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by leothekim 6y ago
I was around 25 years ago pushing bits around SunOS boxes and when people were still figuring out CMSes. FTP and BBEdit ftw. Definitely some things were simpler, but stuff would fall over in a heartbeat. I still think of the day of 9/1
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by leothekim 6y ago
Re: the sysadmin work, app developers have to worry a whole lot less about it, oftentimes not at all. In startups, that's a huge plus. I still remember servers going down because some workloads were destroying the RAID arrays s.t. that
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by leothekim 6y ago
> Building software was never simple or easy I think it’s gotten a whole lot simpler in the past 10 years. People used to have to rack their own hardware, install PDUs, check temperature gauges, plug wires, configure the switches, setup
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A wolf in sheep’s clothing: California’s AB 3262 “Consumer Protection” bill(medium.com)
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by leothekim 6y ago
Possibly one of the most moving interviews I’ve seen was Dave Brubeck talking about returning to America after WWII and witnessing racism towards black veterans. https://youtu.be/stadqAHRroA The story he tells at the very e
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Hitting the Glass Ceiling, Suddenly, at Pinterest(nytimes.com)
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Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money(theverge.com)
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Aboard the Diamond Princess, a Case Study in Aerosol Transmission(nytimes.com)
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Malik B., Early Member of the Roots, Dies at 47(npr.org)
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Moderna gets further $472M U.S. award for coronavirus vaccine development(cnbc.com)
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The Best Countries to Raise a Family in 2020(asherfergusson.com)
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Pfizer Gets $1.95B to Produce Coronavirus Vaccine by Year’s End(nytimes.com)
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John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80(nytimes.com)
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In Astounding Test, Scientists Revive Damaged Lungs for Transplant(nytimes.com)
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by leothekim 6y ago
Contrived sanctimony like this will not prevent police from killing black people either.
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by leothekim 6y ago
+1 to going off of Joda API. This is a very well-thought out datetime API with a fluent interface for building date/time objects in an immutable way. Just doing this would be a huge step improvement for JS.
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by leothekim 6y ago
I think he's referring to https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/issues/707 .
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by leothekim 6y ago
So glad to read that the core objects are immutable. This is probably my biggest gripe of other date/time manipulation libraries, eg moment.js.
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Astronauts bound for Mars should swing by Venus first, scientists say(space.com)
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We Have to Focus on Opening Schools, Not Bars(nytimes.com)
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by leothekim 6y ago
"...bridges and civil engineering projects are designed to last, why can we also design software for it to last?" Some software has lasted for many decades. This isn't necessarily a good thing. [1] [1] https://arst
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Recursive Islands and Lakes(en.wikipedia.org)
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Chris Cox Returns to Facebook(facebook.com)
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by leothekim 6y ago
Sounds like you’ve got alignment on these things at your startup but no one knows how to make time for it. What have you done to step up and lead your team out of the jungle? I am not being flip when I ask this. I’ve worked at eight startup
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Why Doesn’t the US Have a European-Style Welfare State? [pdf](scholar.harvard.edu)
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by leothekim 6y ago
From January 2020.
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by leothekim 6y ago
There’s a point in every company’s trajectory where you should decide if you’re aiding in the company’s success or hindering it, and I believe this is doubly true for founders. In my personal experience, almost every startup I’ve worked in
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Uber CEO reportedly favored rank-and-file layoffs over pay cuts for top execs(nypost.com)
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‘Double Rainbow Guy’ Paul Vasquez Is Dead at 57(nytimes.com)
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Tony Allen, Pioneering Afrobeat Drummer, Dead at 79(rollingstone.com)
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