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by hinkley 3mo ago
Railways and Madams.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I wonder what shovels were worth after the Gold Rush faltered. Blacksmiths probably had all the scrap iron they could ever care for.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
That was why they wanted to store nuclear waste in a hole in a mine in Nevada, but then someone found a fault line that we didn't know much about.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Those started with money changers and long distance travel did they not? Before phones, if you moved between two affluent areas there was enough surplus capital in both that instead of hauling a heavy chest of silver coins between them and
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Odd that a terrorist attack achieved what historical knowledge of flood and earthquake damage did not.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
You’ll see this as a plot device in some Regency pieces. Someone gets ahold of the physical deed to a property and now there’s drama.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
My ex was late from work once a week because the company did commercial real estate logistics (sort of similar domain here) and she had the job of going to the secure data center and grabbing a backup disk out of the cage and transferring i
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by hinkley 3mo ago
For me the first 2FA devices I’d had were for work but for my friends it was for a world of Warcraft. And it was years until my bank offered 2FA. I still think about that every time there is a breach. Blizzard gave hardware tokens out to th
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by hinkley 3mo ago
When I worked at a stressful place I was worried not only of our version control getting damaged but also someone deciding they had had enough and doing damage on their way out. I had a copy of our code on media in my desk labeled “promotio
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by hinkley 3mo ago
> It annoys engineers and causes inefficiency. No, no, and no. It causes unforced errors which damage your relationship with customers. Burnout is a combination of wear and tear and lack of impact. Having giant footguns laying about fac
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Jack lived long enough to become the villain. Motorola will tell you that they invented Six Sigma and Welch copied it. They also made Digital Six Sigma and that community was a cult.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Everyone has to learn how much feedback they can give in a code review without making an ass of themselves. The code isn’t right at the end of that, it’s just less wrong. On the first project I had with routine code reviews I learned to wai
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by hinkley 3mo ago
And you're going to right that wrong by making assumptions. It's usually not the person who gets asked who acts like an asshole, and if you don't don't want to be judged by people for your behavior, start by not openly a
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by hinkley 3mo ago
There are some people I'm not friends with anymore who didn't understand conversational bidding. They would jump straight to Why Don't You Google That and shut down any conversation we might have had. Yes I could get some of
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Tap to pay probably doesn't help with getting people into the alley but probably helps with 'one more game'. Your beginners have to come for shoes anyway, and the pointer to which lanes to take (you don't want them takin
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by hinkley 3mo ago
When I was in a junior league we were at a relatively recent vintage alley and once in a while it would glitch and reset the pins twice in a row. I bet the relay stayed closed too long.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Short repairs are always nice, but I'm curious about the frequency. You're your own repairman, but that won't be true for all owners. So it's not if the repair takes 5 minutes, it's how long the lanes are down any t
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by hinkley 3mo ago
There's a woman I read about a while back who did here PhD thesis on the notion that David Hume's contribution to the Enlightenment was inspired by conversations with a Jesuit monk who had returned to France from a long engagement
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Bike shedding means no decision of consequence is made. People wanted to participate in something, and they sucked all of the oxygen out of the room for other decisions. It's that important decisions were either not made or got insuf
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Let me rephrase that. I've seen a few cases where it became a major issue, rather than just being a fact. Often people are smart enough to not ask questions they don't want the answer to. If the three people trusted to handle a pr
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I don't know what the black art of tool selection is, but I'm at least a couple std deviations above average on picking libraries that have legs. Nobody gets it right every time, but some people seem to get it wrong every time. Be
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Always fun when they manage to categorize it wrong 3 times in a row. One of the hardest parts of my job is trying to convince people where the pool of blood on the floor is coming from. We are forever stitching up the wrong wounds and missi
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by hinkley 3mo ago
I've been doing this a long time and I've rarely seen a separate team and budget for maintenance. Except for "all of the original team left and we're just here to keep the lights on." I think it's important to
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by hinkley 3mo ago
In addition to Second System Syndrome that has already been covered, I think there are several other things going on here that lead to the tug of war. In another reply I already mentioned a flavor of Sunk Cost, which is resistance to any ch
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by hinkley 3mo ago
> This is what usually happens if you let incompetent people make design decision: they stay with the first and worst version forever. This is what usually happens when you confuse the decisions that mattered from the ones that didn&#x27
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Amazon unfortunately downplays the value of ethics over numbers, and we see how that has turned out. The numbers say that counterfeit goods are just fine.
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by hinkley 3mo ago
When you first introduce the idea you'll find a bunch of people think decisions are Reversible which are not, as you say. And the flip side of Reversible decisions is the Last Responsible Moment, which runs afoul of Hofstadter's L
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by hinkley 3mo ago
> — Day 1-2. Tried $tool out. Oh boy! We have some work to do. > — Day 3-5. OK, there were a couple of solid bugs there, and a fair number of what were technically bugs, but not actually all that bad. > — Week 2. I guess that was i
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by hinkley 3mo ago
A bit of an aside, but after someone introduced me to the notion of Reversible Decisions, it quickly became apparent to me that the solution to the bikeshed problem is to throw money at it before the roosters can start preening about which
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by hinkley 3mo ago
Also the same Rivest as Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest (that Stein dude was after my time), and the R in RSA.

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