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by mriet 3y ago
Wonder if he tried zstd --long=31 Or, given that he's basically mentions FCM/PPM, zpaq.
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by mriet 3y ago
Sounds like it's related to Graeber's book, "Debt, The First 5000 Years".
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by mriet 3y ago
https://www.adyen.com/blog/updating-a-50-terabyte-postgresql... And that was in _2018_. I wonder how big it is now.
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by mriet 4y ago
I track time for the following reasons: - track and optimize productivity - I have a budget per project - ensure I work my 40h/week (if I work more or less, my productivity goes down) https://tailordev.github.io/Watson&
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by mriet 4y ago
One minor comment: different markets/regions are _different_. For example, whether or not customers pay on time can depend a lot on the region (and decade!). Not to mention that there's also a big difference between small and larg
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by mriet 4y ago
In my own experience, and based on what it I've observed, it's all about demand and supply. I have been hired for jobs even though I said "I do not have any experience doing this." If you're switching, switch to som
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by mriet 4y ago
Many of the technical problems have been solved by frameworks: persistence, transactions, concurrency, etc. The business processes covered by systems have grown much more complexer. The organizations have grown larger because software is do
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by mriet 4y ago
I was at a remote company last year and hiring (was lead, building the team) and right before one interview, I reviewed a resume and saw that there were.. 2 jobs for the same time period. The best way to get the truth is to make all answers
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by mriet 4y ago
It is culture-specific, but not US-only. BTW, given the current state of psychology, 50%+ of psychology is culture-specific. (See "How emotions are made")
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by mriet 4y ago
Sorry, but how the @#€& is 6 years a senior engineer? I consider all of the lessons that he mentions to be things that junior engineers learn before becoming medior engineers.
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by mriet 4y ago
Agreed -- and, even worse, in my experience they don't even know about more than 20% of the opportunities.
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by mriet 4y ago
Or "How Emotions are Made", by Feldman Barrett.
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by mriet 4y ago
1. Dunning-Krueger or, in other words, Congress probably thinks they know better. 2. Politicians, per definition, are elected to represent the interests of their constituents. Many constituents disagree with experts (climate change, for exa
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by mriet 4y ago
Dolt is git for databases . Nessie is git for data .
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by mriet 4y ago
The SMTP standard allows you to add a "suffix" to part of your email address that is ignored when delivering the message. I never give out my raw email address, I use: - name+twitter@gmail.com for twitter - name+amazon@gmail.com f
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by mriet 5y ago
I have rarely heard such a good example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. I stopped listening after the first 5 minutes but I believe he literally says that he has "1% of the appropriate knowledge to answer this question." I continued
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by mriet 5y ago
How Emotions are Made, Lisa Feldman-Barrett IMHO, it will take another century before the world works through the full consequences of what she's written.
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by mriet 5y ago
It's hard to understand the impact that meditation and mindfulness/practiced awareness of your mental state can have on your life before you start doing either regularly. I saw an unbelievable increase in my focus and peace of min
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by mriet 5y ago
> But we have a huge body of evidence showing that there is a big difference in how the left vs. right brain processes information I don't think we actually do have this evidence. In fact, I think there's been specific research
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by mriet 5y ago
Fieldman Barrett's book, "How Emotions are Made" is really, really interesting and goes into way more detail about the subjects she mentions here and others. She backs up all of what she writes, as well: a good 20% of the boo
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by mriet 5y ago
How does the poster of this article not know what type of site Newsweek has become? https://newrepublic.com/article/158968/newsweek-rise-zombie-...
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by mriet 5y ago
Quick tip: leave Mensa off of your resume. I skip any resume that I see where someone "brags" about how smart they are -- I care about teamwork and how open to new or different ideas someone is, and both of those are orthogonal ax
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by mriet 5y ago
"[Lower corporate taxes] have also benefited people in other countries by helping to check corporate tax hikes there." WTF? The writer just throws that in there, no justification whatsoever. It could be absolutely true -- or total
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by mriet 5y ago
Just a side-comment: There's a large misconception or myth in the both the OP and in a number of comments: "figure out what you/I want to do." A quick thought experiment to prove my point: If you have never tasted or exp