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by kerblang 4y ago
Ah: They charged him with defrauding investors , not customers. This should be interesting. It may be difficult to get Sequoia to cooperate, probably impossible with Binance. Wondering if they decide to treat the FTT tokens as a fraudulent
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by kerblang 4y ago
I too visited them during the peak of their success, on one of their big job interview days. While a large group of us were waiting (for hours) we were invited to watch a series of videos of their employees "having fun" doing vari
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by kerblang 4y ago
Much more detail https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-create-a-wormhole-...
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by kerblang 4y ago
> For example, a person who likes Black Sabbath, and really technical instrumental metal, probably doesn't like the comparatively simpler slipknot That's just thinly disguised metal snobbery. Almost all metalheads adore Black S
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by kerblang 4y ago
I honestly don't think Beaudrillard would have tolerated any philosophical hairsplitting about perceived realities - he recognized a "real" reality, and a shallow, artificial replacement, and was darned cynical & bitter a
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by kerblang 4y ago
In the spirit of tangentialism I randomly suggest: Architecture Review! - Prevents juniors from being blown out of the ocean into startalloverland by seniors at tail end - Focus on the most dangerous aspects of the change that can't be
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by kerblang 4y ago
Dunno if it made it thru HN yet but a Vox reporter aggregated up her recent Twitter conversations with SBF, and it's kinda damning: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...
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by kerblang 4y ago
> All of this was being done before terms like service-oriented architecture existed. I feel like the first time I heard the term was early 2000's, and wasn't it a mainframe thing first? Dunno, just wondering. Anyhow, it's
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by kerblang 4y ago
It appears the catch is that you have to use their managed service; no DIY installation. https://planetscale.com/docs/concepts/deployment-options Acceptable for some, maybe not others
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Mmmm I think this is popular urban legend
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One has to ask: What about bass solos? (I like bass solos)
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by kerblang 4y ago
There was a posting on HN yesterday about how original maintainers were kind of flooded & overwhelmed by Twitter refugees who didn't understand that Mastodon wasn't really meant to be the go-to Twitter clone.
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Resolving the great undo-redo quandary(github.com)
490 points by kerblang 4y ago|236 comments
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by kerblang 4y ago
That's not autism at work, whether he is autistic or not. If anything, this study would predict greater risk aversion: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29846850/#:~:text=This%20stu... .
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by kerblang 4y ago
This is mostly true, but I think you're blaming HR for tech teams' own inability to run job interviews effectively. HR might be able to add an X or two, but the tech teams themselves have a 10x gap waiting to be exploited by innov
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by kerblang 4y ago
I've had many artists explain to me that they are in fact engineers - there is much calculation, chemistry, optics and then some - but I'd say that programmers are more like lawyers than engineers. Sorry, but it's symbolic wo
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by kerblang 4y ago
I have dealt with lots of programmer hoarding, the "we might decide to bring this back someday" sort of thing. Yes I know source control would handle that in theory, but it's just not the same sense of security as having it
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by kerblang 4y ago
Purely anecdotal, but as a matter of fact yesterday I spent 15 minutes searching for a web site on google (I couldn't remember the domain name), threw up my hands, went to duckduckgo, and nailed it on the first try.
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by kerblang 4y ago
There is something to be said for loving what you do - which is to say, your job might be inglorious to some, but if it can be done well or badly, why not do it well? And then unfortunately the answer is, "Because I'll get fired
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by kerblang 4y ago
As the artist in the article points out, the artwork in the model doesn't belong to her and by current legal standards she has no authority to give permission; of course the corporate owners do have authority, and I'm not even sur
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by kerblang 4y ago
- Honesty about difficulties you're facing (repellent would be gushing hipsterism) - Empowerment to get things done - A pursuit of legitimate business opportunity (repellent would be craptocurrency, spamware)
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The bond that broke the internet(npr.org)
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by kerblang 4y ago
The article makes it pretty clear that the suspected element in cigarettes is the nicotine, not "smoke", as many noxious chemicals as there are in the latter.
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by kerblang 4y ago
The catch is that empowerment (this is the correct word that everyone seems to be looking for) and collaboration are opposites: I trust you to solve this vs. let's solve this together. People tend to lash out at whichever one seems lik
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by kerblang 4y ago
Programming language design as a discipline improves more slowly than anyone admits, and truth be told, we're trading off more than improving. 1. Your new language will die, but not because of the language, but because it's so har
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by kerblang 4y ago
Clarification: It sounds like they're omnivores instead. Grizzlies will still eat you, if they're really hungry.
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by kerblang 4y ago
Also-also: Institutional knowledge is bullshit. Old-timers will tell you "Don't worry, the system never needs to do that," and they will be dead wrong. Verify architectural impact at the source.
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by kerblang 4y ago
Also: Alpinism is for romantics; engineers seige-climb. Incrementalism is everything. Figure out how to break it down into smaller, safer parts. Big-banging that migration is the almost certain path to failure.
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by kerblang 4y ago
Mostly good stuff, but: > You’ll notice that with backend-only data migrations – like the ones Box or Pinterest executed – there was no need for rollback plans, as the rollout moved forward only after the team had validated that everythi
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by kerblang 4y ago
Spin acting against the force of air , which acts as a force against the end of the ball just as gravity acts as force against the bottom of a spinning top. In other words, it should not tip over if thrown in a vacuum. We've known tha

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