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by gav 7y ago
Same. I think it's interesting because out of all the Apple products that I own, Airpods are the first that I saw and didn't want. I hated how they looked. I had a coworker who used them for calls and he talked me into buying them
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by gav 7y ago
> Is this really a good predictor? It's a good predictor if you wanted to hire people that knew who Peter Thiel was. It's the sort of question that people answer better if it's not the first time they've heard it. A r
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by gav 7y ago
Preventative care might not save money, but in a nationalized system which is funded by tax collection, having participants healthy so that they can live longer and pay more taxes sounds like a good idea. I feel like it's not only a mo
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by gav 7y ago
> It's all about the metrics. Profilers are your friend. In my experience, profilers are not used nearly enough. They also tend to be used when systems are at or near crisis already. It's way more valuable to have profilers run
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by gav 7y ago
Given that for home users, IP address assignment is temporary, is there a plan to add them back after some time has elapsed?
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by gav 7y ago
Along similar lines, Pretend Store (purveyors of fine goods such as the Pocket Developer[1]) have a set of Prompting Cards[2]. [1] https://pretendstore.co/collections/all/products/pocket-deve... [2] https:&#
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by gav 7y ago
Netflix does such a bad job with recommendations for me that I can’t understand what they are doing. For example, I watch a lot of cooking shows. I just scrolled to the bottom of the recommendations on my tablet and they only suggest two—-a
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by gav 7y ago
I helped a friend build a house out of those foam blocks: it's a lot of fun and you're able to bring a bunch of people together in a "barn raising" tradition that you wouldn't be able to do with traditional construc
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by gav 7y ago
Such a move would cause a dramatic shift, but not a good one: it would cause the best and most experienced people to leave for less risky work. It’s like any contract negotiation, you’re always able to push for more favorable terms, but eve
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by gav 7y ago
They don't really seem to care much for complaints a lot of the time either. Somebody attempted to cash some fraudulent checks for a company I worked for, luckily this was caught by our bank before we lost any money. The NYPD had no in
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by gav 7y ago
On that second point it's important to differentiate one-off or recurring items. It's great to beat up a car salesman as you'll likely never see them again, but not somebody that provides a critical service, say IT support. I
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by gav 7y ago
I really like "The Art of Action" by Stephen Bungay, who's a military historian/management consultant. It's interesting to compare the Taylor vs. Drucker view on management against the Bülow vs. Clausewitz view on w
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by gav 7y ago
I spent a long time without syntax highlighting, or very minor highlighting (parenthesis/brackets/braces) but at a conference somebody told me that looking at monochrome text all day was depressing and that adding color with synta
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by gav 7y ago
The "double diamond" is very helpful getting to a good solution. It's my preferred way to structure idea/solution generation. https://www.hallaminternet.com/how-to-think-creatively-using...
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by gav 7y ago
Somebody once told me "the arrows are more important than the boxes". It made me realize that focusing on the flows of data between systems resulted in better overall designs. You can always swap out the contents of a box later on
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by gav 7y ago
One of the things I think microservices does help with is thinking about systems being composed of components that are being developed at different velocities and different tolerances of risk. Imagine an e-commerce site broken into a bunch
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by gav 7y ago
I'm not a huge fan of the foam ear plugs and find 3M's "Peltor Sport Tri-Flange Reusable Earplugs" something that's comfortable for me to wear on long international flights to sleep. The downside of the non-foam de
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by gav 7y ago
It would guess that the root cause for most outages that have a human factor is disorganization and sloppiness because if that wasn’t the case there wouldn’t be an outage. It’s interesting to me that GitLab are so public and honest. I don’t
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by gav 7y ago
This is a very salient point. If your service relies on N other services, each with a SLA of 99.99%, the chance of a single request having at least one failure is: 1 - .9999^N Which means if you make 10 requests, you go from 99.99
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by gav 7y ago
SQLite does a great job of importing CSV, and then you're able to use something like "DB Browser for SQLite"[1] to browse the data. I use something like this to fix up column names and import: sed -i '' -e &#x
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by gav 7y ago
I think this is a really great point, as often the HN answer is "hire better developers". The majority of companies outside the HN bubble are full of very average developers. ORMs work well in that sort of environment as it allows
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by gav 7y ago
Some of the best talks I've seen are along the lines of "nobody cares about X but me, and here's why _you_ should care about it" or "I'm the only person who has attempted Y (and lived/succeeded) and here&#
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by gav 7y ago
I'm not sure about other states but in California, there is the LifeLine program[1] to provide free cell phones to those in need. [1] https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/lifeline/
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by gav 7y ago
> Amazon is accused of using sales data belonging to companies selling products on their platform to help them select 10,000s of products to clone and sell in direct competition to their vendors. At the risk of being accused of whatabout
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by gav 7y ago
I feel the same way, for the last year mine was 4.86 and just recently it’s dropped to 4.81. It’s definitely something that worries me as it’s out of my control.
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by gav 7y ago
> When I pressed them about the relevance, they indicated that they often have heated debates on all manner of topics, so they wanted to see my thought process. One of my favorite interviews was when I was posed the question: "you w
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by gav 7y ago
I struggle to think of time I used a right join in the 20-odd years I've used SQL. The example shows a case where you'd want foreign keys to enforce referential integrity, though FKs aren't fashionable these days. You shouldn
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by gav 7y ago
It's hard to empathize with abstract people, you need to observe and engage actual people in their environment, which costs time and money. Too often people are stuck in a conference room talking about personas. I've ended up frus
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by gav 7y ago
One of my favorite resources for onboarding is Samuel Hulick's https://www.useronboard.com/ His teardowns are particularly valuable to see how others do things and what does and doesn't work. Plus they're ent
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by gav 7y ago
An interesting paper about systems on the edge of failure is "'Going solid': a model of system dynamics and consequences for patient safety" by Cook and Rasmussen: https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content&#x

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