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by tmorton 9y ago
I'm pretty strongly on the Elixir train, but here's where I see its greatest weakness: On many platforms, the best practice is to have stateless application servers, with separate stateful data stores. On the other hand, the big
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On Password Managers(tbray.org)
393 points by tmorton 9y ago|336 comments
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by tmorton 10y ago
At the time (1847), they were not the poorest people in North America.
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by tmorton 10y ago
> ... for a girl to be considered really beautiful to me, she should fall at least two standard deviations above the norm > ... [in intelligence] I will settle for someone a mere one standard deviation above the normal Yeah, that wou
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by tmorton 10y ago
I see Conway's Law as a statement about the world, not a class of problems. Team size is capped by human nature, and systems will develop to mirror team sizes. The only solution is to find lower-communication "seams" for bo
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by tmorton 10y ago
Aside from the discussion of JS and React Native, I want to highlight this: > Perhaps more importantly, your software development platforms also shape you as a software engineer. A software development platform encourages (or forces) the
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by tmorton 10y ago
I wrote a blog post on this topic a while back: http://timothymorton.com/post/67472164000/on-hiring-develope...
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by tmorton 10y ago
This solution to this "core paradox" is the idea of gains from trade - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gains_from_trade If everyone has the same capabilities and preferences, then the economy is a zero-sum game
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Announcing Rails 6: An Imagined Keynote(naildrivin5.com)
1 points by tmorton 10y ago|0 comments
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by tmorton 10y ago
Here's an important difference. The 18F post says: "we reviewed all Google Drive files shared between Slack and Drive, just to be sure nothing was shared that shouldn't have been. Our review indicated no personal health infor
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Moving Past the Scaling Myth(michaelfeathers.silvrback.com)
100 points by tmorton 10y ago|23 comments
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by tmorton 11y ago
RDPD is basically a fad diet book. There's some good advice, but it's mixed with bad advice and illegal schemes, slathered with a thick layer of inspirational bullshit. For a better personal finance book, try "I will teach y
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by tmorton 11y ago
That's absolutely true. But while physical laws just exist, "economic laws" are a complicated combination of biology, psychology, social norms, the legal system, etc. You can tweak the rules, but you can't run calculati
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by tmorton 11y ago
I think restricting this to "the west" begs the question. We conventionally define "the west" to be the relatively stable, relatively democratic countries of the US and Western Europe. We exclude various countries simp
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by tmorton 11y ago
The downvotes here are really inappropriate. I disagree with most of this comment, but it's well up to the standards of political discourse on HN.
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Moving Past the Scaling Myth(michaelfeathers.silvrback.com)
2 points by tmorton 11y ago|0 comments
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by tmorton 11y ago
Whole life policies are pretty terrible, because they're high-fee and opaque. It's very difficult to compare them like-to-like, and that's on purpose - each insurance company wants to sell a slightly different set of guarant
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by tmorton 12y ago
"Why not just attach a bell to the cat?" said the mice.
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by tmorton 12y ago
This is a great point, but I don't think it leads to no prosecutions. As you point out, the problems here are systemic - and a vital part of the system is accountability. In a better world, the mid-level bureaucracy of the military an
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by tmorton 12y ago
Funny, I got the opposite impression. I would tell her "Throw away everything and focus 100% on mid- to low-brow content." More celebrity blogs, fantasy sports, etc. Yahoo has a lot of unsophisticated eyeballs, but they're
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by tmorton 12y ago
Pricing a scarce resource doesn't "screw over" anyone.
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by tmorton 12y ago
I agree with this statement, and I'm in the US. My manager wears cargo shorts to the office, but I'd still raise an eyebrow if you wore them to an interview. The key is to dress up "a little bit". Wear what would you we
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by tmorton 12y ago
This advice is only for a very specific situation. If you can certainly find a better position quickly, but your boss is a decent person who's interested in your success, then absolutely tell them that you're thinking about leavi
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Spotify Knows Me Better Than I Know Myself(fivethirtyeight.com)
7 points by tmorton 12y ago|1 comments
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by tmorton 12y ago
Done! https://github.com/scottefein/the-happiness-manifesto/pull/7
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by tmorton 12y ago
I think this comment shows exactly what I was getting at. If no one disagrees, the happiness manifesto will die in a sea of nods and shrugs. :) > I'd rather have really good code, even if written by a racist or sexist, than bad co
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by tmorton 12y ago
I think this is a great idea. The ruby community is a wonderful thing, and part of that is reflected in the technology. However, the original Agile Manifesto was powerful because it made tradeoffs. "We value X over Y", even when
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by tmorton 12y ago
This article has a great response to that argument: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/07/28/Privacy-E...
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by tmorton 12y ago
> Best we can probably hope for is better intelligence augmentation/amplification than we've got now. Sounds like we can get the "Captain America" singularity - everyone gets a genius-level IQ, but nothing further.
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by tmorton 13y ago
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. Decide the level of risk first. That dictates your stock/bond mix. After that, you get whatever the market gives you. If you're looking for a guaranteed 5%, it doesn't exi

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