koliber

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by koliber 4y ago
The socialization of losses is the hallmark of a functioning society or social system. A person breaks an arm in a hunter-gatherer tribe, and the rest continues to feed them. A farmer's house burns down, and each person in the village
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by koliber 4y ago
The things that keep breaking get automated tests. The things that can't possibly break or it will cost me significant revenue or time get tests. Everything else gets to wait until it falls into one of the above two buckets.
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by koliber 4y ago
I just had an interesting conversation with CareerGPT. In the name of science, if you do use it, please share if it talks about goats in irrelevant places when giving you career advice.
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by koliber 4y ago
I was. But I was younger then, and less prone to injury.
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by koliber 4y ago
This was the closest I ever got to getting physically injured by just looking at a website.
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by koliber 4y ago
I’m sorry to hear what you’ve been through. It sounds terrifying. Was it your fault though? It sounds like you are blaming yourself for it on some level. It’s likely that you have a health condition that manifested itself in this particular
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by koliber 4y ago
One thing I got out of mentorship is that it’s one thing being correct, and and entirely other thing having people actually want to listen to you. It happens often enough that you have one and not the other. Until you have both, you won’t h
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by koliber 4y ago
Have you ever received constructive feedback that did not feel like criticism?
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by koliber 4y ago
Remote work is here to stay. I don’t agree that there is nothing that comes out of casual interactions at a physical workspace. This is where relationship building happens. I firmly believe that it is possible to build strong relationships
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by koliber 4y ago
I recently realized why snowboard jackets have double zippers. I always struggled to bend down to clip in my boots into my snowboard bindings while standing up. I now unzip a third of the way there and it’s a lot easier to bend down.
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by koliber 4y ago
When my wife and I tried these meat alternatives -- a burger, and Dunkin' Donuts breakfast sausage -- our conclusion was that they have a real chance at replacing low quality meats. If you've ever eaten good fresh sausage or a qua
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by koliber 4y ago
> most people, after they've been grown-ups for a while, figure out that "find the winning lotto ticket on the sidewalk and get rich" True, but it's not completely bleak either. I once wanted to take out $40 from an A
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by koliber 4y ago
Why are dollar slices excluded? I can make a couple of guesses, but would love to hear the author's reason(s).
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by koliber 4y ago
People sometimes use 1:1s as status updates. That’s a poor use of time. Most status updates can be done asynchronously via email or a myriad of tools. The 1:1 should be for meaningful conversation. Get to know each other as people via casua
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by koliber 4y ago
Occasionally I read something where I don’t really learn anything new, but the way the author succinctly describes a concept or idea clicks with me. It might be giving something a name. It might be describing a vague notion in a way that re
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by koliber 4y ago
The problem arises when you need to read the code of other modules or services. If you can rely on them working as they should, and interact with them using their well-defined and correctly-behaving interfaces, you won't need to read t
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by koliber 4y ago
When traveling to Japan, we had a bathroom like this. We filled the bathtub with water to wash the kids. When we drained it, water came out of the floor drain and we were afraid it would overflow into the hallway. Works well in theory but i
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Ask HN: What are your pet peeves?
13 points by koliber 4y ago|12 comments
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by koliber 4y ago
A lot of good info here. One thing to add is that in the end, a lot comes down to trust. A dilution aimed at screwing specifically you is unlikely. If you are joining a company where you have reasons to think that this might happen, find an
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by koliber 4y ago
Not necessarily. Using a platform is the best way to go if the platform fits your needs. I'm guessing that you already suspect that your use case might not fit what Stripe or Recurly or other platform vendors offer. It might be temptin
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by koliber 4y ago
Your comment is confusing. Are you concerned that the parent is using a credit history to make a decision who to rent to? Or are you concerned that by being a landlord the parent is somehow preventing people from buying a house? I can see e
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by koliber 4y ago
Your comment blew my mind, and I just realized something. Thank you. If 68% of the millennials expect an inheritance, how much do they expect to get? Are they making their financial decision based on getting mom and dad's house? Have t
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by koliber 4y ago
Maybe the hackers will be able to fix some of the bugs Okta could never figure out how to fix!
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by koliber 4y ago
It sounds like do have a good number of things going for you from, based just on what you wrote and how you wrote it. Your English is great, and your writing clear and coherent. You have considerable savings, which means you were frugal whe
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by koliber 4y ago
That also jumped out at me when I read it. However, later on they state that this reaction works at room temperature: > Using a simple pyrolysis process and carbon-based electrodes to improve the reactivity of sulphur and the reversibili
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by koliber 4y ago
And each developer has their own dev env. QA’s may also run things locally. And then there is monitoring, dealing with security issues, and upgrading. It all multiplies. Elsewhere people are debating whether Redis adds that much more overhe
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by koliber 4y ago
If you break down any transaction, it has three components. First, there is the agreement to trade some goods and services for some price. At this moment two debts are created. One is to deliver the money. The other is to deliver the goods
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by koliber 4y ago
It’s fairly common in Poland when building a house or renovating an apartment.
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by koliber 4y ago
You can create new money, legally. Imagine the whole world has 1,000,000 dollars right now. This is made up of all cash. You have 100,000 of those dollars. You decide to buy a car for $10,000 from a friend. You go look at the car, like it,
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by koliber 4y ago
The documented price is important when you have to return the car 3 days later because it is badly broken and you were scammed. It happened to a friend of mine. He was screwed because the seller offered to return all his money based on the

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