urban_winter

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by urban_winter 2y ago
> For anything more complex than an anonymous online flower shop, it is simpler to partition the whole thing off – for each customer/tenant. Is this really a viable approach at the scale of B2B SaaS like Salesforce (or, contextually
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by urban_winter 2y ago
Absolutely my experience too. Story points have been an effective tool for me with multiple teams in several different companies over the past two decades. They aren't, by themselves, the complete answer to any problem - they need to b
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by urban_winter 2y ago
But mass transit carries more people per wheel, and the weight of the bus does not scale linearly with the carrying capacity, so it doesn't automatically follow that "individual transportation is actually better...". I doubt
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by urban_winter 2y ago
> steam (hot stuff), which expands 16x 1600 times. Gas at room temp occupies 24 dm3/mole.
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by urban_winter 3y ago
> If I found out one of my coworkers was a career bank robber I'd just want to get a beer and hear the crazy stories. Would you want to hear the crazy stories of a two decades ago child murderer too? I didn't think so.
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by urban_winter 3y ago
Harry probably shouldn't feel so bad about the bug in the published listing. I typed in plenty of games from computer mags in the 80s and they almost never worked first time. The problems were sometimes my errors (have you ever tried r
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Carbon capture and storage is a fiction(landclimate.org)
8 points by urban_winter 3y ago|2 comments
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by urban_winter 4y ago
It's worth knowing that in the UK PayPal is covered by the Financial Ombudsman service. They wouldn't be interested in accounts being blocked as in this case but they were very helpful to me when PayPal made a payment that I did n
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by urban_winter 4y ago
I wonder if, in retrospect, the decision to use floats was a good one. The author mentioned issues with the time of each sample for the sine wave, which were float-related. I get that audio effects (compresser, reverb etc) are probably easi
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Wall Street Texting Habit Sticks Banks with Rare $1B Bill(bloomberg.com)
1 points by urban_winter 4y ago|1 comments
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Job Advert in HTML Source
1 points by urban_winter 4y ago|0 comments
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by urban_winter 4y ago
What's the value of a monorepo if developers only ever check out a small subset of it? Wouldn't multiple repos allow greater scale without any practical reduction in utility? For example, all the localisation files could live in a
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by urban_winter 4y ago
"Copy code if it's used twice" is terrible advice. You are creating a landmine for future maintainers of your code (often yourself, of course). Someone will inevitably change only one of the two versions at some point in the
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by urban_winter 4y ago
Exhaled air is about 17% oxygen, 4% carbon dioxide. So, as previous poster noted, scrubbing the CO2 is your first priority. You can't breathe air with greater than about 4% CO2 indefinitely. Oxygen levels lower than 15% are also bad. D
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by urban_winter 4y ago
Does anyone understand this? "Some of the main differences that the MMR has from conventional nuclear plants is that the reactor cannot meltdown as the heat is passively released into the environment..." 300MW is a lot of energy t
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by urban_winter 4y ago
When I worked at British Aerospace Dunsfold in the late 80s/early 90s, it was a hard rule that nobody got to sit on an ejector seat unless that had been training in its use. I am surprised that it's not an absolutely universal rul
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by urban_winter 5y ago
I've never found a way that I like to integrate dealing with email into a to-do list. Reading emails is a perpetual need but it is damaging to focus and I often find that it saps my energy by reminding me of all the things that are not
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Dremel leaving the 3D printing business(toolguyd.com)
2 points by urban_winter 5y ago|1 comments
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by urban_winter 5y ago
An obvious question is whether the focus on performance first is correlated with the success of stack overflow. If the same level of succes could have been achieved without squeezing as much performance out of each server then the sacrifice
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by urban_winter 5y ago
Yes. Many adverts will specify financial services experience but it's worth applying anyway. You'll probably find that roles in back-office technology areas (operations, finance etc) are less demanding in this respect. I hired mos
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by urban_winter 5y ago
BAML Quartz was conceived by a bunch of front-office quants who had not the first idea about the software needs of a big bank beyond the front office. There was an arrogant assumption that front office software is obviously the most complic
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Finance Giant Plaid Paid People $500 for Their Workplace Logins(vice.com)
4 points by urban_winter 5y ago|0 comments
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by urban_winter 7y ago
That is profoundly untrue in my experience (13 years of working as a Dev manager at UBS and BofAML). The knowledge of how the business really works sits largely with the long-served IT and Operations staff. This is certainly the case in the
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by urban_winter 7y ago
The UV issue is a red herring. There are many reasons why people need to be outside and cycling is only one of them. UV is a manageable problem for walkers and outdoor workers, cyclists are not a special case. I guess that you've never
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by urban_winter 7y ago
I started my career working for British Aerospace in 1989. We used VAX/VMS as our development platform (Code was CORAL 66 and then ADA). I spent some time supporting the Sea Harrier flight test operations - so I would have fitted this
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by urban_winter 8y ago
The BBC story, also reported in multiple other places, is a nice bit of Volvo marketing g, but is nonsense. Volvo introduced Aeb in 2007 on the XC60. The XC90 only got it when they introduced the new generation a few years ago. Therefore cl