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by gregmac 6y ago
Even though I generally prefer reading to watching, I've found in the past few years that YouTube is better for reviews, and I think it's actually because of this. If you don't actually recognize the channel, you can usually
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by gregmac 6y ago
Thus got me curious, and I just spent a few minutes learning about OTF ligatures and alternatives, and apparently random is possible: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/12818 From what I've read, the techno
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by gregmac 6y ago
As a developer, I generally find having a distinction between bugs and features useful. If I'm going to do a big refactoring of some component, I find it useful to look for related open bugs (even if they're low severity) because
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by gregmac 6y ago
Whoever is giving your team heat about bug metrics needs to read about Goodhart's Law. There's so many ways to influence number of bugs that it's pointless to measure anything that way. For example, do you make a single bug t
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by gregmac 6y ago
I have a 5 year old, and bought a new mirrorless camera back around then too. When I look back through photos, there's a lot of photos with that camera in the early years, but some of my favorites are still the spontaneous ones snapped
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by gregmac 6y ago
> Cell phone pictures to me are the equivalent today of what disposable camera photos used to be. I think a closer comparison is to point-and-shoot cameras (ones without interchangeable lenses). I have a couple of those hanging around, b
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I get the sentiment here, it's very annoying for developers (including me). Establishing trust is very hard problem, though. Let's move this to a productive conversation though. What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn
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by gregmac 6y ago
Yikes.. yeah, if you're going to do this, consider wrapping it in an `if (date < 2020-06-15)` and be sure to fix it properly before then. This reduces the ability to just forget about it (or have the fix constantly deprioritized) an
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by gregmac 6y ago
>> storing that excess water isn't free. Water is already commoditized, which means it's low-margin. If you as a private business, stockpile water for an emergency but can't charge more, you're probably selling at
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by gregmac 6y ago
What's been done here is a chosen-prefix collision attack [1] where the attacker can produce two files that have the same hash. What you're asking about is a preimage attack [2] where one of the files is already created and the at
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by gregmac 6y ago
I'd argue you don't need to truly be top ten, you need to be sufficiently good that finding someone better isn't worth the marginal cost (hiring is really expensive!) Another way of thinking of this: can you be considered t
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by gregmac 6y ago
I think substitutions are way, way more complex than that. Just from my own experience: I eat low carb (keto). Recently I had vanilla yogurt (22g carbs) substituted for Greek yogurt (5g carbs), which I basically can't eat. There's
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by gregmac 6y ago
> No one has found the "page rank of movies/series" yet, so I think HBO has a better chance here. I'm not so sure -- I think the problem is no one has deployed it. As a consumer, what I want is: based on my viewing hi
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by gregmac 6y ago
Ever seen a news broadcast that said "well, nothing really important happened today, so we're not doing a show - instead here's an hour of cat videos instead"? This is 24 times worse with the proliferation of dedicated n
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It's also a hedge against the company/project shutting down or pivoting in a radically different direction than you want. All the things you listed are foundational pieces of technology that are incredibly risky+costly to swap out
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I think the likely outcome is going to simply be more mix of remote and onsite in the future. Any company that makes it through this is going to realize remote works fine. I'm sure there will be some companies that will still insist on
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It's an interesting data point, but hard to judge much by it. Two things: 1. Working-from-home-during-global-pandemic-with-kids-and-spouses-and-roommates-and-not-ideal-setup isn't the same as working-from-home. Undoubtedly some pe
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by gregmac 6y ago
Also do this, with two variations: 1. Use a catch all alias (zero-effort) 2. Just use the domain or in some cases company name 3. Use a sub-domain The sub-domain is essential for catch-all, otherwise you get a crazy amount of spam. I forwar
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by gregmac 6y ago
> avoiding writing long documents. Just to pick on this bit: You should still avoid writing "long documents". Spend the time to make your documentation as concise as possible. And make no mistake, making it shorter is much mo
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by gregmac 6y ago
Last time I used it, I had to log in to be able to join in my browser, and then couldn't see more then one feed at a time. Kind of limiting, especially compared to jitsi for example.
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I haven't yet decided how I feel about this vs a full password manager (with unique passwords per site), but do kind of like the idea there's no account/vault: literally the entire usage is via a single password. I have a sug
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by gregmac 6y ago
> I'd love to experiment with hiring someone whose primary accountability is answering everyone else's questions, not generating output It's an interesting idea, but I think the problem is that someone who can do this role
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While I agree you need to be careful about mistaking someones nervousness for lack of qualification for the job, that's going to be an issue throughout the interview, not just when they ask questions, and you need to work to get them c
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by gregmac 6y ago
How does a "bad estimate" cause a project to be delayed? I think this type of wording is part of what causes animosity in the industry about this topic. Estimates are not called "promises" for a reason, and any attempt a
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As someone who's done lots of automation and lived with a spouse that isn't as enthusiastic about it, one of the key things to think about is intuitiveness. The setup of "automatically adjusts lighting based on finishing brus
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by gregmac 6y ago
I've found it most helpful to think in terms of deployments: Each (micro)service effectively gets deployed independently. One implication of this is you need to ensure your APIs are backwards compatible with any other services - even
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by gregmac 6y ago
Why aren't there integrated systems for heating/cooling? (Or maybe this exists and I just don't know the proper terms to search for) We have multiple cooling devices: air conditioning (dumping heat outside) and refrigerators
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Did you order Newegg or third-party? So many stores, Newegg included, are trying to be a 'platform' or something and allow third party sellers, but it makes the buying experience awful. Arguably the worst things about buying from
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At work, we use feature branching extensively, and there's often somewhere between 3 and 6 active feature branches at any time. The graph view is a good way to keep track of what's going on overall, if you're watching it reg

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