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by pkd 4y ago
Pirate ships frequently had crews of about 50, and the biggest ones never exceed a couple of hundred. Do you have real world examples of large organisations (in the thousands of employees) being managed in a flat hierarchy? Because I don&#x
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by pkd 4y ago
I don't think I was claiming that. Managers should definitely be able to code. That does not mean that we don't need managers.
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by pkd 4y ago
Managers are an organisational necessity past a certain scale. If you have not felt the need for them I can only guess you've not been in a company big enough. Think of it as trying to run a big country with direct democracy. Can it be
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by pkd 4y ago
99PI is one of the best podcasts around. I enjoy almost all episodes.
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Tell HN: Do not buy SanDisk Extreme SSDs
2 points by pkd 4y ago|0 comments
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by pkd 4y ago
I don't think so. Initial Soviet architecture wasn't brutalist. Stalinist architecture was in fact very classical inspired. You can see that in the seven sisters buildings in Moscow. Even the late Soviet era blocks were not brutal
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by pkd 4y ago
I think if this comment accurately describes your philosophy then Rust may not be the language for you. This is not a criticism, just an observation. Bryan Cantrill talks about this in "software as reflection of values" [1]. Safet
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by pkd 4y ago
I disagree. The main difference in social dynamics of Go and Rust projects is that Rust forces you to model more of your domain upfront. This is a good thing, in my experience, even if it takes a little bit longer to get going because you e
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by pkd 4y ago
I mean, yes, I did qualify that I don't want the same fidelity from my scans but I also shoot on a Bronica SQ, which is no Hasselblad but was still professional equipment when it was released and is still extremely well respected and g
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by pkd 4y ago
I don't have to create 160cm wide prints but I have scanned medium format frames on an Epson v600 flatbed and the results with the right software is more than serviceable. In fact, Nick Carver uses a v800 to scan fairly high quality im
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by pkd 4y ago
I don't think you not having heard of the guy mentioned makes it machine generated? You could Google him, he is very big fish but keeps a low profile in the media. Most of his wealth is also stocks so it's highly vulnerable to flu
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by pkd 4y ago
Not everywhere is. In big cities there is some mixture of tragedy of the commons, corruption and resource allocation problem. Garbage/waste collection is a local responsibility, but the city/municipal administrations in India are
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by pkd 4y ago
I actually don't see what's special with that compared to any other API. Here's the analogous endpoint from the Gitea API docs: https://try.gitea.io/api/swagger#/repository/GetTree
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by pkd 4y ago
I don't know you, and I don't have startup advice to give. But take care of yourself. There are people in your life that will care about you outside of your success or failure with startups. Try something else for a while and forg
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by pkd 4y ago
What an incredibly bad response. Plus it seems like your own account was created today? Please be kind.
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by pkd 4y ago
This is interesting. I think a better PDF experience with books may help me consume more books. Will check it out.
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by pkd 4y ago
Something like the Gitea API? https://try.gitea.io/api/swagger I don't know if you can run it purely headless.
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by pkd 4y ago
Personally I have not sold all of it, but that is not the financial advice I will give. It served me well till the stocks crashed. A way to think about it is if you had the equivalent in cash, would you spend that money to purchase that sto
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Writing Safer C Code(github.com)
3 points by pkd 4y ago|1 comments
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by pkd 4y ago
A Fire Upon the Deep was astoundingly good. Highest of recommendations.
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by pkd 4y ago
Why? What makes it "natural"?
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by pkd 4y ago
I mean, robotic arms (depending on what you mean by them) have been making cars on assembly lines for decades.
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by pkd 4y ago
Nice. Your Cha project has the beginnings of a search engine with cosine similarity, even though I don't think you intend to take it there. Tagged items are like a precomputed inverted index, and the matching is a search on that index.
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by pkd 4y ago
I don't think it's the best explanation, but I do think he understands that mean as a measure of central tendency is not that useful when distributions are skewed or multimodal (the squiggly line gesture).
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by pkd 4y ago
Why is the Pegasus reveal an innuendo? The reporting on Pegasus clearly listed the names of hundreds of Indian citizens - mostly investigative journalists and opposition leaders. Since Pegasus could only be sold to national governments, it&
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by pkd 4y ago
I think he makes some good points about the UI changes - albeit in an angry way.
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by pkd 4y ago
Congratulations! The only suggestion I have is about the logo: if you rotate it clockwise 90 degrees, then the lamp head also looks like a "D", instead of an "A" as it does currently. I immediately felt it would be bette
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by pkd 4y ago
One of the contributors to the project had not very nice things to say about the changes in this version. Ranty, but worth listening: https://youtu.be/56e5Yc-IQ84
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by pkd 4y ago
The article says "former" twitter employee, not current.
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by pkd 4y ago
Headline is misleading and doesn't reflect the headline for the article.

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