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by pgroves 6y ago
Batching things into 'contexts' is the premise of Getting Things Done by David Allen. It was popular in the early 2000s. My guess is that the older engineer that told the author to batch things was referencing it [1]. It's a
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by pgroves 6y ago
When I read it on the ballot when I voted I immediately assumed it meant "libraries, etc", but now that you say that I'm worried "community areas" is bureaucrat-speak for "neighborhoods". Much different im
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by pgroves 6y ago
The same code split across two pull requests is preferable to the rest of the team (assuming they are actually trying to understand the PRs). Sort of a clever way to incentivize that.
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by pgroves 6y ago
Well then I'm glad you're here...Is it possible to integrate with an existing Dockerfile? My team's main build is handled by an image that is a result of years of fine-tuning and files with external dependency definitions (li
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by pgroves 7y ago
It's blowing my mind that I just did a ctrl-F for "compound interest" in this thread and got zero hits. It's not even part of the discussion any more.
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by pgroves 7y ago
Treadmill desk. It's on the edge of being too difficult to walk and do real work, but you can walk pretty fast (for a decent amount of exercise) and watch videos easily.
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by pgroves 7y ago
Since you've made you're own app, and have noticed that a good card is a good tweet: I want an app that puts my cards in my twitter feed. I check twitter way too much and don't like opening Anki to review my cards. Not sure e
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by pgroves 7y ago
More time has passed between Office Space (1999) and today than between Office Space and Superman 3 (1983).
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by pgroves 7y ago
I use noScript with "Allow None by Default" on Firefox while I'm at work and should in theory only be browsing docs anyway. Trying to blanket ban third-party JS wouldn't really work b/c many sites have their legitim
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by pgroves 7y ago
I wouldn't want this as a keyboard, I'd want one hanging from my right front pocket while looking at my phone with my left hand. It's the touchscreen interfaces that are terrible and need replacing, not the qwerty keyboard. T
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by pgroves 7y ago
Is there a milestone the multi-threaded implementation could achieve that would make it a candidate to merge into core Redis?
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by pgroves 7y ago
Deskpass.com lets you drop into any coworking space in their network. It looks like they are up to 11 cities. You pay a subscription and then the coworking spaces get a flat fee for the day when you actually show up to their space.
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by pgroves 7y ago
Everyone on the team would benefit from strongly preferring short (single change) pull requests. Complicated PRs have a high cognitive load for anyone and this issue is highlighting that problem, not causing it. This is a good excuse to en
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by pgroves 7y ago
Sorry if I'm reading between the lines too much, but 28 cores and 56GB RAM for a business that is not covering it's own cloud costs sounds like a lot of compute resources. Unless maybe you're doing something unusual and have
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by pgroves 8y ago
I've been on plenty of machine learning projects and have seen the boss make promises that the engineers are expected to keep. This is exactly what it looks like. The outcome is always overfitting a simulation or data set somewhere so
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by pgroves 8y ago
I see your wall of text, and raise you a wall of text: I've started looking for a new job recently. I clicked the button on LinkedIn saying recruiters could contact me and have gotten over 100 incoming messages since Christmas. I'
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by pgroves 8y ago
I've been thinking about this lately. What if the web fundamentally was data collection of what a person is doing, and then things hang off that. Right now it is a collection of information that you can 'find'. Like your phot
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by pgroves 8y ago
Reminds me of how bond yields work. If the interest rate guess from 1% to 2% on an existing bond, the bond itself has to lose 50% of its value. I think the potato story is somehow less intuitive.
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IBM wins $83M from Groupon in internet patent fight(reuters.com)
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by pgroves 8y ago
Based on the email from the VP, my wild guess is they figured out that Twitter operating Smyte would make Twitter itself not GPDR compliant (or some other big regulation), and they didn't figure it out until after the deal was done.
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by pgroves 8y ago
I don't see why your investors wouldn't be interested in pivoting the current company to a bigger opportunity with less competition. What are the objections going to be? They are not going to get mad at you for finding a bigger op
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by pgroves 9y ago
....and if you're a recruiter, these are the issues to address in your sales-pitch. I can't believe I still get cold emails to work for 80hr weeks but only if I am good enough.
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by pgroves 9y ago
This sounds somewhat like "Privatizing Social Security" that was a big topic under George W Bush. The part of your taxes that go toward Social Security would instead go into something like an IRA that is restricted to only buy rel
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by pgroves 9y ago
I've used PocketCasts for quite a while now and would move away from it if there was a decent (cross-platform) alternative. It has some serious problems downloading (I think it actually hits their mirror of all podcasts, and the downlo
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by pgroves 9y ago
downdetector.com now seems to be down. never a good sign.
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by pgroves 9y ago
Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) was released in 1997 to solve a very similar problem (but for lots of predictive models). I don't know that it ever really caught on. That was also promoted by the tool builders but not by the us
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by pgroves 9y ago
Illinois is one of the states where driver's license numbers are computed from all the other information: http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/dl_us_shared.html
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by pgroves 9y ago
Best part is the woman who confronted the CEO about being a serial sexual-harrasser and ended up CEO. Edit: Re-reading I can't tell what his title was, only that she was CEO after the fact.
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by pgroves 9y ago
More optimistically, it could be a step toward solving the problem if it adopted a Roku-like model where all those apps are installed and logged in at all times and you can pick one from a standardized menu. On Roku you can go to Netflix, H
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by pgroves 9y ago
I know someone who is about to launch a very niche "box of the month" type service, where a box of items are mailed out each month. This would have been great as she could just have an amazon subscriptions page and a static websit

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