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by tbrake 3y ago
They help me. At least the physical, paper ones do. I keep my days on track by taking time in the early morning and reviewing the previous days accomplishment/misses/notes and then writing down an outline of today's goals and
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by tbrake 3y ago
Netflix is particularly egregious but yeah there are postings with ranges like $150K-400K all over. 250K is an incredible swing imo.
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by tbrake 3y ago
I hope the next step is narrowing the ranges of "info" provided. You'll sometimes see postings like "Sr Staff Engineer at [fancy corp]: 135K-900K". Info like that is better than nothing, sure, but not by much.
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by tbrake 3y ago
This reminded me https://www.wheresgeorge.com/ in the USA has been doing it a while as well. Had no idea it was still going strong all these years later.
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by tbrake 3y ago
Maybe it's cleaned up since the early 00's. We were over near Rocky Mountain. I should have been more precise re: break-ins, meaning more car break-ins. No idea what the home rate was, but every other week there were 1-2 cars miss
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by tbrake 3y ago
Ah Home Park. Part of the circle of life for tech students. 1. enroll. 2. get tired of dorm life. 3. move to home park because it's likely all you can afford. 4. get broken into 5-10 times. 5. move away
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by tbrake 3y ago
What's with the indignation over this on HN? I didn't see them suggesting anyone/everyone would be able to do it, or that it was practical. It was just a funny set of cirucmstances that allowed for an attention catching headl
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by tbrake 3y ago
Who's out there saying "cut fat and replace it with sugar"?
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by tbrake 3y ago
Fair. Should have been more specific about meaning the shirt sponsor.
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by tbrake 3y ago
Sponsorless kits look so good. I wish that was the norm. The financial realities of the modern game make that a pipe dream though.
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by tbrake 3y ago
> The solution is harsh penalties for negligence or willful misuse of customer data - not banning the technology imo. Well since the solution (in the form of those laws) doesn't exist yet, the technology shouldn't be usable unt
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by tbrake 3y ago
On a story by story basis saying points=time is an idea as silly as your deliberate misinterpretation of my post, yes.
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by tbrake 3y ago
The answer is not having a PHB. No non-unit-of-time estimation system will matter if there isn't buy-in from all levels. If the Directors/VPs/C-Suite etc view development in assembly line terms, then Xpoints = Ytime can never
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by tbrake 3y ago
Whoa whoa. The "association" OP speaks of is down to effective marketing - creating a common image of German product/industrial design as meticulous and high performing - not some objective engineering ranking.
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by tbrake 4y ago
I think this is broadly the case. A few companies might be genuinely invested in improving performance with such a plan but for the majority it's a way of managing someone out. Over the years I've seen over 30 devs put on PiPs. 1
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by tbrake 4y ago
If you're a small enough team, this doesn't matter. But if someone else - whether a single dev or another team - depends on your work then you run the real risk of being a bottleneck to other people and the business. At that point
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by tbrake 4y ago
The author is perfectly justified in wanting to solve what they see as a problem. However Chesterton's Fence is ever-present in my mind. So I can appreciate the effort behind redesigning/solutioning but my instinct is to try and
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by tbrake 4y ago
Correct. They're often already playing at ~95% engine matching moves and/or with negligible difference in centipawn loss. Getting the help to push that to 98% would be a dominant advantage. Funnily (to me) post-game analysis often
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by tbrake 4y ago
> There is, I think, couple of ways to do it. One way would be to not be greedy and only get help from time to time. So if I was the player I would not rely for the algorithm for every move, just sometimes. Just enough so that it makes a
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by tbrake 5y ago
Are you sure OP's use of "dangerous" wasn't around the implications of fully autonomous, no-human-intervention nature proposed in the article, and not the blatantly literal destructive nature of all war machines?
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by tbrake 5y ago
> but this story has been way overblown based on what I saw in the actual code. Could you expand on this? What code did you see, where, and doing what? Were you part of this team? > There's nothing particularly new about mathema
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by tbrake 5y ago
Although it's hard to phrase this non-humorously, it is a legitimate question - is anyone else instantly filled with the urge to just Godzilla stomp one of those displays? I wouldn't trust myself within 5 meters of one. I really d
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by tbrake 5y ago
> I generally distrust modern Greeks' knowledge about Ancient Greek I'd find it fascinating that you would have encountered these discrepancies often enough to form such an opinion, assuming you're not involved in studies
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by tbrake 5y ago
I've long thought about making a thread like this so I'm happy to see it. Fed up with this actively user-hostile web experience to try and drive people to the app. My main gripe is definitely expanding comments - > First of all
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by tbrake 5y ago
Put a little more blunt than I would have but there's nothing wrong there. Rarely a submission goes by where the first comments aren't people racing in to argue with the author. There's an adversarial air that exists around d
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by tbrake 6y ago
There was verification - and intentional misleading on VWs part - before talking about it. It was not quite the "read press release and instantly write articles" timeline you've dreamt. https://www.cnbc.com/20
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by tbrake 6y ago
bruh it's a commencement speech
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by tbrake 6y ago
Move fast and break people.
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by tbrake 6y ago
Just this, always. https://www.theonion.com/any-idiot-could-have-come-up-with-t...
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by tbrake 6y ago
In the grand scheme of slippery slopes this change isn't even at an angle.

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