throwawaythekey

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by throwawaythekey 3y ago
I'm not sure if it's unique to my place of work but most requirements are made up. If something is or isn't implemented in the final solution has no real bearing on happiness. The thing that everyone seems to be after is a we
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
I'm going through this at the moment at a startup... I thought I could count on the charismatic leader to save my bacon by only calling on them for help when when things are visibly on fire and my own minor charisma hasn't been en
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
I'm still unconvinced that tiktok holds much data that is valuable to any government. As a node in the information tree it might have some marginal utility but my understanding of tiktok is that the data primarily is how much you enjoy
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
This is known as a zero bug policy [1]. I've had decent success implementing it with my team. The main advantages are: - Prioritizing is hard, so avoid wasting brain cycles deciding how important your bugs are - It encourages all of yo
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
There have been several cloudfront outages that have effectively been semi global outages
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
If you have the right team maybe 10M (to pay for the SaaS you bootstrapped off) and 1 year. If you have the wrong team then God help you.
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
It's been a while now but we saved about 10-100x moving from aurora to dynamo for a pure/simplish OLTP use case. Lost a lot of flexibility but the aurora costs were going to send us under. We also had a few issues where aurora was
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
If the story is of public interest then it's fair game to run it regardless of the source (once verified)
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
I'm not sure if I buy this. Any sufficiently motivated leaker could just release to another source if wikileaks were blocking important information.
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
For consumer markets the newest AMD products (Zen 4) are great chips but simply too expensive. Logical increments [1] is pretty good at showing what is the best choice at various pricepoints (taking into account local pricing) and has Intel
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
It sounds like you've identified the issue yourself. You are relying on ordering when processing events. You need to either loosen that requirement or do better testing to prevent head of line blocking. I don't know much about you
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
It would be an interesting case study for leaders around the world - confiscate a huge chunk of liberty and you will have a fringe protest, lose a few thousand pounds from chequebooks and you will have blood.
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
Do you know of any good resources that explain why smoothing should be used? My intuition is that in your given example (stock prices) smoothing would probably be doing yourself a disservice as it would hide the optimal hour or day of the w
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
A possible explanation is that the mellowing is due to the loss of acuity with age. The more likely explanation is that it's an evolutionary adaption in response to how ones function in society changes with age.
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
If you combine layoffs the reduction in burn can be pretty significant. The exact numbers vary per company but for a startup delaying layoffs by one month can be the difference between having one year of runway remaining or one month once a
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
It sounds like you might be a future version of me! We are an adtech startup in the hundreds of millions per day right now, expecting billions per day by the end of the year. Management would be happy if I said I have a plan for tens of bi
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
Does any one on here have some real world experience with scylla? We currently make heavy use of dynamo and are interested in something cheaper/faster. The marketing material is pretty compelling but I'm unsure of how hard scylla
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
We used ipinfo for a while because we didn't know much about the space, they had good SEO, the data appeared to be high quality, and it was easy to use. We were pretty happy with it! We ran into some minor problems along the way, mostl
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
I tend to under explain using lots of phrases like "it gets pretty mathy" as an excuse for hand waving details away. Most of the time I think I am doing the audience a favour but for the most part it seems like they actually wan
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
Took a bit of digging but I found the SEC filing [1] and the press release [2]. I'll quote from the press release because it is more easily understood. I condensed it a bit but the gist should be clear. > In general terms, it works
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
What team size would you say this applies to? At the moment I have flexibility in how many people I hire underneath me and would like the team to remain small enough where I can be both a force multiplier and part of the force. The goal is
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
An open question to those advocating for poison pills as a mechanism for existing shareholders to exercise control - why don't companies have permanent poison pills? The fact that they are enacted only in certain scenarios to me is the
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by throwawaythekey 4y ago
The whole point of the poison pill is that the hostile shareholder is not treated equally. He would not have the opportunity to buy the discounted/newly created shares that would be triggered by him purchasing stock. In essence upon hi
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by throwawaythekey 5y ago
I interviewed at Fast last year as an experienced startup engineer. I was given the "describe a production incident you were involved in" question. I detailed a case where a recent deploy I had done had resulted in elevated error
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by throwawaythekey 5y ago
> stuck in a rut where each area of code only has one maintainer/gatekeeper. Why do you assume it's a rut? It might be an organizational liability but it can be a great while it's working. It's common folklore that de
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by throwawaythekey 5y ago
I agree that it's very hard for consumers to understand. But to be honest how often do you need high speed usb? How many >5gbps thumb drives exist? Even if they do exist how often are you transferring enough data to care? You'r
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by throwawaythekey 5y ago
Left to me feels more pro fairness but anti freedom. Either way though in most conceptualizations libertarianism/authoritarianism is usually separated from left/right https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polit
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by throwawaythekey 5y ago
I find it fun because it prompts me to find the optimal guess (given hard mode). Playing easy mode I'm much more happy to do the first word that comes to mind and sort of fits.
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by throwawaythekey 5y ago
To be more concrete, boilerplate != enforceable. I'm sure Facebook had some pretty good boilerplate (probably something even more strongly worded and custom) and that didn't stop them from being GDPR slapped.
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by throwawaythekey 5y ago
IANAL but as far as I know the existence of verbiage is not on it's own enough to make something binding. There is probably a lot of wiggle room here by jurisdiction as well. Either way though, it seems like a very strange building blo

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