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by ian0 8y ago
I immediately thought of the most annoying (best?) project managers Ive worked with.
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What really terrified me wasn't skynet or Hal, but what Charles Stross describes in his novel Accelerando. Basically, machine controlled businesses (“slyly self-aware financial instruments”) evolving to the point where their aptitude a
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- Take the time to maintain your relationships with existing friends and family - Meet with co-workers or customers whenever possible to motivate - As youeseh mentions, hobbies that are done in groups (For me its sufing & biking)
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> Instead of preempting scaling problems, stick with what you have, then migrate slowly to something bigger IF it becomes an issue. Cheers - Yep that was our thinking too.
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>> But if you are saving money on labor it's worth it. Yeah we definitely are. Labor and just plain hassle. It's great to be able to deploy in seconds, rollback easily. Of course its possible to set that up on AWS too - just
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Cheers - thats very comforting.
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You are already a lead. And one who has performed well. They are acknowledging you as a senior dev. For a year! Whether deliberate or not, this obviously has to be fixed. This shouldn't be something related to performance reviews. Se
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There are a minimal shared set of ethical norms (even more so within specific cultures) that have allowed us to organise as a society. "Don't screw anyone over without justification" for example. They may not be enforced all
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Serious question - why didn't rationality kill off this debate? We have consensus on basic ethical norms - isnt it possible to identify which courses of action/inaction (regardless of bent) lead to ethical outcomes - and review th
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You can use vesting schedules to deal with the time component. Any measure of value is going to be difficult (it is under any scheme) but risk taken is a little easier. If I look at the companies I have been involved in there are very disti
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Best of luck - and happy birthday!
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Ask HN: Heroku at scale?
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Ive been thinking that a properly constructed company-wide and long-term profit sharing scheme is the best way to combat this. Early employees take onboard the most risk with a venture and even if they don't want to be or are not able
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There is still a huge demand for b2b software and large swathes of industry that are in the very early stages of digitalisation. We work in an old fashioned industry (education) and are constantly asked to build x, y & z outside of our
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How about the ability for users to build and exchange "distros" of interface, information filtering and content discovery. Like themes but besides changing the layout of (a more interactive) browser it also changes how content is
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Cheers - yep google's especially sounds much more realistic. Obviously still awhile to go before a user would be tricked into thinking it's a real voice.
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Wow text-to-speech doesn't seem to have gotten very far in the last 20 years? When we were kids we used to use a windows (3.1?) program for prank calls and it didn't sound much worse.. I would have thought by now basic things like
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by ian0 8y ago
Thank you :) Really nice designs.
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I really like the design. - The index is just a back-button away at any time. - No giant hovering menu's with subcategories. - I can easily search the index with ctrl-f. - Not distracted with "similar products" etc And overal
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I second this. Ive used both the cloud version and self hosted it. The default design is lovely, its lightning quick too. For the self hosted version I use heroku (7$ / month) and this[1] library, remember to hook it up to an AWS bucke
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Strongly second this advice.
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The consensus from people I have met is to visit fewer countries but spend more time in each. I travelled extensively in my twenties and agree with this. Below the highlights for me: - South India in monsoon season. Its off season and only
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I think the most realistic avenue to take would be using your software eng skills to assist interest groups that are focussed on increasing funding for the sciences / space exploration. I bet they have terrible websites, difficulties g
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VISA averages 1,750 TPS with bursts up to 24k TPS. Alipay did a burst of 256,000 trx / sec last year. [1] 1. https://thenextweb.com/asia/2017/03/06/largest-payments-comp...
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Are there any traditional payments systems which do 1m trx / second?
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In Indonesia we have Gojek, who offer a courier service thats extremely cheap. Ive seen it used to distribute portions of home-cooked meals to relatives. P2P is extremely difficult due to quality control issues though. Imagine a food poison
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I have went through multiple rounds of this in different roles. I think most have. There are already great practical comments here on how to approach it for your specific case. It takes awhile, but if you just keep chipping away at the thin
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I think a good judge would be how you act when your not a founder. - If your very frustrated working in an organisation but still give it your all - If you occasionally tend to annoy co-workers with your enthusiasm or commitment (not for bo
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Just fill the gap with something relatively interesting and your ok. You will of course need to keep your skills in practice though.
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It was a relatively large paid/private high school. What Pete27 mentions in regards to higher level is also applicable in high schools, at least where I am (Indonesia). They have varying requirements and while they sometimes look for

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