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by dfcowell 6mo ago
This is solved by the agent having its own identity and credentials. Why would you share your login and identity with your AI agent? Access control and permissions should be handled on the backend by enforcing IAM on well-defined principals
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by dfcowell 3y ago
I’ve solved this by keeping my laptop keyboard uncustomized, while using Colemak-dh and home row mods on my desktop split keyboard. I’m proficient enough that I can work on anyone else’s machine well, and I have the comfort and speed benefi
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by dfcowell 3y ago
If your scale is large enough and you don’t care about identifying individuals, synthetic data does this fairly effectively.
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by dfcowell 3y ago
Vietnamese also has it.
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by dfcowell 3y ago
The spec requires negotiation between the devices to deliver any nontrivial amount of power. A data connection is necessary to enable charging.
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by dfcowell 3y ago
Author here. I agonized over the dates in the post when I was writing it. It’s correct to the best of my knowledge, but details fade with time. I’m glad you had an easier time than we did!
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by dfcowell 3y ago
Author here. At the time, Angular relied a lot on the AOT compiler and tree shaking to keep bundle sizes down. No idea if this is still the case. If we built the app with the stable branch the bundle size was orders of magnitude smaller:
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by dfcowell 3y ago
Author here. That’s the takeaway I was going for. It could have been any technology. The silver bullet is choosing the right tool for the job. I don’t have an attachment to any particular tech. At the time React was what I knew, and I was c
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by dfcowell 3y ago
Author here. It’s actually my Dad!
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by dfcowell 3y ago
Author here. It was a gamble, but I was fighting against a very strong sunk cost fallacy in leadership at the company at the time, and there was a general lack of trust in the entire technical team. I *would not* recommend this approach as
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by dfcowell 3y ago
Author here. This was a key element of our success. The team knew exactly what they had to build, because they had already built it once. We wouldn’t have been able to hit such an aggressive deadline under different circumstances.
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by dfcowell 3y ago
This was 13 years ago in a small business with no significant investment. No “cheap money” was involved, just the realities of a small business with chronic NIH syndrome.
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by dfcowell 3y ago
Ha, no, that was a far more mundane issue. The CMS I'm using requires double opt-in to subscribe, meaning you need to enter your email address and click the confirmation link. It also apparently requires double email configuration, m
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The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet(dancowell.com)
175 points by dfcowell 3y ago|125 comments
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by dfcowell 3y ago
1Gbit symmetrical. That’s the standard residential connection in my part of Japan. In theory I could get up to double that with a different ISP, but my router doesn’t handle those kind of speeds.
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by dfcowell 3y ago
I’m reminded of PGP signing parties where people built a web of trust via key signing. There may be a resurgence of this kind of thing as people use social heuristics to decide if any given creator is likely to be producing generative conte
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by dfcowell 3y ago
Ghost is ridiculously good out of the box. Part of that comes from the opinionated stack it demands - support for only one database server, very specific and minimal config options. I self-host Ghost and Plausible Analytics (along with seve
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by dfcowell 3y ago
This is a really good addition, and something I wish I’d thought to cover. I’ve added a link back to this HN thread to the post so that people who find it from other sources can benefit from your perspective!
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by dfcowell 3y ago
This is a really great point, and it’s awesome when a team strikes the right balance. In my experience these engineers tend to be rarer than the group I talk about in this post, but when you find them they’re worth their weight in gold!
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Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)
369 points by dfcowell 3y ago|220 comments
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by dfcowell 3y ago
That’s a false dichotomy. You can absolutely have two ISPs, one of whom is CF.
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by dfcowell 3y ago
I’m not the author, but I’ve gone down the same path as them (Plex + ripped CDs.) My breaking point was when - as a premium subscriber already - Spotify insisted on promoting their family plan, Taylor Swift’s new album and whatever the flav
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by dfcowell 4y ago
I’m basing my feedback on Will Larson’s Staff Engineer archetypes ( https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes ) so read that first if you’re unfamiliar. It sounds like you’re in a company that only has Tech Lead and R
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by dfcowell 4y ago
Jones has a rabid following who engaged in a campaign of stalking and harassment - including death threats and harassment by mail to their homes - against the plaintiffs. It went quite a bit beyond one guy saying some mean things. I think y
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by dfcowell 4y ago
This is the difference between correctness and fitness for purpose.
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by dfcowell 4y ago
I think a lot of this sentiment comes from the fact that people buy into and hype up an ecosystem that is very up-front about how much responsibility lies with the individual (all of it!) and those same people get upset when they get taken
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by dfcowell 4y ago
Pretty much, however I can vouch for the quality of the poster’s other newsletters. He’s also very good about sending only what he says he’s going to send, when he says he’ll send it and deleting the list afterwards. Of course, you need to
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by dfcowell 4y ago
This is a fantastic question that doesn’t get asked enough by new managers. Great to see you’re actively trying to build the management skill set! Manager Tools is great for the “nuts and bolts” of management, regardless of industry. They h
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by dfcowell 4y ago
I’m sure it’s a better shifting experience, but I’d never tour with a Di2 shifter. I was doing a group cycling tour with 3 friends, one of whom had a Di2 GRX shifter. He pinched the Di2 cable in the rear axle when reassembling his bike and
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by dfcowell 4y ago
The post as presented above appears to be a straight-faced, unintentional parody of itself.

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