rlonn

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by rlonn 6y ago
It can still be a case of searching for novelty. I think my mother did this while I was growing up - she would try out new replacement products (primarily food) and start buying them for a while, until the household got fed up with them and
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by rlonn 6y ago
yeah, we should probably never research anything but our own noses, until we know exactly everything about them
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How to predict growth after being on Hacker News(k6.io)
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by rlonn 6y ago
Thanks for a great game! Used to play MSDOS Empire frequently back in the day. I actually started work on an Empire clone/derivative with network multiplayer support (a challenge for a turn-based game like Empire, but I'm borrowin
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by rlonn 6y ago
She's an entrepreneur, and her craft is not really building a product, but building a business. I think that's what really drives her.
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by rlonn 6y ago
Possibly :)
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by rlonn 6y ago
Oh yeah, that's my own load testing tool, written in the high-performance language Bash. It is a bit feature sparse but produces about the same RPS numbers as Drill ( https://github.com/fcsonline/drill ) and not too
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by rlonn 6y ago
Tsung was made in another era, before devops. I think it shows in the UX and everywhere when using the tool that it wasn't really meant for developers. Specifically, and with the disclaimer that I haven't used Tsung so much, I&#x2
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by rlonn 6y ago
2 orders of magnitude faster than Gatling? Would be interesting to see how you ran your tests, and the results. In my testing, Gatling isn't catastrophically slow by any means. Wrk, which is faster than any other tool I've seen,
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by rlonn 6y ago
What do you mean "very long article"? You could have used "extensive" or something ;) Anyway, what I've seen when comparing the performance of tools, is that Artillery, which is running on NodeJS, is perhaps the wo
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by rlonn 6y ago
I wrote a blog article comparing the most popular open source tools out there - https://k6.io/blog/comparing-best-open-source-load-testing-t... Disclaimer: I'm one of the people who created k6 Warning: The article
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by rlonn 6y ago
For commercial products, I think the most useful interpretation is that a "viable product" is one that someone is willing to buy. That means implicitly that it has to provide value for the end user. One could also stretch the goal
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by rlonn 6y ago
I have, and I'd bet that a reason you don't see it often is that you generally don't keep many adult bullies as close friends, because they're usually not people who are nice to be around.
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by rlonn 6y ago
Slightly funny story similar to yours: we were having our 2nd kid and my wife was given no2 gas as a painkiller. I got to be in charge of the dial that controlled the no2/oxygen mix. We started at, like, 40% no2 but then she said she w
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by rlonn 6y ago
If you meet an overweight person, do you begin conversation by telling them to eat less? If not, why don't you? They obviously get too much calories and may benefit from your advice. And they can always tell you to stop giving them a
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by rlonn 6y ago
Naive you are, if you believe life favours those who aren't naive And, to nitpick: the sun will never go nova.
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by rlonn 6y ago
I beg to differ about the lying. Do lie about unimportant things, let them try and figure out the lie, then confess (regardless of whether they figured it out or not). It becomes like a game, and if you do it right, in a lighthearted way, t
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by rlonn 6y ago
I make up outrageous stuff all the time and will only come clean after some pressuring from the kids. Either it's worked wonders or my 6-year old is just a natural because she takes nothing for granted! Her teacher tried to show her
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by rlonn 6y ago
Efficiency tend to be sacrificed on the altar of fairness though. Israel's Yozma initiative seems a usable compromise.
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by rlonn 6y ago
Haha, that exactly describes my experience also. At the time I thought it was due to a language barrier - that my english wasn't good enough (2nd language) but I guess it's the book. Definitely a unique piece of work, at the very
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by rlonn 6y ago
I had kids late in life, which I think has some advantages. One is that you've learnt that nothing lasts and it's important to be present in the moment, because it doesn't come back.
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by rlonn 6y ago
>Programmers have been well paid since at least the dot com bubble, that's a conservative 20 years, wouldn't consider that 'fairly recently' imo. That's because you're not very old yet.
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by rlonn 6y ago
You say you're more productive but are you producing the right things? It's easy to note when you suddenly get more uninterrupted time for work, and also to note how that translates into e.g. more code produced. But does it improv
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by rlonn 6y ago
A very common thing I see is smart people with low self-confidence/self-esteem. They have a belief that they're not good enough to "make it" or that they're not deserving. They will of course not get rich, because t
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by rlonn 6y ago
If the people who could afford Teslas had not bought them, Tesla would have failed as a car company. VW and others would then not be interested in electrification today, and the environment would have been a lot worse off in the long run. F
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by rlonn 6y ago
This is the wisest comment in the whole thread.
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by rlonn 6y ago
Red, go for red! (Unless it's a tuesday - then definitely black!)
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by rlonn 6y ago
There is one way to make sure the product improves after shipping a quick-and-dirty first version: dog-fooding. Be a user, for real. Many seem to think that just using the product equals dog-fooding, but real dog-fooding is when you can hon
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by rlonn 6y ago
How do you know? Do you have solid data to support your statement?
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by rlonn 6y ago
I read this story years ago and thought it was hilarious. Could've happened to anyone. In my book you're a near-celebrity and it's great that you can verify the story! Thanks for making things a little more interesting and a

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