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by pfarrell 4y ago
IQ= Inigo Quilez. His work is a good entry point. https://iquilezles.org/
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I use google take out to do a dump of email and back up the download file. In order to clear out a bunch of space on my gmail account, I did a full export and then deleted conversations based on date. I ended up having to use a script whi
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by pfarrell 4y ago
For point 2, check out synology. I can say my experience has been great and I wish I’d bought a bigger device (I got a four bay enclosure and wish I’d gotten 8). QNap was also a home storage device I looked into, but don’t have any experien
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by pfarrell 4y ago
That’s Perlisism #39 from inaugural Turing Award winner Alan Perlis’s delightful “Epigrams in Programming”. http://cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
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by pfarrell 4y ago
To anyone interested, I noticed this stoppage as well. IIRC, the data in BigQuery stopped being updated Nov 16, 2022. I’ve got a complete dataset that merges in new content from the firebase dataset, then rectifies story points at a later t
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by pfarrell 4y ago
You can unfollow them and I think that will keep them out of your feed. I’m on a job hunt so I have to be active on LI right now. I consider the future, where I can ignore it again, a motivator to get a new gig.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
"keeping an escape hatch". I like that. A former colleague said something similar that also stuck with me. Good software architecture allows you to delay decisions.
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Found in the SQLite Docs: Sudoku Solver and Mandelbrot Set Approximation(sqlite.org)
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I was just reading up on sqlite's docs to create a common table expression to return a graph of records stored with single table inheritance. Came across these gems in the docs: a mandelbrot set approximation visualizer and a sodoku s
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by pfarrell 4y ago
A naked person is fine. A naked person is R rated compared to what is available.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
One of my former co-workers had one of those business cards as our company had used Mitnick Security to evaluate our processes. I can confirm it's a really cool business card.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Microsoft's anti-trust case was around just this kind of behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... .
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Outrageous salaries are part of FAAMG’s* moat. It’s very hard to lure a googler away to your startup when you can only afford to pay them half their current salary. And even if said googler is interested, their lifestyle is now depends on t
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Thanks for that! I've signed up for the newsletter based on how good that article was.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Agree with most of this, except the last segment. I'll add that there are other aspects of "quality" in code. For sure, doing what the customer wants and is willing to pay for is paramount, but there are definitely other thi
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Also in the guidelines Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comme
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Or a cold restart. You could delete your current accounts and start a new one. I’ve recently decided to try having an expiration on online identities like email addresses. I mean this account is nearing 15 years old. I’m thinking this is
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Exactly, for both time periods. In 2007, it was probably because Apple wasn't ready for the demand to create apps, see John Gruber's complaints from his notes on the launch [0]. By 2010, the money was too good to invest in webap
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I literally started a deep dive into the current state of progressive web app support on iOS this week. WebKit does seem limited on many html apis, but I haven’t seen the bugs this article mentions, yet. Back at the release in 2007, web ap
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I remember the fail whale. I suspect we’ll see it again soon. Twitter stability used to be a joke, then it evolved into something fundamentally impressive. There was a major infrastructure change brought about by some key hires iirc. I’ve
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I deleted my mostly unused accounts (one of them even dating back to 2007) when the post advocating who to vote for was published. Of course, not being a heavy user made it easy to do. There are so many different ways people use Twitter,
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I agree people won't leave because of Mush, but here are a few ways things could go south for Twitter in the next year or so. * Advertisers leave to protect their brands * Major multi day outages * Data corruption * Security breaches *
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by pfarrell 4y ago
It doesn’t have to be a slippery slope. People who take on more risk or have higher protection pay higher premiums.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Agree with everything in this blog except the premise Move fast and break things was never about breaking production by being cavalier with your code. It means to don't let inertia accrue, don't fail to challenge assumpti
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by pfarrell 4y ago
TIL. Thank you! I took a look and will definitely incorporate this in my work. Definitely a good idea.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
How is gojq different? Cursory look at the README and it seems like it implements the same language. My problem is the infrequency with which I need to use jq means I don't create a good learning feedback loop. The last time I used i
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Not the OP, but I’ve tried this before too. A huge benefit is that the everyone at the table understands excel and isn’t intimidated during the conversation. Understanding the domain as an engineer is the toughest, most important, and most
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I think the moral is, “those who fail to prepare are preparing to fail”.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Not writing, but I have found all of Brett Victor's speeches to be incredibly inspiring on how I think about what I want to work on and where we're going. Inventing on Principle by Brett Victor: https://www.youtube.com&
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by pfarrell 4y ago
If that’s what you meant, then I think a clearer wording would have been “self-sabotage”. The wording “internal sabotage” implies a coordinated effort against Musk by people inside Twitter.

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