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91.
by heelix 2y ago
Similar for air traffic control. They recently opted to not increase that age for ATC. All of them should have the same standard.
92.
by heelix 2y ago
I've really come to appreciate blameless post postmortems. People hide mistakes when you have a culture that punishes. My biggest foible: Our 400 person company had issued blackberries and was pulled into a project where all the work
93.
by heelix 2y ago
I've not pursued any hiring opportunities - but I've certainly used HN insights to avoid some companies that would have been a clown car rodeo.
94.
by heelix 2y ago
In the early days of the web, that is exactly what we did. I was part of a home shopping network, prior to HTTPS being a thing. We were given enough budget to put together a pentium pro, a fractional T1, and coded up a website in C++ that
95.
by heelix 2y ago
When I'm interviewing, I'll usually start with something simple with an input that is a phone number and the first 'questionable' input I'll hand them is 1-800-FLOWERS and ask how they are handling it. There are a
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by heelix 2y ago
Carbs are what kick you out of ketosis. Protein and fats won't, but they have other issues. (Fiber can be a real challenge)
97.
by heelix 2y ago
In many, many cases - teams don't have enough time to do maintenance. The programs where our developers become line order cooks, only having cycles to add the features for that sprint, almost always spiral into despair. Dependencies
98.
by heelix 2y ago
Our property taxes increased a crazy amount as well. Went from a 3'ish percent increase to up 25%, and then again another 14%. Pushing back on the assessment did nothing.
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by heelix 2y ago
The 2x Ramen is one of the foods I pack into my BWCA camping trips. We started with the standard ramens, started experimenting with finds on Amazon, and then discovered the wonders within our local Asian store. The 2x, for me, is just on
100.
by heelix 2y ago
Ironically, I don't think speed is where the Porsche shines. I've got an older C4 911 and the neighbor's Corvette is faster in a straight line. Not really slowing down on corners is where you see things change in favor of t
101.
by heelix 2y ago
It was not until I was married that I found out mayo even had an expiry date. None of my roommates in the university days used enough to actually work through a jar. It somehow made it fridge to fridge through multiple leases.
102.
by heelix 2y ago
Our kid was lucky enough to have the bullseye mark on her skin when she came down with a massive fever. Had not thrown out my medical microbiology college texts from the late 80's and sure enough - the picture matched up. She ended u
103.
by heelix 2y ago
It is amazing how fast 25+ years went by. I'm in this picture... and when I think about the jump from C++ to Java 1.1, going through the transition of EJBs to what would be considered modern Java, doing XQuery/functional developme
104.
by heelix 2y ago
My favorite pager moment: Was part of a large consulting effort - lots of people. One of the execs was doing a demo of the system and they were playing DNS games with dev/test/stage/prod. They did a quick restart - which is
105.
by heelix 2y ago
So much this. At one of the big tech companies, we needed a hard drive for something. It was going to be easier to buy a $5K drive array and shuck the drives than expense $200 on a single HDD. Trying to buy stuff 'outside your lane&#
106.
by heelix 3y ago
Supreme Commander is still pretty active, via the FAForever community. The original single player maps were converted to co-op. Lots of game modes, a new race, unit tweaks, new maps - very much a game that still gets love. When the next s
107.
by heelix 3y ago
The stratux.me project was so much fun. Started off as a sub-reddit and just expanded. Take a simple raspberry pi, add a couple of RLT-SRD dongles, Bluetooth, maybe a USB GPS - and it replaced a $1k bit of kit. The ADSB information that
108.
by heelix 3y ago
Similar setup with the XPS 17" model and Ubuntu. Might try Debian somewhere in here.
109.
by heelix 3y ago
Also, when one has to reach out to unfamiliar servers, I can always count on some form of VI being present. The same is not true for Emacs.
110.
by heelix 3y ago
We turned that on about a year ago, and that totally helped reduce the silly. The new dashboards are nice to - letting you spot what application team needs a phone call. 'This is still active' warning is fantastic. Wish all prov
111.
by heelix 3y ago
One Christmas, the extended family, most of us caffeine junkies were all at my parent's home. By the second or third day, everyone had headaches and just felt terrible. My brother-in-law wandered into the kitchen to put on a fresh po
112.
by heelix 3y ago
On a personal note, I'm in this picture. I've been doing back end code for decades, and beyond a bit of 2003 style ajax/css, my front end skills were non-existent. One of those itches - standing up a blog - as I'm work
113.
by heelix 3y ago
Yup. Not uncommon to get a really high quote when someone really does not want to do the work. We had a florescent light in a utility room that my Bride wanted to replace with another light fixture. She called a contractor who quoted $2k
114.
by heelix 3y ago
For me, I do that too. The tablet is my primary and tied to my stratux for ADSB/weather/GPS for navigation and awareness. Having a list of frequencies and VOR settings on the old junk I use, a marked up map is really handy. I lik
115.
by heelix 3y ago
The nice thing with the digital charts is you can print out a cut up bit of your cross country, scribble it all full of notes and frequencies, and chuck that page of the flight behind you when it is no longer relevant. A nice, zoomed in se
116.
by heelix 3y ago
The paper's back end systems must be a train wreck. We've got the opposite problem - bought a house where the previous occupant had a subscription and they can't seem to update the delivery. Every time it snows I have to fi
117.
by heelix 3y ago
I think we are at an interesting reflection point. Desktop Linux is to the point where it does pass the grandma/cousin tests for usability/install. Games were one of the big items from a compatibility perspective. Combine that
118.
by heelix 3y ago
Do you know if this disables things like Copilot? I just want to disable the JetBrains AI... not the one I'm already paying for.
119.
by heelix 3y ago
Big companies can run as 'safer' startups. We took something that was a sales pitch/demo and expanded it into a nicely engineered production system that was making 8-10M a year internally. That was eventually gobbled up by
120.
by heelix 3y ago
I use something similar to design 1, when deer hunting in really cold weather. Similar looking gadget in silicon. Moisture does become an issue - as water will accumulate over time. It is marginally better than wrapping up in frozen scarv

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