motorest

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by motorest 2y ago
> You know what would actually kill for saving on log data? Being forced to use an efficient format. Logging is unstructured and free-form by design. The observability events that can be expressed with a fixed format are metrics events,
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by motorest 2y ago
OP's point is orthogonal to whatever legal regime is in effect. OP's point was that fraudulent claims are at a residual level. If anything, general insurance is expected to have higher rates of fraudulent claims than health insura
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by motorest 2y ago
> yeah, that entry-level FAANG engineer money. In the US Amazon pays their SDE1s around $100k/year,with $160k total compensation that is actually relocation bonus bundled with vested stock paid in 4 years. Elsewhere, salaries are ev
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by motorest 2y ago
> By this same logic, you are responsible for the death of every person who could have been saved by you donating (...) A healthcare provider makes a very important but simple offer: you pay us,and in exchange you grant you access to the
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by motorest 2y ago
> if you're saying they actively decide denial rates at management level to hit profit targets, I don't buy it. To believe in that, first you need to believe that somehow any executive of a company has no control over the compa
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by motorest 2y ago
> This phrase: "responsible for so many deaths" is doing a lot of work in your post. What is your theory of responsibility? You can look up the definition of the word "responsibility" to clarify what it means. You can
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by motorest 2y ago
Their hefty pricetag bumps them solidly into exciting territory.
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by motorest 2y ago
> do you trust that you are on Hacker News right now? Is Hacker News asking for my credit card or impersonating any other site?
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by motorest 2y ago
> False dichotomy. Not really. This is the fact of real world software development: your resources are limited, and either you invest them creating value for customers so that they choose your product over your competitor's or they
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by motorest 2y ago
> A feature that drags people over is really a new product. But isn't that a post-facto observation? I mean, any project can work on a complex feature that's a flop, but sometimes a simple feature can go a long way and just til
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by motorest 2y ago
> The context of "stop making reactive decisions" isn't "start making proactive decisions." It's to just make fewer decisions. You don't get the luxury of not making decisions. You always have to make d
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by motorest 2y ago
> "Our customers prefer the product works over getting a new feature, so let's ensure that at any cost" Do they, though? If a competitor launches a feature that all your customers want and start to switch to benefit from i
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by motorest 2y ago
> I feel this so much. I feel like most of my job is playing politics to make sure people are happy and let them feel like they're adding value. Rather than shipping things to users to improve the product. Why do you feel your way o
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by motorest 2y ago
> The PM wants his share of the cake, so any big feature needs to go through his approval (“does this feature delivers value?”, “how many users will use the feature?”, etc.) That's literally the Product Manager's job. That&#x27
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by motorest 2y ago
> * Stop making reactive decisions. If something bad happened on a total, extremely unlikely lark, don't act like it's going to happen again next week. I don't think this item was well thought through. Taking proactive dec