HighlandSpring

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by HighlandSpring 29d ago
This isn't just theory either, for example: Revolut is a bank that does all its event persistence and streaming on top of postgres. No traditional message queues/brokers in their stack. https://medium.com/revolut&#
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by HighlandSpring 5mo ago
I wonder if there's a more graph oriented score that could work well here - something pagerank ish so that a repo scores better if it has issues reported by users who themselves have a good score. So it's at least a little resilie
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What Happened to Maybe.co?(maybe.co)
4 points by HighlandSpring 1y ago|3 comments
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by HighlandSpring 1y ago
I remember only a few days ago this was a hosted version of https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe It looks like they're pivoting into corporate finance tracking which seems like a good move but still a bit jarri
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by HighlandSpring 1y ago
Selegiline is also known as Emsam, the patches reportedly Sam Bankman-Fried was on, alongside ADHD meds. I recall reading how this may have been a large driver of his compulsive risk it all decision making that eventually brought it all dow
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by HighlandSpring 1y ago
Try telling all this to someone who is effectively emotionally/physically disabled because their mind and body either enter a rollercoaster or just shutdown in response to anything vaguely reminiscent of something they experienced. I
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by HighlandSpring 2y ago
There are "better" databases but they're better given some particular definition that may not be relevant to your needs. If SQL/the relational model and ACID semantics is what you need then postgres is simply the best in
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by HighlandSpring 2y ago
Do point us at this standard notation
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by HighlandSpring 2y ago
Butch "Space Cowboy" Wilmore
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by HighlandSpring 2y ago
My best guess is a lack of willing participants combined with pressure from up top to move money to keep the operation going/meet targets. We also don't know how much of that 500k is profit - maybe the margins in organised crime a
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by HighlandSpring 3y ago
Writing blog posts is the lowest barrier of entry there is to contributing to the sum total of knowledge for some particular keywords, problem space. Sometimes even, years of blogging gets edited and expanded upon into an entire book but I
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
Oh, cool! So kinda like IRC?
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
The second sigh sounds like it may, in effect, progressively overload your lung capacity. Felt good too
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
Maybe because it's a pretty good fit for the only things that ultimately matter: allocating budget and attributing revenue and PnL
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
tig-bug would be fun
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
The recession(s) are fucking different demographics in different ways. One thing that's certainly happening in London is that there's hundreds of entry-level candidates fighting for only a handful of openings. The industry has gen
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Repeal of IR35 Reforms Scrapped by Jeremy Hunt(contractorcalculator.co.uk)
1 points by HighlandSpring 4y ago|0 comments
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Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in ADHD(adxs.org)
2 points by HighlandSpring 4y ago|0 comments
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Russell Napier: We Will See the Return of Capital Investment on a Massive Scale(themarket.ch)
2 points by HighlandSpring 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Instant Observability for Graph Data
1 points by HighlandSpring 4y ago|0 comments
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
Fine, will elaborate: > Regular consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with diets that are lower in fat why is this necessarily a good thing? > Regular consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with diets that are higher
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
Only tangentially related but quite interesting: https://mobile.twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1565041582671... Sometimes I wonder if SSRIs are one of those things that the industry overinvested in and now that t
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
Cute!!
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
> HNers believe this conspiracy theory about their own governments (that they are deliberately secretly plotting to be despotic, and using the cover of trying to protect children) with no actual evidence, just a lot of winks and eyebrow
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
You're probably referring to another book as this one's main author is a she. The book makes a point of how you can't predict the future. Instead it enumerates a bunch of shapes the future could take given various sets of ass
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
> I don't think disgust is "innate". Oh it is and what til you hear about couple more fears we didn't have to learn through experience: > Examples of innate fear include fears that are triggered by predators, pain
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
This seems like something that could have massive tail upside. You help someone with lots of resources recover something of sentimental value, they tip you couple $k.
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
And the individual lemmas could have author and chronology metadata attached, then you could plot the DAG as a roadmap/tech tree of sorts with an axis corresponding to time. You'd be able to at a glance see the year a result enter
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
If PLN depreciates against USD (as it has this year) and the contract is USD denominated (which is simpler for Google so likely the case) then you'll have actually received a gradual payrise!
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by HighlandSpring 4y ago
It could be mostly 1) If you hire a smart kid with an MBA from stanford and he gives you a bad name with a series of mistakes, well, bad apples happen. If you hire a smart kid from a no name university and the same happens people will be qu

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