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by pbh101 10y ago
Seek out and deliver value. Know why and how what you're building is valuable.
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by pbh101 10y ago
For established businesses, I wonder if you could come up with a useful metric for how much value you add by rejecting a commit and thus avoiding an operational incident. Mature, high-profit systems warrant much greater scrutiny on incoming
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I found Retrofit [1] here on HN and with their help I went from 258lb to 224lb from March to June this year. The next 20lbs are proving to be more difficult, but I've been pleased with their approach and the results. [1] http:/&
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by pbh101 10y ago
After an update about a year ago, it only requires being nearby (nightstand works for me) and uses sound to do the sensing.
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by pbh101 10y ago
Had anyone here recently used stack overflow when not logged in? Last I checked there already were huge, animated banner ads only when logged out, as opposed to more tasteful ads only when logged in. I recall Jeff and Joel discussing this a
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Energy-Efficient Algorithms(arxiv.org)
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by pbh101 10y ago
IMC | Chicago, IL | Full-time, INTERNS | ONSITE | Software Engineer, FPGA Engineer We are actively hiring talented engineers to grow our trading operations across the world. Entry-level, junior, and experienced. For entry-level roles, prior
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by pbh101 10y ago
It doesn't necessarily follow from what perilunar or fennecfoxen said that they think 'no government' is the right answer: even if you think the government policy-making wields force, that can just mean the bar for what gover
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by pbh101 10y ago
The government is not literally just 'us.' It's a contentious idea: "government is just the word for the things we choose to do together" was oft-repeated by Rep. Barney Frank. He was repeating it because not every
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by pbh101 10y ago
Time Warner Cable is a separate company from the Time Warner AT&T is acquiring. A previous spinoff.
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I think one follows from the other: in central planning, someone can negatively affect your prospects without much immediate adverse effect, and for possibly trivial reasons. Because of this implied threat, conformance to the party line bec
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by pbh101 10y ago
This is very close to the iteration loop I designed for the onboarding team I am currently running: I'm getting fresh CS grads and need to add the software engineering into their skillset. I can't say I'd really change up the
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by pbh101 10y ago
I can't speak to other projects, but I know the additional pieces of tooling I add to my buildchain are there to automate tasks that are otherwise undocumented/uncaptured and thus easily forgotten (Joel Test, step 2). On a team of
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by pbh101 10y ago
IMC | Chicago, IL | Full-time | ONSITE Software Engineer, FPGA Engineer We are actively hiring talented engineers to support and grow our trading operations across the world. Entry-level, junior, and experienced. For entry-level roles, prio
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by pbh101 10y ago
Being primarily a Java dev, it felt to me like half of this was critiquing the churn rate of using different tools (warranted) and the other half was lamenting the fact that people built tools to solve the common problems they have when dev
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The Spanish-Speaking William F. Buckley(dissentmagazine.org)
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by pbh101 10y ago
You would probably like reading [1] by Dan North. [1]: https://dannorth.net/classic-soa/
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I don't think so. This at best confirms there is a power-law distribution in the oil sector. The change is still "move our civilization off of oil products" because it isn't just these companies producing emissions but a
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by pbh101 10y ago
>which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and industry Does it really matter which companies it is if we are all effectively using the products? We would be getting the oil from one c
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by pbh101 10y ago
It isn't very fundamentalist :)
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Lower cost of living makes possible economic modes that the already relatively high economic floor in St. Louis makes prohibitive. Plus, the relative benefit of pouring X dollars into an area with lower per capita gdp is much higher: going
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by pbh101 10y ago
No, it isn't.
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Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless(thebaffler.com)
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by pbh101 10y ago
Chicago, for many demographics and parts of the city, though admittedly much less pervasively than NYC.
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by pbh101 10y ago
Contact me if you're interested. My email is in profile.
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by pbh101 10y ago
Per the materialist/deterministic 'there is no free will' mental model, yes: the function taking the input stream is pure. On the per-event basis, this model boils down to a 'function' evaluating each event with mul
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by pbh101 10y ago
But your state is also deterministically a function of your prior experiences, per this model. If you consider the input the entire stream of events, rather than each individual event, the output stream will be deterministic even with stat
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by pbh101 10y ago
I am not familiar first-hand with the occupation, though after a quick scan of Wikipedia it sounds blue-collar to me. Not sure how this relates to my original comment. For clarity, do see my clarification under sibling comment at [1]. [1]
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by pbh101 10y ago
>Not following Postel's law would result in brittle system components that break when other parts of the system evolve. This depends how much graceful degradation you have available to you. In systems/domains where little is av
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by pbh101 10y ago
>Perhaps what pbh101 means is whether you're good at your job or not is unrelated to whether you're blue-collared or not. Yep :)

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