ShaunK

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by ShaunK 3y ago
Yeah between this and Toyota's similar talk about amazing tech just around the corner ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833836 ) it feels like this could be a concerted effort by Japanese car manufacturers to crea
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by ShaunK 3y ago
Apple already does the same thing. Apple Search Ads is not limited to the same restrictions that Facebook and Google are with regards to iOS tracking and reporting for advertising attribution.
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by ShaunK 3y ago
My understanding is that pre-agricultural hunter/gatherers worked a lot less than post-agricultural workers.
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by ShaunK 3y ago
My understanding is that it's essentially Looker minus the dashboarding. What you would define via LookML is essentially the "semantic layer" that this is addressing. DBT is attempting to do similar work: https://w
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by ShaunK 4y ago
The Shopify layoff memo ( https://news.shopify.com/changes-to-shopifys-team ) has a pretty interesting graph of exactly this effect. Basically a huge leap in e-commerce adoption with a subsequent dip right back to where the p
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by ShaunK 4y ago
Can you elaborate on some of the points the random redditor made that you think aren't valid?
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by ShaunK 8y ago
Used it for several years, beat the pants off Redshift and was comparable to BigQuery for our use cases. They have a ways to go on the maturity/reliability front though.
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by ShaunK 8y ago
I too am in Victoria. I used to be a hiring manager and had people turn down 6 figure (CAD) offers due to receiving a better one. Although there is admittedly a huge gap between the local companies, and the satellite offices of American com
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by ShaunK 9y ago
When we've looked at BigQuery it seemed that if you prepay you essentially get a similar effect to what you're describing. You're given a certain number of "units" of compute, and if you exceeded your concurrent uni
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by ShaunK 11y ago
I have the same printer and I too have had no issues in 5+ years of use.
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Why Canada should roll out the red carpet for skilled foreign workers(theglobeandmail.com)
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by ShaunK 12y ago
Rather than conditionally execute code (to avoid performing an unnecessary expensive operation) always execute the code, then discard the result if it is unneeded. The idea being that the performance gained by avoiding the unnecessary opera
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by ShaunK 12y ago
I've often wished Dropbox's selective sync was managed by folder rather than by client. It would be more helpful to me to mark folders to not automatically sync account wide than to have to choose and re-choose those folders every
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by ShaunK 13y ago
I read the linked webpage, and I have had none of the issues he seems to think occur with git pull --rebase. I believe he uses git differently than I, and many other people, do. Whenever I'm about to begin work I create a new branch. I
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by ShaunK 13y ago
You are correct that the problem is the manager and not Kanban, but in my experience it has been the case that the problem is always the management at some level. The point of this article is that if you think adopting Kanban is going to so
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by ShaunK 13y ago
I'm fairly certain they do, from experiences in the past where otherwise completely private (but unprotected) URLs have ended up indexed.
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by ShaunK 13y ago
The difference between cable and having 5 Netflix competitors is that you don't have one company with a local monopoly setting your pricing.
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by ShaunK 14y ago
I just purchased an Asus UX51VZ with 2x128gb SSDs and a 15" 1080p display that weighs less than a Macbook Pro Retina, for $400 less than the Macbook would've cost. The Retina has a couple of big wins over the UX51VZ (battery life and higher
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by ShaunK 14y ago
I think it is usually easy to determine by context when someone is referring to a language and when someone is referring to the typical implementation, libraries, etc that come along with a language. In the context of performance benchmarki
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by ShaunK 14y ago
Yes I agree. I've never felt that I shipped a product late because it took me too long to type. A good editor and a nice setup certainly help me feel better, but I think it's very easy to get carried away.
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by ShaunK 14y ago
I agree with this. There are certainly situations where more than 40 hours of week are a necessity, but those situations should typically be temporary for the majority of employees. If you are in an organization where meeting your goals req
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by ShaunK 15y ago
He didn't know how many people would pay $5, I imagine it was just an arbitrary number he felt was reasonable. Only 25% went to charity, so really it was a pretty good guess. Maybe next time he'll charge $3.75.
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by ShaunK 15y ago
Yes, but the main argument for the hardware back button being "broken" was that it was inconsistent. This article shows that the only thing it is inconsistent with is the iOS model of multitasking.
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by ShaunK 15y ago
Has the author of this article never used Spaces on OS X? The very first point seems to indicate they have not.
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by ShaunK 15y ago
If you are using Chrome this extension does the same thing without signing up for anything: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipkfnchcgalnafehpg... I have been using it for weeks. It does an excellent job and costs nothing.
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by ShaunK 16y ago
Yes probably. And in reality if you look at laptops > $1k it's not even close, Apple has 90% of that market. What that says to me though is that most people care more about cost than aesthetics. The point being that aesthetics isn't rea
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by ShaunK 16y ago
Well then HP, Dell and Acer make the most beautiful laptops in the world.