existencebox

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by existencebox 2mo ago
I expect there's a probabilistic factor to it, among other things. I use the almost the same addendum as you ("do not make, commit, or push any changes without my approval") and it broadly seems to work in my day-to-day dev.
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by existencebox 5mo ago
I've reread it and I stand by my statements that it's an isomorphism, simply replace "container" with "machine AAD/auth-system boundaries" in your example. The "Your credentials stay out of the sandbo
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by existencebox 5mo ago
I'd argue you are still using a sandbox, just at a higher ring (outside the machine/VM) and relaying on app/resource level permissions on each of your external resources to enforce it, which requires _all_ of those external s
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by existencebox 5mo ago
While I typically avoid touching non-technical topics, I have the opportunity to chime in as another PA highschooler from the 90's, we absolutely were taught that, down to details in AP courses such as the impact of individuals like Jo
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by existencebox 6mo ago
As a manager, I've tried for years to balance both sides of this coin. However, what I find in practice is that your success depends almost entirely on the trust your leadership has in you. Strong support? Doesn't really matter
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by existencebox 7mo ago
I'm similarly bemused by those who don't understand where the anti-AI sentiment could come from, and "they must be doing it wrong" should usually be a bit of a "code smell". (Not to mention that I don't b
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by existencebox 1y ago
I've appreciated reading your posts broadly/for years prior to this as well, so definitely same statement back your way. If you're ever in the PNW, beers/coffee is on me.
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by existencebox 1y ago
While tone on the internet admittedly makes it hard to tell if your comment was tongue-in-cheek, I'm going to take this in good faith and express my appreciation that you even read through that entire ramble above :)
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by existencebox 1y ago
While "try it and see what happens" may work for low-risk efforts, the costs and chaos associated with this in a system as complex as global employment seems eminently short-sighted. We've already seen how "Try it and s
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by existencebox 1y ago
I respectfully think you overestimate the impact this will have. Like with the H1-B cap discussions there were murmurs about some time back (Not actually reducing the cap, but instead priority-weighting it by salary instead of difficulty to
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by existencebox 1y ago
Chiming in with a slightly different perspective: I often bookmark things I see in passing that might not be useful now but may in the future based on things I know I want to do. Case studies in certain engineering/programming tasks, s
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by existencebox 1y ago
While I normally keep the political threads at arms length, this is an interesting enough game/voting-theory question that I'm honestly surprised no one has linked the fact that this is a well-studied effect, to the point that it
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by existencebox 1y ago
I take a very mechanical view on this, but take this with a grain of salt as my success has been "banal" at best. You have people paying you for your product. This is more fit than most people achieve. Some good advice I heard i
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by existencebox 1y ago
This is a bit orthogonal to the broader conversation, but you've hooked me with your predicament: Can you allow for preorders or "Expressed interest" at a new price point? (or at a hand-wavy price point to assess interest re:
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by existencebox 2y ago
I'm going to disagree with this as a long-term ARPG fan and a long-since-washed-up game dev. Up through the last few years, I was playing Path of Exile rather regularly. The grind in that game puts what we used to do in D2 to shame, t
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by existencebox 3y ago
As another hybrid "TLM->EM" with a similarly sized team, over a similarly sized product, I definitely feel many of the same pain points you call out. BUT. And I say this with all respect, since I broadly find a lot of value in
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by existencebox 3y ago
I will admit your response gave me a little whiplash :P When I started reading I was getting very ready to disagree vehemently ("remote work is overhyped and only works for a tiny sliver of the workforce") But your last paragraph
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by existencebox 3y ago
(Obvious disclaimer all views are my own and not my employer's) First, let me say that I don't disagree, pragmatically, with the truth of what you're saying, in terms of increasing your odds on the whole as a candidate. But t
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by existencebox 3y ago
Documenting everything ruthlessly (meeting summaries, action items, personal knowledge, TODOs, passing thoughts ala things I want to discuss with peers, etc) in a centralized and easily searchable/cross-linkable/organizable fashio
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by existencebox 3y ago
While I can't speak for every manager, I can speak for myself managing a hybrid team going on 5 years now (obvious disclaimer, not necessarily the views of my company etc) > Imagine being an IC software developer and being stuck on
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by existencebox 4y ago
Question for ya if you don't mind: I had to do some PDF scraping a while back as part of a side project collecting alternative social/economic datasources. Even within a single site, there were often errors at the fringes, especi
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by existencebox 4y ago
There's definitely a line to walk there re: consumer education, but I'll give the analogy that if you walk into a bank to obtain a loan, you'll hand over _far_ more sensitive information than is in a HAR file. Typically this
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by existencebox 4y ago
Some perspective, since I've been on the other side of exactly this issue, but for another bigco: While there may well be a backend issue, in many cases, the HAR file contains tons of useful details (in my product's case) for thin
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by existencebox 4y ago
I can confirm this on pure (native) FF as well. As someone who has run multiple large web properties this hurts to see. I've observed firsthand the impact of what adding friction to certain browser segments does to utilization, if la
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by existencebox 4y ago
So, I normally stick very hard to tech topics on HN, but this (dance and tall folks) is so close to heart I have to chime in: Have faith! Don't feel bad, lankiness while dancing is just "the emergent property" of what happen
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by existencebox 4y ago
My somewhat cynical hypothesis regarding "Why does everyone insist on putting customers into price brackets based on such a useless metric" (And I do not mean this as a dig at Gitlab, to be clear, just an examination of the strate
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by existencebox 5y ago
(I want to preface this comment by saying I don't mean in any way to rebut the thrust of the article, I worried this could be taken that way, rather it's a commentary on the inconsistency of feed implementations that I don't
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by existencebox 5y ago
Hah, I must admit the shadow of that question crossed my mind while I was writing my post; for better or for worse I do not work for teams :) I'm currently on the power-query side of the world, and have largely worked in the data&#x2F
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by existencebox 5y ago
I can't speak for Google, but as a Microsoft eng/manager, I _CERTAINLY_ keep an eye out for discussions on my product not only here but on other social channels, and will, if actionable/relevant, try to get it in front of the
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by existencebox 5y ago
I used to consider the dislike count. I am still inconvenienced by its absence. To give one example: In the major categories of videos I watch (tutorials, niche historical topics, video games, music) it was very common for at least some ty

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