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by palijer 2y ago
I gotta say, Datadog does this pretty well. They manage all their state (just information state, not like user sessions lol) in the URL, which makes it easy to integrate with and dynamically generate links and share information, and manages
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by palijer 2y ago
The outer lanes are where the slower swimmers are placed already anyways, so if they were having more chop, it wouldn't likely impact a medal contender and cause a big upset... Not saying that outer lanes haven't come out on top i
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by palijer 2y ago
Healthcare business are fine, the Healthcare industry in America is larger than the retail industry and accounts for 17% of the GDP. Americans spend more per capita on Healthcare than any country, and get worse outcomes. No one is scared ab
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by palijer 2y ago
While these are clear and to the point, they are absolutely not an exhaustive list of rejection reasons. Going through any forum thread of "reasons you've been rejected" and trying to find the reasons here isn't obvious.
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by palijer 2y ago
There have been scientists with far more accreditation in this field than a comedian who've been researching this exact thing for decades.
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by palijer 2y ago
Dealing with Apple is a tax as well though. How do you calculate a price for not being able to release your main product? Usually without clear indications of what exact interpretation of a rule you are breaking... We've had delays of
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by palijer 2y ago
I've walked a couple hundred customers (American small business owners) through installing an unsigned MacOS application.There was plenty of friction for enough of them to cause us onboarding problems and for us to invest in doing it t
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by palijer 3y ago
Why go through the risk of trying to deposit a cheque when the plan worked perfectly fine as is? Once you get banks involved, seems like more of a risk of something getting flagged there rather than someone in payroll noticing cheques weren
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by palijer 3y ago
Yeah. It would be interesting to see who adopted to the compromised versions and how quickly, compared to how quickly they normally adopt new versions (not bots pulling upgrades, but how quickly maintainers approve and merge them) If there
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by palijer 3y ago
>About the respondents and methodology. This year, 306 people participated in the Grafana Labs Observability Survey. We did not contract an outside agency to solicit responses. Instead, we reached out to our community to participate, thr
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by palijer 3y ago
When the news of the breakage first spread I hacked together a fun shell alias to take the current distance of v1 or V2, calculate out the roundtrip signal time, then inject a sleep() before your command ran. The idea of troubleshooting a c
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Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died(bbc.com)
315 points by palijer 3y ago|232 comments
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by palijer 3y ago
>Any time you take biological material out of other human beings and put them in a different body, it seems like you are introducing a lot more uncertainty and risk But this always had to be weighed against the risks of not getting the t
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by palijer 3y ago
A lot of people don't have access to the latest laptops and phones or fast internet connection speeds, however still need to use the same bloated walled gardens online that each have megabytes of JavaScript libraries. I didn't tur
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by palijer 3y ago
>We are currently experiencing service degradation that may result in intermittent processing issues. I'm somewhat surprised at the extent of the outage and the messaging here... moneris.com is completely unreachable, it seems a bit
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by palijer 3y ago
Here is my favorite article about the engineers and team behind the mission still. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engine...
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by palijer 3y ago
>1. You start with Datadog§[...] 2. [...] your expenses have skyrocketed 3. You want to migrate your way out[...] Step 3 doesn't seem logical here... Who doesn't try to control spend on something they've already invested
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by palijer 3y ago
This is a great read digging into the team that I loved. I wonder how many of the core team are still there. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engine... >Over decades, the crew mem
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by palijer 3y ago
I only used a macbook personally around 2009, but I imagine these days you can't just buy a new drive and install MacOS on it... I don't understand why we accept a product there the above isn't possible. If security is the ar
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by palijer 3y ago
I just wish they would stop trying to sell me something I already bought. I don't want to be exposed to all the popups and videos and fees etc that "maximize engagement" I just want a music library that has everything, good s
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by palijer 3y ago
That is just what Continuous Delivery is though. Quicker release cycles keeps breakage short. It's a lot easier to manage "this edge case broke because of something we changed in the past day/week" compared to "some
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by palijer 3y ago
Haha, yeah, it's a hack we figured out the hard way, but it is super simple and effective.
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by palijer 3y ago
Haha, exactly, but if you have developers who can drop production tables without the org knowing in advance and reviewing the change, you already have a big problem. All our db operations like this go through our regular code review process
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by palijer 3y ago
Haha, exactly, but if you have developers who can drop production tables without the org knowing in advance and reviewing the change, you already have a big problem.
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by palijer 3y ago
I've worked in a bunch of restaurants and now work with restaurant software (we're hiring some cool positions if you are interested [1]) The one thing I'd be a bit wary about here is heat making that paper unreadable. I'
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by palijer 3y ago
Why would the government be incentivized to drive down wages? That seems fundamentally at odds with the concept of income and sales tax, which account for a very large portion of revenue that funds most programs.
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by palijer 3y ago
As a Canadian, this is how I feel whenever folks are talking about US states other than like, Texas or New York. It's interesting being in Europe or somewhere and having a bunch of travelers introduce themselves, I've always notic
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by palijer 3y ago
>Don't depend on "free" for critical functions. All the cards are stacked against the users though. It's not that easy for a non-tech person to use any sort of email/photo library etc that isn't free from Go
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by palijer 3y ago
It's understandable why they'd be the worst clients though. Imagine training rigorously for a decade without any real pay, and after that you are trying to save lives and suddenly the way you order tests doesn't work anymore
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by palijer 3y ago
>for the benefit of organizations that are influential with the establishment. Those organizations, being Canadian news organizations, employing Canadians, and making content for Canadian consumers. Aren't those the sort of organiza

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