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by mtlynch 3y ago
No, "your," too: I also took out "your". That's a standard moderation trick since second-person pronouns in titles tend also to be clickbait https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937739
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by mtlynch 3y ago
That's true, but there are conflicting rules here because HN also considers "your" in titles to be clickbait: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by mtlynch 3y ago
I've sometimes been able to escalate to the right people and effect change, even when I have to go through a seemingly uncaring customer support team. I was inspired by patio11's "Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You.&quot
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Oh, I just mean like filling the web with so much garbage that nobody can find your website.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
> I’m not on Twitter anymore - my goal is to instead channel that micro-blogging energy into regular blogging energy on my personal website as well as posting Zig project news here on ziglang.org. Cool, I like this! I realized last year
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Is the issue with telling people to pipe URL output into bash? Or is the issue with any distribution method that isn't flatpak or something similarly privilege-limited? I see how flatpak is an improvement, but I don't see how pi
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Cool, I'll give it a spin. Thanks, Ben!
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Hey Ben, great to see this progress! Is it a goal of LiteFS to serve single-instance deployments as well as Litestream does? Would you say LiteFS has already achieved that at this point, or would Litestream still be the better match for sin
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by mtlynch 3y ago
> For perspective, this was written by an extremely precocious 16 year old. Small correction: Swartz was born November 8, 1986, and this was published October 20, 2006. He was three weeks shy of 20 years old.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
TigerBeetle is using Zig in production.[0] I imagine some of Zig's other corporate sponsors are using it as well.[1] [0] https://tigerbeetle.com/ [1] https://ziglang.org/zsf/
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Vickrey auctions are really neat! It seems like everyone walks away feeling like they got a good deal. Kevin Lynagh wrote a great blog post about how he convinced a friend to sell a portion of his inventory of small-run of mechanical keyboa
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by mtlynch 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. If we're evaluating whether Brooks was correct in his "no silver bullet" prediction, then overall productivity is the bar because his prediction was about overall productivity of a dev team.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
The things you mentioned are not silver bullets, as Brooks defined them. A "silver bullet" is a: > single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude improveme
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by mtlynch 3y ago
I'm the author of the notes but I'm not Jason Cohen, the speaker on whom the notes are based. > Example: Server hosting" A few lines later... "Good Market: Not real-time > A non-real time business is one where it’
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Strunk & White doesn't really cover grammar if I recall. I like The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker. I had to buy it for a course in college, and I've found it to be a helpful reference for grammar rules. The explanations a
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by mtlynch 3y ago
I think the better version of these ideas is in Jason Cohen's classic "Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business" talk.[0, 1] The difference is that Jason Cohen's advice is based on personal experience growing four busin
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Oh, thanks! That's super clear and fills a huge gap in my understanding how to use Nix. It sure beats my previous method of finding packages, which was just blind guessing. I've updated the post to include the correct package name
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by mtlynch 3y ago
This a bit like saying a 15-minute commute sounds "very off" because it only takes you 10 minutes to drive to your office. Ansible run times are going to vary wildly depending on what's in your playbooks and how fast your nod
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Author here. I'm working on a follow-up post specifically about NixOS on the Pi 4, but there are several gotchas to the process. The biggest issue I've run into is that the latest versions of the NixOS SD card images don't wo
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Ah, okay. That makes sense. Thanks! I've updated the post based on your feedback.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Author here. Thanks for the clarification! I'm still new to Nix, so I'm trying to share useful things I'm learning without overstepping my expertise and saying wrong things. My mental model of Nix was that if I'm in syst
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by mtlynch 3y ago
This comment is fairly dismissive of GP's experience and intelligence. If you think you can solve a problem just by spitballing it, and GP's team at yelp couldn't figure it out for years, either you're much smarter than
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by mtlynch 3y ago
> This feature is similar to Google docs presence and helps prevent unnecessary work and pings. Right, I understand, and I think for developer tasks like reviewing code or reviewing design documents, that's a negative feature in do
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by mtlynch 3y ago
> See reviewer presence so that you can see if someone is already reviewing and avoid unnecessary pings. > Visibly values privacy and security above all else These two things seem squarely at odds. Personally, I don't want my c
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by mtlynch 3y ago
It doesn't sound like you have much experience in e-commerce as almost all of these ideas are wildly impractical. Hiding prices or playing games with prices means I'm significantly degrading experience for my real customers for th
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Honestly, no. I don't want merchants refusing to sell items just because they discover that they're not the lowest price. I'm willing to pay a premium with certain merchants due to my confidence in their delivery speed and co
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by mtlynch 3y ago
How would one distinguish an Amazon bot visitor from a legitimate visitor? Unless Amazon goes out of it's way to announce itself (and why would it?), I don't see how a merchant would identify an Amazon price checking bot.
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by mtlynch 3y ago
> I'm not sold that it's reasonable to equate "losing Featured Offer status because of violating objective criteria" with "Amazon is suppressing my listings". In my experience (again, I'm just one data
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by mtlynch 3y ago
I don't think this is even in dispute. I'm a seller on Amazon and they'll suppress my listings (hide from search results, hide the buy button on listings) if I offer a lower price on my own website. They have some details abo
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by mtlynch 3y ago
Just a single data point: I'm an e-commerce seller. I sell on both Amazon and my own website. When I raise prices on Amazon to offset Amazon's fees, Amazon buries my listings and hides the buy button. To restore the listing, I hav

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