malort

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   by malort 2y ago

   Including, unfortunately, this usage of "literally."
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   by malort 4y ago

   > the author’s complaint that he doesn’t get to spend 100% of his workday coding/testing/documenting The author's complaint was that he only gets to spend 12-25% of his time on these tasks on a good day.
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   by malort 4y ago

   Wishing he had chosen a path in life like most of his drone buddies who settled down, mated with a queen, had their genitals explode, and then died immediately after?
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   by malort 4y ago

   You can see a classic example here (around 2:20): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5vnpOp0U_g
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   by malort 5y ago

   Can you elaborate on "contracting through recruiters"? Did you respond to recruiters who were reaching out to you with full-time positions and say "no thanks, but what about a contract instead?" If so, do you have any pa
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   by malort 5y ago

   The first versions of Anki (ca 2006) were based on spaced repetition algorithms developed for a piece of software called SuperMemo, which came out 21 years earlier in 1985 [0]. Piotr Wozniak, the author of SuperMemo, writes a lot about spac
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   by malort 5y ago

   This is exactly what Shopify does with their monolithic Rails app [1]. I worked at a company with ~200 engineers that used the same general architecture and I really enjoyed it. We got a lot of the benefits (clear interfaces, teams able to