chairleader

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by chairleader 5d ago
That's an interesting observation. I can see both sides of that coin.
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by chairleader 5d ago
I think this notion of friction vs frictionless is one of the key features of this time in history. To my eye, the whole line from personal technology in the 80s -> through UX on the internet -> through app platform lock-in -> thro
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by chairleader 2y ago
fantastic, thanks!
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by chairleader 2y ago
Out of curiosity, are there Linux tools to go from binary files to audio and back again? i.e `cat archive.zip | faxify -wav > archive.zip.wav`
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by chairleader 3y ago
Thanks for the reply, I'm also a big fan of documentation living inside the repo. I appreciate the framework you describe for the readme as well. Similar to _kb's sibling comment, that sounds like a sane approach to meeting the n
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by chairleader 3y ago
Thanks for this link, I agree, that is a fantastic framework for documenting software. The idea that a reader of a piece of documentation is approaching it with a particular goal is spot on. I suppose I envision either more or perhaps anoth
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by chairleader 3y ago
The symptoms we experience are: - not capturing key information, often because the challenge of finding a place makes a project out of a task which then gets dropped, - capturing the information in an island somewhere making it unfindable l
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Ask HN: How do you document engineering efforts?
4 points by chairleader 3y ago|8 comments
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by chairleader 6y ago
Interesting. I would say that John didn't build a solution that met all of the use cases that the business needed. * To ensure accuracy of transactions, he should have built reporting to meet the needs of accountants. * To support chan
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by chairleader 6y ago
Thank you for the tips!
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Ask HN: Modern C/C++ tech stack?
3 points by chairleader 6y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Dealing with Errors of Omission?
1 points by chairleader 7y ago|1 comments
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by chairleader 7y ago
I appreciate this: > In general, reviewers should favor approving a CL once it is in a state where it definitely improves the overall code health of the system being worked on, even if the CL isn’t perfect. Reviewers are human too, and c
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by chairleader 7y ago
What tends to be the first indication of breaches? It's one thing to do a forensic analysis after learning of a breach, and it's another to detect it in the first place.
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by chairleader 7y ago
I'm working in a vanilla PHP codebase right now, and I see all sides - the fractal design fails and the surprising improvements to the language. I've just read up on the architecture of Laravel, and given the public opinion of it,
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by chairleader 7y ago
til! Most of my experience with large, single-repository projects are just plain monoliths. The design goal we strive for tends to be the microservice architecture, assuming that isolation of responsibility leads to more maintainability, be
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by chairleader 7y ago
Quite a premise: "Giant monolithic source-code repositories are one of the fundamental pillars of the back end infrastructure in large and fast-paced software companies."
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by chairleader 7y ago
Interesting. Are you going with an established project management framework or introducing practices gradually? I agree with you about the value of training... adopting these practices should come with a change of mindset since good judgeme
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by chairleader 7y ago
Worth noting that I find the flow state far easier to enter at different times in the day. Between around 2:30 to 4:30, I find it very easy to immerse in a task, to the point where even if I _should_ switch to a higher priority task, I will
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Ask HN: Engineering companies that are good at project management?
18 points by chairleader 7y ago|4 comments
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by chairleader 8y ago
Nice reference! Does anyone have similar references for doing 0-downtime migrations? For example, building your indexes with CONCURRENTLY to prevent table locking.
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by chairleader 9y ago
Some great tips and tactics here. I think it's worth describing the end-state you might be shooting for which those tactics can help with. From what I'm reading, I think you're looking for the ability to deeply immerse in pro
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by chairleader 9y ago
Fantastic! Thanks!
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by chairleader 9y ago
Good point. Dimensional analysis is a great "space" to traverse to get answers. It's a great grounding for your thinking, in addition to helping you get to within the right order of magnitude. I suppose I was wondering if the
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by chairleader 9y ago
Any resources for learning the Fermi estimation techniques listed there? Seems like a collection of complementary skills, each of which could be improved: memorizing useful facts, selecting facts that lead to a meaningful estimate, the ment
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by chairleader 10y ago
You could also try the Getting Things Done approach to todo lists, particularly project-specific lists and only writing items that are the next actionable items. With both Pomodoro and GTD, ideally you'd learn to switch more quickly be
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by chairleader 10y ago
Boston has blue laws around the sale of alcohol. See also: no alcohol sales before noon on Sunday, no discounted liquor at restaurants, and every bar/pub that sells liquor must also sell food.
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by chairleader 10y ago
Nicely done talk. Great presentation, fun enough to keep listeners engaged through a lot of horrifying details. I also agree that we, the people, have a (final?) say in how this all goes down. Let's run with the conclusion a bit - What
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by chairleader 10y ago
Agreed. I filed this story away as a way to explain math-centric learning to the more literary minded.
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by chairleader 10y ago
I'll throw out Marshall Rosenberg's "Nonviolent Communication." Call it one framework for listening centered around resolving conflict between individuals and groups. It provides examples of the kind of active listening

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