alecbenzer

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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Been at 2 series A/B startups for the past ~3.5 years. It was a really fun 3-6 months followed by 3 very not fun years. My N is low, they were both non-Bay (NYC) startups, maybe some startups are fun, maybe I'm really bad at picki
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
AFAIK the 90 day thing was more of a legal thing than something the companies themselves wanted to enforce?
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
What makes you say this is 80:20? The thing that got him out of the funk was fixing a minor UI issue: > Once he asked me "Father, what is this thing in the list of things I can order?" ... "This is atomic bomb" .. &q
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Kovarex's (creator of Factorio) struggle with burnout(factorio.com)
4 points by alecbenzer 6y ago|2 comments
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
> Not only does that seem relatively simple I haven't thought about this too deeply, but I think "simple" is overstating it. Being able to turn on versioning for any table by basically just pushing a button seems really po
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Had no idea until recently that MariaDB supported this out of the box. Does anyone have experience using this? How does it compare to https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal ?
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MariaDB Temporal Data Tables(mariadb.com)
124 points by alecbenzer 6y ago|43 comments
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Can't tell if serious...
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
but BeSt PrAcTiCeS
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
I meant expand on how those things make code easier to understand, not why unit testing causes you to adopt them.
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Yes but discovering those hypothetical defects is usually less important than discovering the actual, currently present defects.
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Compared to integration testing and end-to-end testing.
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
> Loosely coupled code is also easier to reason about and easier to refactor. Can you expand more on this? I think this is where the author would disagree. E.g., how is the code easier to reason about or refactor having introduced a loca
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My Time as a Black Woman Software Engineer at Capital One(medium.com)
8 points by alecbenzer 6y ago|3 comments
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Yeah, I think that's what's missing for me too. Like, what do they expect LeCun to be doing instead? I guess it's possible to suggest that, given the lack of diversity in training sets, different training techniques should be
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
A theory I've heard is that any kind of diet is useful for losing weight, because it forces you to think more carefully about what you're eating. But ditto, I've lost 50lbs twice in my life and both times were basically jus
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Switching between pages is pretty hit or miss for me in Notion. If it's a page I've been to recently it's very fast, but it's noticeably slow on some page loads. hey seems consistently pretty-fast. Moving around elements
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Not measuring but just going off of my memory, hey feels subtly but distinctly snappier than discord.
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Yeah, maybe it's different the further you are from the US or something, but from my use of hey, I have no idea what these people are talking about. It feels about as snappy as most other apps I use. If anything it feels snappier than
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
The implication being that the NYT wants to use real names to drive clicks and appease advertisers?
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
IME it does deliver. Not necessarily directly (like, you're not going to come up with an action plan white meditating), but, over time, it helps cultivate a state of mind where those things are easier to do. I think it does take time,
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Maybe, but the article is kinda just saying that -- I don't see the quoted sentences from the instructors as evidence that they just want to suppress anger or think that anger is always irrational.
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
>In many programmes, students learn that emotions such as anger, anxiety and fear stem from reactions in a brain region called the amygdala. They are taught that mindfulness helps them identify and manage these emotions by activating th
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
> I've seen it suggested in other articles here before that mindfulness programs for employees are often a way for employers to try and get their staff to be more accepting of crappy conditions, or unpleasant, meaningless or unethic
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
I think the metaphor starts to break down a bit here because variety is usually specifically desirable when it comes to food, but not really when it comes to email or any app's workflow.
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
It sounds like it's invite-only just until July.
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
I don't see how that meaningfully changes the metaphor? Imagine, idk, someone who likes to very carefully design their apartment vs. someone who hires an interior designer to do it for them. People that love to tinker with their cars v
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
Focusing on hey for a sec: I understand that some people might prefer a system where they can take various components and combine them how they like best, in the same way some people like to cook their own meals. But what's weird is th
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
I think there's a subset of tech folks that don't really value UX (which is like 90% of hey's value-add). It's the same people that don't understand Slack's value because "it's just over-hyped IRC&quo
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by alecbenzer 6y ago
I didn't mind most of the marketing, but FWIW I saw Jason Fried talk the first time in the hey walkthrough and I did find something insufferably smug about the way he spoke. But I still think it's a cool product and luckily I won&

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