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by koliber 1y ago
Once upon a time there was an email MTA (email server) called qmail. It had an architecture that was surprising and Daniel Bernstein documented his philosophy. It left an impact on me by showing me how we can rely on the OS-supplied facilit
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by koliber 1y ago
I’m curious what an in person orientation does that a background check does not. In my experience, asking suspicious candidates to show me what is outside their window is enough to weed out North Korean candidates who are lying about their
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by koliber 1y ago
Trying to learn software design by looking at code is kind of like trying to learn about architecture looking at the bricks that make up a building. To learn about design you need a wider perspective. You can theoretically learn it from cod
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by koliber 1y ago
You are an exception if you never drive more than a few kilometers. Exceptional people need to learn that the world caters to average situations. It’s not possible to please everyone.
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by koliber 1y ago
When a company “fails” it does not disappear in a puff of smoke. It goes into bankruptcy and is sold in parts. Some of those parts are perfectly functioning divisions which will continue to function but they will be owned by someone else. I
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by koliber 1y ago
I love how the title of this submission is changing every time I come back to HN. At first there was an empty space between the double quotes. This made me click and read the article because it was surprising that the length of a space woul
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by koliber 1y ago
> Simple things should be easy and complex things should be possible. I love this. Building on this thought: When you are starting to build something, you have very limited resources. Focus only on making simple things easy and forget ev
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by koliber 1y ago
Each one of us has a mental toolbox that we use to solve problems. There are many more tools that we don’t have in our heads that we can look up if we know how. The bigger your mental toolbox the more effective you will be at solving the pr
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by koliber 1y ago
This is surprising as it goes against the what I've heard in the past. The 10,000 foot summary I had was: Americans are starting to die earlier, but the age expectancy of the wealthiest Americans is longer than of people in most countr
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by koliber 1y ago
"I met a founder today who said he ..." I meet people all the time who say the most incredible things. Sometimes, rarely, these things turn out to be true.
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by koliber 1y ago
I was one of them, and changed my mind. Ozempic seemed like too much of a wonder drug. Being conditioned that some things just seem too good to be true I avoided it for many years. But as the number of years passed and the amount of evidenc
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by koliber 1y ago
People who lose a lot of fat generally end up with loose skin, regardless of the mechanism they use to lose the fat.
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by koliber 1y ago
I'm curious how they measured the biological age. My trainer has a scale that measures biological age and it seems very correlated with weight. When I weight less I am biologically younger, and vice versa. Ozempic does a good job at ai
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by koliber 1y ago
I find Gmail search to be OK. Compared to search functions in other tools it’s probably near the top. I’m looking at you Notion… Curious if the poor search performance you saw is related to the non-Roman alphabet search or another factor.
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by koliber 1y ago
You are highlighting the difference between theory and practice. In theory we can make higher quality things, but in practice we are not doing it. Quality has gone down.
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by koliber 1y ago
Poorer in terms of $ accounting. Perhaps richer in terms of health, happiness, and the environment. Given how much money people are spending on the latter things I think becoming $ poorer might be the cheapest way of getting healthier and h
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by koliber 1y ago
Poorer than average American != poor in 3rd world country. These words sound similar but mean vastly different things. Poor people in 3rd world countries need more income, not a larger quantity of cheap T shirts.
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by koliber 1y ago
Motivation, education, and enforcements are key. While support from HR and senior management is helpful, I've found that most of the work happens at lower levels. In the end, it comes down to working directly with people to help them d
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by koliber 1y ago
All three are company and team culture issues. If you delegate all culture responsibility to HR you'll end up with a hot mess. Culture needs to be fostered on every level.
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by koliber 1y ago
> What is everyone's responsibility is no one's responsibility. On teams that I run there are many things that are everyone's responsibility. Here are some of them: - Everyone is responsible for showing up on time - Everyo
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by koliber 1y ago
Documentation needs to be maintained. Period. There are no shortcuts. When people join your team, stress this point. In the onboarding, require them to make at least one change to the documentation during their first week. People tend to th
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by koliber 1y ago
> is basically a roundabout-welldressed shylock Can you elaborate? I am curious at who is getting the short end in this deal.
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by koliber 1y ago
I found that a lot of advice for working with LLMs is based on asking good questions. This is also good advice for working with people, and for working with yourself.
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But they are spending locally in EUR or whatever their currency is.
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by koliber 1y ago
Donald Trump has stated that he wants to weaken the dollar. It seems that he is succeeding. My guess is that he wants to make it more attractive when it comes time to refinance the large portion of American long-term debt. He also wants to
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by koliber 1y ago
You need to find a way to convince the owners of that inefficient housing to sell it to a developer so that they can demolish it to build the efficient housing. That will add significantly to the unit economics of the efficient housing.
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by koliber 1y ago
Here's a piece of advice that has helped me many times over. Learn how to manage up. Another one that goes hand in hand: help your manager help themselves. In you case, I would pick one of those things from your list of grievances and
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by koliber 1y ago
I vaguely recall that incident. But it did not feel like it affected this many services. At the same time I have not noticed anything being down firsthand. I am in Europe.
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by koliber 1y ago
https://downdetector.com/ show many major services experiencing issues. This is a wide outage.
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by koliber 1y ago
https://downdetector.com/ shows many major services down. This is wide spread.

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