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by nathanfig 4y ago
Reading these comments it’s clear there is no consensus and that this is a crisis of sorts that has gone largely unrecognized. Tech companies are innovating faster than parenting wisdom can evolve. New challenges on the horizon with the met
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by nathanfig 5y ago
Some people are very good at BSing their way through interviews, even technical ones. Those people also end up being very difficult to fire and are generally poisonous to culture. Asking them to code is a great filter, it’s hard to fool a c
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by nathanfig 5y ago
I wonder if DynamoDB would be met with less criticism had it simply been named Dynamo Document Store.
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by nathanfig 5y ago
That’s surprising to me, I consider DynamoDB to be far simpler than any relational DB including the alternatives you list
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by nathanfig 5y ago
It goes by a lot of names (sales consulting, solution engineering, sales engineering, etc) but sales engineer is probably the best literal descriptor: basically your job is to go to prospective customers and engage their engineers/arch
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by nathanfig 5y ago
Inspiring
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by nathanfig 5y ago
The author mentions music as an exception because it has a long pedagogical history which enables deliberate practice.
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by nathanfig 5y ago
FWIW I did not think you were shaming anyone; you recognized that he worked hard and did great work but has not been justly rewarded. I appreciated those examples.
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by nathanfig 5y ago
Conversely, you are losing the distributed computing gained by rendering on the client, and therefore need a bigger server to scale when needed. And HTTP caching can and should be used for API responses as well.
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by nathanfig 5y ago
I’m not sure what you mean- Chrome never tried to prevent me from downloading any other browser.
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by nathanfig 5y ago
We can make either time the permanent one and adjust accordingly, it’s the twice a year disruption that people hate. Especially difficult to explain to a child why their bedtime suddenly shifted despite established circadian rhythms. It’s w
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> Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission. Vaccines that keep hosts alive but still allow transmission could thus allow very virulent strains to circula
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by nathanfig 5y ago
This kind of pattern hunting easily steps into a logical fallacy where meaning is derived from noise. We also need to know how many other viruses contain codons not typically found in other viruses. If in fact every virus has one or two uni
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by nathanfig 6y ago
I presume they keep a table mapping email addresses to breaches and that's it.
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by nathanfig 6y ago
You can remove the antenna from a radio and remove the ability to hear the ballgame. That does not mean the game was happening in the antenna. Before getting hung up on the idea of transmission, understand this is just an analogy: breaking
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by nathanfig 6y ago
"Did this cause trauma" is not the bar we're trying to set here, any level of anxiety caused by tech companies misusing contacts is bad.
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by nathanfig 6y ago
Man. So many comments responding with more descriptions of the world tech companies created. Fascinating how much even us tech folk don't realize how much of our work environment is subject to design.
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by nathanfig 6y ago
Does the EC function provide any guarantees around how often a given endpoint can be hit? e.g. over the course of infinite hops starting at point a, how frequently will point b be landed upon?
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by nathanfig 6y ago
Yeah I was bothered by the lack of nuance in considering possible use cases.
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by nathanfig 6y ago
Uhh so the author is saying that missiles designed to go faster will actually be slower because of drag? Is there a source on that claim or is it just speculation? I'm imagining someone at DARPA reading this and thinking, "Drag! O
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by nathanfig 6y ago
Fascinating. The paper emphasizes an important distinction: there was no measurable correlation between dogmatism and confidence, but rather between dogmatism and ability to correct one's own confidence in light of new evidence. From
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by nathanfig 6y ago
Hello HN! RapidStash is a service for rapidly publishing sandbox APIs with just JSON. If you have an idea of what kind of data you want to send and receive but aren’t yet ready to build a backend, just throw some example data in a “stash” a
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3 points by nathanfig 6y ago|1 comments