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Egoless Engineering(egoless.engineering)
3 points by mcfunley 2y ago|1 comments
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Egoless Engineering: Misery Is a Dumb Strategy(egoless.engineering)
5 points by mcfunley 2y ago|0 comments
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Egoless Engineering(egoless.engineering)
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Egoless Engineering(egoless.engineering)
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Egoless Engineering(egoless.engineering)
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Egoless Engineering(egoless.engineering)
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Egoless Engineering(egoless.engineering)
3 points by mcfunley 2y ago|0 comments
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Egoless Engineering: Misery Is a Bad Proxy for Results(egoless.engineering)
2 points by mcfunley 2y ago|0 comments
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Egoless Engineering: Misery is a shitty proxy metric for results(egoless.engineering)
12 points by mcfunley 2y ago|1 comments
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by mcfunley 2y ago
In an extended chapter of Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks described his practice of screening candidates for number-form synesthesia by asking “where is November?” I have number form so when I was young and originally read this I thought it
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by mcfunley 2y ago
Great to see this course material public. It's a real missed opportunity though to not mention that Galois wrote a lot of it down staying up all night before being shot.
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I tried to use AI to read an AI book(mcfunley.com)
1 points by mcfunley 2y ago|1 comments
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I Tried to Use AI to Read an AI Book(mcfunley.com)
2 points by mcfunley 2y ago|0 comments
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I Tried to Use AI to Read an AI Boom(mcfunley.com)
1 points by mcfunley 2y ago|0 comments
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I Tried to Use AI to Read an AI Book(mcfunley.com)
3 points by mcfunley 2y ago|0 comments
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by mcfunley 3y ago
No, it’s orthogonal to the analytics
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by mcfunley 3y ago
Author here. The main thing that inspired this happened a few years before I wrote it down. Etsy had gotten a new CEO, and they spent one of their first few weeks in long hours at my desk, iterating on the homepage design in what could only
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by mcfunley 4y ago
I worked on a feed reader back in 2006. The worst feed discovery kluge I can recall needing to special case was that certainly the most popular blog at the time (Cute Overload) was a frameset around blogger. That was typical though, people’
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by mcfunley 4y ago
I don't know if it was that deeply irrational, I mean beyond the decision to initiate a war with the United States in the first place. At the start of the war it wasn't clear that carrier-based air power would be able to effective
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by mcfunley 4y ago
The war was over after the Marianas were taken, if not at Midway. It doesn’t seem right to discount the industrial might like you do when the US produced dozens and dozens of carriers and escort carriers while the Japanese produced four or
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by mcfunley 4y ago
> Right, because it wasn't actually the middle layer that was causing the problems That's generally true about the overall stability, the DB popped constantly. One reason Emid got grief was because it started barfing every time
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by mcfunley 4y ago
Sid #1 was someone that worked with Rob's dad, IIRC. Not from the investors. He continued to come around for a long while. It was amusing to me watching Chad (CTO hired after the eng founders left) take meetings with the guy. During th
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by mcfunley 4y ago
Yep same guy, and if the thread makes it unclear I really do consider Jared a genius of the most wonderful sort
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by mcfunley 7y ago
OP here—if it’s not obvious from the tweets the timeframe of this story is 2007 through 2008.
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by mcfunley 7y ago
It’s amazing how relatable these notes are (I made the tweets)
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Google Reader Killed RSS(mcfunley.com)
80 points by mcfunley 7y ago|42 comments
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by mcfunley 7y ago
If you want to put sql in your templates, I can't help you
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Show HN: PugSQL, a Python Port of HugSQL(pugsql.org)
155 points by mcfunley 7y ago|53 comments
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by mcfunley 8y ago
Greg would it really surprise you if a tech startup turned out to have done something stupid
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Making Big Changes(iterative.club)
1 points by mcfunley 8y ago|0 comments

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