susan_hall

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by susan_hall 10y ago
We have no control over the API that we draw from. We are drawing from the API of a different company. I wish they didn't use JSON. If they have to use JSON, I wish they at least enforced a consistent schema. But they don't. And t
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by susan_hall 10y ago
My disagreement starts with the beginning of this: "A large class of errors are caught, earlier in the development process, closer to the location where they are introduced." I would re-state this as: "A large class of errors
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by susan_hall 10y ago
"not 20% more but possibly 1000% more" -- you are implying that the median startup employee makes less but it is worth it because of the big payoff for the lucky ones. That is, you imply that the median might be lower, but the ave
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Gretchen Carlson's former Fox colleagues say they regret not believing her(vox.com)
2 points by susan_hall 10y ago|0 comments
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by susan_hall 10y ago
A lot of the articles that focus on rising oceans, and how they might effect the USA, seem to confuse the general issue of global warming with the specific issue of Florida. The situation in Florida might be hopeless, but why should that ef
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by susan_hall 10y ago
You might be interested in a book called The European Revenge, written in 1973 by two writers from the Economist magazine. It made the argument that some day in the near future, European auto makers, such as Mercedes Benz and BMW, would be
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by susan_hall 10y ago
About this: "Certain Manhattan neighborhoods (I live in one on the Upper West Side) have already achieved NORC (“naturally occurring retirement community”) status." I also live on the Upper West Side. What surprises me is that eve
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by susan_hall 10y ago
This is an interesting opening, coming from the Wall Street Journal: "Millions of young males have left the workforce and civic life. Full employment? The U.S. isn’t even close." If the USA is not close to full employment, then th
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by susan_hall 10y ago
Space constraints can be a big problem with column keys, at sufficient scale. Traditional SQL database have column names that are stored separately from the table data, but in JSON, the keys are in the data. I've worked with MongoDB sy
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by susan_hall 10y ago
Thank you for explaining why tobacco has such a powerful effect.
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by susan_hall 10y ago
A dear friend of mine quit smoking, cold-turkey, and she went completely berserk for 3 months, with dangerous mood swings and outbursts of violence. She had previously suffered a mild depression, which now emerged as some kind of dark night
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On Job Polarization (professionals gain while other skilled work falls)(stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)
3 points by susan_hall 10y ago|0 comments
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by susan_hall 10y ago
And it marks Sam Altman as living in the past. In terms of "why are comments mean?" we had that debate more than 10 years ago: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/171-why-do-blog-comments-seem... This seems to fit
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by susan_hall 10y ago
"For most of us, yearly pay raises are a fixture of corporate life" Was this article written in 1955 and then accidentally drawn out of the archives and posted in 2016? The annual pay raise died a few decades ago. There were count
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by susan_hall 10y ago
Dave Winer's remark from 2006 offers some historical perspective: "I've been hearing, off in the distance, about something called JSON, that proposes to solve a problem that was neatly solved by XML-RPC in 1998, the encoding
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I admire the fact that the author was able to add a humorous twist to almost every paragraph. However, to get the humor they indulge in a bit of exaggeration. That's fine, I have no problem with parody. I would find this style revoltin
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I am hoping the slow expansion of Social Security and Disability will eventually bring Universal Basic Income to the USA. This is the only likely route for the USA to get UBI, since the political forces opposing UBI are very strong. But if
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by susan_hall 10y ago
On dealing with backpressure, I would recommend what Zach Tellman writes about in his video "Everything will flow": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNOO3xxMc0 Tellman also tells his own adventure about a system s
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by susan_hall 10y ago
Agreed. Anyone who wants to read some intelligent thoughts about the advantages of the Tandem system should read what Joe Armstrong wrote about it, in his own work developing Erlang: http://erlang.org/download/armstrong
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I think "TV" is a stand-in for "watching TV". That is a common sense reading. And what do you watch on TV? Your statement is correct if you only watch broadcasts, but that is only 9% of the USA public. Almost 90% of USA
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by susan_hall 10y ago
This idea has been disproven hundreds of times. It is a zombie idea -- no matter how many times it is killed, it just keeps shambling along. Also, the context here was helicopter money -- sending money to people, not banks.
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by susan_hall 10y ago
This is certainly relevant for Lisp programmers: "Contrarily, major schisms or breakdowns in the relationships and development of a language and its community are big warning signs that should make you think twice about the future of a
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by susan_hall 10y ago
jganetsk had already answered your question, you simply have to read what they wrote. Anticipating a question like "What insentive do they have to keep costs low?" they answered before you wrote, when they wrote: "And if you
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Laissez-Faire in Tokyo Land Use (why Tokyo Is Cheaper Than SF)(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by susan_hall 10y ago|0 comments
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by susan_hall 10y ago
This is actually more an aspiration than a reality of startup life: " Grownups do the difficult thing when it’s the right thing to do, with composure. This means giving peers and employees critical feedback. It means saying the unpopul
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I have faced something similar. Though I have 14 years experience with technologies that are suppose to be in demand (Ruby On Rails, NodeJS) I have had a very difficult time finding work this year. It's certainly more difficult now tha
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You'd Be Happier If You Ate Less(vice.com)
15 points by susan_hall 10y ago|16 comments
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I'd also recommend "Lucky Or Smart?" from Bo Peabody, who built Tripod in the mid 90s, one of the early successful web startups of the 90s. https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Smart-Fifty-First-Time-Entrepre...
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by susan_hall 10y ago
All your base are belong to us. Sometimes typos lead to memes.
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by susan_hall 10y ago
There are certain bacteria that are known to require many years of antibiotics to resolve: 1.) tuberculosis 2.) Leprosy (Mycobacterium leprae) For both of these it is normal to take antibiotics for many, many years. Also, less seriously, or

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