jjazwiecki

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Ask HN: How do major software companies handle software capitalization?
3 points by jjazwiecki 2y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Companies that get called in to fix system catastrophes?
2 points by jjazwiecki 2y ago|1 comments
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by jjazwiecki 3y ago
There might be some open source tools that use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing , which allows you to set a threshold for a number of people in a group with distinct keys that have to coordinate t
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by jjazwiecki 4y ago
Citymapper incorporates transit delays/outages. When I switched from using Google Maps several years ago, they didn't, and I haven't had much of a reason to switch back. Big difference between "based on average times, th
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Ask HN: Are there different “families” of eng career ladder? Which is best? Why?
1 points by jjazwiecki 4y ago|0 comments
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by jjazwiecki 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the legality of using a brand name in a domain? Does Dell have any standing (copyright?) or is this covered (in the US, anyway) under existing free speech laws?
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by jjazwiecki 5y ago
I liked "Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter but I'm not well-read in the area: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/477.Collapse_of_Complex_...
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by jjazwiecki 5y ago
This is as far as my lay understanding goes: the idea was that you could better handle potential outbreaks by creating potential outbreaks in a lab, and studying them there. If you have bad priors ("we have perfect protocols, because
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by jjazwiecki 5y ago
I always thought it was a reference to valuable stuff picked from trash, which I understood to be slang from sanitation workers, but apparently that's local to the NYC area.
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by jjazwiecki 6y ago
that's really cool, I've been playing w/ Shamir a bit. I noticed I could change the last character of one share and still get back the secret. not every replacement character worked, though. any idea why?
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by jjazwiecki 6y ago
or safari
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by jjazwiecki 6y ago
How do you measure neutrality?
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by jjazwiecki 6y ago
I loved Simple when it started, but had to transfer away in 2018 after they rolled out some new security system which started flagging withdrawals from nearby ATMs, at stable local businesses, which I'd gone to for years, as suspicious
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by jjazwiecki 6y ago
The Better Business Bureau logo in the footer actually made me more dubious.
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by jjazwiecki 7y ago
Just listened to this Bloomberg podcast, where they interviewed Viktor Shvets on the meaning/implications/future of negative interest rates: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-08-09/what-negat
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by jjazwiecki 8y ago
Isn't this heuristic vulnerable to asymmetric approaches to truth and polarization?
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by jjazwiecki 9y ago
This reminds me of a question I've long had – is there no legal restriction on starting a real estate listing service?
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by jjazwiecki 9y ago
1. Is Reddit the only online newsboard you can access locally? If the answer is "no", I don't see how it's a monopoly. Aren't you...here? Posting?
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by jjazwiecki 9y ago
If we have learned literally nothing else over the past 20 years it is that incoming shame bounces off like 99.95% of these people
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Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?
312 points by jjazwiecki 9y ago|241 comments
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by jjazwiecki 10y ago
My hypothesis is that New York is the best-shaped state because it's not too rectangular, and not to squiggly. Got a good balance of both.
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by jjazwiecki 13y ago
Ok, so each box I store gets a unique ASIN (no long term fee) and I return my items to Amazon in sellable condition (full refund & I get back Amazon's referral fee). Totally trying this with old baby gear.
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Opinions of NYC's Flatiron School?
1 points by jjazwiecki 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Best thing to do with a sugar-soaked laptop?
0 points by jjazwiecki 14y ago|1 comments