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by koliber 4y ago
The article recommends that as well, as a different type of walk.
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People who are experts at their domain are not always good at explaining things to others. This means that if a data scientist does not know how to code, they need to partner with a programmer and be able to explain things to them. Same goe
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by koliber 4y ago
It would be nice if the solution to this did not require any effort. Part of the problem with any automatic thing is that it is more prone to failure. Toilets are so ubiquitous that if something like this were to have an impact, it would ne
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by koliber 4y ago
Scientists have know that particles come up for a long time. This study visualized them. Here's an excerpt from this article: > Researchers have known for over 60 years that when a toilet is flushed, solids and liquids go down as de
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Have you ever guessed the future wrong in your personal life? Did falling on your sword help you and others in any way?
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What if the business plan reads something like this: When stonks go up, we hire, and when stonks go down, we fire. That does not seem stupid. It still sucks to be fired. But the alternative world where we avoided firing at all costs, would
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by koliber 4y ago
If you were the CEO of a company that needs to lay people off, how would you handle it differently.
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What if this is not a mistake? If you have 5 people and 10 projects, you hire 5 more to meet the need. If 4 projects go away, you fire 4 people as some would have nothing to do. Where is the mistake? I’m not saying it is always like this an
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There are many great things about having kids. There are many tough things you need to deal with when you have kids. Before I became a dad, I had a decent insight into the good and the bad. One good thing that surprised me is the immense in
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Poor Marjory. Bless her heart.
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There are also many timezones and you can encode information in the timezone indicator as well. Also, you can use different days. You can stretch this number into millions. For a website that gets a certain number of unique visitors per yea
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... or refactor the code using an automated thesaurus and a bit of AI in a way to generate a particular hash. - Hey Bob, why did you rename the 'pick_person' function to 'choose_desirable_candidate'? - git made me do it
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by koliber 4y ago
I’ve built 15Five, a employee engagement platform. It was an effort of many people working together over many years, and I had the good fortune to be there at the start. Many people use it weekly to communicate with their managers and peers
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by koliber 4y ago
Tag-like constructs do exist in databases. Select and multi-select work like simple effective tags within a database. They work nicely. You can't use tags on pages that are not in a database. Block-level tags would be a godsend.
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I was in the same spot in January of 2021. Did some exploring, and settled on Notion. I love it.
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I am a raving Notion fan. It's one of the few products that I just adore. Maybe my tolerance level is high, or maybe my hardware is good, but actual performance is acceptable. I do hope that Notion does improve offline mode. A single p
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by koliber 4y ago
What’s a PE?
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Locally, onsite on the company's own servers? Or locally, as in "deploy it to servers in one of the European AWS regions". If it's the latter, it likely easier. If you already have CI/CD, you are probably automatica
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Keep in mind that government reports have a time lag. It's based on someone doing research some time ago. The time lag could easily be months. If it was 100% true at the time of research, the current situation may be very different. Me
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Imagine you have function that returns elements. In order to return each element, you need to do some time-consuming calculation. You don't know how many elements the users of your function will need. Some may need 13 items. Some the f
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by koliber 4y ago
Assuming you have a four-burner stove, you could split your water five-way, and use four pots and your electric tea kettle. If you want to push, you could improve the efficiency even more. That would require a capital investment into additi
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In the winter, the air is very dry in my house and we use humidifiers. By leaving the bathwater in the bathtub, we could kill two birds with one stone. Everything you say about ventilation is right though. I just don't know if calling
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Hehe. It's possible. But less likely.
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A good story of how they dropped a production database. It’s a lesson that is expensive to learn, and will not be repeated. I’d always hire engineers who have dropped a production db elsewhere, rather than risking them dropping it on my cur
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“21 Lessons for the 21st Century”, by Yuval Harari. I am blown away. His first book, “Sapiens” clarified a few cultural concepts which made the world a little easier to understand. This book is a firehose of more of that. Harari explains co
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Focus is something a lot of people talk about, but few do well. The article illustrates this nicely at the end, via the two sets of statements. Often, people makes statements that sounds a bit like this: "Oh yeah. We do need to focus o
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Maybe for some highly abstract definition of justice. But for more everyday use, it's not hard to come up with examples that one society considers just while the other unjust. Justice does not have to be cogent, which is defined as &qu
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I'd be happy to chat with you to understand what you're looking for. Everyone starts off somewhere, and only becomes a C-suite executive or successful founder after a long journey. Coaching is one way to supercharge that journey.
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I had an insight about myself. Things that require me to actively do something to achieve a desirable result are easier. Things that require me to quit are harder. Working out is easier for me than quitting smoking. I was able to achieve bo
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I recently read a great book on how to change your own behaviors. The title is unceremonious "How to Change", but the book is well written, backed by research, and I found it inspiring. There may be some insights or tips in there

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