sethammons

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   by sethammons 4y ago

   Dup from an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773865
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   by sethammons 4y ago

   True, under the theory that a scrum master protects the sprint and the process and that managers wont
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   by sethammons 4y ago

   I know a guy, CEO of a company we all know, wont take financial advice from a guy with a beard and another who wouldn't take advice from someone without wooden soles on their shoes. It is interesting what signals we take for credibilit
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   by sethammons 4y ago

   My experience with Confluence is it only works if you have a link to the document. Search is utterly useless. The only search I've found worse is Google Docs. I can be in a meeting and search direct quotes or titles of documents being
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   by sethammons 4y ago

   "Sound travels more efficiently through denser materials" is pretty well accepted and colder air is denser. Wait til they learn about elephants listening with their feet or whales talking across huge distances. I was surprised to
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   by sethammons 4y ago

   Best is to rotate all your stored passwords and not store the new ones in lastpass, delete all the items, and change the lastpass master password. Check any notes for sensitive info before overwriting and then deleting the entry and assume
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   by sethammons 4y ago

   "If you have to eat crow, best to do so while it is warm."
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   by sethammons 4y ago

   "Believe me" doesn't cut it. Here are some accounts of remembering being born. My earliest memory is at 18 months old. https://www.vice.com/en/article/43kned/i-remember-being-born
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   by sethammons 4y ago

   my 10th grade AP History teacher offered snacks to the students. 25 cents a piece, or 3 for a dollar. Most of the year went by of people taking the dollar option before a student asked if they could have 4 for a dollar, to which the teacher
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    > I was so confused by the saltiness I was confused by what you thought was salty. I don't see it remotely.
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    This move was championed in the industry by John Allspaw, then CTO of Etsy, around 2010. I am under the impression that he introduced the idea of blameless post mortems but I could be misremembering.
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    What is the goal? Reminds me of intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. If the goal is personal development, that should be intrinsic and not need outsider validation. The type of shit I write in a journal is not the type of stuff I want people
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    > I recently thought that pain is very certain and reliable: stub my toes and it’s equally painful every time. Mental state matters here. A cut stings, but I've been cut and not noticed. > Pleasure is also consistent but less so:
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    Note: if you plan on accurate financial planning and metrics (esp. if going public), you need to be able to separate your test prod stats from the real prod stats for reporting.
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    I've lost weight eating more while maintaining the same exercise routine. You can try to feel better with any "well actually" you can muster. I increased the same kind of food I always eat and lost weight.
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    Even CICO is not straight forward. It is a dynamic system. Eating more can cause increased metabolism and easting less can slow the metabolism.
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    Ha, yup. We had metrics for any endpoint that was attempted and we got paged for zounds of 404s being generated. We thought it was an attack and reached out to our infosec team. "We are scanning for vulnerabilities." They wouldn&#
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    This hits home for me. Two cases leap to mind. Infosec team ran regular vulnerability scans and flagged our Go code as having a violation of some .net specific bug. They requested we fix it. Literally nothing to fix and no teams ran .net an
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    My understanding is that egg farmers need insurance and insurance is only issued if you follow the rules which means packed hen houses. If you want to be more humane, you risk losing your insurance. This is from casual conversations with eg
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    The standard testing package for the win, and many pull in a light weight assertion library like Testify. I love testing in Go (and _loath_ testing in Ruby). Our unit and integration tests are mostly great. Tests are just code. No DSL or sp
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    I recommend this to all new managers; I call it my blue bible
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    Agent K: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. --Men in Black
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    Watch the documentary King Corn. Corn is in everything. They have lobbied it to be in our food, animal food, packaging, ethanol gas, batteries, plastics, crayons, whiskey, glue, and cough drops, hygiene products, matchsticks, and many medic
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    My exact term too!
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    The bidet leaves you clean and wet. Just like after a shower, you run the towel through your nooks and crannies.
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    My wife was a waitress for years (but not in the last decade or so). A four hour shift at Sizzler (yes, the stake house that everyone loves to hate) would get her about $25/hr on average easily. A decade ago. In a small town in the Inl
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    McDonald's in my small 5k population town in Montana (which has a bit of a reputation for shit wages) was advertising $20/hr (might be $19 and I'm mentally rounding up) last summer including paid leave. McDonalds is nearly to
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    amazing content existed before Google. Monetized content may go away. I grew up on the internet of the 90s and a return to a similar web would be tops.
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    Heh, ditto. I don't think I got any new info that I didn't get in high school calculus, but it is a well done review of things I hadn't seen in a couple of decades
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    by sethammons 4y ago

    How does this encourage more SEO spam? I would think it will reduce it if it does not provide attribution.