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by harryf 6y ago
Engineers tend to over-focus on correctness. I’ve run hiring process in the past where over a year we interviewed around 50 engineers. Feedback from our own engineers involved in the process would often be like “Seems like a nice guy. But h
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by harryf 6y ago
Is that truly an absolute? “You we’re texting and driving. You could have killed someone!” And if you genuinely believe people posting selfies are narcissists, does this mean you should ignore and keep quiet?
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by harryf 6y ago
Extending point 2, it’s essential if you’re running ads on Facebook and want to know if clicks on the ad in Facebook bring the user through to the app - ie so you can be sure you got a real conversion
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by harryf 6y ago
... so if the app including the SDK has permission to access location data, the SDK could be passing that location data to Facebook?
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by harryf 6y ago
Hmmm this article says a lot without really saying anything. It concludes with implication that we should stop shaming people for posting selfies, without tackling the question "why do people publish selfies in the first place?" o
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by harryf 6y ago
Think the question "What's the return on investment on writing tests?" doesn't get asked enough. There's a blind assumption that writing lots of tests is always good and code coverage tools tend to push the idea tha
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by harryf 6y ago
My feeling over the last 2 years is HN has largely steered clear of topics related to gender, as they lead awful comment threads. That's an impression which implies the HN moderators have adopted this policy. And in general I think it&
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by harryf 6y ago
As a 46 year old I second this! Trying to run your personal life with OKRs sounds like a great way to beat yourself up. Also your spouse won’t be impressed when you tell her “My goal was to spend 46 minutes really listening to you this week
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by harryf 6y ago
The best case I ever found was insisting that designers and developers sit together without much PM interference. The unplanned communication and collaboration ended up producing gold.
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by harryf 6y ago
Didn't see the article address power management in the context of things that might be running idle in the background. That would seem to be to be a major incentive for an OS that's going be used on mobile, which needs to respond
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by harryf 6y ago
Other than the number of cases, a key metric is ICU load. There's a good visualisation here https://covid.visium.ch/ ... the peak ICU load at the end of March / early April was 62% (the source of this data is desc
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by harryf 6y ago
These days owning a MacBook feels like being in an abusive relationship. The sex is still great but price you pay for being slowly distanced from your friends, family and peripherals is high.
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by harryf 6y ago
> “Around 46% of Spaniards are still at work at 6pm, and 10% are still there at 9pm,” says Berbel. “So they are not having a good time, they are working.” Reminds me when I moved from the UK to Germany (and later Switzerland) and was blo
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by harryf 6y ago
> the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to be separated from it by enough levels of indirection That’s a great quip. Was talking to a friend that works in banking (fund management) who made a similar point; ban
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by harryf 6y ago
I’ve often found engineers really struggle to jump over their own shadows when it comes to marketing. Things like... - “Marketing is evil!” ... perhaps but it’s also a necessary evil if you want anyone using your product - “Build it and the
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by harryf 6y ago
There's been rumours of the NHS being privatised and that the UK adopts a more US based healthcare model - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11/nhs-us... Having access to NHS data c
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by harryf 6y ago
Also Swedes (hence the Swiss mistake here)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype > First released in August 2003, Skype was created by the Swede Niklas Zennström and the Dane Janus Friis, in cooperation with Ahti H
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by harryf 6y ago
It’s part of most apps you use on your phone - Facebook is great for app download campaigns and adding the SDK means end to end visibility on marketing. So “everyone” is using it. In an abstract sense this is similar to how Facebook (ab)use
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by harryf 6y ago
> And that's what Tolstoy was going for, perhaps. No ham-fisted morals. Just carefully crafted vignettes of grim life. Which is great and a meaning in itself. Much of what’s grim in life happens without deeper meaning. Terrible thin
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by harryf 6y ago
Higher Order Perl is one of the most enjoyable books I ever read on programming for being both a great intro to functional programming and also highly pragmatic in application of FP. Sadly it’s hard to recommend because prejudice against Pe
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by harryf 6y ago
For a second there was thinking Live, Neutral, Earth?!? Wow these Neanderthals were far ahead...
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by harryf 6y ago
Ah yes. Similar to that feeling we get reading "Sorry. This stream is not available in your region."
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by harryf 6y ago
Exactly. Wordpress (plus plugins) is too much of a liability to host yourself. Personally use wpengine.com with comes with tools to keep Wordpress updated with the latest security patches automatically
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by harryf 6y ago
COVID-19 gives us a good opportunity to compare healthcare systems more directly. Just looking at the absolute number of cases https://i.imgur.com/iiRulFy.png as a proportion of population; US: 610K cases, population 328 mi
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by harryf 6y ago
The other side of the story... https://www.france24.com/en/20200414-french-court-faults-ama... or https://www.ft.com/content/1ad863ef-dc39-43a3-b714-e5ef3c4a8... > Laurent Degousee, of the SUD-
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by harryf 7y ago
Something like this? https://i.imgur.com/ROYWOav.png
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by harryf 7y ago
Refrigeration ?
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by harryf 7y ago
Alan Moore (author of Watchmen and many other things) presents a nice interpretation of the Apocalypse here https://youtu.be/cBc71ROdGxU
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by harryf 7y ago
Struggling to read this ... the domain typo triggering OCD
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by harryf 7y ago
All good until years later, a new team builds, unaware of the leak, same system into a longer range missile...

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