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by lbayes 5y ago
This is my not-so-secret weapon and I highly recommend it. I spent some years at a FAANG, some of them in management, and it was shocking how many meetings could be unlocked by one person willing to risk sounding stupid. I was also shocked
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by lbayes 5y ago
Just another anecdote here, but I'll go ahead and share. I was essentially raised by a single working mother who spent 12 years getting herself a Master's Degree while working full time and raising a very independent and even more
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by lbayes 5y ago
Definitely. In fact, it's super easy to back up as it's in a SQLite database (for now).
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by lbayes 5y ago
Ex-Googler here and 20+ year veteran of SF startups. It sounds like you have a great set of intuitions, and you're right, all that infrastructure is a nightmare to set up and manage. Step 1: Question every requirement Step 2: Drop ever
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by lbayes 5y ago
You're right. Thanks for calling it out.
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by lbayes 5y ago
(deleted stupid comment) apologies!
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by lbayes 5y ago
Also hit the back button trap with Firefox on Android. Ew
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by lbayes 5y ago
I've been really surprised at how simple it can be to configure complex ICs with basic pull up / pull down resistors and voltage dividers. The (older) books I was reading got me really nervous about needing to design all kinds of
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by lbayes 5y ago
I feel obliged to point out the destructive power of Knuth's statement, "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." I have encountered far too many people who interpret that to mean, "thou shall not even even consi
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by lbayes 5y ago
Challenge accepted! I found myself in a monthly meeting of 12 or so (Unnamed FANG) managers where they would curate a collection of 3,000-5,000 bugs / issues / feature requests. It was almost entirely the same collection of old, s
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by lbayes 5y ago
It reads like pretty good GPT to me.
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by lbayes 5y ago
Couldn't a build system use a hash of the accumulated files as a cache key and rebuild it's internal state when that changes? I'm not seeing a big downside, but maybe I'm missing something obvious.
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by lbayes 5y ago
I had my first real exposure to CMake earlier this year. It demos beautifully, but quickly becomes an outrageous collection of side quests to find the secret key. What collection of hidden methods, global constants, environmental variables
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by lbayes 5y ago
This. I'm stunned this kit was ever created with the shape it has, but even more stunned a second person agreed to use it. It completely blows my mind that this demoware has made inroads anywhere.
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by lbayes 5y ago
Since 2016-ish, I've been using the Dell XPS 13 "Developer Edition" (3 models so far), and they're consistently decent machines. I still have a Linux workstation for big tasks, but XPS has been good enough to wean me off
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by lbayes 5y ago
A couple more: 1) Do not limit the length of the password to some arbitrarily small number. 2) Do not validate email beyond the simplest, "includes an @ and a period. Email is validated by sending a confirmation link. 3) Don't get
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by lbayes 5y ago
My first reaction to those reviews was that they read pretty disrespectfully. Writing a book is extremely challenging and some of the feedback is not appropriate for a page that's associated with a standards body. Then I wondered, &quo
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by lbayes 5y ago
This line was highly distracting for me, "To make matters worse, the shell has been mostly left for dead by both academia and industry, considering it an unsalvageable piece of junk that needs to be replaced at the first opportunity.&q
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by lbayes 5y ago
I spent quite a few years living in dynamic languages and looking enviously over the wall at those lucky engineers who could use static type systems to catch all their bugs (truly, this is not sarcasm). Then I finally got an opportunity to
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by lbayes 5y ago
Overall agree with the OP, but wanted to provide a minor objection, or maybe clarification. I've been writing software professionally since '98, so I'm a little greener than @tbray. During my career, I've almost entirely
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by lbayes 6y ago
I've struggled with brutal insomnia (getting to sleep and staying asleep) my entire life (45 years old now). Over the years, I've gotten pretty good at forcing myself to get to work early and just made due with 4-6 hours on most n
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by lbayes 6y ago
Nice catch, thanks!
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by lbayes 6y ago
What about Noms? "The versioned, forkable, syncable database" https://github.com/attic-labs/noms
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Coda docs as apps public launch(coda.io)
1 points by lbayes 8y ago|0 comments
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by lbayes 8y ago
My friend Kyle lost his arms and legs when he was an infant. He's a competitive gamer and this is his experience/review of the latest Pokemon game.
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Friendly reminder to consider alternative abilities when designing interactions(livequickie.com)
2 points by lbayes 8y ago|1 comments