ampersandy

7 ms·

1.
by ampersandy 8mo ago
My take has nothing to do with charity to Cloudflare, but to the author. I can't help remembering that quote from the 50's where an IBM exec said they weren't going to fire an employee who made a costly mistake for the compan
2.
by ampersandy 8mo ago
My charitable read on this is that an individual vibe-coded both the post and repository and was able to publish to the Cloudflare blog without it actually being reviewed or vetted. They also are not an engineer and when the agent hallucina
3.
Meta: Automating Dead Code Cleanup(engineering.fb.com)
2 points by ampersandy 3y ago|0 comments
4.
by ampersandy 3y ago
Have any examples in mind of the “really good tracks?”
5.
by ampersandy 3y ago
It looks like they've copied the template/page from a previous diagram file and forgot to remove one of the lines, probably just an accident.
6.
by ampersandy 3y ago
Because users do not know that there's some hypothetical "better" experience they could have had and do not care, unless your service/tool/whatever is not functioning correctly. Prioritizing your employees' enj
7.
by ampersandy 3y ago
The implied disagreement for why neovim exists to provide functionality that wouldn’t have been merged into vim.
8.
by ampersandy 3y ago
There’s a difference between “I don’t want any photos of my kids in a server anywhere” and “please don’t share pictures of my kids to other people unless we do it privately”, which your wife immediately violated by screenshotting an obvious
9.
Why the CIA destroys $10k watches agents receive as gifts(foxbusiness.com)
2 points by ampersandy 4y ago|1 comments
10.
by ampersandy 4y ago
It’s not prioritization if it doesn’t hurt.
11.
by ampersandy 4y ago
I don't really buy the two main criticisms around code review. They're stated as intractable downsides but are really just cultural issues around how you perform code reviews. If your coworkers are sending changes for review that
12.
by ampersandy 4y ago
What about staying inside with cool/dry air causes these infections? Genuinely curious.
13.
by ampersandy 4y ago
> it was assuredly brought high up into the DoJ and approved. The warrant was approved, but the issue at hand is that these safety deposit boxes were raided when "the warrant authorizing the raid explicitly forbade the FBI from seiz
14.
by ampersandy 4y ago
I love learning more about the ampersand, for obvious reasons. I've used this unixname for a long time and it's always immensely satisfying when people realize it's just my real name.
15.
by ampersandy 4y ago
I would have used it! :)
16.
by ampersandy 4y ago
I really dislike this meme of pointing out that Google has deprecated a lot of projects. Do people actually expect Google to staff people & resources running every project they've released forever? A more interesting comparison wou
17.
by ampersandy 5y ago
You can totally implement A/B tests on top of a feature-flag framework. Your “pass” function should be hashed on the User ID/Cookie/whatever and then you can distribute users into pass/fail. You should do this anyway for
18.
by ampersandy 5y ago
Er, I don't really think dine-and-dashing is quite the same as being treated to your meal because you are on a date.
19.
by ampersandy 5y ago
Do you have any resources on how you learned to create such loaders? I hacked together a custom loading animation for some tools I've built just using images & css transforms, but would love to learn to make things even slicker.
20.
by ampersandy 5y ago
You may like Tomorrow, which has several sub-themes and is available for dozens of apps. I use Tomorrow Night Bright for everything. https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme
21.
by ampersandy 5y ago
Requiring users to know what sites they want in advance somewhat defeats the purpose of a search engine, no?
22.
by ampersandy 5y ago
https://hhvm.com/
23.
by ampersandy 5y ago
> I'm not entirely sure why buzz around "developer learns basic knowledge" has this on the front page. Because it's a well written, humble account of learning from a mistake then using it as an opportunity to teach ot
24.
by ampersandy 5y ago
Assuming 2 day shipping, you probably lose ~2 real hours of time, but have no working cable for at least 4 days. - a few minutes to order the cable - 2 days for the cable to arrive - ~2 hours to realize it does not work, complain, initiativ
25.
by ampersandy 5y ago
> The value of the cumulative labour of Mailchimp's engineers is $12 billion which vastly exceeds the amount it was sold for. Yes, that's how employment works. Companies do not pay you exactly the same $$ you generate, that&#x2
26.
by ampersandy 5y ago
They wouldn't — and Mailchimp employees didn't. The market value of your labour is what you can get a company to pay you. The hypothetical market value of employees in a world where Mailchimp did offer equity and employees stuck i
27.
by ampersandy 5y ago
What sort of qualifications/awards/etc. are most compelling for O1 visas as a tech worker that would demonstrate you are at the "very top of your field"? What examples of work do you commonly see for people making these
28.
by ampersandy 5y ago
This fear of failure by others is why so many people have a hard time delegating. Sometimes things will fail, and that’s ok (with a few exceptions, of course).
29.
by ampersandy 5y ago
Surely the hot take should be that the kernel is at risk of a malicious actor introducing bugs that can be exploited, not "Oh, we already write bugs so it's not a big deal." This seems like a rather lackadaisical take on the
30.
by ampersandy 5y ago
What a fascinating watch! That they were able to produce such clean cuts through the entire ship with the cutting wire is absolutely incredible.

More ›