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by mherdeg 7y ago
Yeah, agree, this is probably the key sticking point: the 3rd party toolchain doesn't do [some key thing] the stakeholders in my process have found valuable. So I end up run some scenario analysis and find that the 3rd party toolchain
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Yeah feels like there's a lot of room for startups in this space (Blameless has a great demo, too). No one wants to rewrite PagerDuty internally -- why are people all writing their bespoke incident management, response, review, and re
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by mherdeg 7y ago
BTW, where do I go to buy it? Who's mediating the auction and how to I put my bid in? Visiting http://corp.com/ takes me to a GoDaddy parking page and tells me that GoDaddy will happily convey my offer to the owner for
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by mherdeg 7y ago
One of the advantages of having documentation live alongside code in source control is that, in principle, the person reviewing the pull request could edit the prose. The pattern I see most often is "oh my goodness, thank you for makin
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Yeah, basically for nostalgia and no other reason I prefer to shoot with full-frame sensors (like Nikon FX) rather than on the crop sensor (like DX). The larger-sensor digital bodies are considerably more expensive, even if they're yea
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I don't know whether this is just nostalgia, or maybe my finances used to be less complicated, but nothing beats the experience I had with the Microsoft Money desktop app. It was easy to download transactions from participating banks (
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Unless I have misunderstood, I think the ember.js/Brittanica story is an amusing but untrue anecdote from a satire piece ( https://medium.com/s/silicon-satire/i-peeked-into-my-node-mo... ).
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I'd love to see a software-industry-wide quality manifesto. The tenets could include things like: * Measure whether the service you provide is actually working the way your customers expect. (Not just "did my server send back an h
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Knuth's "Literate Programming" was kind of otherworldly for me. I liked the idea that software could be written in a form indistinguishable from literature. I could not quite believe that it was reality -- and I'm still
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I'm really sorry, but I think I had a little bit of trouble understanding your question. In your first reply, you quoted me saying the phrase "Then a bunch of Macedonian teenagers..." and asked "is this a commonly accept
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by mherdeg 7y ago
> Over a two-month period, Balic said he matched records from users in Israel, Turkey, Iran, Greece, Armenia, France and Germany, he said, but stopped after Twitter blocked the effort on December 20. Sounds like the other thing Balic dis
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by mherdeg 7y ago
This is super well documented; see: * This coverage about the industry in Veles: https://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/ * Similar coverage from Wired: https://www.wired.com&#x
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by mherdeg 7y ago
In Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" he proposes a distant alternate-history future where a priest-like cult of technical experts set themselves up to do effective human-aided Google searches which were necessary because the Intern
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I vividly remember Catalina's permissions model being mocked by Apple on television in a mid-2000s Get A Mac ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxOIebkmrqs Why the turnaround 10 years later? Is OS X now such a popular
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Hmm, how does NetHack generate mazes in Gehennom? This is making me want to look.
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I'm impressed by the humility here from someone who (a) is writing a library to replace core traceback behavior in pypi; (b) has doubtless read both cpython and pypi code; (c) nevertheless writes "While I have some general idea of
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by mherdeg 7y ago
> Apple appears to concede that Nuvia is targeted to servers and Apple doesn’t make servers Aww, I liked my Xserve.
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Interesting! Any response to the view that universal-childcare-educated children are "DQN" from over in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21745453 ? (I'm not sure I understand it.)
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I have read people say that a key difference in entrepreneurship in the US versus European countries is that European company founders are much more likely to be held responsible for their companies' debts and are therefore much less l
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I just finished "Rewired: the Post Cyberpunk Anthology" which has some commentary mixed in about this issue. The editors' view seems to be in part that Gibson's work was influential precisely because of the reaction it g
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by mherdeg 7y ago
One great addition to this article would be to propose some pragmatic examples and explain ways where people with different engineering philosophies would approach each example. This can be a risky thing to do because readers in their heads
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Whatever happened to Red Envelope? I used to read that name a lot and then it just kind of vanished.
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Gosh that's odd; Ravpower has a blog post about UL certification's importance ( https://blog.ravpower.com/2018/04/usb-charger-safety-certifi... ) but you're right, their RP-PC104 45W GaN USB-C wall
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Ha ha, is the author saying "preferentially ranking search results higher if they appear to have a recent date stamp" is how search engine businesses will collapse? That seems awfully circumlocutious. It's interesting how the
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Did you talk to NCMEC pre-launch about strategies for matching uploaded images against a blacklist?
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I really have no idea how "doing business in China" works. I thought I understood it but I still don't... An interesting thread last year suggested that in some cases companies spent many years "doing business in China&q
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Is the limited-liability corporation that Uber uses called "Raiser LLC" or "Rasier LLC"? I swear I've seen it spelled both ways, although only "Rasier" in Uber receipts. What's the etymology?
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by mherdeg 7y ago
It happened in the first half of 2018 (between March and May). Kind of baffling. Without having talked to them, my assumption is that a Florida area Jamaican restaurant reached out to them and said "hi, we're called Jerk City, can
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by mherdeg 7y ago
iMessage has had some interesting bugs: * 2014 -- if you switch from an iOS device to an Android device, iPhone users who try to send you text messages that are channeled via iMessage will have their messages silently vanish ( https:/
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Yishan Wong's response to that worry starts out: > The pre-internet era was boring. Some may say that it was just as stimulating but in different, more "vibrant, outdoorsy" ways, but they are wrong. I have lived in both

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