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811.
by romanhn 5y ago
PagerDuty has a useful guide to postmortems, among others: https://postmortems.pagerduty.com/
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by romanhn 5y ago
Totally. I did something along those lines as a kid to memorize the first 30 digits of pi. Basically coming up with an elaborate story and committing it to memory.
813.
by romanhn 5y ago
That is a rather unconvincing post. It makes the link to IQ without any actual evidence, claims Foer has an IQ of at least 130 again without anything backing it up, and trots out a memory athlete's opinions as if they were unbiased fac
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by romanhn 5y ago
It's funny, the memory palace idea always seemed like such an odd concept to me, until I realized I have aphantasia and lack the "normal" visualization capabilities.
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by romanhn 5y ago
"Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer is an interesting book on the subject of memory athletes. The author is a journalist who sets out to write the book and in parallel practices alongside his research subjects. In the end,
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by romanhn 5y ago
It probably feels weird because it attempts to tell Zhu's side of the story, and he still manages to come out looking bad. Investors made the right decision, it seems.
817.
by romanhn 6y ago
> their comments are actually embarrassing themselves Your comment is one of those
818.
by romanhn 6y ago
Fair enough. I never linger on the home screen and head straight to playlist/liked music, so I suppose it's not something that's ever jumped out at me.
819.
by romanhn 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by "cluttered with podcast stuff". I'm a happy Spotify user and I'm barely aware that the podcast stuff exists.
820.
by romanhn 6y ago
Check out OpsLevel, seems in line with what you might be looking for. I know the folks behind it, they're top tier.
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by romanhn 6y ago
Not sure I understand the argument here. I'm clearly talking about current/ongoing efforts, not decisions made 15 years ago. Anecdotal evidence doesn't change the fact that I witnessed huge cross-cutting efforts to improve pr
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by romanhn 6y ago
Look, my goal here is not to be an apologist for Facebook, a company that I told in my exit interview that I would not consider joining them again (for entirely different reasons). Nor do I want to be convincing anyone that they're wro
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by romanhn 6y ago
That is a fair point, though in the sense of "mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all". People end up in bubbles because they're most receptive to particular type of content and that is what they end up eng
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by romanhn 6y ago
I'll bite. Worked at FB for a couple of years, until very recently. The HN groupthink on the company is quite strong, reaching conspiracy theory levels in some cases. Thing is, 95% of users (which is like, half the world) either do not
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by romanhn 6y ago
I would hire the latter 100%, even if their technical skills are somewhat behind. They are the ones most likely to fill in any gaps they have and then some. The obvious exception is those that are all about passion, but do not add meaningfu
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by romanhn 6y ago
Ben Savage is a pretty high-level engineer from Facebook's Ads org
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by romanhn 6y ago
My personal reaction to this statement in the article was that it seemed like an overreaching assumption. The map could have been a land separation agreement between two sheep herders, or something else similarly prosaic. Not sure why we ne
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by romanhn 6y ago
One of my favorite videos on time zone complexities: https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY
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by romanhn 6y ago
The point of an interview is to evaluate a candidate's fit for a particular role. This reads to me like the evaluation criteria is whether the candidate prepared for interviews or not. I don't understand this worldview at all, and
830.
by romanhn 6y ago
The SEO was there, just optimizing for different things from what Google cared about. Remember pages of keywords with the same color as the background?
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by romanhn 6y ago
You were fired from a "bottom tier" company. No offense, but what makes you think that you will survive the much higher expectations at a FAANG long enough to retire? I personally found that to be much harder than getting into one
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by romanhn 6y ago
I had an amazing (amazingly bad) recruiter experience recently. They managed to make three screw-ups in the very first two sentences: "We are looking for a talented Back End Engineer [1], and if you think you are ready, a Back End Engi
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Mini Museum(minimuseum.com)
3 points by romanhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 6y ago
What an amazing website, wish I found it before the holidays :-) Thanks for sharing!
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by romanhn 6y ago
Audiobooks is the only approach that worked for me. Listen when I commute, when I shop for groceries, when I do household chores. It's a pretty fragmented way to get through a book, but with a busy lifestyle, it's better than noth
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by romanhn 6y ago
That is not my recollection whatsoever. A quick read through the HN reactions that day ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840 ) shows a mix of bewilderment and belief that this is a defensive play. Very few people act
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by romanhn 6y ago
In order to prepare for eng manager interviews a couple of years back, I quit my job and spent several months on Leetcode and system design. This is with 8 years of management experience at the time and many years without hands-on coding. I
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by romanhn 6y ago
Don't think this is true? I typed "cave art" into Google image search and the majority of pictures had human figures (stick figures, but still) in them.
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The mysterious silver monolith in the Utah desert has disappeared(cnn.com)
1 points by romanhn 6y ago|1 comments
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by romanhn 6y ago
As someone who has spent his childhood in one of these, I would download a VR version of this in no time. Could be a "fun" way to keep nostalgia in check :)

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