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We’ve Been Subpoenaed by Google and the Department of Justice(medium.com)
7 points by katzgrau 3y ago|0 comments
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by katzgrau 3y ago
I've personally seen my video ads running muted on partner sites. It kind of makes the analytics useless because there's most more inconsistency in the medium where the ads are displayed (eg, not YouTube) so you never know if fluc
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by katzgrau 3y ago
> After several meetings, we came to the conclusion that the best approach was to simply halt the old website development and build a new one from scratch using the best technologies and practices. Spoken like a true developer. Trash the
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by katzgrau 3y ago
I had very intelligent linear algebra professor in college but he was, in my opinion, a very poor communicator. I paid attention to lectures and stared at the text, but couldn't really understand the material. For the first part of a l
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Virginia lottery flaw lets same people win repeatedly(wtop.com)
28 points by katzgrau 3y ago|2 comments
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by katzgrau 3y ago
Getting stronger through stress is not the solution, but a common initial path to the larger solution. I think you're closest when you say "A high criticism tolerance is learned by understanding that ones self worth is not attache
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by katzgrau 3y ago
I worked at Yahoo, and it was Perl and PHP. Sheer madness. Their were some talented folks but I'd like them more to cowboys - git'r done instead disciplined engineers. Lots of production applications that had the code quality of
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by katzgrau 4y ago
The most basic advice is to try to focus on the time you have with them now - really spend some quality time and don't put it off. If you're anxious about the future, it's because you're spending you're time in this
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by katzgrau 4y ago
I have some off-the-grid and expat friends who I suspect are rooting for a collapse primarily to justify all the shit they did and said. These types seem to thrive on doom and I have no doubt they've always existed throughout history.
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by katzgrau 4y ago
When I was a teenager I wrote a simple visual basic app to globally detect the letter 'e' and immediately send a [backspace] to whatever application the user was working in. It was a background app and named something like system3
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Halfway There: Success and Burnout in Local News(medium.com)
2 points by katzgrau 4y ago|0 comments
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Very true. As a teen, before I could program, I would dream up applications that I thought were cool (like an alarm clock application that plays a .wav or .mp3 for the sound!!1) and yep, it involved a gui. My first programming books were fo
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Eh, maybe that's taking it all a little too seriously. For all we know, the original art was the work of some ancient hooligans.
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Needing proof certainly can be annoying habit, especially when it comes to matters of meaning and purpose which is what religion provides for a lot of people. People find meaning and purpose in science too, but of course if you dig far enou
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Be unapologetically authentic. Came from one of my employees. Always struggled with being who I think the world will allow me to be as opposed to the person I am. I flip flop between those two states. That said, I think many of us do. Not t
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Growing up as a kid who ate a lot of junk food, I think there's just more commonly a culture among less affluent folks to prioritize rewards now instead of rewards later. Eat, drink, be merry today - you may not have the opportunity to
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Read "rocket fuel" by Mark Winters. It sounds like the CEO is a classic visionary - big picture people person, grand ideas, bad with details like operations and money. It also sounds like you may be their complement - good with de
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Parent of two. In 50 years you won't care what kind of programmer you were as long as you were competent enough to provide. You will care about your kids and give anything to go back in time and spend just another few hours with them w
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Survivor here, with several failed startups in the past. Bootstrapped to 100k / mo over 10 years. Sufficiently cynical folks will never hear anything I say as anything other survivor bias. My only advice is stay bootstrapped, avoid com
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by katzgrau 4y ago
IMO, everyone on the team knows exactly who gets shit done and who doesn't. If you're in the "gets shit done" camp, you're very likely valued. If you're not, well, they probably weren't going to put up wit
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by katzgrau 4y ago
I find that, in practice, the more a manager knows about how things are done - the more they have the urge to micromanage and resist delegation, especially if they're perfectionists. Doesn't sound completely horrible in theory but
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by katzgrau 4y ago
There's a group of these people called CEOs and they get paid a lot.
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by katzgrau 4y ago
"What makes engineers sad? Their boss(engineering managers, Directors, VP’s) do not know what they face on a day to day basis and does not know how to build something, whether it is a feature or architecting something from scratch.&quo
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Timeshares are very similar but the difference is that you typically only get a week or two to stay there - it's jointly owned by others. That obviously has a big impact on resell value - so much to the point that some timeshare owners
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Yeah well when `df` tells you the disk is at 100%, gotta start somewhere
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by katzgrau 4y ago
If you believe that without qualification, it's true for you and you'll probably live with the cascading results of thinking that way. If you believe it's a useful societal tool for solving some basic problems but not much mo
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by katzgrau 4y ago
> While this is nice as a thought exercise, not having at least "enough" money is very painful in my experience. Of course. Consider this - when you're poor - it's not specifically money you're after. You want th
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by katzgrau 4y ago
> Instead of “resist”, I might instead say, “see clearly” or “recognise” Thank you, that's definitely a better way of wording it.
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by katzgrau 4y ago
I feel like this is going to get downvoted, but the problem, sincerely, is what you believe. Money and accolades are bullshit ideas that do not objectively exist. Most of us have just bought into the idea of them. If you strive to obtain so
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by katzgrau 4y ago
Alan Watts remarked on the tendency to try to get a 1 up on the world via Buddhism/zen. People are always trying to beat the game. In which case, they're missing the point and can't succeed.

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