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by tcgv 3y ago
> I think corporations are usually pretty efficient. It’s just not always clear what they are efficient toward. This. People often examine things on a small scale and lack the context to understand why certain aspects appear counterintui
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by tcgv 3y ago
> Most places I've worked with microservices had 2 or 3 approved languages for this reason (and others) and exceptions could be made by leadership if a team could show they had no other options. This works well if you have knowledge
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by tcgv 3y ago
> I can tell you from personal experience that running a multi-node RDMS is hard as hell There exist varying levels of complexity. Here at my company, we have a very small cluster comprised of a main PostgreSQL instance and four replicas
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by tcgv 3y ago
> A one time expense of 8% GDP for a 4% growth is great. That means it would get paid back in two years (...) Not quite. The payback time will depend on the growth in government revenues, which should be correlated to GDP growth, but a f
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by tcgv 3y ago
Last June, I was on my honeymoon in Tuscany, Italy, and had a delightful experience that highlighted how restaurants leave a lasting impression on us, not only for their food but also for the people. I was in the tiny medieval village of Mo
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by tcgv 3y ago
He's describing a well known formal attire etiquette: https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/advice/a33367/how...
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by tcgv 3y ago
Indeed. In many cases it backfires.
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by tcgv 3y ago
I'm not saying that I agree with it and neither that it works though ;)
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by tcgv 3y ago
Yeah, I agree with you. The design is broken and unfair. I see it as a loss-loss situation: Either nobody cares and autocracies get a free pass to do what they want in the global stage, or countries can react and restrain relations with gov
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by tcgv 3y ago
> Sanctions against Russia only harm ordinary Russians. That's by design. Sanctions put pressure to the country as a whole. Once people start getting angry they will question their leadership and maybe demand for changes. Sure, sanc
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by tcgv 3y ago
> The purported explanation was that he changed the criteria he judged me by > "the higher ups want you to do a second PIP" That's rough! > Luckily by then I was just a day or two away from having an offer from anoth
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by tcgv 3y ago
> They're there for the pay That's a key factor, indeed. I also believe in trying to provide a good work experience for helping people grow professionally not only at our company but something they can bring to their next compa
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Ask HN: Should pay be based on Performance Reviews?
4 points by tcgv 3y ago|9 comments
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by tcgv 3y ago
You would be starting at a much higher amount since $2,000,000 in 1880 is worth $60,201,176.47 today. The challenge is to get to these initial amounts in the first place. Source: CPI Inflation Calculator [ https://www.in2013dollar
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by tcgv 3y ago
> The mess is stressing me out. > I just don’t want to waste my money on garbage pressboard I am going to need to replace. If I may propose an alternative, you could buy the cheapest bookshelf you can find just to have your office org
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by tcgv 3y ago
Worldcoin is just a centralized / privately owned database of iris scans and issued user IDs that integrates with the blockchain. > solution to a problem that we (society) definitely have, namely the real-people problem > till no
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by tcgv 3y ago
I mainly "Ask" for people in my inner circle, and "Guess" for everybody else
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Taxonomy of Startup Risk(matt-rickard.com)
4 points by tcgv 3y ago|0 comments
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by tcgv 3y ago
Better safe than sorry ;)
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by tcgv 3y ago
I haven't been on the "applying" side, but in my company we just had four replacement openings in the tech team (after more than 9 months without having a new hire) and to our suprise we received 5x times more applicants to a
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by tcgv 3y ago
I think it's less about "prediction" and more about mapped cohort behaviors and opinions, especially those that change slowly over time. The LLM model will likely be a picture of how the population and each demographic group
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by tcgv 3y ago
If there are two things that I've learned from the pandemic is that i) societies fail to prevent totally predictable catastrophic events if doing so is detrimental to their economies and ii) societies only commit to solving these probl
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by tcgv 3y ago
This downward trend makes me wonder where is all that traffic going to? Surely developers are still searching for answers, where are they finding them? It can't only be ChatGPT since the trend started in February 2022, but it surely is
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by tcgv 3y ago
At the same time most stupid ideas will in reality never work.
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by tcgv 3y ago
https://thomasvilhena.com/ Started as a way to train English writing and try to establish some presence online to bolster my CV. Posts of topics related to work, weekend projects, and personal reflections. It's interes
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by tcgv 3y ago
Do you do it manually, or did you automate it? :)
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How to measure the success of new product features and why it is important(metabase.com)
1 points by tcgv 3y ago|0 comments
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by tcgv 3y ago
I think the main challenge is that true a solution can only be reached if the society as a whole faces the issue together. Meanwhile families are left on their own to try their (suboptimal) best. I recently saw this youtube piece that share
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by tcgv 3y ago
I understand your concern towards the difficult situation and your immediate action to look out for your family. However, your anecdotal experience is still a "false positive" (fortunately), which doesn't allow us to conclude
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The Burden of Complexity(thomasvilhena.com)
1 points by tcgv 4y ago|0 comments

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