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by lifefeed 4y ago
Infinite Jest? Of course, the first chapter is about one kid's final inability to communicate.
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My time working at Bank of America was strange because of this. Everyone's title was either Analyst or VP.
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Github once did brownouts on features they were removing. For 12 hours, then later for 24 hours, they turn off the feature temporarily. The idea was to cause alarm bells to start loudly ringing for anyone still using it. https://
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At a certain shoe online retailer I worked at, we had a hard limit on the maximum discount, and it was built into the code. Not configurable, and not overridable. There were a lot of problems with that codebase, and some of those problems p
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My favorite floating point weirdness is that 0.1 can't be exactly represented in floating point.
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Those hands have the right number of fingers. So either 1) It's not AI-generated art, or 2) It is AI-generated art and the artist is a master at prompting. Either way they should be celebrated.
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Tucked away in the middle of any urban planning article is a reference to Jane Jacob's "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". It's a great book that puts into words why certain neighborhoods cities feel alive and
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by lifefeed 4y ago
You worked at the Schwartz PR firm?
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Future.com was more PR than news. It reminds me of Paul Graham's old essay on PR firms, which unintentionally(?) contained the best advertisement for the NYT I've ever read. > At the other extreme are publications like the New
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by lifefeed 4y ago
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol11/iss1/3/
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I read through some of this author's other articles, and he has a really inaccurate view of technology workers. We're not VC-backed digital nomads spending our days eating artisanal hot dogs. Most of us are just nine-to-five worke
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This reminds me a lot of "I Am Sitting in a Room", a piece of process music that slowly goes from understandable, to vaguely inhuman, to alien, to something else. By the end if feels like, even though you heard every step along th
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by lifefeed 4y ago
The software industry isn't going to disappear overnight. It didn't disappear in 2001 or in 2008, despite all the concerned emails I read from my relatives. That said it's always a good idea in general to live below your mean
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There was another story like this on Reddit, that is more likely to have actually happened. "I have become a forgotten employee for a few months at my job. I want to start a new job and wondering legal ramifications." https:&#x2F
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Aeon just had a great article on the consciousness, "Seeing and somethingness" https://aeon.co/essays/how-blindsight-answers-the-hard-probl... It argues that consciousness evolved out of sensation, where we d
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Vol 1 is just an intro to math and his language, you don't really need it, but it's kinda fun. I read some of Vol 2, Seminumerical Algorithms, to hone my instincts on how random numbers work in practice. I have referred to it on o
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by lifefeed 4y ago
If you mute "NFT" and various crypto keywords you won't see 99% of the spam. It's a not a scalable solution, but it works well for me.
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Small bash functions that're useful for silly-ego-reasons. ## coding analysis function lines_coded { perl -ne'print unless /^\s*$/ || /^\s*(?:#|\/\*|\*)/' $* | wl } function
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by lifefeed 4y ago
I was still living in Boston in 2015, and I happy to see my city put a stop to that. We still have collective PTSD from the Big Dig, and we can identify a "over-promises and under-delivers" from a mile away.
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The implication with these types of articles is always "any tests are better than no tests, but here's how to do better tests."
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The rare case of combining my love of APIs and my love of comic books.
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by lifefeed 4y ago
Very nice! Are you using the hacker news api?
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The "Backed by Google" is an under-appreciated social piece of the puzzle. It's not just that Go has institutional backing, it's that googlers produce a lot of startups, and they bring their favorite things with them, an
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Are you getting the same number of comments for better landing pages, but the comments are getting more detailed and nit-picky?
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There's a list of his papers with little notes by him on every one at https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html . His casual notes are themselves an absolute education. My favorite is on "Time, Clocks
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by lifefeed 4y ago
I want the inverse of this tool to audit it. I'll give it a specific account, and it identifies it as fake or not. Let me run some spot checks and accounts I know (and myself), and I'll find out if I can trust their numbers.
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Some of the reactions against her were unreal. People were wishing for her children to be kidnapped to teach her a lesson. And 14 years later America is now watching "Old Enough!" on Netflix.
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This story always reminds me of the Nth Country Experiment, from 1964, where the United States wondered how long it would take a country to design a nuclear weapon, starting from no particular expertise or classified access. One answer, the
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Just one? Metro-west Boston is filled with angry turkeys.
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I draw boxes and arrows. Sometimes the boxes are rounded. There was a study on this, UML in practice by Marian Petre. http://oro.open.ac.uk/35805/8/UML%20in%20practice%208.pdf where she interviewed 50 developers a

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