tdumitrescu

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by tdumitrescu 11mo ago
If the last 9 months have shown us anything, it's that long-running government institutions are a lot easier to kill than we thought. And the idea of archive.org being under the control an administration like the current one in the US
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by tdumitrescu 1y ago
That's the main problem with evented servers in general isn't it? If any one of your workloads is cpu-intensive, it has the potential to block the serving of everything else on the same thread, so requests that should always be sn
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The Engineering Skill Points Game(mixpanel.substack.com)
10 points by tdumitrescu 1y ago|0 comments
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by tdumitrescu 2y ago
Seriously. This is one of those cases where rolling your own really does make sense. Flags in a DB table, flags in a json file, all super simple to build and maintain, and 100x faster and more reliable than making the critical paths of your
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by tdumitrescu 2y ago
Nobody is going through the significant work of raising VC and then TRYING to fail. All for the sake of temporarily using some fancy office furniture.
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by tdumitrescu 2y ago
Hey if they wanna pay me for real transparent food I'll cook them up some "Emperor's New Hollandaise"
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by tdumitrescu 2y ago
> If you only do something very rarely anyway, spending time to automate it won’t have a great ROI For code-editing, maybe. But in general software engineering, there are tasks that I have to do maybe once a year or less that are always
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by tdumitrescu 2y ago
I think everyone's got a different threshold for where returns start diminishing sharply. While I'm squarely in the "don't waste time micro-tweaking your editor" camp, there are some little bits of shortcuts and too
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by tdumitrescu 2y ago
Nitpicking: Crook Manifesto is the sequel to Harlem Shuffle, which came out years earlier. There's a third installment planned.
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by tdumitrescu 2y ago
Whoa. That article says that SpaceX does tender offers twice a year?! That's so much better than 99% of private companies, it makes it almost as liquid for employees as a public company.
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Mixpanel launches open-source docs(loom.com)
2 points by tdumitrescu 3y ago|0 comments
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by tdumitrescu 3y ago
For sure, I'm not meaning to denigrate IMSLP, as it's a great project that offers access to so much material that's otherwise a pain to get to. I was just trying to make the distinction that when I want the highest-quality ma
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by tdumitrescu 3y ago
Take from a musicologist and semi-professional performer: IMSLP is great for finding quick scores of random stuff, but the editions are often pretty shoddy, like either super outdated with weird editorial decisions that no one's agreed
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Self-Service Analytics Creates a Major Shift in Product Mindset(hackernoon.com)
3 points by tdumitrescu 4y ago|0 comments
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Yeah, our experience with Triplebyte really fluctuated a ton over the years. Made some hires pre-vetted by them who were real badasses and contributed a lot, but then there were periods when they sent us numerous candidates who could barely
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We're making our prices public(mixpanel.com)
3 points by tdumitrescu 4y ago|0 comments
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
I work somewhere with plenty smart engineers, and plenty of in-house golang expertise. I've seen several small internal tools rewritten from Python to Go, and contributions by the wider team totally dropped off. It used to be absolutel
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
"Many teams in the industry constantly rewrite parts of their code. Not because they keep figuring out better ways of approaching the problem but because nobody on the team has an accurate mental model for how it works and how the code
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Distracting Slack noise. I'm always a little annoyed when people do this and litter public channels. If you feel strongly about communicating your status changes all day, set your personal status - if someone wants to communicate direc
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Still in the east bay. Plenty of humans still here
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
From your other replies here you sound a bit burned out. 220 is easily within the reach of devops people in the modern software industry, and certainly not just at the big-name tech companies. But you do have to work for _some_ kind of dece
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
This past weekend I found myself in a mall in the East Bay (Bishop Ranch in San Ramon) and holy carp was it bumping with people, like a mall from before the before times. A big open central courtyard with families hanging out all over this
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
What a bizarrely arrogant (condescending) way to formulate arguments. "It is okay to feel provoked by this statement. As pointed out previously: you have probably invested a lot of time in Python. You will be inclined to justify and de
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
I've been exercising quite regularly for decades, including a good amount of running alongside weights and other resistance and cardio. I love it, and hope I don't ever have to stop, but I've never experienced any sort of &qu
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Think it's bad in SF? Go across the bay to Oakland. Red lights and stop signs mean nothing here.
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Off-topic but great username. Don't expect to come across a lot of Ars Subtilior references here on HN
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Mixpanel's Company KPIs Dashboard Template(mixpanel.com)
8 points by tdumitrescu 4y ago|0 comments
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
It wasn't just coding, it was also a lot of design/art resources. Going from 256->16 colors would look terrible with automatic dithering. My recollection is that there were a few Sierra titles made for VGA that also supported E
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
> drivers are expected to takeover for irreconcilable issues Remote employee "drivers" take over when a car signals that it doesn't know what to do
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by tdumitrescu 4y ago
Agreed. Personally I'm always grateful when someone joins and brings along a good up-to-date idea of how our particular languages/frameworks are used and taught by the rest of the world. It's so easy for a big internal codeba

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