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by maliker 6y ago
We’ll design our way through this. It reminds me of the introduction of compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). The first batches didn’t reach their efficiency goals and burned out faster than expected, which really sucked because of the mercury
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by maliker 6y ago
So cool to see such a hardcore engineering presentation in a shareholder meeting.
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by maliker 6y ago
I'm an engineering manager with 10 reports. What's worked for me is 1-on-1 meetings with each team member each week. We set strategy for high level goals (e.g. a quarterly software release), measure progress, and I let them know a
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by maliker 6y ago
https://transfer.pcloud.com
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by maliker 6y ago
There’s a huge push at the US federal level to get fiber to the home in rural areas. 10s of billions in funding. A lot of times it’s run by the electric companies (coops). They already have the right of way, pole access, and customer relati
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by maliker 6y ago
If you look at the inverter/module price trends[1], you'll see we've pretty much reached the bottom of the cost curve. Continued price reduction is coming from balance-of-system and soft costs (e.g. planning). So SA is probab
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by maliker 6y ago
Definitely feels like the openai api. Looks similar to some examples they've published previously.
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by maliker 6y ago
Microsoft office. Unavoidable in a business context. Slow. Hangs. Crashes. Menu options hard to find in the constantly shape-shifting ribbon. I actually have fond memories of office circa 1995 when it was a single platform app. Now it’s som
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by maliker 6y ago
And then there are serious water pollution problems around the management of coal ash after the combustion process. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly...
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by maliker 6y ago
I took a shot at this, didn't have much luck though: PROMPT ======= Input: 21 + 110 Output: 100 + 20 + 10 + 1 = 100 + 30 + 1 = 130 + 1 = 131 Input: 89+78 Output: 80 + 70 + 9 + 8 = 150 + 9 + 8 = 150 + 17 = 150 + 10 + 7 = 160 + 7 = 167 O
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by maliker 6y ago
Replying to share a link to a satellite view of Almeria, Spain. All the greenhouses easily visible from space: https://www.google.com/maps/place/El+Ejido,+Almer%C3%ADa,+Sp...
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by maliker 6y ago
Now if we could just get a windows docker container running on unix hosts I could debug my cross-platform support.
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by maliker 6y ago
My team has struggled a lot with how to do python deployment. We know we can isolate the interpreter and modules via venv/docker/etc. and get repeatable and reliable deployments. However, because we're a utility module, we li
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by maliker 6y ago
I wonder if anyone is working on special languages for talking to voice interfaces. Maybe a reduced grammar would allow for better recognition accuracy and reliability. And we could get more helpful corrections. The problem reminds me of th
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by maliker 6y ago
Some of the classic recession indicators (Sahm, Chauvet) are just starting to peak [1]. Both have led multi-year declines in stock prices. Is this time different from last time and the time before that? [1] https://fred.stlouisfe
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by maliker 6y ago
There's a fun SMBC comic illustrating this concept: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-04-03
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by maliker 6y ago
The market is much more interested in Linux/Windows versions. But I guess they still want you to buy the hardware/OS to get the full living-in-the-Apple ecosystem experience to inform what you create for your users. Disclaimer: I
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by maliker 7y ago
What's helped our team has been just writing down the product roadmap. It's as simple as a bulleted list in a google doc with some estimates about how long things will take, who's working on them, and what's already been
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by maliker 7y ago
We'd be interested! I think it will be pretty hard to do well in open source though. Server costs and keeping things working when NOAA (etc.) sources change is probably going to be expensive.
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by maliker 7y ago
Ain't pretty matches my experience. My team pulls a lot of weather data for utility engineering work we do, and the NOAA APIs have proven very hard to navigate. Some data only available via FTP, lots of different weather station networ
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by maliker 7y ago
Our initial prototype was a cluster-based approach, and once we had a better estimate of user growth and resources we moved to a monolith for all the reasons you cite.
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by maliker 7y ago
We'll be at 12 devs this year with a 3 year runway. Thanks, we didn't think to put a precise number on the efficiency improvement!
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by maliker 7y ago
Wins for the user were performance improvements and security. The dev quality of life features (better type checking, f-strings, nicer pathing syntax), as someone else mentioned, will improve our development velocity in the future, which ge
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by maliker 7y ago
I knew about the security risk, but I wasn't aware of how many quality of life and performance improvements we could use in the new version. And I also learned that some people enjoy researching/debugging the interpreter, whereas
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by maliker 7y ago
My team went through the browser testing issue as well and agree they're hard tests to write. We ended up writing a few using selenium, but we don't have as much coverage as we'd like. Luckily, unlike an interpreter upgrade,
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by maliker 7y ago
We wrapped up our conversion about 1 week after the sunset date. I think we could have lived with no new features, but the no security updates issue was a big reason why we upgraded.
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by maliker 7y ago
We mostly stick to a single master with our code, but this was one case where we branched so we could watch progress via test passing percentage to make sure we were moving fast enough to finish before we got sick of it. Definitely have bee
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by maliker 7y ago
I'm the senior dev on my team, and whenever a new dev joined my team they would look at the codebase and go "ew, python2? Just use python3." That gave me a chance to explain the testing and refactoring cost that would come wi
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by maliker 7y ago
Our team likes it because it integrates with google drive. The whiteboards show up next to all your other files. The feature set is pretty minimal, but maybe that's a plus and not a minus. Still wish we could just draw (raster) in a Go
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by maliker 7y ago
Take a look at jamboard.google.com? It's very bare bones, so what's missing might give you some feature ideas.

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