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by makk 4y ago
This kind of introspection and reflection is admirable. It’s hard work to get to the point where one can explain it publicly and mindfully, including the spiritual parts that perhaps most people will not resonate with. Great work and thank
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by makk 4y ago
Im genuinely interested in this. Which aspect of reality? And when you say “positive”, from whose perspective or within which frame are you defining it?
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by makk 4y ago
Agreed, I’m excited to see where this may go.
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by makk 4y ago
Oh that would be fun!
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by makk 4y ago
I hear you. Are there parts of existing budgeting applications that you feel are done well? What are they?
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by makk 4y ago
> As the article so well puts it, every SaaS company has a vested financial interest "to leave optimization gremlins in." It depends on the time scale. A SaaS optimizing for, say, a 1-3 year financial return will see their inte
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by makk 4y ago
Ouch. Where do you work?
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by makk 4y ago
> with the better candidates responding to the ones without salary ranges Do you have hard, objective evidence to back this up? Very easy to imagine someone reading their personal biases into this observation.
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by makk 4y ago
I love seeing pragmatic posts like this. Of course YMMV and people have different tastes in tools so take what you like and leave the rest. It’s fun to see what others are doing and how they’re thinking about stuff.
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by makk 4y ago
> On par with most other countries That's interesting. Do you have a source for that? Would help others appreciate what you're seeing.
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by makk 4y ago
And what if they are? What difference would that make?
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by makk 4y ago
> We only have radical politicians to thank for that underinvestment by private companies. Source?
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by makk 4y ago
To play devil’s advocate to the devil’s advocate: I’m not on Facebook for anything. Been this way for so many years I can’t remember when I had an account. It feels like I’m missing exactly nothing. Spent some time recently going out of my
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by makk 4y ago
> Time we generally just do not have. Am I the only one who thinks this old trope is a fallacy in most situations?
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by makk 4y ago
> The nuclear plants need to be built near water, which means they're likely to end up near habitation. Does it? Article says this new reactor is helium cooled and vents heat. No mention of water cooling.
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by makk 5y ago
Example: Pronouns. I’ve been subjected to Slack bots that chastise us for using gendered pronouns. Like, someone says “could you guys take a look at this?” And the bot calls the person out publicly, saying we don’t use that pronoun around h
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by makk 5y ago
> The best way to level up is to code. Up to a point, yes. But beyond that point, in my experience, a deliberate study of software architecture is required to move forward. That and mentorship/code reviews by people who have a deepe
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by makk 5y ago
It's been years since I've looked but I remember being impressed by the NGINX codebase. https://github.com/nginx/nginx
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by makk 5y ago
Their strategy from the start was to use evergreen technical content to attract devs, to raise the visibility of their products with target customers. It diminishes their early insights to cast this acquisition as merely part of a trend.
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by makk 5y ago
Hospitalizations tend to precede fatalities. While I hope you're right, it's too early (by a couple weeks in the US, at least) to start trumpeting a "minuscule fatality rate". https://ourworldindata.org/g
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by makk 5y ago
Define normal.
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by makk 5y ago
And then let the algorithms amplify the most infuriating of those arguments.
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by makk 5y ago
Stay away from social media in general, is what they said.
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by makk 5y ago
Web 2 was “if you don’t know what the product is, you are the product.” Web 3 is “if you don’t know what is being owned, you are being owned.” Not saying that disparagingly. Just is.
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by makk 5y ago
Level up: https://rootsystem.com/apply
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by makk 5y ago
Yeah, what is going on with the a16z blog?
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by makk 5y ago
The author seems unaware that their problem isn’t burnout. That’s a symptom. Their problem is a failure to set boundaries. Without boundaries they’ll just hit the wall again. Over and over.
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DHH on rewriting codebases from scratch (2015)(businessofsoftware.org)
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by makk 6y ago
In an acquisition, the acquirer will have full access to source code and may look for open source violations during technical due diligence. They may then use any violations to squeeze the valuation and/or demand remediation, either of
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by makk 6y ago
And High Fidelity: https://www.highfidelity.com/

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