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by katzgrau 7y ago
Hundreds of years later, company loses site of its mission, descendant of the great one (second coming) appears and steers company back to greatness. Kind of a strange fantastical vision out of the fiction category. Not something I'd e
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I'm always intrigued when developers complain that it was "[surprisingly short amount of time] of my life I won't get back." Maybe I'm not as clever, but I'm lucky if I fix an issue like that within a few hours
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by katzgrau 7y ago
This is a great approach. And one must resist the urge to "just do it myself" because it'll take too long to explain to someone else or you want it done just right. I used to do that to, as do most software engineer turn foun
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Consider hiring a virtual personal assistant and delegating the low impact, high (time) cost tasks. There will be an inherent limit to how much money you can make if you try to do it alone. If you truly want to learn to build a business, re
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Not only that, assuming we're not trying to hyperoptimize before code ever hits production, typically as a dev I look for performance gains when a bottleneck/slowdown seems to occur. Redis is a possibility I guess, but it's a
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by katzgrau 7y ago
That may be true but I also wouldn't be surprised if, in modern context, being fit can begin with something cognitive. In my own experience, when I've been out of shape, I felt that I wasn't living to my own expectation and f
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by katzgrau 7y ago
IMO, Facebook's greatest achievement was getting my parent's and grandparent's generation on social media. You know, the people with disposable income that attract a wide range of advertisers. Ten years ago I thought it was i
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Used the pen with my galaxy note and the results aren't bad, but barely legible for the most part
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I was scrolling through and thinking of RPS exactly. Very interesting post. I once played my younger brother to 50 wins (whoever got there first was the unquestioned champion of RPS). It got very, very meta and there was drama in every roun
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No one truly does it alone
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Acceptance of germ theory (and the subsequent use of antiseptics) really only came about near the end of the 19th century. The hardships of pre modern life are frequently overblown in my otherwise baseless opinion.
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In my experience managing a college newspaper, ad revenue was a big plus when it was coming in, but the baseline budget was funded by the university, even as an "independent" paper. This is the case at many college papers.
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I mean this is the most positive way: you are a bona-fide nerd. I would would also be really intrigued/interested to learn that. But my experience with teachers is that most of them are not nerds - the ones that are tend to have that b
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by katzgrau 7y ago
> If Republican voters actually have a moderate view of immigration, that's great, but they voted for a guy who is putting migrants in cages. Therefore, they all support putting migrants in cages. This is unreasonable.
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At about the age of 14 I somehow came into ownership of 5" black and white TV. I wasn't allowed to have a TV in my bedroom, but this thing probably looked useless to my parents so they didn't say anything. Little did they kno
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I read somewhere that it's typical to spend about 5% more than you earn if you don't track your finances / budget. Having lived both a budget focused and YOLO lifestyle, I'd agree. It just kind of happens - restaurants,
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I run an ad delivery platform (hey, we're both popular) and I detect and block bots because they tend to inadvertly drive up engagement counts on ad campaigns, creating a situation where publishers can't be confident in their numb
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Can the site sit behind a CDN like Cloudflare? Seems like that would solve any issues caused by bots - and furthermore, Cloudflare can captcha challenge suspected bot traffic
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by katzgrau 7y ago
It's called being an employee. With a bigger paycheck comes a bigger amount of career risk. The employer makes the rules, the employees play the game. I'm not saying that because I believe that's the way it should be, but bec
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Get a subscription bud - producing content worthy of HN costs money! :sacrificing karma to say what needs to be said:
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by katzgrau 7y ago
It's not just code, and it's not always obvious. AWS' tools (as robust as they seem at first) may not give you the low-level insight that you need to understand where you can really cut down on expenses. I just reduced my AWS
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I work with a number of magazine publishers who have very strong newsletter subscriber bases (city and regional magazines especially). Staff at magazines take a lot of pride in layout, content, imagery, and attention to detail. Saying that
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I actually switched from AWS/Cloudfront to Cloudflare because pricing isn't based on bandwidth and I have greater control over security and access (firewall, rules, etc) I had a string of sketchy accounts using my SaaS service as
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Could you just put the time estimate in the title of the task? For such a simple project, there is going to be strong urge (from both internal and external sources) to go down the path of feature creep. First an hour estimate, then uploadin
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Found my circa 2007-2008ish Sansa the other day. Gave me that wonderful feeling "this was a quality purchase" that only seems to come along every so often. The default firmware was actually pretty solid, but I had Rockbox installe
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For small businesses, not really. The site generators have won there. Bigger budgets are few and far between and its tough to convince anyone that they need a maintenance contract - billable hours are always met with pushback. And I find th
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> If you were paid to work on this, you are either wilfully ignorant or morally corrupt. I'm not a fan of AMP, but this is way over the top.
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Yeah and I don't think talking to a stranger, trained staff or not, is going to be anyone's cup of tea when they're on mushrooms. It should be an experience for friends whose company you truly enjoy - and trust to keep you c
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I'd imagine it's just the digital extension of an historically ongoing effort to collect anything that could be used as leverage in a conflict, if and when one happens.
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Yes, although the things that fall within the scope of what HN considers to be newsworthy generally don't present the problems that I have with mainstream news.

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