nilkn

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by nilkn 6y ago
Do you have an axe to grind against the blog’s author?
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by nilkn 7y ago
Then it’s not a tip at all. The solution is to not show hypothetical tips to workers before the tip is finalized.
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by nilkn 7y ago
Now if only I could actually find a webcam somewhere to use with my desktop that has a 2080 Ti.
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by nilkn 7y ago
A friend interviewed with Google a few years ago and the process took well over six months before he actually got an official offer. It really is amazing how slow they are.
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by nilkn 7y ago
New York waited for things to be bad before they shut down. San Francisco shut down incredibly early in comparison at a time when the city was essentially perfectly fine and largely unaffected. This led to an extraordinary difference in out
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by nilkn 7y ago
Indeed, even periodontitis has been implicated in serious health developments like Alzheimer’s disease. Dental hygiene is very important but rarely needs to be done on a strict deadline.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I haven't used teams, but from my experience Outlook's scheduling assistant just shows you a few open time slots. The biggest problem is when there aren't any acceptable open slots within a reasonable window into the future (
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by nilkn 7y ago
It’s possible I could have and I just wasn’t sufficiently in the know about which tools to use. I hadn’t used MSYS. I’ve taken my current workflow so far as to even use nix as my primary package manager. Would this have been easily possible
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by nilkn 7y ago
I never thought I’d say it but because of this exact setup with VS Code I’ve actually stopped using my MBP at home in favor of my desktop, which was really only built with gaming in mind. I’ve now gotten used to having all the extra computi
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by nilkn 7y ago
The problem is that Elm's crowning achievement is that it took a lot of ideas from functional programming and produced an end product that is stunningly simple and easy to use -- even simpler and easier than most non-functional languag
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by nilkn 7y ago
I've watched Elm since its inception when Evan was posting about his experimental FRP project on r/haskell. (Yep, Elm actually started as a functional reactive programming language. That was before The Elm Architecture was develop
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by nilkn 7y ago
Ultimately it's about maximizing the productivity of the team or engineering organization at large more than it is about optimizing the productivity of a single developer. This often means that it's worth creating a mild disruptio
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by nilkn 7y ago
If it truly is a 15 person project for its entire duration then it's not worth splitting up, but you could still consider whether the whole team needs to be present for every standup. More often than not, though, when the team size rea
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by nilkn 7y ago
It's impossible to say without knowing the product, technology, codebase, etc. In some cases, yes, absolutely -- you would have three separate teams with three separate leads. In other cases, there isn't a reasonable way to split
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by nilkn 7y ago
The entire reason teams exist as a concept is to improve management and coordination logistics. A standup is a daily meeting that every team member has to attend, and in order for it to be productive it shouldn't just be robotic status
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by nilkn 7y ago
Two problems immediately stand out here: - 45 minutes: it should be 5-10 minutes, 15 on a bad day, and literally never 45. - 15 people: this is probably just too many people in a single standup. Based on my experience, it's quite likel
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by nilkn 7y ago
For better or worse, it's really easy to get both small and large (i.e., very large -- hundreds of people) video calls going, and it possibly has the best cross-platform support out of every option available right now.
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by nilkn 7y ago
Out of curiosity, have you tried BlueJeans? It seems to have worked well for me even on huge calls.
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by nilkn 7y ago
So Zoom is essentially a Chinese company with a formal outer shell in the US and 81% of its revenue coming from North America?
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by nilkn 7y ago
Layoffs sometimes signal an abrupt change in strategy rather than imminent collapse. For instance, if the business was on a sharp upward growth trend for years and hired aggressively to expand into a new market, but then that market disappe
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by nilkn 7y ago
I do expect the travel industry to be in shambles for at least a year if not several, which will effectively slow down every national economy and the global economy as well, thus practically guaranteeing a major multi-year recession on that
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by nilkn 7y ago
What is any of this based on? I could just as well say that the Haskell software we have in production has essentially never had a bug over 3+ years of runtime, despite being a complex, high-performance, heavily multithreaded service. But I
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by nilkn 7y ago
The real problem is that his response to Scholze and Stix didn’t manage to convince anyone who wasn’t already in his camp. At this point there is a major and clearly stated objection to the proof out in public to which no reasonable refutat
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by nilkn 7y ago
Are you actually surprised people don’t like being lied to? Zoom behaves like malware in a number of ways (just look at how the installer works!), and the company outright lies about features like this. Yes, people are going to be upset abo
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by nilkn 7y ago
BlueJeans works fine with 100+ participants in my experience.
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by nilkn 7y ago
Zoom is such a bizarre product. For huge video calls, it tends to perform as well or better than everything else out there. Yet at the same time it literally seems like straight-up malware and seems to violate your trust and privacy left an
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by nilkn 7y ago
I've just been using Slack video (for small groups or one-on-ones) and BlueJeans for larger meetings. I've tried Zoom and didn't see what it added on top of BlueJeans except for feeling like malware.
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by nilkn 7y ago
My first experience with Zoom was the installer opening, telling me it was going to perform a pre-install check to see if the software could be installed, then immediately closing without explanation. It turns out it installed everything im
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by nilkn 7y ago
How much of this is related to the software though and how much is related to home internet speeds, camera quality, microphone quality, etc.? Most laptops ship with really low quality webcams and mics, and that’s predominantly what people a
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by nilkn 7y ago
I feel like this has already been brought up elsewhere, and I don't really appreciate the tone/sentiment you opened this comment with.

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