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by shoo 2y ago
another way to frame this is that while the startup has negative cash flow, someone will need to invest cash to allow it to continue to operate -- either until it is written off as a failed venture, or transforms into a viable business. who
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Graeber's book is about how debts work in different societies and cultures and what they mean. i finished the book being more confused about debt and money than when i started. that said, it was an interesting read, i don't regre
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> It's as if you called someone on the phone and said "Hi!" and then put them on hold! I called an australian government phone line recently, i was queued, then informed i could press 1 to register for a callback. I presse
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re: you: Hi co-worker: Hello. you: I'm working on [something] and I'm trying to do [etc...] co-worker: Oh, that's [answer...] It becomes clearer what is going on here when we compare to the robot-robot conversati
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by shoo 2y ago
rebase is git's swiss army chainsaw. i use rebase frequently, but i never remember which direction the operation goes in. do you need to checkout the source branch or target branch? truly, it is unknowable. my workflow is to type `man
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by shoo 3y ago
that's what we get!
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> I had to fill out a report about how I was observing myself working safety while management still had no clue what was happening. see also https://eddiots.com/2301 > How do you know what's going on if you&#
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by shoo 3y ago
It is easier to get traction and positive feedback and find other people willing to help you out with their effort or time or money or other resources if you are doing something that can help them, that really solves a significant problem o
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This is a great read, thank you for sharing. Van Allen comes across as capable and making the best of things after being dealt a bad hand of cards in life and being continually let down by interactions with state bureaucracy while trying to
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> Sabre started around 1960. They still had playing cards back then Apparently there's evidence of playing cards in Europe from around 1370, which predates powered flight, electricity, the difference engine ... but not double-entry
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> I was able to book my flight with the credits. I still don't understand how they were able to when I wasn't. (speculation) the customer support person on the other end of the line likely has multiple windows open containing t
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> Scenes had to be added to pad out the runtime to the requisite length. These additional scenes include a lengthy sequence in which Pinback does battle with an alien in the form of a beach ball with clawed feet. https://www.y
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tangent, one of the funnier stats I've heard recently: the price/revenue ratio for Nvidia stock is about 37. the price/revenue ratio for truth social is over 1000.
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Of Earnings, Dividends, and Agency(efficientfrontier.com)
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by shoo 3y ago
> First of all, who intentionally writes code to contain SQL injection vulnerabilities anno 2024? here's some ways it could happen: - startup doesn't have ability to hire competent, experienced developers. they end up with rook
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A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (2018)(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
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by shoo 3y ago
One useful piece of rhetoric is using "schema-on-read" instead of "schemaless". It helps make it clearer that the schemas aren't eliminated by using a "schemaless" data store, you're just pushing the
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by shoo 3y ago
dyingkneepad is talking about how the cpu actually works (x86-64 & cache hierarchy). It doesn't really matter what constructs a particular programming language does or doesn't have -- we can reason about performance in terms
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by shoo 3y ago
Readers who enjoyed lattices vs cranks may also enjoy: 1/2 Building Lattice Reduction (LLL) Intuition (2017 blog post): https://kel.bz/post/lll/ 2017 HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by shoo 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vidzkYnaf6Y
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says who?
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Here are two different approaches you could take: (1/2) Migrate to a new way of managing github repo configuration where some system governs what repos are allowed to exist, and ensures they are configured correctly per your company&#x
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by shoo 3y ago
Byron aside, I recommend Tim Powers' novel "Declare" -- enjoyed that one more than "The Anubis Gates". Keywords: fiction, espionage, thriller, 40s-60s ww2 / cold war, occult horror, historical fiction. For anyo
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by shoo 3y ago
> Jack Bauer style I imagine the winner of this hackathon was the plucky and passionate new hire, fresh out of college, who narrowly managed to save the day, the company, and our american way of life, by: waterboarding the CTO for hours
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by shoo 3y ago
Lucky you only had to pay the broker and not the building too. Obligatory: “The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he
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by shoo 3y ago
vague tangent: there was progress in late 2023 re: reducing US housing transaction costs, with a jury finding in favor of a big class action lawsuit about the non-competitive way buyers & sellers agent fees are structured (much higher
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> Broker fees typically range from one month’s rent to 15% of the annual rent, but can be higher when there is more competition among renters. From the perspective of a long-time renter in Australia: wild. Here, in our highly imperfect p
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If you're in a situation where profit-sharing is on the table, you could instead ask for a revenue-share. There are fewer ways to game revenue share via accounting tricks or other shenanigans, whereas there's plenty of ways for in
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Yup. & when you get a model that works matched up with an industrial scale decision problem that's valuable to solve, arguably it's only of academic interest if you can solve it "optimally". The problem is only a sim
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by shoo 3y ago
If you ever get the time & mental bandwidth do a second pass on your blog post, it could benefit from a worked example or two where you lay out sample code for the domain model & application logic & sample code for a test suite,

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