kdelok

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by kdelok 5y ago
> The tools of marketers (data mining, consumer behavior analysis, surveys, market testing, etc) aren't just a veneer to be applied at the completion of a development project. I strongly agree with this! If you're working towar
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by kdelok 5y ago
Not sure it helps, but I submitted https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/4206 Feel free to jump in on it
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by kdelok 5y ago
There are lots of startup founders who do feel a bit sleazy, or like they're just faking it until they make it. You don't give that impression at all! As others have said below, I think you should push your product a bit. It might
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by kdelok 6y ago
Strongly agreed! It doesn't just seem unfair, it is unfair. I also think that there's much more celebration of "overcoming" disability or illness, rather than the much more sustainable (and difficult!) practice of changi
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by kdelok 6y ago
Since it's my lunch break, I put together a PR: https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95/pull/4 My CSS-fu is very basic, so it might need further tweaks to make button presses look right.
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by kdelok 6y ago
Even if it does boil down to that, there might still be value in ranking the savings per service you buy in. Except for a core product, it is almost always going to be the case that buying in is cheaper than building it. However, having lim
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by kdelok 6y ago
I feel like it's just missing the fairly fundamental thing that any flow of energy will result in an increase in entropy of the universe as a whole . It doesn't mean that localised systems can't tend towards lower entropy.
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by kdelok 6y ago
It does seem obviously to be a spectrum. I only realised that I have some degree of aphantasia when I read an article on it. I think there's also an element of things being "faint" in your mind's eye. For example, there&
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by kdelok 7y ago
One of ours loves golden syrup - isn't that basically just sugar?
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by kdelok 7y ago
This just sounds like a bad/inappropriate use of a tool. I wouldn't think that a team of people working on unconnected items should have any meetings at all, let alone a daily stand-up. As others have said, when you're workin
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by kdelok 7y ago
I'm not sure there's an inherent value in compromise. I certainly see value in a greater understanding of the alternative perspective, but not in accepting it if you disagree.
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by kdelok 7y ago
That's great to hear to be honest. It sounds like you're one of the self-made grafter types. :) My parents' background is similar - they both put themselves through university as adult learners having a pretty poor time of it
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by kdelok 7y ago
Oh, I certainly don't mean that a good university place guarantees you a top job. My company targets top universities, so it naturally has to reject a bunch of people who just aren't the right fit. However, it is certainly the cas
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by kdelok 7y ago
In the UK at least, the people who've managed to bootstrap themselves to success through hard work and good decision making are the overwhelming minority. The causal chain seems to roughly be: Top jobs tend to belong to those who atten
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by kdelok 7y ago
Even using the carpentry analogy, I suspect the point is to avoid ruining something on which a lot of time was spent. The material cost of most raw materials isn't very high, but ruining something you've already spent hours crafti
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by kdelok 7y ago
Yes, though some other commenters have pointed out caveats (e.g. do they really have a free choice?). IANA moral philosopher, but I think the gender of the baby being a primary consideration in abortion also makes this a more complicated is
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by kdelok 7y ago
I don't think HN can necessarily be to blame. It might just be one of those "you're getting older, so think things were different when you were young" things, but I certainly feel I have a shorter attention span and have
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by kdelok 7y ago
I recall someone saying that holiday periods actually had better reliability for their services, because fewer people were pushing breaking changes... I do wonder if it's that the usual maintainers of particular bits and pieces are on
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by kdelok 7y ago
I'd generally agree with this (bumped up against more gcc, libc and kernel bugs than I'd have liked), but I find that my code has even more bugs than that. :)
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by kdelok 7y ago
N.B. My understanding of this stuff is pretty vague, but here's a quick summary of the arguments I've heard on the matter: I think the grievances might be to do with the amount of money paid into a pension pot versus the size of t
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by kdelok 7y ago
I must confess that the main reason I'm replying is to correct the darkly amusing dead->deaf typo that I'm hoping you made. However, I wonder if you could comment on whether you think a) that you and your colleagues' appro
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by kdelok 7y ago
I switched from computational simulation stuff to software engineering (big company, but not FAANG), since I found that the coding was much more rewarding than running the code. I think academia is a great career, but that it is better suit
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by kdelok 7y ago
It's great that you encourage this attitude in your kids. I had a similar high-achieving story until I experienced some mental health issues during my PhD. I came out the other side realising that what made me happy wasn't a high-
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by kdelok 7y ago
Strongly agree with this. My company has its own coding standards and openly acknowledges that they are not objectively "the right way to do it", because such a thing does not exist. Instead, they define rules to make our code (re
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by kdelok 7y ago
I went to a course on how to negotiate with people delivered by a hostage negotiator for the (British) police that basically agreed with what you say. The key they said was to work out what the person's motivation was and then adapt yo
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by kdelok 8y ago
Soluto - it profiled your Windows boot time and did some other performance monitoring. There are alternatives (e.g. Task Manager's Startup tab), but I feel like they lack some of its killer features: - Option to defer process start
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by kdelok 8y ago
We have exactly this for deploying one of our side projects at work. :D I believe it also flashes logs at you in (red) Morse code. It's not the most effective way to monitor a release.
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by kdelok 8y ago
I suspect it's not. The code is largely written in C and C++ and what I can see of the package on Github makes it look like it's the version of SuiteSparse with CMake as the build system. I realise my comment may have come off a b
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by kdelok 8y ago
I feel like they (and everyone else) should just use SuiteSparse: http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html In the same way that people almost universally use BLAS and LAPACK or the MKL for linear algebra.
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by kdelok 8y ago
Do you find it easier to fall asleep at other times than when you choose to go to bed? It might be that you have delayed sleep phase syndrome, or (less likely) a non-24 hour sleep phase issue. My partner is non-24 and generally manages a &q

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