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by yojo 5y ago
Not sure I agree. I worked in AdWords support when the decision was made to move the top 1-3 ads above the search results. There was a lot of internal chatter about whether this was compromising the integrity of the results. The decision wa
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by yojo 5y ago
In my opinion “top of the line” any appliance is usually worse than the entry model. Typically it just adds more “features” that introduce additional moving parts, circuit boards, and displays. Rarely if ever do I need these things, and the
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by yojo 5y ago
Ah yeah. The right answer to this question looks very different depending on how old/mature your codebase is and how big your eng team is. My example is from a ~1200 person eng org with a ten year old codebase.
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by yojo 5y ago
Config level defaults were set in the flag service. But when that goes down, the client has to decide what to do. I think there was an optional arg for specifying default behavior, but even when used there’s the problem that the default you
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by yojo 5y ago
The feature flag service was doing double duty as both the “marketing experimentation A/B testing” platform and the “feature rollout” platform. Not defending the service boundaries, but it had enough meat by itself that there was a ful
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by yojo 5y ago
A typical pattern I saw was a team adds a new flag, then gradually rolls it out. Once done the removal is added to the backlog. “High priority” bug fixes and feature work gradually moves the ticket down in the system. Two months later a reo
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by yojo 5y ago
This exactly. Feature flags are necessary for rollouts, but they also quickly become technical debt. Multiple outages happened at my last company when the feature flag service went down and old flags defaulted to “off”. It got to the point
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by yojo 5y ago
I (straight male) have several close friends that are women, some going back two decades. I’ve been happily married for 12 years, they’ve all been in stable relationships, and our partners get along. It is possible that some men or women
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by yojo 5y ago
I believe you could consume all the words in Moby Dick in 16 hours. But it’s one of those “crammed full of metaphors” books that could easily take a seminar to unpack. I don’t pretend to get it, but smarter people than me write articles on
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by yojo 5y ago
The author is framing consumption as having two pools of currency: 1) money 2) time It costs money to get access to the good you are consuming, and hours to unlock the value. Whether or not you enjoyed reading Moby Dick, you have 16 less ho
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by yojo 5y ago
While true, this misses the point of the article. What was the source of the air? The author claims cheap homebuyer credit and laxer lending requirements explains 90+% of the run up. They also claim this is non-obvious.
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by yojo 5y ago
Two days ago at least Whole Foods here (SE Portland) was pretty messed up. No meat, almost no butter, produce bins were cleared out, some brands of yogurt were gone, etc. New Seasons was better, so maybe just an Amazon thing. But that’s at
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by yojo 5y ago
FWIW inflation is great for existing debt holders - you get to pay back that $1 you borrowed with $0.93 worth of inflation adjusted earning. If this keeps up for 5 years your effective debt burden drops 30% This all assumes earnings rise wi
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by yojo 5y ago
You could win with one probe, but that’s not “optimal” if you’re trying to get your time down. Game design seemed pretty solid to me, for what it is. The game is basically trying to reverse engineer a spreadsheet, but it seems like a well t
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by yojo 5y ago
> Also, this is one of the rarer occasions when playing it once is enough. Depends on how hard it nerd snipes you. My first play through started with “ooh, clever” and ended with “now that I understand it how fast can I beat it?”
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by yojo 5y ago
This is all true, but even that small amount of friction can be a nuisance, especially if the signer is not particularly technically savvy. I use HelloSign’s free tier and am happy to not have to explain to the leasee how to annotate a PDF.
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by yojo 5y ago
I’ve also used HelloSign for lease agreements and the like, and it has been totally fine. It does not seem to have timestamps more granular than date (e.g. no hour/minute), but that seems unlikely to be actually necessary.
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by yojo 5y ago
A good framework I’ve heard for this is “scaffolding” - as a parent you can provide a little structure to help your child solve problems that might otherwise be out of reach. As the child learns you gradually step down support until they’re
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by yojo 5y ago
I’m not sure that’s a fair comparison. It seems to me tech companies experience a much higher level of employee activism around moral issues than other industries. I also think it’s naive to assume reputational stigma won’t weigh in on hiri
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by yojo 5y ago
It could also be they planned it this way and will add it to next year’s model. That way they can advertise new “must-have” features for upgraders without redesigning the case/OS
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by yojo 5y ago
My understanding is that schemes are often employed to shift profits that occurred in high tax regimes to lower tax ones. E.g. company registers their IP to subsidiary in <low_tax_nation>. That subsidiary charges crazy royalties for t
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by yojo 5y ago
My understanding is there has been a large push to have communist party members have a formal and active role in businesses. The economist had a nice article on this: https://archive.is/HGX2L This is at the very least much
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by yojo 5y ago
I used to commute ~40 minutes each way by streetcar. I spent the time sardined in with the other unfortunate folk, one hand on a strap, the other on my Kindle. Every day I cursed SFs oversubscribed transit system. Switching to WFH was way b
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by yojo 5y ago
Both Peals albums are really solid for focus: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1eOmGaF7cvbx9hw6rgBqYO Also Continuous Portrait: https://open.spotify.com/album/51QtuRQyWyidnzs3ZNVue7 And the Fez sou
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by yojo 5y ago
They got me with Whole Foods discount, which was already where my family bought most of its groceries. 5% cashback on $15k/year is $750. Next best alternative is 2% ($300). I 100% agree with the downhill trajectory of the web store, bu
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by yojo 5y ago
Reminded me of SunVox: https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
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by yojo 5y ago
My city (Portland) has incentives for developers to build affordable housing - adding affordable units to a project increases the allowed density of the development, allowing more total housing on the same lot, and presumably, more return f
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by yojo 5y ago
You agree that as society you make some concessions for the greater good? I assume you (roughly) coming with speed limits, yes? And driving slower almost certainly takes more of your time every year than getting a shot. Both measures save o
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by yojo 5y ago
I’m not aware of any evidence that vaccinations of any kind cause addiction. Please provide citations.
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by yojo 5y ago
The required changes to liberty are substantially different. Giving up your hobbies means making a major change to your life. Getting two shots takes a cumulative 2ish hours. Do you claim you receive substantial benefits from not getting a

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