) [1] https://www.gonitro.com [2] https://www.hellosign.com
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by gav 6y ago
It’s not risk mitigation, more a risk swap between “unknown risk”—we don’t know if this third-party product is going to meet our future needs—and “known risk”—we have full control while we are willing to write checks to fund it. In the latt
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by gav 6y ago
Performance testing is hugely valuable but nothing beats having performance metrics captured and made available from production. You never really know how things are going to perform until you see them under real load against real data. The

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