nick0garvey

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by nick0garvey 5y ago
Taxes influence behavior. Specialized taxes help incentivize certain behaviors (buying green vehicles) and discourage others (smoking). Obviously things can go wrong, like they did here, but it's not worth discarding the very useful to
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
The implication here is the demand for Oculus is higher than for Xboxes. But Xbox has been extremely difficult to buy this past year, where an Oculus is readily available. Still an interesting data point, but misleading on its own.
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
The best part of PHP is the development model. You copy some files to a server, and load the page. That's it. It is really hard to beat how easy it is to iterate, even if the language is truly terrible.
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
Site crashed almost instantly, couldn't get through checkout
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
Agreed, this class was a masterpiece. Changed the way I write software
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
I've worked at both small and large companies in periods of rapid growth. With 2x YoY growth you are always onboarding. You need to be multiplicative with your onboarding efforts. This means writing quality onboarding documentation, me
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
I also prefer working in the office but this feels a bit over the top. Is it really way harder to get dressed at the end of the day instead of the start? Is it that much cognitive pressure to feed yourself? Working in the office has its ben
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
This is the whole point of doing the calculation. If you determine that you're going to have $10,000 less in pocket per year, then you can make the call whether the freedom of owning a house is worth it for you for that price or not.
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
Pretty sure the reason he is being positioned as a hero is due to his involvement in literally saving the lives of 12 children.
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
I took around 6 months off and travelled for a while. The travelling was great. I was out of the country for about 3 months and visited friends for the other 3. I filled my calendar during this and was constantly moving. I was in the best s
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
L3 is new grad L4 is an intermediate level - you must be promoted to L5 in a fixed time frame (2-3 yearish) L5 is a senior level
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
Huh, TIL. I'm amazed I've been using Vim for this long and there are entire modes I didn't know.
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
Yes. I use normal select when: - I want to apply a regex to a specific area, e.g. a single function (vjjjjj:s/my_function/my_new_function/g<enter>) - I want to cut some text and I don't want to count how many words
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
Glad they published the process used to discover the exploit. Interesting to follow along on how the weakness was found and the relative simplicity of the actual exploit code. Can't help but feel like this entire class of problem shoul
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
There's no such thing as bureaucratic obligation. A manager will not want to lose a good employee if they can avoid it.
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
I remember Feynman speaking quite harshly about most psychology towards the end of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". His complaints were largely around the lack of reproducibility and experiment practices universal across
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by nick0garvey 5y ago
They want market share more than anything. The intention is to trade short-term profits for long-term customers. This is a reasonable business strategy, especially for a business with a relatively undiversified source of profits. Of course
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
I can live in a house. I can't live in a Bitcoin.
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
Some workloads are very CPU intensive and some are not. Being forced to scale CPU & disk together means one of them is going to be overprovisioned - often by a lot. I'm pretty surprised Twitter didn't see benefit from doing th
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
The main lesson I learned from that chapter was the importance of a clear plugin interface. Especially for software used by people with different needs. This avoids a lot of pull requests into the main code that are unlikely to be maintaine
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
I don't get it, this website doesn't feel like Hacker News more than any other aggregation site.
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
Many brokers, including IBKR, set their interest rate to be a small increase over the federal interest rate. The federal rate is currently 0.25%. They set this rate extremely low to encourage the exact behavior we are seeing here - investme
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
Do you have a source on this 500b allocation? Not finding anything on a quick search.
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
You can just use 555-555-5555 at Safeway and it works, I've never owned a card.
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
I interviewed at Cruise, and when speaking with them, Waymo was the main competitor and Tesla didn't come up.
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
`man proc' is quite good. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html /proc is Linux specific, but it's extremely useful. A lot of tools are actually built on top of it, for example ps.
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
Not a contradiction. Imagine a pool of 100 people. The richest person has $100, everyone else has $1. There's a total of $199, and the richest 1% have more than half the total wealth with $100. I'm not saying this is the distribut
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
parallel may be what you are looking for: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/GNU-Paral... The defaults are a lot saner, and it's easier to pass arguments how you want.
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
It isn't fair to compare to home security. If someone breaks into my home, only my belongings are lost. If someone breaks into Twitter, user data is compromised. It's not just the business that pays a price.
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by nick0garvey 6y ago
The idea of it being controlled by a remote person makes me feel like a new breed of gig-jobs could be around the corner. Buy a robot, and pay someone remotely to do your housekeeping for you. The housekeeper could even operate it from thei

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