razzimatazz

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by razzimatazz 4y ago
I think the post invites a question to all the HN responders: What would it take for the computer [software] you are using to run at its full blazing potential? The answer is - if every single piece of software was written while already kno
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
How about just Hacker News, expanded with some machine learning to determine the topics I would be interested in. My 'friends' or connections don't supply me with nearly enough of the posts and news items that catch my intere
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
Great anecdote that, a real classic - previous experienced engineer couldn't get the cooperation and information he knew he needed to do it properly so barely started. Newer inexperienced engineer wasn't quite sure what was needed
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
Key point: quantify the shinyness of the turds, so that HR screen likes the look of the CV, and be prepared to talk about turd shinyness and why it would matter.
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
"Created a new CMS in python (Based on the old CMS) (With a team of 2 others and one guru who did the design but I wrote his code) resulting in 70% reduction in update times (after we ran it in a cluster with twice the resources but I
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
I'm glad my asuss eee is gone now, but in 2011 it was a fabulous travel aid for exploring italy - keeping us out of icky internet cafes and keeping us entertained on the long slow (railpass compliant) rail journeys. Netbooks became of
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
You prompted me to think of fitness - as someone who has accumulated fitness I still feel like I am suffering a lot when I run, and I can take that suffering as a bit like winging it. The difference is I am suffering/winging it at a de
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
I like it. It still carries a little bit of whimsy and puts a smile on my face (while nodding).
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
Definitely saving that, translating it to interview-compatible speak, and springing it on future employers. Actually I need to translate a good 75% of grug's teachings to interview compatible language...
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
I definitely will need a "Jump to the recipe" button for Twitter notes. You've found an interesting topic and decided to use that to practice your medium-long form writing - but have you actually discovered anything unique wo
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
Fair enough - based only on the couple of super-minor artists I've stumbled upon who have put on an album or EP's worth of tracks at once (4-10 or so).
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by razzimatazz 4y ago
There are steps missing, perhaps - Artists with only 2 songs on Spotify are probably fake, there are odds they are the property of Spotify themselves and have been carefully created and placed into playlists to minimize royalty costs to Spo
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by razzimatazz 5y ago
I like that this is such a wholesome topic we can safely debate on the internet. There are clearly good arguments for and against the change to permanent DST, so I will safely ignore anyone presenting statements of the "You must be an
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by razzimatazz 5y ago
I've been looking for the comment to explain what I see as the most significant factor in flat earth belief, which would be - missing respect for scientific authority. It's possible to be a flat earther if you don't see how m
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by razzimatazz 5y ago
I would like to hear people's thoughts on how to coach a junior on how to get a 'second brain' (new term for me) going. Plenty of your average new developers won't have the experience to build it on their own, or maybe t
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by razzimatazz 5y ago
I think I'm wired with the potential to eat more than I burn because the opposite is dangerous (long-term) and its hard to anticipate future burn when I eat. There would need to be a lot of food 'abundance' for the negative e
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by razzimatazz 5y ago
Yeah but that has to be a side gig, not perfect but it's pretty common for humans to not be perfect. You have to believe he loves stand up comedy, loves the UFC, is blown away by the success of the podcast, and generally loves life. Th
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by razzimatazz 5y ago
I enjoy that he asks the stupid questions (or the questions that I would feel too self-conscious to ask) of those experts. It is such an excellent contrast to a stale interview with prepared topics and nothing natural to it. It's easy
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by razzimatazz 5y ago
My favorite is the times when I have dived in to fix performance of the system, found the place where I or a team mate left in a terribly unnecessary loop or increased complexity, quickly fix that and report back the great success in improv
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by razzimatazz 5y ago
I'm pretty sure its about time that Windows guessed what I am trying to do when I am looking around inside a folder. Right-click, offer me the shortcut to create a file similar to what is already here. They already have the obvious yet
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by razzimatazz 5y ago
Perhaps what is immoral is when the volume of advertising and the workload it places on the brain becomes too much. The coffee shop with far too many flyers or 7 by the same local tutor becomes very hard to handle. With experience you fight
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by razzimatazz 6y ago
I agree selective freedom of speech is hard. Probably too hard. I tend to support selective augmentation of other people's speech - "fact checkers have shown this to be inaccurate" next to a conspiracy fan's latest comme
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by razzimatazz 6y ago
The GoT analogy continues if we think that as the TV show continued, certain book plot points were missed out, overlooked, or perhaps even negated by decisions made for the show. Book readers then had ready ammunition to share with the worl
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by razzimatazz 6y ago
Imposter syndrome for me is kept in check if I keep within my 'quota' of mistakes. It doesn't bother me if I am the author behind a bug (Normally every bug is an opportunity to understand the software we've built better)
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by razzimatazz 6y ago
Just to those who downvote - if someone poses a question or argument which you think is easily refuted, by downvoting or removing that question you remove the opportunity for anyone else with the same argument to learn something. And maybe
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by razzimatazz 6y ago
It sounds like an honorable goal, doesn't it? But when you build a community that becomes simply a place for shared anger, you allow that anger to be amplified and seem more legitimate.
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by razzimatazz 6y ago
You are on to something. I interpret it as it is fantastic fun/addictive/dopamine-short-term-win to argue or discuss with someone. Especially if you can afford the hangover that outrage might lead to. Face to face with people I kn
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by razzimatazz 6y ago
In NZ, we follow along behind the USA in most things, so getting angry over politics is growing and growing. I see it as a hobby, growing in popularity. But also a hobby you can discourage those you know from getting into, and if the social
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by razzimatazz 6y ago
I think the middle ground can be a great place to work in tech, all it takes is one other person to work with that is willing to care about the things you achieve together. Typical examples include our dysfunctional regression testing days.
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by razzimatazz 7y ago
I propose we introduce a clever new concept we can call your "Fizz". You get a first fizz, and a last fizz. You can change it whenever, but you need to have one. But a fizz can only be ascii characters without case and no spaces.

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