Periodic

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by Periodic 9y ago
The reason cited seems much more a case of moving call-management into a high-level software system that didn't have the same sort of rigor that telecom systems traditionally have. Maybe it did and someone missed this? It's hard
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by Periodic 9y ago
Where I get the most resistance to functional programming is more in the abstractions: both that they are too complex and that people aren't already familiar with them. High-level/complex/abstract patterns are hard to unders
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by Periodic 9y ago
The thing that prevents me from using VSCode, and I tried, is having to edit code on multiple systems. It's so nice to be able to have the exact same environment on my local system, remote production systems, test servers, VMs with cr
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by Periodic 9y ago
Two examples: You'll find a lot of part-time workers that work 30-35 hours/week, including in IT, because that is the most they can work without being entitled to benefits. The difference in the nature of that work and the benefit
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by Periodic 10y ago
Dogsled racing is a working area that has seen trend away from pure huskies. There are still plenty of huskies in the sport, but mixed teams are very common in the Iditarod now. In 2000 there were only three all-husky teams in the whole r
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by Periodic 10y ago
For apartment dwellers I always recommend getting an older dog. Puppies are cute, but they're honestly a lot of work and generally high-energy. After just one or two years most dogs will settle down and you'll have a very good i
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by Periodic 10y ago
I'm glad you used the phrase "get a pure breed" as opposed to "purchase a pure breed". There are far to many amazing dogs that need a home to spend money buying a dog. If you want a rough story, look at the Bernese
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by Periodic 10y ago
All dogs can still interbreed, so they're still the same species. They're different enough from wolves that they're given a different sub-species, sort of like Homo Sapiens Sapiens and Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis. However
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by Periodic 10y ago
I think there's a more important metric: productivity has concentrated in the coastal cities. Our workforce is more productive than ever before. Much of our economic gains year after year are due to productivity gains: we produce mor
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by Periodic 10y ago
Nine months ago I had an offer to join Fitbit's engineering team. When I first started interviewing I didn't even realize the company had gone public a six months before. I guess I missed the news. Looking at the stock price and
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by Periodic 10y ago
Why is it stealing? Didn't they earn their riches by taking advantage of a system that was put in place by everyone? When someone makes a fortune in a society they are benefiting from the society's trade laws, justice systems, mi
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by Periodic 10y ago
The most awkward experience I've had with an airport as a US Citizen is LHR. It seemed disorganized, lots policies being enforced by people who had no context on how to enforce them. The most invasive experience I've had with an
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by Periodic 10y ago
I'm surprised how much, as consumers, people will put up with in terms of bad audio. I think cell phones really helped lower the bar when the connections were bad but the mobility was unrivaled. I used to hate calling someone's
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by Periodic 10y ago
The only change I would make is to add an additional call-to-action button at the bottom. I got to the bottom and didn't know what to do next and had to scroll back to the top to find the trial/buy buttons.
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by Periodic 10y ago
I got tired of the part-time contract work. It was frustrating to me that I had to spend about half my time on overhead instead of just working. I had to find jobs, negotiate jobs, manage scope, manage expectations, manage clients, time t
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by Periodic 10y ago
If you want to do that, make sure you ask the appropriate people, e.g. HR, about it before you do it. A single manager may not know anything about having remote workers, but HR may be able to assist. I had an awkward experience leaving my
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by Periodic 10y ago
My last company created a policy that when traveling to some countries, specifically China, we were told to only take fresh Chromebooks and set the up at our location. That way we could be reasonably certain there was no spyware (verified
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by Periodic 10y ago
We get special lines that move pretty quickly. It's a relatively boring but painless process if you're a US citizen. I did accidentally bring an apple with me the last time I went through customs, which added an additional 15 mi
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by Periodic 10y ago
If you do that, then you may be judged solely on your passport. That's fine if you come from a stable and prosperous country. Traveling abroad on a German or US Passport? You're probably fine. Try the same thing on a Syrian pa
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by Periodic 10y ago
Why aren't hedge funds compensated based on some sort of alpha, the difference from a benchmark? One of the common memes of investing over the last few decades is that no one can reliably beat the market. It's very easy to use
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by Periodic 10y ago
Caffeine is known to have withdrawal symptoms. Those headaches, for me in the face and forehead, seem to be a common symptom. As I went through my 20s I experimented with abandoning coffee a few times. I had developed the habit in college
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by Periodic 10y ago
I tried to clarify the wording. I'm specifically trying to call out the structure of Google's management and the general way they approach problems. For example, even within the profitable Google portion of the business, they oft
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by Periodic 10y ago
So many companies try to emulate how Google works. There are multiple books, hundreds or thousands of articles. People speculate on the perks, the review structure, the hierarchy, the autonomy. However, when other companies try to imitate
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by Periodic 10y ago
What is cheapest in the short term is often not the best in the long run. Economics assumes that the long-term consequences are priced into all decisions, but those consequences may not be clear and people with limited means have to make so
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by Periodic 10y ago
You're back to the case of having one static page and then having your javascript enhance things as you go. You'll be stuck replacing elements with your JS. I still think it's a great way to think about how we render on thi
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by Periodic 10y ago
I'm an engineer at Asana. Trust me, they're full aware that performance is the #1 problem with Asana right now. The major engineering focus at Asana right now is performance. It has been for a while and they're just startin
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by Periodic 10y ago
Every service loses users, but a strong one gains more than it loses. The net users for Asana is still growing (I work here). What might be more useful to talk about is churn rate, but I don't think that's information that anyone
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by Periodic 10y ago
1) It's both cloud based and has a desktop app. I believe the demo screenshots I saw were all in the browser though. 2) There was a mention that it wasn't available immediately but should start showing up somewhere in the dashboa
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by Periodic 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the interview process for experienced engineers is unrefined. At this point in Google's lifecycle most of the qualified, experienced engineers who would want to work at Google already do. There are orde
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by Periodic 10y ago
When I worked at Google Search Infrastructure (not any ML stuff) I actually built a performant, persistent red-black tree implementation in C++ for creating persistent sorted lists with good insert and delete characteristics. It's was

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