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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
> do you know this definitively? was it in the book? I can't really speak to this, which is why I have a (?) around the meaning of Blue. I can say that green, orange, and red have pretty obvious connections, especially given the con
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Its a truly incredible film, but has a few subtleties that may be hard to catch at first glance. Pay attention to the colors that people are wearing (green, orange, red, and blue) for the deeper subtext of relationships of the political sit
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Or, roughly 5x the amount of energy it takes to send a Delorian through time
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Microsoft's auth is needlessly aggressive at all edges - I had a Windows 10 gaming PC that I didn't create a live account for. Everything works fine, until I install Halo Infinite via Steam and have to log in with a Microsoft acco
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
One thing that I've experienced is making Friday a "non essential work" work day. Its a day to do small tasks that have piled up over the week, do some clean up, and otherwise try and figure out what the next week looks like.
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Physics Envy(en.wikipedia.org)
32 points by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago|23 comments
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Having the seed value set to the same value at run time will cause the pseudorandom number generator to produce the same sequence of values. In essence just creating a new random number generator in go w/o setting the seed will not act
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Not from the CS world, but I've always enjoyed the Smith Chart. It's a tool to figure out impedance (eg resistance but a complex number) matching on a boundary to reduce reflected power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?
326 points by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago|272 comments
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Beautiful all canvas rendering <3 It's really a joy to see the art and the weirdness that can be done with modern web technologies. Doubly reassuring that this is done with open technologies which can enable unique expression in t
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Things - its a light weight todo app with just enough features to make it useful. I tend to use it for a dev log to keep track of what I'm working on, keep notes, and finally mark something as complete https://culturedcode.c
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
The required brand loyalty from Miller crazy - friends who have worked for them will pour non-miller beverages into glassware so that they can't be photographed holding a competitor's product. This is not in public mind you, but a
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
This ends up being a way to hide an ETL pipeline behind a SQL query. Using this and some materialized views it makes it easy to just pull data in from an external source and just have it in your system. I'm not sure on the value of thi
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Maybe this guy isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
I stopped eating breakfast, instead having a small sandwich at noon and another 2pm. Lost 10-12 lbs over about 6 weeks and have kept it off.
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Also check out his guides which are freely available. We’ve been using these as a way to answer the question “what does a staff eng do?” at clearbit. https://staffeng.com/guides
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Beyond risk tolerance, companies post-layoffs are miserable places to work. Emotions are high, moral is low, and work piles up. Whatever "company culture" is boasted during interviewing is not going to exist if you take the job.
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Love a little NLP project on a public dataset - thanks for sharing!
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
What throws me is using a different keyboard and a password sounding different. I’m sure I’ve typed it in correctly, by my other senses are firing that something is amiss.
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Thank you - its too easy to get into the weeds with mathematics and lose the "why" of something. Connecting these higher level concepts with the algebra that _most_ people have experience with ends up being a more direct way to sh
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Eigen-things can also be thought of "fixed values" of a "thing" transformation. For example - the eigenfunction of a derivative is e^x since when you run the derivative function on e^x you get.... e^x
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
let’s be weird together
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
I’m generally having this as a work log which is always at my desk. I understand the frustration of not having it 100% available, but I use it as a way to keep work/life balance. If I’m at my desk I’m working, elsewhere I’m not. If I h
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Pen and paper is criminally overlooked when it comes to note taking. I personally use a little hard cover blank book, date the upper corner, and list what I work on as I move through the day. The "friction" of having to write thin
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
It feels like _something_ is happening, but it's not quite the recession that people are fearing. The US is somehow at the lowest unemployment rates we've seen and people are saying it's all going to collapse which just feels
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Anyone still hanging around SF or did everyone flee during the pandemic?
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Mess with the best, die like the rest
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Right, I think the timestamp with timezone type is a great example of one of these short comings. I’ve generally used it as a step in a data pipeline, where some intermittent state or aggregation where being stale/stable for a period o
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
Views, especially Materialized Views if you’re on Postgres, are about as close as you can come to a “one neat trick that solves all your problems” in modern software development imo.
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
A sibling to this sort of spooky content is Crappypasta - poorly written attempts at Creepypasta. https://pasta-archives.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Crappypasta

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