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by obeattie 1mo ago
I think they may mean Twitter's 'Fail Whale' era – late 2000s/early 2010s, when it regularly fell over under load.
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by obeattie 1y ago
He speaks Finnish too (though I believe with an accent). https://youtu.be/Pt-X82HZlOU
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by obeattie 2y ago
It’s helpful to put this issue into perspective. But dismissing issues as not worth caring about on the grounds that there exist larger problems is fallacious and, to me, quite a dangerous way to live life. “Why worry about your town’s wate
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by obeattie 2y ago
In principal, neither do I. What I take issue with is crafting elaborate but completely false bios to make these sound like real artists. That seems slimy to me.
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by obeattie 3y ago
At Monzo we stuffed cards into envelopes by hand, printed mailing labels on thermal printers using slapped-together Python scripts, and filled up mailboxes in the local area every night. We kept doing it pretty much like this until we were
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by obeattie 4y ago
You are right about performance, but does it really matter? It feels like this is the sort of tool one needs (very) infrequently, and those cases don’t seem like the sort of thing where seconds really matter. I think it’s plenty good enough
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by obeattie 5y ago
Without understanding the minutiae of this, couldn’t someone just write a program that we can pipe any output to, which strips colour commands from its input before writing it back out? Does such a program already exist? That wouldn’t requi
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by obeattie 5y ago
TIL. Such a useful tip, thanks.
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by obeattie 5y ago
We have very different expectations. I'd be pretty annoyed if I couldn't browse and sort my photos by date taken.
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by obeattie 6y ago
I think Notion might actually work best in personal/small environments, and this seems like a smart move to encourage more of that kind of use. My exposure to it is at a large company, where it really does not work well.
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by obeattie 6y ago
You just typed your comment into a <form>
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by obeattie 6y ago
I’ve been thinking about going the other way a bit recently: having bots consume input from and add their output to a Google Doc. There are so many processes in most businesses which involve many humans collaborating on templatised documen
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by obeattie 6y ago
That post, which was very popular, immediately came to my mind too. It also feels like the logical next step to the very widespread testing found in countries like South Korea.
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by obeattie 7y ago
I think the parent is talking about compilation speed not runtime speed.
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by obeattie 7y ago
I don't think an equivalent of the Current Account Switch Service exists in the US, which is a shame. But I don't think this is crucial. We had around 5,500 switches via the Current Account Switch Service in May, but added around
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by obeattie 7y ago
Many millions of dollars per year. I care about how my providers behave when they have issues, and I can't see why you think it's not at all relevant.
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by obeattie 7y ago
I mean, I care. All else being equal I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want good communication to your customers.
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by obeattie 7y ago
I really don’t get this. There’s a huge number of complaints about poor communication from companies like Google and AWS during every outage. Yet they remain seemingly indifferent to how much customer trust they are losing, and the competit
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by obeattie 7y ago
The question of whether the driver should have had their hands on the wheel (clearly they should have) is distinct from the question of whether the Autopilot should have avoided this crash.
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by obeattie 7y ago
The amount of fraud in the system is eye-watering. Everyone pays the price of that whether they realise it or not.
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by obeattie 7y ago
Yes, though your bank has to also support it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
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by obeattie 7y ago
CVCs cannot be used for recurring payments (beyond setting the subscription up) and merchants/acquirers are forbidden from storing them at all.
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by obeattie 7y ago
It’s definitely a thing in Europe, but many merchants don’t bother to support it. Large ones like Amazon definitely do though, as do all merchants who use Stripe.
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by obeattie 7y ago
This isn't new and has existed for nearly 20 years. Visa's implementation is called VAU (Visa Account Updater[1]) and Mastercard's is ABU (Automatic Billing Updater[2]). Issuers (banks) have to provide the details of these ne
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by obeattie 7y ago
My understanding was that in At-will states, an employer-employee relationship could be terminated without reason or notice unless there is a contract in place that says otherwise. My (naïve) presumption was that companies would want to
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by obeattie 7y ago
I knew that – for better or worse – this is common for many employees in the US, but had always assumed that companies would want more security with their senior leadership. Thanks; TIL.
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by obeattie 7y ago
"We currently depend on the continued services and performance of our key personnel, including Benjamin Silbermann and others. Mr. Silbermann’s employment, and the employment of our other key personnel, is at will, which means they may
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Google Docs API now publicly available(developers.google.com)
4 points by obeattie 8y ago|0 comments
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by obeattie 8y ago
>if someone doesn't know what a cartesian product is (high school level math), perhaps they shouldn't be allowed near a database... This is such an intellectually snobbish position to take. I can tell you that I didn’t know thi
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by obeattie 8y ago
I did read the article and I don't find what the author thinks is a "nice illustration of a cartesian product" easy to grok at all. Similarly, I think I would have found the the diagrams further down hard to understand versus

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