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by throwaway35777 2y ago
What we don't teach or reward today is the behaviors and engineering process to write high quality code. A surprising number of inexperienced developers do the following: "once I get any working solution I should immediately open
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
Don't successful drugs also have to pay for the failed trials?
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
Stoicism was philosophy marketed to and practiced by the Roman elites, so that Logos reinforced the social hierarchy is not surprising. That being said, the philosophy has many practical lessons to teach. Meditation and philosophy helped
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
Wow! What do you work on? Is the problem the ability of the candidates -- do you think it's possible for a "good" engineer to get productive on six months?
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
They shut down in 2023. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184546
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
There also used to be Triplebyte. It filled a niche of talented people who have bad resumes and don't know anybody. Found a great job through them when I was starting out. Real shame there's nothing to replace it, there's hug
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
What exactly is their intention?
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
Are there any places like it nowadays?
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
Living in a city is like being in a trance. The experience reminds me of Insomnia .
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
> I recall feeling like it was mostly a guide on manipulating people, and it didn't make a great impression on me, personally. Any action will affect other people in some way. What matters is how you choose to utilize that capabil
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
There is an excellent old book on the subject, How to Win Friends and Influence People . I was lacking in this area and my career improved greatly after reading it. In general, people are cautious when giving criticism because it carries i
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
{Montana, North Dakota} --> {Washington}?
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
> by the end you're far more systematic, plus a little bit numb to the effect your decision is having Maybe decision fatigue is supposed to bias humans toward the optimal solution for the fiancee problem [1]. [1] https:/&#x2
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
I was a grader once. I guarantee if someone gives a good answer they'll get full marks even near the bottom of the stack. For BS answers I'll admit I got less generous as the hours went on. No one's getting hurt by this syste
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
> Until the robots can do all of the tasks above and quickly switch from one to another and be highly adaptable in real time based on the needs of the restaurant Ideally if your robots cost less than $20/hour you can buy enough of t
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
> I like to be on teams for which, if new to the team, mostly you notice things being done sensibly (in context), and the 3 things you see that you don't understand, you can just ask about them, because everyone on the team just wa
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
What is the error there?
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
> but you're still getting slower speeds for higher prices than you should And what is your solution to that?
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
It's like $50/mo for 200/50 I think. Why, what are yours?
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
> The biggest single reason why the USA's (and to a lesser extent Canada's) internet is shite... Speak for yourself, but I live on the west coast and my Internet connection is great. Edit: downvoters, what are the problems with
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
That's true, but you'd still need to find the unauthorized passenger already on board. Without a picture you'd have to flush the plane and reboard. Given there are thousands of security cameras in an airport, I don't thi
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
Why did the system securing the plane let the operator override the error and allow an unauthorized passenger on the plane? Should be easy enough, UI shows the picture of the guy who scanned the first ticket and system tells operator you go
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
Easy mitigation, don't let the same barcode board twice.
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
And there's no "forward secrecy" - if a normal word becomes a swear, then it's often hard to go through and change all uuids. Which is why the standard has been base16 (or base10) for so long.
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
It's also trivially easy to reroll ids until they don't contain a swear.
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
> resistant to swear words No it's not. Edit: downvoters, a tame example is 0x72b5473d5a567200.
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
base58 is case sensitive which hinders readability. When devs work with uuids they typically remember the first few letters ("this is guid abc", "that one is guid 1ac"). Hard to do that in base58. The coarsest encoding t
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
Single handedly extending the lifespan of all humans by however long it takes them to crawl 6,859,000,000 pages.
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
The faces are amazing! I hope if he finds an artist they don't get changed too much. I absolutely am looking for an excuse to use faces.js somewhere.
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by throwaway35777 2y ago
Until writing my comment, I never realized people thought Starbucks coffee is bad. Where can one get good coffee? I want to try!

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