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by koliber 1y ago
https://downdetector.com/ Shows a lot of services down. I am in Europe and have not felt anything.
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by koliber 1y ago
https://downdetector.com/ is showing outages at many major companies including Google, CloudFlare, AWS and more. Word on the street is that there are large BGP routing issues behind all of this.
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by koliber 1y ago
About the only thing not down is down detector.
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by koliber 1y ago
This is done really well. There is a difference between knowing something and feeling it intuitively. I knew the difference in wealth but this site brought me one stop closer to intuitive understanding.
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by koliber 1y ago
True. And financial market growth depends in a large part on consumption growth. And consumption growth depends in a large part on population growth (at least in a given market). There are two ways to get a population to grow. One is have b
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by koliber 1y ago
…you get paid out from your investments or the government pays you a pension. Your investments and the government pension are financed by the active work of someone’s children. If there won’t be enough of them around your retirement will no
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by koliber 1y ago
You're being harsh on yourself. People are not rated on a single scale. Not everyone on HN is better than you on every type of scale an employer will use. There are many people who are better than you at some things, but an employer is
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by koliber 1y ago
I disagree. Many of the leet code problems can be solved by thinking them through and coming up with a solution without ever seeing the problem before. If the candidate gets stuck, the interviewer should act as a partner and offer occasiona
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by koliber 1y ago
I struggled with this problem for a long time. I sort of solved it. The key was to realize that there is a difference between a calendar, a todo list, and an agenda. A todo list is a list of things that need to be done but usually don’t hav
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by koliber 1y ago
That would be clearly malicious with the goal of gaming stats and not bringing any value. I doubt that such dumb behavior would go unnoticed for any considerable time. The article states that this comes out to be one deployed PR per 3 days
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by koliber 1y ago
I'm sure with a few more iterations you'll get most of the bugs out. I also saw another oddity but failed to note it. There was a job where the total comp number was lower than the base pay number. Might be good to add a hard rule
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by koliber 1y ago
The first job I clicked on said this in the actual ad. This is a far cry from a remote job. The aggregator needs a little more tweaking: This role is based out of Reddit's office located in San Francisco. We will only consider candidat
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by koliber 1y ago
Some people see the world as dark and gray and full of ill intent. That does not mean the world is like that.
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by koliber 1y ago
Too often I flipped this around. I would hear what people had to say but did not put an effort into making sure that they felt heard. I process information quickly and would not pause and move quickly through a conversation. The results wer
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by koliber 1y ago
I think we'll disagree on that. Painting is not just capturing the pixels of light on canvas. This is what children consider painting. Great painters capture emotion and energy on canvas -- that's part of the essence that I am all
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by koliber 1y ago
Then again she is a painter whose job depends on literally observing the details and atmosphere and capturing not only the visual field but also the essence. So if not her, then who is better suited to make such observations. I don’t think
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by koliber 1y ago
I don’t think the author had a chance to interview each person they observed to see if their worried were right. That does not mean that they could not validate their observations. You look at patterns and note them. Over years you will see
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by koliber 1y ago
Time is limited. But I am not saying "read everything." I'm saying "read". If they happen to pick the books from that list, they won't walk away empty-handed. They will learn something. These books happen to
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by koliber 1y ago
That's an excellent point. The last part is most important: whatever that means to you. I've read books that I thought were great at presenting some key concept. Other people would disagree. The key thing is that different people
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by koliber 1y ago
Your opinion that tobacco and alcohol in moderation are key parts of a healthy life is in the minority. There was some evidence that pointed to some benefits to occasional minimal alcohol consumption, but in more recent years, the scientifi
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by koliber 1y ago
Would you believe me and would you immediately start following the advice if I told you that the key to a healthy life is "Surround yourself with meaningful relationships, sleep well, eat well, exercise, don't drink alcohol, and d
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by koliber 1y ago
I believe that almost every single thing you read has some worthwhile knowledge or wisdom, as well as a slew of material that is wrong or irrelevant or based on values that I don't carry. This includes books, blog posts, and sometimes
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by koliber 1y ago
Notion. Or the Telephone app that allows me to make phone calls, if we are pedantic.
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by koliber 1y ago
Imagine the most average American. Close your eyes and focus hard. What do they look like? How do they think? Average people should not become engineers. Average people should not be creating software. Think of the bridges, planes, and skys
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by koliber 1y ago
The words of Lee in this essay highlight the problem. Paraphrasing: "I didn't do it because I did not feel like doing it, because it felt unimportant/irrelevant/dumb." This is the hubris of youth talking. While this
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by koliber 1y ago
Absolutely. Sometimes I do a TCO analysis by subtracting the energy savings over 7 years (or 5, or 10 or whatever I estimate the useful life to be) from the more expensive price of the more energy efficient product. Occasionally it comes ou
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by koliber 1y ago
Is this a correct summary: we memoized the hashCode() function?
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by koliber 1y ago
Yet they don’t do it.
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by koliber 1y ago
I’ve had 4 such people interview. These guys were much easier to spot than the one at Kraken. I wrote up an article about how to spot these fake North Korean devs. https://koliber.com/articles/how-to-avoid-hiring-a-nort
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by koliber 1y ago
No. All it took is to call them out for being North Korean and they terminated the call.

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