austinsharp

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by austinsharp 7mo ago
Highly recommend reading Designing Data-Intensive Apps [1] and Monolith to Microservices [2]. I can't remember which (maybe both?) but I definitely took away the idea that if services share a DB, that DB's schema is now a public i
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by austinsharp 3y ago
Yes, OTel has autoinstrumentation libraries for some language that can pick up a fair amount by default. Though it's unlikely that that would ever be sufficient, it's a nice start. For Java: https://opentelemetry.io&#x2
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by austinsharp 3y ago
Seems like the key shared characteristic of these examples are small communities where people care about each other. As you say, it works at smaller scales. But free rider problems are a lot tougher in a community of millions or more.
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by austinsharp 4y ago
Another way it's been said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_the_other_cheek
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by austinsharp 4y ago
I was surprised to see no mention of automation tools like IFTTT and Tasker. These sorts of overarching automation oriented tools let people solve a lot of problems by stitching together things that aren't designed to work together. I
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by austinsharp 4y ago
Not all companies (stocks) have the same sensitivity to inflation. Depends on all sorts of things that are business specific. One example is how easily price increases from suppliers can be passed on to customers. A company that sells a com
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by austinsharp 4y ago
My tip on life insurance: don't buy it from your existing auto/home insurance company. In my recent experience it's far cheaper from a dedicated life insurance company. I also got a discount going through Costco.
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by austinsharp 4y ago
"Executive officer" - used in the military, from what I am aware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_officer
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by austinsharp 5y ago
IntelliJ lets you expand links from patterns, so if in our codebase there's a BUGREPORT-12345 link, it's blue and clickable and goes to jira.
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by austinsharp 7y ago
They rewrote it from a native app to a web app, and it got a lot slower. Limits on the size / number of videos active. Status was not as flexible as we wanted (i.e. reminders when you forget to update, time zone conversion, etc).
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by austinsharp 7y ago
We used to use Sococo and got frustrated and abandoned it a couple years back, actually. If you hit the Slack button it opens a link to that Slack chat. If you are in a room with a group it'll open a group DM to the other people presen
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by austinsharp 7y ago
I'm happy to see more virtual offices being built! My company internally built and then open-sourced Qube[1], which has a lot of similarities, but just integrates with Slack and Zoom. A lot less ambitious, I'd say, but we're
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by austinsharp 7y ago
I'll second The Witness as a great game. Very different, and beautifully designed.
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by austinsharp 9y ago
Telegram has great features. It's fast, available on every platform, and the clients are open source. I've had good uptake on it among friends and family, especially with the option of easy web and desktop clients. As others have
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by austinsharp 9y ago
You might want to look into Google Voice. Free number for texting, calls over data. I receive and send texts and calls from a browser too.
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by austinsharp 9y ago
I've heard you can activate Windows 10 with a key from 7 or 8.1 [1]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/windo...
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by austinsharp 9y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say that Apple and Google have the leadership and financial cushion to be more forward looking than all the PC manufacturers, who are in most competitive markets with lower margins. That doesn't mean it&#x27
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by austinsharp 9y ago
This is my use case too. It makes such a difference.
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by austinsharp 10y ago
Yes!!! Thank you!!!
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by austinsharp 10y ago
I have this exact problem with LastPass. One of my few pain points with it.
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by austinsharp 10y ago
Good habits tend to feel good afterward. Bad habits feel good now. I find that thinking of my future self as a separate person that I can do nice things for helps me feel the long term benefits more.
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by austinsharp 10y ago
Android has had per application permissions similar to iOS since 6.0. It took way too long but it's no longer a problem.
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by austinsharp 10y ago
What about the multi-window support coming in Android Nougat, will that enable more out of the box functionality?
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by austinsharp 10y ago
The indexing itself is great - I use Everything [1] heavily. The client on the other hand? It's baaad. [1] http://www.voidtools.com/
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by austinsharp 10y ago
There have been rumors that Google is planning a new, entirely separate messaging service, with bot integrations etc. http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/22/google-is-reportedly-devel...
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by austinsharp 10y ago
It's not just crashes per mile - it's the severity of the crashes that needs to be considered too. 5 fender benders is a better outcome than 1 horrific wreck that kills someone.
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by austinsharp 10y ago
Came here to say this. It works surprisingly well on phones and tablets, primarily for making single file scripts.
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by austinsharp 10y ago
Entirely remote startup employee here: we routinely have meetings with 15-30 people and we use Sococo[1] for all our audio and video. The office layout is also really nice. Everything else we've tried for video hasn't cut it, in c
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by austinsharp 11y ago
I can't guarantee that I can reproduce it, but I have been able to get a nice Eclipse dark theme that includes the scroll bars (on Windows). I'm starting to use IntelliJ for other reasons though - double-shift is one of my favorit
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by austinsharp 11y ago
The NBA is hugely popular in China, but that probably fits more with your 'culture companies'.

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