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by orangepenguin 7y ago
I'm reminded of a clip from the movie Moneyball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjhHrcyiQI I really like your suggestion that someone check in with the person in a couple days. That helps address the charitable desir
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by orangepenguin 7y ago
Maybe the stress of the workload isn't good for the employee either.
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by orangepenguin 7y ago
Good point! I've definitely had that feeling as an individual contributor.
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Ask HN: Never been fired, what should I know before I fire someone?
14 points by orangepenguin 7y ago|20 comments
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Behaviors of Sleep vs. Select in Go(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by orangepenguin 7y ago|0 comments
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
Indeed. The fact that Mel had enough control to place an instruction at the "most pessimum" location too! I sometimes feel that I missed a "golden age" of computing when one person could make such a tremendous difference
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A Real Programmer: The Story of Mel (1983)(catb.org)
4 points by orangepenguin 8y ago|2 comments
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
Yes, that is also true, and my father-in-law readily admits that he was simply misusing the tool in a very dangerous way. I believe he was starting with 2"x2" bar and cutting off a 2" segment. The fence should not have been o
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
I actually like this video better than the one we're all discussing. He does a fantastic job of safely illustrating the problem of kickback: how fast it happens, how little movement it takes to trigger, and how to prevent it all toge
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
When my father-in-law was a college student he was using a table saw to cut aluminum stock to make a 2" cube. He had the fence on. As he finished the cut, the 2" cube turned between the blade and the fence and launched at him, hit
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
And is the snapshot system also distributed and highly available? If so, wouldn't it take on the challenges of committing changes?
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. If you have a system of input data snapshots that's also distributed and highly available, it essentially becomes the database (as far as complexity is concerned).
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
So then whatever process maintains the snapshots of input data must absorb all of the complexity eliminated from the workers, no?
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
Right. Talking about "Calvin", he says: > Nonetheless, it was able to bring the processing of that transaction to completion without having to abort it. It accomplished this via restarting the transaction from the same original
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
To me, the system-induced abort scenario is the more difficult to address, and this article hasn't really addressed the problem. It sounds like he's saying "just don't give workers the option to abort", as if the wo
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
The sole purpose of this is to help eliminate some of the pain for people attending re:Invent. The scheduling interface isn't great. I did this for myself and thought I'd share.
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Show HN: AWS Re:Invent 2018 Event Catalog – Only Show Available Events(gist.github.com)
2 points by orangepenguin 8y ago|1 comments
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Artist uses jigsaw puzzles with the same die cut pattern to make mashups(boingboing.net)
3 points by orangepenguin 8y ago|0 comments
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
DNS is resolving because people can get to the site. Because of the distributed nature of YouTube's resources (at DNS as well as other layers), it's very unlikely to be DDoS related. Static content loads, but video content doesn&#
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by orangepenguin 8y ago
Always. If you can't resolve the exception and continue processing normally, you should never discard the exception you caught and create a new one of your own. If you must create one of your own, include the one you caught for the add
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Instagram accounts being hacked in large numbers(mashable.com)
2 points by orangepenguin 8y ago|0 comments
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Unix: Making Computers Easier to Use – AT&T Archives Film from 1982 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by orangepenguin 8y ago|0 comments
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by orangepenguin 9y ago
Kount | Software Development & Business Roles | Boise, ID | Full-Time & Internships | ONSITE | INTERNS | kount.com/about/careers Real-time fraud analysis and prevention for merchants with "card-not-present" trans
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by orangepenguin 9y ago
Can anyone give a summary or point me to another article (not paywalled) with similar information? I'm very interested, but don't have a WSJ subscription.
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by orangepenguin 9y ago
That looks pretty handy. I'm at work (maybe I shouldn't be on HN at all, haha...) and Facebook is blocked. But I guess that's my problem. :) I'll check it out when I get home.
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by orangepenguin 9y ago
I feel a little sad that pay-walled articles make it to the top of HN. I'm sure the article is interesting, but a lot of us can't actually read it.
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NASA Will Chase the Upcoming Solar Eclipse Using Telescopes Mounted on Jets(gizmodo.com)
1 points by orangepenguin 9y ago|0 comments
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by orangepenguin 9y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this story, but wonder if the details have changed a bit over time, perhaps? If light can travel ~558 miles in 3 milliseconds, it seems that mail sent more than 250 miles would have failed (because RTT)? Also, I'm
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Ask HN: I'm an SRE. What's My Path to CTO?
4 points by orangepenguin 9y ago|1 comments
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by orangepenguin 10y ago
There is obviously a lot of debate on whether or not fact checking is accurate and useful. I think simply presenting a fact check will help people think more critically about headlines they see every day. Like "Mythbusters Science&quot

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