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by gen220 5y ago
An oldie that may be an interesting read for those who have had similar thoughts: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/12/how-the...
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by gen220 5y ago
In New York, the highway norm is 13-15 over for the "I want to go fast but not get a ticket" crowd. (i.e. 80 in a 65). AFAICT, the reason is that there's a big jump in the median fine if you're going >15mph over the s
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by gen220 5y ago
I’ve tried thinking about this from Tesla and the auto manufacturer’s point of view. I think, while battery technology is rapidly evolving, the incentives of EV manufacturers is not to create “open interfaces”, but instead to integrate the
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Question for the more EV knowledgeable people out there. Is there anybody pursuing the idea of charging stations where one swaps your EV’s battery for a fully charged one, and pays a fee proportional to how expensive it was to charge that b
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by gen220 5y ago
You've stumbled upon the perceived-lowest-risk way to fire tech people. It looks better on the books when people churn "organically" over the course of a year. Is it better or worse for morale than a lay-off? Hard to say. Dep
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by gen220 5y ago
If you want an even-earlier-published article to point to as well, this has been mine: https://crawshaw.io/blog/one-process-programming-notes There's also the venerable "Taco Bell Programming": http:&#x
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by gen220 5y ago
> you always are depending on the "good will" of leadership This isn't true if the product is FOSS. The Mozilla Company can be a disaster, but that's OK because Firefox is OSI-licensed. It will outlive Mozilla, and on
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by gen220 5y ago
> Why would anyone expect important services to be free? I think the "common person" does not see these as growth hacks. The internet is full of things that "appear" free, and have "appeared" free forever. Y
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I don't think the problem is with capital writ large, but rather the perverse influence of capital incentives as applied to a personal security product. The value one gains from a personal security product (data portability, availabili
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by gen220 5y ago
It’s gross margin and revenue growth are comparable to FB’s of 8ish years ago (gross margin sits around 80%. FB’s today is 90%, insanity). Even after it’s recent drop in valuation, NET is trading at a higher revenue multiple today than FB w
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by gen220 5y ago
The first sentence of the Sherman Antitrust act (same one that grants the DoJ authority to break up monopolies) declares "every contract... or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce" illegal, which would generally include c
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by gen220 5y ago
I think XML gets a bad rep for a similar reason that CSV gets a bad rep. i.e. there is a wide variance of what “passes” for XML, and two systems that profess to “speak” XML often speak mutually incomprehensible dialects. I think each of you
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by gen220 5y ago
I agree that most articles are meh. In fact, most “things” are meh, statistically speaking (novels included). Finding things that are good (for you) is a hard search problem. You can approach solving it in the same way you’ve solved finding
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by gen220 5y ago
I’ve been using a self hosted miniflux instance, and I’m pretty happy with it. The fundamentals of how it’s implemented are quite sound. I do find myself wishing there were more ways to organize / curate the feed views, and I think abo
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by gen220 5y ago
I don’t know if you’re still in the market for solutions, but in case you are: I’ve been in a similar spot, and found an RSS reader to be the answer. You can filter Reddit/HN feeds, so that they sync twice per day, and only grab up to
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by gen220 5y ago
I don’t think changing the RPC URL exec’s an ethereum light client. Extending the mail server analogy, updating the MX record does not exec a mail server.
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I think this is “the point”. This is like saying you can switch away from GMail by running your own mail server. People don’t want to run their own mail server. Will the ethereum light client run in metamask with no configuration? I’m afrai
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by gen220 5y ago
This is a classic case of miscommunication: there's evident misunderstandings on both sides, and that's totally normal , since no human is a perfect communicator. My advice (as somebody who's been in your shoes), since this
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You can mitigate link sharing by counting the feed reader hits per link (anything more than two standard deviations is probably a shared link, which you can set a revocation policy for). You can reject requests to content that don’t have a
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by gen220 5y ago
> i wouldn't use a RSS feed of Hacker News because I probably only look at 1 in 10 articles on it. The popular HN RSS feed generator linked elsewhere in this page allows for a ton of customization! You can filter by points and raise
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by gen220 5y ago
Ah yeah, that's a totally fair critique. Everything in moderation, I suppose. :) I must avoid those situations by making a new commit when I anticipate wanting to keep the reference to that point in work accessible. I do dive into `ref
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by gen220 5y ago
Have you considered using `git commit --amend --no-edit` after making your first commit? It simplifies the unwinding step. This is pretty much my workflow, too. I’ll make some changes, `git commit -m wip`, and then `g can`. When you’re read
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by gen220 5y ago
It's not a particularly unarguable idea that the Abrahamic God may not be omniscient (at least, not at all points in time. There is a related idea that God changes over time). The parent to your comment gave one example because it&#x27
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by gen220 5y ago
It's very similar to financial/wealth managers. You don't want to work with a "Financial Manager", but you would probably happily give your portfolio to Warren Buffet or Seth Klarman (there's 1000s of other peo
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by gen220 5y ago
Trusting a company with your most valuable long-term data (passwords, medical/family records, etc.) is a losing game on a long enough time horizon (5 years, let alone 15 or 25). You can arbitrage by trying to choose more than one. But
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by gen220 5y ago
`nimble` is the package manager for the programming language `nim` [1]. From [2], we can see that `nimble scss` simply generates the CSS files for the frontend. The benefit of OSS is you can answer these questions yourself with a bit of pok
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by gen220 5y ago
When Lastpass began charging for multi-device access, I sought out free alternatives that could be self-hosted, because I figured I wanted to own my passwords, even if they're encrypted at-rest, and I didn't want to have my life h
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by gen220 5y ago
I think this an underrated aspect of career planning, i.e. building a career that makes you a recession-proof hire. The OP said they’d been in the industry for 2 decades, so they may have got into the workforce at the end of the dot com bub
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> The only way having an IPO go down on the first day actually hurts an employee is if they start that day or are granted stock or options at the IPO price. This does routinely happen, because the 409A valuation for the quarter or more p
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by gen220 5y ago
Employees’ ISOs are computed based on the most recent 409A valuation / share price. If an employee joins with ISOs based on a $40 share price, and the market price is $35 or $15 a quarter or two later, it is bad for morale. A bump, eve

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