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by hliyan 3y ago
My problem with Fowler is his tendency to reduce complex problems into concepts that can be represented in simple, abstract models/diagrams with weak analogies (e.g. the "streams" here, test pyramids, microservices, various b
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by hliyan 3y ago
This is a somewhat cynical attitude that assumes compassion must come conjoined with suspension of good judgement. I'm a naturally analytical and anxious individual who has, as of late, found a measure of stress relief by directing som
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Is the era of VC-fueled complexity ending?
55 points by hliyan 3y ago|20 comments
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Before responding to what you think the article is about, it might be worthwhile reading up to the point where it explains this person was once working 60+ hours a week as a consultant and the resulting personal damage inspired her to come
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by hliyan 3y ago
I think we're rapidly approaching a point where any content that come with ads is suspect. The fact that only Wikipedia has managed to largely escape deterioration (or as some call it, "enshitification") is testament to this.
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by hliyan 3y ago
> I drove 1200km today in a Tesla Sorry, was this in one day, with a single charge? Or over multiple days (ending today), with charges in between?
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by hliyan 3y ago
"[Author] is a columnist, author and small business owner. His company, the Marks Group PC, provides technology and financial management services to SMBs in the US and abroad." This probably explains the strange conclusion of the
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Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia (1997)(u20.freesoft.org)
26 points by hliyan 3y ago|5 comments
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Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud(tech.ahrefs.com)
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by hliyan 3y ago
When I left, they were experimenting with an FPGA implementation of the TCP stack (!). Obviously a very challenging undertaking, not sure how far they got.
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by hliyan 3y ago
I was in this area from 2003 to 2013. Can't think of any reading materials, but it all boils down to ultra low latency (think < 100 microseconds within the local network) and high volumes (think > 30,000 transactions per second).
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by hliyan 3y ago
It is definitely not the same thing when money acts as a multiplier of "rights".
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by hliyan 3y ago
There is something deeply troubling about the sentiment "if I'm incentivised to act a certain way, that is the way I will act". This is not how normal human beings think, and it is not the type of human being that society sho
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Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
I believe there is a DVD version: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/index.html#ahph
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by hliyan 3y ago
Updated copyright notice, probably. The site recently turned 25. Also I distinctly remember accessing it over a dialup connection long ago.
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HyperPhysics (1998)(hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu)
80 points by hliyan 3y ago|17 comments
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Byju's: The unravelling of India's most valued startup(bbc.com)
4 points by hliyan 3y ago|1 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
In other words, societies that consist only of members who are highly strategic in their self-interest (i.e. altruistic) may be overly stable and lack the sort of disruptions or "mutations" that short-term thinkers introduce. Such
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by hliyan 3y ago
I believe we explored this, but instead settled on a simple express-based Node.js server because that was the tech stack familiar to the team, and also due to the programmable nature of responses, a non-statically-typed language like JavaSc
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by hliyan 3y ago
I once briefly experimented with the idea of a programmable fake server: 1. At startup, the fake server is tabula rasa 2. The "before" part of the API test script will call specialised POST endpoints of the server to set up the
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by hliyan 3y ago
Github profile.
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by hliyan 3y ago
This is one of the reasons I find it hard to like TypeScript. Despite proclamations about reducing errors and maintainability, I have seen many developers largely motivated to introduce TypeScript for no reason other than the ability to hit
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by hliyan 3y ago
> If we model individuals in a shared sociocultural milieu as adapting to similar selection pressures, many stable strategies incorporate altruistic cooperation I have always formulated this for myself as follows: Any sufficiently strat
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by hliyan 3y ago
On a side note, did anyone notice that the author's location is McMurdo Station, Antarctica? I didn't think they would have someone of their skillset at that station: https://usscar.org/directory?combine=&field
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by hliyan 3y ago
If history is an indication, any part of the JavaScript ecosystem that is not part of a formal standard, no matter how widely used or deeply integrated into the industry, is prone to getting replaced or obsoleted. There was a time when fron
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by hliyan 3y ago
I suspect some of the excess evaporation off the subcontinent is precipitating over Sri Lanka. We haven't had a drought in ages and it feels like our monsoon seasons are getting longer and longer.
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by hliyan 3y ago
I worry that at some point, Google will start monetising GMail and "Sign in with Google". This might be a calamity of a much larger scale.
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DevRant(devrant.com)
2 points by hliyan 3y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 3y ago
A few years ago, I came up with this idea: "...a social network that uses email as its communications protocol and regular mail servers as the “cloud”. There is no “platform”, but an app which is basically a re-skinned mail client with

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