kaizendad

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by kaizendad 2y ago
While I definitely understand what the author is saying, the reality is that, for the majority of writing developers will be doing, having something that is easy-to-produce and easy-to-consume is paramount. There are tons of more powerful a
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by kaizendad 4y ago
This is sure to put them ahead of Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Google Pay, Zelle, and Venmo. Everybody will be excited to use the payment system that charges them the most money!
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by kaizendad 4y ago
Seems to me that we will very, very quickly see why these teams were created. Less snarkily, I appreciate that not everyone loved their work. But their work solved a particular problem, even if it created others. Now that problem is unsolve
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by kaizendad 4y ago
Fair, I hope I was clear in my post that I don't mean to say C++ is never the right choice, but... rarely.
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by kaizendad 4y ago
This is good, right? There are better languages for most (although certainly not all) purposes, whether you measure "better" through features like memory-safety or through developer happiness or anything in between. Most of the sy
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by kaizendad 7y ago
As a marketer in a former life, I can't understand why somebody would do this. It's very cheap to get a separate phone number for each inbound channel and there's tons of software that will track which channels are working fo
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by kaizendad 7y ago
I read this as "evil Microsoft Product Managers researched the market and understand the competition and if they decide to compete with you watch out because they will be evil folks who understand market needs deeply and are int
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by kaizendad 7y ago
Absolutely! And yet no explicit planning for how they'd reword the manual in the future. That is the root cause of the real problem here -- not that there weren't backups, but that there weren't and the manual said that the
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by kaizendad 7y ago
It's interesting -- they ID the actual cause of the problem up top, and then just zip right past it. The problem wasn't the hardware failure, or the lack of backups, it was that customers expected them to have backups . Gandi goe
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by kaizendad 7y ago
I switched to https://www.honeyfi.com/ and couldn't be happier. It's really powerful for handling joint finances.
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by kaizendad 7y ago
A "personal key" was a 16-character string that was used as a salt(?) for encryption and as a backup for lost passwords, https://www.login.gov/help/creating-an-account/personal-key/ . Frankly, this
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by kaizendad 7y ago
I think this is exactly it. Offices are prettier than ever and also less conducive to work than ever. I bet most people would choose an office with actual quiet workspaces -- even full-height cubicles! -- given that commutes were also rea
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by kaizendad 7y ago
We have a very similar system here at http://www.synacor.com , and it works really well. The "Promotions don't unlock new responsibilities" thing actually has a big upside: you don't come in the day after your
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by kaizendad 7y ago
The accessibility concerns are right on. Another thing to think about is not distributing them as a monolith, so that devs can pull only the features they want to use. One of the biggest benefits of an all-vanilla library should be a minima
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by kaizendad 8y ago
This was the idea behind the late-Cold War "high/low" concept that gave us the F-15/F-16 in the US Air Force, and F-14/F-18 in the US Navy. Initially the F-35 was supposed to be the "low" companion to the
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by kaizendad 8y ago
Although a significant cause of the kill ratio issue over Vietnam was restrictive rules of engagement, which prohibited beyond visual range engagement with missiles such as Sparrow, which the VPAF had no counters to whatsoever. These rules
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by kaizendad 8y ago
This is exactly correct. The cost of holding the entire object in memory, for any significantly complex statement, is going to add up quick if you're dealing with large numbers of users/pageviews/etc. The cost of pre-calculat
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by kaizendad 8y ago
I'm more inclined to the latter. Sure, they hedged their bets in their SAFT, but to say "our plan involves not being regulated, and we give up if we are" strikes me as silly. But you're right, maybe they expected a diffe
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by kaizendad 8y ago
I'm extraordinarily confused as to how this was not an issue handled before Basis got to this point. It's not a secret that regulators would like to have purview over these types of assets, and that regulators have in fact success
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by kaizendad 8y ago
So true on the "afternoon drowsiness" thing! I hadn't thought of that. A friend who is a USMC veteran used to tell me that standard procedure in a briefing was: if you're tired, go stand up in the back. Super hard to fal
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by kaizendad 8y ago
Standing desks can be amazing for those of us who tend to sit like we're misbehaving second-graders. When I sit down, I rarely have 2 feet on the floor, I slouch not just forward but left or right, I spin in my chair... if there were a
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by kaizendad 8y ago
That's a really excellent point. If there's any risk that an employee would leave to run after a cheap perk like a standing desk or a good chair, it's just bad management to not spend that money.
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by kaizendad 8y ago
The fact that this is true just makes it hurt more that I am obviously Jared.
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by kaizendad 8y ago
The SoCal fires this year are not in the woods, so it happens both in the woods (NorCal) and not in the woods (SoCal), and people die and communities are razed both in the woods and not in the woods.
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by kaizendad 8y ago
One issue that's often overlooked is that PG&E has severe issues in their safety record. Last year their equipment sparked 16 wildfires, 11 of which may have been related to negligent maintenance. https://www.sfchronicle
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by kaizendad 8y ago
It's amazing, Sears CEO Lampert has done so much self-dealing -- turning Sears assets into Sears cash + Sears debt, with the debt owned by Lampert's own companies -- that he'd be the only beneficiary in a bankruptcy. There&#x
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by kaizendad 8y ago
I love how HN is actually done . How often does one give oneself permission to call anything but the smallest project done ? I know I rarely do. It seems very healthy, for both the community and for Paul Graham individually, that somethin
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by kaizendad 8y ago
When I was getting my MBA, about <many> years ago, I suggested to our career placement folks that they work up a legal agreement with the companies who recruited with us, indemnifying them against any EEOC suits if they shared detaile
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by kaizendad 8y ago
This is great! A college degree can really help in a lot of careers (and I say this as someone with both a college and a grad degree), but rarely is it actually essential. It's not often even a good proxy for knowing that someone can d
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by kaizendad 8y ago
My wife and I have the same process, and it's worth its weight in... well, processes have no inherent weight, but, anyway, it's amazing. Highly-recommended. Also gives the awake parent some valuable quality time with the kids, bui

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