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by parpfish 1y ago
it's only a matter of time before some team owner instructs his analytics team to "build me the team that gets me the best ratings/sells the most tickets" rather than "build me the team that gets me a championship&q
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by parpfish 1y ago
This is a very-HN way of describing it, but one way I conceptualize my list-making is memoization/function caching. My brain already went through the hard work of figuring out what to do, so I should cache that result in the todo list.
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by parpfish 1y ago
checklists do wonders for my anxiety. too often i'll have a sudden thought about "oh, i need to make sure to fix X" or "I cant forget to pack Y before the trip". My options to deal with those sudden thoughts are: 1.
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by parpfish 1y ago
i'd be curious to see the timeline of the rise and fall of product names using "x-thousand" ( e.g. , "Smart Machine 3000"). It was a common enough naming convention that it was frequently parodied in the 90s, but it
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by parpfish 1y ago
relic isn't the right word. relics are really old things that are revered and honored. i think they just want archaic which are old things that are likely obsolete
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by parpfish 1y ago
SXEZSKOZ - Skywalker
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by parpfish 1y ago
If you’re looking at the geographical distribution of their influence, isn’t it weird that the place where the puritans settled (“New England”) is arguably the least puritanical region of the US?
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by parpfish 1y ago
when i was a kid, reading was gamified by pizza hut through the 'book it' program.
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by parpfish 1y ago
You’re not going to find an answer to this by parsing out the technical definitions of the words. It’s about how the words are used and the connotations they have developed over time.
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by parpfish 1y ago
Once you discover any minmaxxing strategy, games change from “explore this world and use your imagination to decide what to do” to “apply this rule or make peace with knowing that you are suboptimal”
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by parpfish 1y ago
i hope thats not a hot take because it's 100% correct. people conflate the terms "burnout" and "overwork" because they seem semantically similar, but they are very different. you can fix overwork with a vacation. bu
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by parpfish 1y ago
> Folks really do come to HN to read the articles and then maybe get drawn into a discussion. based on the number of comments i see that are oblivious to the actual content of the articles, i'm pretty sure the user flow is "Fol
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by parpfish 1y ago
one of my theories for why we specifically see highly-educated people waiting longer or opting out is that it's a consequence of tiger-mom/helicopter-parent upbringings its a double-blow to deciding to have kids -- a) they were ra
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by parpfish 1y ago
It’s a term that wealthy people use so they don’t have to say that they’re an “immigrant”
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by parpfish 1y ago
I really hate the term “expat”
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’d also like more control over chrome autocomplete. Most of the time that I get sucked into a website, it’s because autocomplete and muscle memory got me there without thinking. Every once in a while I’ll clean out my history cache and for
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by parpfish 1y ago
You enjoy the ads, but do you enjoy the products ? I’ve seen so many ads that show a nice product, so I click and it takes me to nice polished landing page, which leads to a smooth checkout flow. But then the thing arrives and it’s garbage
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by parpfish 1y ago
well, right now all those single-issue morons band together to elect a moron that gets the power to vote on every issue. when you have a high proportion of morons, there's not much you can do.
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by parpfish 1y ago
I like the concept of “liquid democracy” —- it’s direct democracy, but you can select somebody to act as your proxy so you don’t need to stay up to date on everything. But you can revoke proxy status at any time or for any particular issue
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by parpfish 1y ago
With all these mega-offers going out, I object when people saying that they’re paying for “talent”. These AI folks are good, but not orders of magnitude better than engineers and researchers already working in tech or academia. Lots of fo
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by parpfish 1y ago
I bet that management would argue that it would hurt employee retention and/or it would signal that folks that aren’t “true believers” in the company
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by parpfish 1y ago
Is there a good way to Adblock on mobile?
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Ask HN: Why can't employees sell vested equity during later fundraising rounds?
3 points by parpfish 1y ago|4 comments
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by parpfish 1y ago
Having only read the abstract, no? In high sun areas there’s a positive ROI
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by parpfish 1y ago
The panels themselves would be more efficient, but in terms of getting that power into the car you might be better off having inefficient panels that work everywhere you go rather than optimized panels that only work when you go to a chargi
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by parpfish 1y ago
In typed languages, I’m all about using nice safe immutable variables/values. But in python, everything is mutable so there’s only so much safety you can wring out of adhering the an immutable style. Any other function can hop in and s
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by parpfish 1y ago
Probably as opposed to “approved for general use in the population because we’ve passed all of our tests”, which is what I’d assume “approved for use” means
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by parpfish 1y ago
My guess is that they’ve got a million feature flags and a/b test variations going on because it’s just so tempting to “growth hack” in an app like that.
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by parpfish 1y ago
Don’t forget the in place variant! the_dict |= update_keys_and_values_dict
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by parpfish 1y ago
The UI is atrocious. I do computers for a living and can barely navigate and figure out what’s going on.

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