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by pfarrell 7y ago
We are tool makers, not robots. Machine level precision is why we design and build machines. Art isn’t a product to be created for museums; it’s a process, a meditation, a discovery, communication. You’ll note that that the rise of abstr
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by pfarrell 7y ago
uhh... including Usenet? hmm.. Looks like the Morris Corollary won't work on this version.
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I read it as a specific aside on the way the drawings were caricatures of the other faculty. Without an example, it’s hard to discern intent.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
The science of what is happening is fact. The method by which we engage our collective powers to act is a people problem. We can come together in action, but that requires connecting with as many of our personalities and psyches as possible
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by pfarrell 7y ago
A great quote I remember reading about BBT (maybe in comments here on HN) was in relation to Arrested Development. Big Bang Theory is a dumb show about smart people. Arrested Development is a smart show about dumb people. I've never be
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by pfarrell 8y ago
Cursor | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite At Cursor, we're bringing collaboration to the world of data analytics. We've built a query tool and infrastructure to discreetly capture, organize, and share analyst's work. Ou
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by pfarrell 8y ago
I remember the only reason I installed the GreaseMonkey plugin on Firefox was to have a script that would scrub ExpertsExchange from Google search results. Prior to StackOverflow, it had incredible SEO for tech questions. Opportunities see
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by pfarrell 8y ago
Cursor | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite At Cursor, we're bringing collaboration to the world of data analytics. We've built a query tool and infrastructure to discreetly capture, organize, and share analyst's work. Ou
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by pfarrell 8y ago
I worked in email marketing where at its core, we were just doing string replacement from database lookups. Now, we did those string replacements over 300 million times a day. As my boss said "Everything at scale is hard".
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by pfarrell 8y ago
Cursor | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite At Cursor, we're bringing collaboration to the world of data analytics. We've built a query tool and infrastructure to discreetly capture, organize, and share analyst's work. Ou
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by pfarrell 8y ago
I had a project where I had to build a tool to relocate customer data to another database (for customers who had grown large enough to prevent them from sharing db resources with other customers). This was on SQL Server. I used NTile to he
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by pfarrell 8y ago
Agree with your line of reasoning on how this may have occurred, but I think there's a difference in perception on between the infobox and current headlines. I think the infobox's information should be more objective. If Google&#x
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by pfarrell 8y ago
I got the same "California Republicans hit rock bottom" result. Political views aside, Google are publishing libelous content and they should own up to it. In fact, the instant they "manually" altered knowledge boxes, no
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by pfarrell 8y ago
AFAICT, Google has addressed it as "ideology" does not appear in info boxes. Anyone else seeing it?
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by pfarrell 8y ago
I'm late to the party, but I'm starting to see these drones as disruption in a true sense. They are annoying to individuals, empower surveillance efforts, help in myriad nefarious activities, and with on board autonomy/AI and
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by pfarrell 8y ago
Two I haven't seen mentioned that I pay for * Postman: an awesome tool for API work (I'm not affiliated) * Amazon Glacier: cheap offsite backup of photos/video (also not affiliated)
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by pfarrell 8y ago
Thought the exact same thing. Abstract early is not good in practice. You can't understand what problem you are solving until, as the last architect I worked with would say, n is 3. When you have three consumers of a feature, then you
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by pfarrell 8y ago
The farther you get into that article, the more it makes me think about the turbo-encabulator. SFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
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by pfarrell 8y ago
Came here to say the exact same thing. P3P may be "officially" obsolete, but if your business wants older browsers to be able to handle your code, you're going to have to deal with it. If you have the misfortune of encounteri
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by pfarrell 8y ago
Boy, I wish some sort of throwaway account or pastebin would fill in details on that statement...
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by pfarrell 8y ago
Now this is what I come to HN for. The video is really worth watching. This work combines design, engineering, execution, and taste to elevate it to a truly great accomplishment.
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by pfarrell 8y ago
It's a real concern with AWS. Dealt with an incident where we had a dev-ops full access api key accidentally get checked in to a public repo. Within a hour, there were hundreds of instances running 100% cpus (presumably a bitcoin farm
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by pfarrell 8y ago
How did this not turn into a multiplayer game? I can imagine deploying a fleet of crabs against another players computer and being able to give general directions... I guess I'm picturing a pre-historic StarCraft astride cellular autom
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by pfarrell 8y ago
In my experience and from what I've gleaned from the outside, recruiting at Google consists of shoveling as many bodies into the pipeline every week to allow the top few to get picked for an onsite interview where it doesn't matte
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by pfarrell 8y ago
I don't claim to have solved the problem of interviews, but I do think I and the candidate get more out of it when we leave it a bit more free-form. I'll cover architecture of our system, API design stuff, debugging, testing, sec
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by pfarrell 8y ago
"That guy didn't have 20 years of experience with db2... He had 2 years of experience, 10 times." One of my mentors said that about an interview he conducted a while back. I found a lot of truth in that line. I run my tech in
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by pfarrell 8y ago
When I first started getting serious about programming in the early 00's, I thought, I'll figure out how to code a game for the 2600. Those games are so simple, it must be easy to work with. I couldn't have been more wrong.
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by pfarrell 9y ago
"Mad Mark: Beyond The Capitol Dome"
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by pfarrell 9y ago
I'm sure you know this, but for anyone else... Bittman wrote the excellent "How to Cook Everything". It's a great go-to gift for college graduations.
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by pfarrell 9y ago
Thank you! I've not heard of this.

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