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by starwatch 4y ago
Thanks for the pointer - the criticisms [1] are interesting to read. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/hessla.en.html
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by starwatch 4y ago
That's a fair criticism. My idea of good is not defined, or static - it adapts over time to the norms and values of society. Perhaps something like the OpenAI approach to their GPT-3 deal with Microsoft is better. That is, if the work
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by starwatch 4y ago
Slight tangent, but you seem to know about licences... Do you happen to know of a licence that has anything like a "can only be used for the benefit of humanity" clause? I've favoured the MIT licence for what little OSS I&#x2
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by starwatch 4y ago
Also (speaking from 1st hand experience) some big companies issue laptops that are extremely locked down - with IT needed to install any software and only after it's been vetted. This gives a bit more liberty without crossing any of th
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by starwatch 4y ago
Good question. That can happen - though it's usually for more junior roles. In that case I give them a take home task. The important thing here is that whether or not the result is good, I commit to talking it through with them (provid
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by starwatch 4y ago
The goal of an interview is to let great people through. It's not to see how well people code while you're watching their every keystroke. I used to make people write code in front of me. I've missed out on some excellent can
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by starwatch 4y ago
That's definitely true in the short term. Now, imagine the secret of the $1 build is available to at least one other commercial builder. The "your margin is my opportunity" aspect of a free market kicks in. There's a hig
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by starwatch 4y ago
It'd be interesting to track shrinkflation too. I reckon it's something news services would want to do a regular segment on.
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by starwatch 4y ago
We've got people of all religions, nationalities, etc. and it's very rarely a problem. How we hire and the effort we put into curating our team culture goes a long way in helping with that. Sometimes we do fall into political conv
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by starwatch 4y ago
We did have some political discussion but agreed it wasn't a net positive contribution to the culture we wanted to form. So we experimented with a no-politics rule and it stuck.
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by starwatch 4y ago
I'm a strong believer in minimum viable process when it comes to team management. As teams grow, processes need to grow with them. But imo every process - stand-ups included - should be introduced as an experiment. The experiments shou
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by starwatch 4y ago
This is an excellent initiative, thank you for building it! Signalling for me has always been handled on a cheap box in some specific AWS regions. The tricky thing was that there was always more latency than I'd like in the initial est
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by starwatch 5y ago
The difficulty is that if your account gets suspended, you are unable to do anything - including transfer domains out.
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by starwatch 5y ago
I had to force quit and restart, but that seemed to do the trick for me too. Thank you!
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by starwatch 5y ago
I'm having the same issue. All tabs froze and the FF energy demand spiked. I upgraded manually from 95.0.2 to 96.0 but the issue persisted. Twitter[1] is currently lighting up with broken FF reports across the globe. Some people are re
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by starwatch 5y ago
B2 as a backup solution it's a compelling option as far as pricing goes. I'd offer a warning that I have used B2 for highly available blob storage before (2-3 years ago) ... it didn't work well as traffic scaled. I'm not
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by starwatch 5y ago
I'm not well versed enough in the topic (or the law) to have answers. I do think the podcast episode I pointed to does give a lot of food for thought. For me it was an eye opener, as a software engineer trying to build a beautiful futu
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by starwatch 5y ago
Last year Sam Harris interviewed Gabriel J.X. Dance, the deputy investigations editor at The New York Times [0]. They speak to this. It's a tough episode to listen to - they cover many uncomfortable topics along this theme. From what I
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by starwatch 5y ago
We ran on this set up for a couple of years. We even migrated from linode to AWS ec2 instances (that was a fun problem!). To start with Galera was okay, but as our traffic picked up things became sketchy. As traffic grew we'd encounter
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by starwatch 5y ago
I suspect the answer depends in part on how competent you are at the activity. For example, if I'm learning to jog at a new cadence (180spm) I need to focus on just that. Once that's become my baseline I can listen to a podcast. S
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by starwatch 6y ago
yup, you're absolutely right [1] Code Readability Requirements: Developers must not obfuscate code or conceal functionality of their extension. This also applies to any external code or resource fetched by the extension package.
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by starwatch 6y ago
The approval process differs for extensions published to the Firefox and Chrome stores. When submitting to the Firefox store you need to send them your un-minified, un-obfuscated source, along with step by step instructions on how to build.
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by starwatch 6y ago
I second this. "Waking up" is less of a meditation app, and more of a collection of tools to help you explore consciousness. In addition to the meditation content, the tools include interviews, walks through stoicism and even poet
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by starwatch 6y ago
> The question to ask about an early stage startup is not "is this company taking over the world?" but "how big could this company get if the founders did the right things?" http://paulgraham.com/ds.ht
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by starwatch 6y ago
This is a nice alternative to spending money to have someone do this check for you [1]. However, you need some expertise to really do the job... For example: "Pull on the tie rods and the suspension mounts. Do you detect any movement?
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by starwatch 6y ago
An interesting listen to how human life is valued was published fairly recently. Quite sobering: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571843/episode-991-lives-v...
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by starwatch 6y ago
This chart is about covid in the US though so I suppose the global population isn't really the yardstick you want to use. US population in 1918 was around 100m [1]. If WWI deaths took place over 4 years it'd be around 30k per year
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by starwatch 6y ago
Not an expert on this, but remission is defined as: > a temporary diminution of the severity of disease or pain. My understanding is that after the treatment, and while in remission, people would need to maintain a healthy lifestyle to a
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by starwatch 6y ago
I believe there's a low-calorie treatment pioneered by a research group out of Oxford University a few years ago. The treatment was shown to send type II into remission. It's currently available on the NHS in the UK: https:&#x2F
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by starwatch 8y ago
Learning a new language (english) is difficult enough, but to learn to program a computer at the same time seems a lot to ask of children. If software engineering is a sensible way out, would something like Qalb be a better starting point f

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