nosefrog

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by nosefrog 4y ago
How did you become a more productive developer?
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by nosefrog 4y ago
As a 5'5" guy, no one ever calls me short, and when I joke about being short my friends tell me that they don't perceive me as short unless I'm joking about it, so I stopped haha.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
> affluent Virginia suburb, until I got into a top STEM magnet high school TJ? :P
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Sure, it's an interesting question, but if the way you're measuring it can't be distinguished from noise, you need to find a different measure.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
I think the main point of this post is correct -- just because you can find the effect in random noise, doesn't mean it's not real phenomenon that happens in real life. But it's missing a nuance there: if an effect can be rep
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by nosefrog 4y ago
I don't have IBS, but I have noticed that I feel a strong, deep sense of anxiety when my pipes are backed up, and it instantly goes away when I go number 2.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
I also used FreeTaxUSA. It doesn't import stock, but it's easy enough to just input the stock summaries yourself, and then mail the full stock tax forms from your stock brokers to the IRS afterwards.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Additional context: a GitHub employee addresses why they didn't do a backup restore in this tweet: > Yup, all watchers go when you go private and a bunch of notification settings etc. We've tried re-staring projects in the pas
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by nosefrog 5y ago
I was at Dropbox from 2015-2020, and it's funny how many things have changed and how many stay the same. Changes: - When I joined in 2015, it was already forbidden to just log text on the server. Only a small number of SREs even had ac
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by nosefrog 5y ago
What's your strategy? :-)
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by nosefrog 5y ago
There's a lot of negativity here, so I just wanted to comment that I think the approach Tailscale is taking with sqlite is pretty neat. MySQL and Postgres are both pretty complicated, so gluing together two simpler systems, sqlite and
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by nosefrog 5y ago
The joke internally is that Dropbox asks lots of concurrency questions because the Dropbox client has 50+ threads :-) That said, I think what I noticed at Dropbox is that asking lots of tough questions gets you a lot of pretty talented folk
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by nosefrog 5y ago
As an ex-Dropboxer, Dropbox asks legitimately tough questions. I only got in because I got asked the exact set of questions that I could figure out the answer for, once I joined and went through interview training I realized I would have fa
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by nosefrog 5y ago
FWIW, my friend at Cruise thinks that GM is messing up the company.
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by nosefrog 5y ago
Has anyone been able to take a ride in a cruise mobile yet? I'm still on the wait-list.
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by nosefrog 5y ago
I have a bunch of old Dropbox t-shirts that don't fit me anymore haha.
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by nosefrog 5y ago
FWIW, the default behavior in Emacs is that tab indents the line to what its heuristics tell it the line should be at, no matter where your cursor is in the line. This is confusing at first, but as long as the heuristic is correct it's
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by nosefrog 5y ago
> Cloudflare asks you to take an online test with basic tech questions. I found most of them straightforward except one very specific, obscure question about SSDs. I assume if you answer it, it looks like you looked up the answers somewh
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by nosefrog 5y ago
Can't access the study, but the article doesn't elaborate on how they're able to make the jump from correlation to causation ("companies that respond to 75% of complaints on twitter openly also tend to fall in brand qual
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by nosefrog 5y ago
To the author: heads up, the first code block in the "Infinite buffer" section doesn't match the text, the text is talking about using bytes.Buffer but the code is for the quoted columns caching. Neat blog post, btw :)
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by nosefrog 5y ago
I wasn't able to run the Clojure compiler in 2012 on a $150 dollar chromebook because it would OOM... but I blame myself for that one :P
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by nosefrog 5y ago
My understanding is that promotion/relegation systems tend to lead to more lop-sided leagues where the winners keep winning because of the virtuous cycle of: more money from the TV rights from being in the "champions" league
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by nosefrog 5y ago
If you're fired, you're eligible for unemployment. You're also eligible if you quit your job for a new company but then they rescind the offer. That's basically as much protection as you get in the US, since most states
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by nosefrog 5y ago
Nice work on the migration! I worked on the Dropbox coffeescript-to-typescript migration, and any sort of migration of that magnitude is non trivial :) We started out with the same approach as you guys, by introducing Typescript to the comp
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by nosefrog 5y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and most of what you've stated are not supported by your links.
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by nosefrog 5y ago
You pay less in taxes if the options are valued for less, which they usually are the earlier you exercise them.
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by nosefrog 5y ago
They're for different use cases. Magic Pocket is for storing file block data, and according to the AWS article, they just moved their analytics data to AWS.
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by nosefrog 5y ago
Source?
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by nosefrog 5y ago
I know Dan from a friend of a friend, he's a genuinely smart guy and I've learned a lot from him.
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by nosefrog 5y ago
As someone with pretty bad ADHD, to the point where I'm basically unemployable without medication (and I know that because I started working before I took any ADHD meds and almost got fired because of it), I don't agree with the c

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