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by potamic 3y ago
> ReadySet is licensed under the BSL 1.1 license, converting to the open-source Apache 2.0 license after 4 years. What does this mean?
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by potamic 3y ago
I also felt the same as loeg after finishing the article. If you simply state that invalid states cannot be handled, I believe most people here would concur. And in the end, I do think that this is a very significant insight that you descri
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by potamic 3y ago
The payments platform you talk about is a piece of tech every financial company ends up building. What did you do with all that code after shutting down? Did you consider either selling or open sourcing it?
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by potamic 3y ago
That's an interesting approach. In an interview, you generally drive the discussion a certain way to gather data points for your rubric. Wouldn't this happen in your case? If yes, how is it different from an interview? Otherwise,
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by potamic 3y ago
Staged docker builds seem like a bad idea. Why would you want to tie your build specification with your runtime specification which are inherently different concerns? You lose out on independent evolution and isolation between the two. And
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by potamic 3y ago
I find it amusing that in this age of information technology, we still struggle to share a small page of text.
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by potamic 3y ago
As Newton said, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
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by potamic 3y ago
https://wiki.c2.com/?PlanToThrowOneAway
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by potamic 3y ago
The article is actually making a case for fewer PMs, not to do away with PMs altogether. In startups, founders tend to do PM because they bring the vision for what to build. Additional PM hires in such environments aren't likely to add
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by potamic 3y ago
20k stars! Now my bullshit meter is sounding. Surely, developers of all people are not this passionate about project management tools.
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by potamic 3y ago
You seem to be using htmx? Pretty impressive to get this much interactivity without much javascript. Would be very interested to learn more about how it's working out overall.
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Even looking past the political affiliation, there's nothing in the announcement that highlights their credentials to this role. The vision of the foundation is to "reclaim the internet". There has probably been no time in hi
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In what I've seen, this generally comes from top management, the board even in some cases. They set the agenda and approve budgets for everything the company does. Head count is a direct translation of this. In normal scenarios, head c
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When probing questions are answered literally.
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Why did you decide to allow search without a sign in but not for cody?
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They're definitely not running at a loss, 40% profit margin in fact. It's also not the full picture to call them state funded. They're owned by a consortium of banks, both private and public. While the state maintains a level
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by potamic 3y ago
Ridiculous considering India's NPCI processes $6B USD in 400M transactions a day at a modest operating revenue of < $0.5M USD a day! This is a clear situation where the market is inefficient.
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by potamic 3y ago
I think they were talking about the camera work and editing more than the shot itself. It's a fantastic piece of work if you look at it closely. Starting with a close up shot of the ball, slowly zooming out to show you the predicament
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by potamic 3y ago
All the controversy with this company notwithstanding, in what world does it make sense for a yet to turn profit, ed-tech company to sponsor the national cricket team, the Fifa world cup and sign on Lionel Messi as the brand ambassador? In
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by potamic 3y ago
Why do only some stages use the feeder while others get a box of screws from which they have to pick up by hand?
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by potamic 3y ago
The term digital currency is merely a cover that is propagated for what I'm afraid will lead to some really bad things. For one, we already have digital currency. We can move money from anyone to anyone without actually moving paper. T
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by potamic 3y ago
I believe this is what flagging is for. The guidelines suggest to use it for spam and caution against feeding such discussions. Now, when to pass along a bit of feedback is a judgement call only you can make, but I think in most cases peop
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by potamic 3y ago
Why wouldn't you use CSS selectors? They are unambiguous, concise and most importantly, a standard. They should be the conventional way to refer to elements.
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by potamic 3y ago
What would you write stories of in such a world? I think the human brain needs some amount of drama. Otherwise, it would get very very bored.
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> “Up until this point, the mechanism we’ve used to identify who is the owner of the Hue system and can do this [control your bridge], is by physical access to the device — and pressing the button on the bridge,” says Yianni. “This appro
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by potamic 3y ago
Cellular interference is subject to so many things from the buildings around you, population density and even the weather. Imagine the volume of space between you and your mobile tower and how many things might disrupt your signal from reac
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by potamic 3y ago
The link to the introductory blog post here appears to be broken https://xata.io/blog/pgroll-schema-migrations-postgres
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Companies have always wanted hardcore workers. What they will always get is workers who are best at convincing the company how hardcore they are. If it means setting up my own domain, then dammit, I'll setup my own domain. This is why
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It's a user named Satoshi. Is there anything to say this is Satoshi? And what are the odds the new owners don't control this account now?
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> It’s not just the layers of secrecy and professional lying that’s required Absolutely not. Many companies do layoffs transparently, with notice, even so far as to offer voluntary severance, and they all do just fine. Some execs seem to

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