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by kyshoc 4y ago
no citation, but I wanted one of these as a kid and remember them being around $100-150 USD in the early 00s
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by kyshoc 5y ago
Not sure this is what GP was referencing, but TMS is approved[0] for treatment-resistant OCD, depression, and migraine headaches. [0]: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-perm...
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by kyshoc 5y ago
James Carse has a theory[0] about this: “There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” [0
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by kyshoc 5y ago
While I appreciate the “middle” metaphor, I think it’s unwise to generalize business (and real life situations, more broadly) as a chess game — life doesn’t often come with symmetric information and zero-sum stakes. Annie Duke says it bett
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by kyshoc 6y ago
+1. I can also recommend his new book “Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track”.
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by kyshoc 6y ago
That’s almost exactly what happened on Southwest 1380[0] a few years ago. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380
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by kyshoc 6y ago
To split this hair a bit, I think “code quality” has two definitions: 1. the degree to which the code can be trusted to operate correctly and in a fault-tolerant way (i.e. “yeah that API endpoint will give you a 5xx about 2% of the time, so
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by kyshoc 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how long is the term on the lease?
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by kyshoc 6y ago
> why aren't most messaging apps peer to peer [...] it's literally the point of messages: sending from one person to another. Messaging apps are more like postal services — "please deliver this message to $person" —
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by kyshoc 6y ago
I don’t know much more than you on this, but I’ve seen this explained as such: inflation requires the injected money to actually be circulated in the economy in order to dilute the value of the currency. of the money distributed to companie
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by kyshoc 6y ago
OTOH, optimizing for a highly-compliant police force could set you up for trouble if they end up executing orders that a less compliant force would refuse to follow on moral grounds.
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by kyshoc 7y ago
Sleep Like The Dead[0] is a fantastic, independent site for mattress reviews that relies more on quantitative data[1] than commentary. [0]: https://www.sleeplikethedead.com [1]: https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/m
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by kyshoc 7y ago
Button ( https://usebutton.com/ ) | Full-time | ONSITE in NYC (New York, NY) Button is building a better way to do business in mobile — one that doesn't rely on antiquated, ineffective models like banner ads. We raised o
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by kyshoc 7y ago
> calls a 1 hour meeting, [...] but now they feel the need to pad the remaining half hour with whatever that's a wild way to run meetings — in my current organization, finishing a meeting ahead of schedule (when appropriate) is cele
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by kyshoc 7y ago
@justsaysinmice[0] would like to have a word... [0]: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice
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by kyshoc 7y ago
Are software engineers in the Bay Area required to be onsite much more than other industries?
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Cocktail Party Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kyshoc 7y ago|1 comments
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by kyshoc 7y ago
Check out Beeminder[0], this is exactly what their product does. [0]: https://beeminder.com/
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by kyshoc 7y ago
It goes deeper than anecdotal "I wish my client hadn't said anything", there are concrete reasons for this advice. For example, according to rules of evidence, any exculpatory statements you make to police are hearsay and the
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Big companies v. startups (2015)(danluu.com)
1 points by kyshoc 7y ago|0 comments
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by kyshoc 7y ago
Financial stability doesn't mean much to the end-user if the product ends up getting killed off regardless.
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Ask HN: Engineers who started in web and branched out, what are you doing now?
1 points by kyshoc 7y ago|1 comments
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by kyshoc 7y ago
> In a truly free market, companies aren't supposed to do anything [...] In a regulated market though... Free market !== unregulated market. In order for an unregulated market to be a free market, perfect competition is required[0],
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by kyshoc 7y ago
For the Americans: AFAIK, "menu" is what we call a combo.
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by kyshoc 7y ago
> Fiber is usually something people want According to this survey[0], only 25% of people even know what "fiber-to-the-home" means. Not a perfect proxy for "fiber" itself, but I imagine most non-technical people are no
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by kyshoc 7y ago
House of Cards had to be emergency-landed due to the whole Kevin Spacey thing though, so it's not a good anecdote here.
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by kyshoc 7y ago
For context: if Amazon were to use all of its profits from FY18 (~$11B) to pay its ~650K workers more, it would come out to just under $17,000 per worker.
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by kyshoc 7y ago
This is a massive oversimplification -- if everyone voted purely to protect their financial interests, "voter-approved tax increases" wouldn't exist.
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by kyshoc 7y ago
Santa Monica is doing something similar for escooters, and calling them "drop zones"[0]. [0]: https://la.streetsblog.org/2018/11/08/santa-monica-installs-...
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by kyshoc 7y ago
> why is a strong table to be looked for inside, to get underneath it? Modern buildings don't usually completely collapse ("pancake"), and being under a sturdy table can absorb the weight of partial collapse: as an example

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