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by KZeillmann 5y ago
My impression from the (now deleted) text is that the phone wasn't booting or in a state where it could be factory reset, at least not without considerable effort.
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by KZeillmann 5y ago
Another way to look at it is that lotteries are a way for poorer people to subsidize college education for richer people.
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by KZeillmann 5y ago
It seems there's a lot of criticism here about Backblaze - about how other services do it better, etc. I'm a current Backblaze customer, not a data hoarder, etc. If you're not using Backblaze to back up your data, what are yo
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by KZeillmann 5y ago
A team getting to 100% test coverage and enforcing it feels like an application of Goodhart's Law. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. At my last job, we required 100% code coverage for most code, and the o
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by KZeillmann 5y ago
We tried it and moved away from it. A few reasons - one is IDE support, which has been mentioned in this thread. The other was release configuration. At the time we were working on it, it was more difficult than it should have been to use e
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by KZeillmann 6y ago
My issue with polling is that many races were well beyond the margin of error. The Senate polling in particular was bad this year. Sara Gideon was favored to win the Maine race in the polling, because there hadn't been a single poll sh
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by KZeillmann 6y ago
Placement. Either you want a probe thermometer measuring the internal temperature of the meat or an air temperature probe on the indirect side of grill. The gauge on the grill is likely to be off 50-100 degrees F. They're often cheaply
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by KZeillmann 6y ago
Using a meat thermometer (leave-in probe or instant) is a fantastic element of modern cooking, and a huge advancement in food safety. I can't imagine cooking without it. It doesn't mean I don't enjoy experimenting - but it do
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by KZeillmann 6y ago
The temperature gauge on the lid is a terrible judge of what the actual air temperature is inside your grill. It's often low quality and not in a proper placement for your indirect heat. Depending on placement, it can be off by more th
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by KZeillmann 6y ago
It's probably because HN is a particularly privacy-focused community and Zoom's privacy policy is a bit more questionable than other companies
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by KZeillmann 6y ago
On my current team, we would all WFH on Thursdays and Fridays as a norm. At the beginning of the month, we were told that we should WFH indefinitely because of COVID-19. I've got a great office setup and am used to working from home, s
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by KZeillmann 7y ago
This sounds like Scrum with one week sprints.
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by KZeillmann 7y ago
Fingerprint sensors work in the dark. Facial unlock doesn't. Edit: looks like I'm probably wrong on this one
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by KZeillmann 7y ago
I think the bigger issue with Epstein specifically is that it was an open secret that he hadn't changed anything about his behavior
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by KZeillmann 7y ago
Oh look, it's the weekly "Agile is bad" post. I've successfully worked on two teams (including my current job) where we're a truly agile dev team. We value interactions over processes and tools, collaboration over c
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by KZeillmann 7y ago
What's the benefit of a hot code upgrade vs a blue/green deploy?
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by KZeillmann 7y ago
It's weird -- I use Google Fi and loved it, and I got great customer service, up until the point I ordered a Pixel 3 through them back in November. I had to contact them so many times to find out why they hadn't shipped yet, and t
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by KZeillmann 7y ago
Some of the AWS UX is okay but the parameter store UX for the web console is some of the worst I've seen. It's difficult to navigate and paginate, and the search function is barely worth using. It would be amazing if they had fuzz
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by KZeillmann 7y ago
Thanks for writing this! I've been interested in computer graphics for a while and too many tutorial dive straight into the details without explaining key concepts. I'm eager to get started reading.
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by KZeillmann 7y ago
I work on a team where our products are all in Fargate containers. I understand the appeal of serverless -- you never need to exec into the container, but half the time when we're debugging an issue in prod that we can't reproduce
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
Yeah I don't get why so many other commenters seem to think a direct listing means the company's all of a sudden about to die or its product is all of a sudden going to turn to crap. If this is the best way to achieve liquidity, t
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
Guess there's a conflation of terms. I think a lot of people enjoy the "automatically play the next episode after this one ends" feature. Recently, however, Netflix has added a "blast sound out of my TV when I hover over
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
I don't see how the local police would have any more access than they would if Comcast were in charge. They'd still have to get a warrant to search anything.
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
To be fair, the proposal would have raised our already high sales taxes, and those pushing for the proposal didn't do a good job convincing us that it would actually solve our traffic issues.
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
This is an absolute no-brainer. Mosquitoes are flying disease vectors that deserve to be eliminated. In the Americas, they're an annoyance, but in many other parts of the world, they cause millions of deaths per year. Many studies have
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
If you look at 24 hour cable news, I'm sure that's what you see. It's entertainment passed on as journalism. There's still good journalism going on if you know where to look. The New York Times, the Washington Post, for
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
Asking out of complete ignorance: What can a mainframe do that other kinds of machines can't? I barely understand what a mainframe is or why you'd use one over other technologies.
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
Underlying study: https://www.bankrate.com/career/most-valuable-college-majors...
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
This might suffice to see if the candidate is able to write decent code, but what about their ability to communicate their ideas with other developers, their approach to tech in general, or how they'd mesh with the team on a technical
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by KZeillmann 8y ago
Regarding the "we don't know how this stuff works" point, doesn't the FDA approve a ton of drugs where we don't know the exact mechanism of how it works? Do we need to know exactly and precisely how something works

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