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by heisenbit 11y ago
"Lessons learned from reading post-mortems" http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/ is a good place to dig deeper The first graph quoted from a survey paper is a classic fitting the GCE outage well: Initial err
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by heisenbit 11y ago
Throwing two things in a bucket and information is lost. This makes the topic so complex everyone talks about carbs but almost no one talks about that fructose and glucose are very different in very significant ways: 1) Natural prevalence:
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by heisenbit 11y ago
Especially if there are objects that correspond to something real.
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by heisenbit 11y ago
It is worth considering the source: Brookings. When looking on the increasing difference between the 0.1% and the rest the author makes the observation that the latter can't participate as accredited investors in some schemes. Everyone
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by heisenbit 11y ago
It is worth keeping in mind that the US has a considerably higher proportion of her population behind bars than others. Mandatory sentencing rules have lead to escalating prison terms. Neither do mechanical sentencing rules make a country s
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by heisenbit 11y ago
The way I see it is that YCombinator provides a service: Advice and access to relatively small amounts of money. It is taking a cut too. This service is in competition with other ways of doing things. And at the moment it is successful so p
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by heisenbit 11y ago
We got higher resolution and with it not taller but wider screens. So following your reasoning the { should be on the right ;-)
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by heisenbit 12y ago
There is a huge cultural problem and the teachers and MBS scandals are just the tip of the iceberg. When it is acceptable that results count no matter what the means. When it is acceptable that results are measured by a single number. When
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by heisenbit 12y ago
The stats table in the article is imho not a good basis for discussion. The sample is too small and there is a huge self selection bias for younger people to sign up to such surveys.
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by heisenbit 12y ago
Is 99.9% or 3h/month really the "professional" norm? I remember a larger project where we struggled for a longer time to anywhere beyond 20%. Eventually we got a lot better but nowhere near 99%. I also wonder whether it is wo
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by heisenbit 12y ago
One reason HN is worth a look once in a while - content is curated by an educated consumer community. Also headlines here provide at least some basic context (source, original year) to make a better guess whether a click is worth the risk o