mypalmike

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by mypalmike 3y ago
A/B testing.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
"Don't be snarky" is mentioned in the first rule of hn commenting. To be fair, I don't always abide by it either, but it's a good rule.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Where I live, $5k for a used Corolla gets you something with over 200k miles and which needs another $5k (at least) to address deferred maintenance.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
/s?
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by mypalmike 3y ago
The title doesn't even mention bluesky, the all-important context here. *Edit: typo
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Being part of a rigorous process by which a cure may be found? Sign me up.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
The hash table is O(1) even without your modification. Because there is a fixed dictionary, the length of the longest possible word is known in advance. That provides a constant bounds that does not grow. Let's say the longest word is
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by mypalmike 4y ago
Whatever the merits of calling it "serverless", it's been a term for years and is probably not going away. Debating it here (a common pastime) is a fruitless exercise.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
How about a 2 million line legacy app spanning 5 languages including one created by a guy who left the company 14 years ago which has a hand-rolled parser and is buggy.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
So, not too different from typical real world coding tasks today.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
Nightmare fuel for me. I can't imagine how this would have gone where I sail in Puget Sound. The water is cold all year round (max is about 57F in August), and a single COB is a pretty big deal due to body temp issues.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
> The fact that the physical space we live in has three dimensions also isn’t invented The concept of "three orthogonal dimensions" is a pretty good model of the physical reality that is space.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
Yeah the "poor fool who types the information into the computer", or "Alex" in this case, is really the most enlightening thing in the story for me. It's amazing that this person who has exactly zero impact on accou
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by mypalmike 4y ago
By that point he wasn't in charge of finances.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
I'm not an expert. But it appears to be an accounting designation that shows up in filings, so it's not purely internal. You are correct that they are not part of the bond terms, which I was unclear on before. "HTM assets are
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by mypalmike 4y ago
> SVB is now forced to sell the mortgages it bought for $100 for $75. Not quite. The article addresses this in detail. They bought mostly hold-to-maturity (HTM) bonds which could not be sold. (Technically such bonds could be sold, but se
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by mypalmike 4y ago
Esoteric languages (e.g. brainfuck, befunge) are evidence that language weirdness is somewhat measurable and objective.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
> Commercial ice machines need to be cleaned and sanitized every six months in normal settings It makes me wonder how many (or few) hotels keep on top of this kind of maintenance.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
A lot of restaurant workers I've known in Seattle make like $30K. And no they aren't drug users.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
The median annual salary in Seattle is around $60K. So $80K is, based on the actual data, a high bar.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
Yeah I brought an employment contract to a lawyer once and they told me to sign it because most of it had been written with references to the laws of a different state (the company had moved HQ recently), making most of it unenforceable.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
For anyone interested in a sailing adventure on a real tall ship in real "real global weather", I can heartily recommend booking a journey on the Oosterschelde ( https://www.dutchtallship.com/oosterschelde/ ).
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by mypalmike 4y ago
It's an acquired taste. Circuit boards, that is.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
Some people find they benefit from physically separating home life from work life.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
I'm over 50 and I'm in the same boat. Hybrid is ideal for me for the same reasons. I find collaboration on work to be more difficult when I don't have an in-person connection with my teammates.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
They "want people who are devoted" to helping skirt financial reporting laws?
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by mypalmike 4y ago
An expired sticker is not an SEC violation. SEC violations scale based on a number of factors. https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2016/01/24/calculating-sec-c...
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by mypalmike 4y ago
Agreed completely. This problem borders on that common category of questions which test whether the applicant shares a specific fine-grained flavor of nerdiness as the interviewer, rather than whether the candidate is a good fit for the job
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by mypalmike 4y ago
All those mergers, including with my go-to for supplements, Pharmaca, in such a short time. How did it turn into such a dumpster fire so quickly? I feel like there's got to be a story.
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by mypalmike 4y ago
Oh huh. I must not have been wearing my glasses. I thought that said 37.3. Which still is only 8.8 percentage points. But even doing the percentage difference, I calculate a 10.2 percent increase. So I'll just shut up and go face the c

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