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by oaktowner 3y ago
While I worked at Google I once searched for "//this should never happen" in the code base. It was in there. A lot.
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by oaktowner 3y ago
CEO: Bobby Tables.
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by oaktowner 3y ago
That is true, but the rapid change in the tech industry makes "skills" mean something different than it would in, say, woodworking. Once you learn woodwoorking, you're going to be good at it (until you lose strength, flexibil
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by oaktowner 3y ago
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I do believe that Americans ability to cooperate (both with each other in general and between the private and public sectors) is not now what it was in the mid-20th century.
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by oaktowner 3y ago
I am not a computer vision specialist, but I wanted to add an anecdote from years of parenting. One thing that amazed me about babies was how early they understand line drawings. Long before a baby can talk, it knows what a dog is (and ca
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by oaktowner 3y ago
LOL. I meant it's not normal to start selling a feature in 2016 and delivering it in beta seven years later.
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by oaktowner 3y ago
Sounds positively Muskian.
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by oaktowner 3y ago
Reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) monitoring that was in place when Healthcare.gov was launched: they had a TV tuned to the news, and the news would tell them whenever the site crashed!
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by oaktowner 3y ago
I did it wrong! In the middle one, I didn't make a heart -- I went to and fro both on the left side, so it ended up looking more like a backwards question mark than a heart!
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by oaktowner 4y ago
*she According to the linked article: "Ms. Izurieta departed the Company on October 1, 2022. The Company initiated discussions with Ms. Izurieta about a transition from the Chief Risk Officer position in early 2022. Accordingly, the Co
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by oaktowner 7y ago
I think of Envoy as both a client side and server side proxy. Typically (in the past) both client and server have been VMs or containers. Client side it can do things like automatic retries, routing decisions and fault injection (among othe
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by oaktowner 8y ago
I'm not trying to force anyone to do anything, and I'm not sure where you came up with the idea that I am. If someone wants their OSS project to be appealing to the 1/6th of the people in the world who consider themselves to
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by oaktowner 8y ago
It's weird, though, right? I mean, flip the logic. What if someone had a code of conduct that was clearly about people treating each other well...but started it with "First, you must acknowledge that there is no God." Or &quo
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by oaktowner 8y ago
Agreed -- that wouldn't make any sense.
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by oaktowner 8y ago
Interesting. I would have thought that you do it by (expected) lifetime of the panels. I haven't had my system for a full year yet so I don't have complete numbers, but it seems to be anywhere from .5 (winter) to 1.1 MWh per month
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by oaktowner 8y ago
Elevators are counterbalanced -- when they are going down, there is a counterweight going up. So there's less energy than you might imagine being generated.
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by oaktowner 8y ago
Out of curiosity -- what timeframe are you using to calculate that figure (4-5 cents a kWh)? (I bought a solar system just under a year ago).
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by oaktowner 9y ago
How did I go through life without knowing that?
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by oaktowner 9y ago
The other thing to bear in mind: I would guess that the vast majority of accidents are caused by people not paying attention -- distracted by a phone, person, great view, or even just because they're looking the wrong direction. Cars d
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by oaktowner 9y ago
You know what I've always wondered? How did they pronounce each number? I mean, I read it "eye, eye-eye, eye-eye-eye, eye-vee, vee, vee-eye." But of course, there's no way they actually said it that way. Right? Right
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by oaktowner 9y ago
They do now in San Francisco. But only because they lost so much business to Uber. This was an industry that was effectively a monopoly -- not one company, but one type of provider. And none of the players was improving the experience for t
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by oaktowner 9y ago
I once worked at a large company (70K employees) in which the check request software (that is, if you needed to pay a vendor with a written check) was written in VBA embedded in Excel, using Outlook (the client, not Exchange) as Workflow. Y
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by oaktowner 9y ago
According to this article[0] (that someone referenced below): A Cloud Spanner “node” isn't a physical machine, per se. It is an allocation of compute capacity and disk access throughput on a set of machines with access to the storage A
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by oaktowner 9y ago
Not only do I share the same investment strategy, but my phone is named the same as your HN handle.
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by oaktowner 9y ago
Thanks for making the point about large teams -- I was coming here to make it myself. Even if you are using JSON, having a contract between client and server is super helpful. Out of curiosity, what format did your infotainment system for s
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by oaktowner 9y ago
Reminds me a bit of The Well in Berkeley.
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by oaktowner 9y ago
Even the talk of "long distance phone calls" makes me nostalgic. I remember when, as a kid, if you answered the phone and it was a long distance call for mom or dad, we would run to get them yelling "Long distance! Long dis
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by oaktowner 10y ago
I can vouch for itcmcgrath's lowliness.
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by oaktowner 10y ago
There's a great April Fool's joke in there somewhere.
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by oaktowner 10y ago
Whoa. Had never heard of that. Check [0] if you, like me, hadn't. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

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