patmcguire

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by patmcguire 3y ago
Readability is hit and miss. Very nice to have everything written to the same standard, it makes it much easier to navigate through any project. Downside is it's pretty rough for more peripheral teams or teams working in a language tha
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by patmcguire 5y ago
Yeah, it's good for these kinds of discussions when it's a universal requirement, or when the white paper concerns will actually be addressed before confirming a design. I do get suspicious when it comes up for the first time whe
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Windows Explorer Through the Years(gekk.info)
3 points by patmcguire 6y ago|2 comments
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by patmcguire 7y ago
There's a site for this http://www.nohello.com/
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by patmcguire 7y ago
It's think it's pretty common when billing for time when the base rate is high. Lots of big law firms bill in six minute increments.
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by patmcguire 7y ago
I'm trying to find the original source for this, but there's a quote I've seen about how finding a cycle in a linked list used to regarded as a FizzBuzz like test. It came of age when most people worked in C - if you worked i
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by patmcguire 7y ago
Ah yeah that's definitely going to be different HTML on Lynx, then, since I bet they don't support that and Google's not missing out on tracking. Yup - curling with Lynx user agent gets a targets of href="/url?q=&lt
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by patmcguire 7y ago
Did they also remove link wrapping with this? The HREF goes straight to the destination for me now on Chrome, where previously it went to some Google domain redirect. It's there on the first HTML load too, it's not a JS thing afte
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by patmcguire 7y ago
There's something related called the bullwhip effect. I think that throwing away requests under load rather than putting them in some overflow queue prevents it. The effects aren't magnified down the chain of services as each sc
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by patmcguire 7y ago
Are there any alternatives? It often gets very weird at the high end of drug prices, but usually in a way that inverts normal economic logic - this story from a few years ago blew my mind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by patmcguire 7y ago
This is a very thorough explanation of why it matters https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/
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by patmcguire 7y ago
Odd coincidence, seems like it might have been some upstream banks having a bad SCA rollout
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by patmcguire 7y ago
That really might have been the tech, codebases can get pretty weird after a while.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
This is one of those situations where it's not what you know, it's who you know. The only thing that matters is if you know someone who can bypass their support and flip a boolean.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Or you have a system with incredible amounts of fraud that still manages to function, like CPC ads
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Yeah, I think it's most likely that. Seems very plausible Nest wanted to have some voice features but they got cut before launch. The mic's still there because changing hardware is hard, it's not announced because it doesn&#x
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by patmcguire 8y ago
The hard part is how to make it work politically. I don't know if any place has really done it in an environment that was mostly built out already. Manhattan used to have 700k more residents than it does now, and that was when a lot of
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by patmcguire 8y ago
It's mostly about 1979 and the humiliation of the hostage crisis.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Doesn't matter how low is if the payout is high enough. Also, it's not like they've got any better ad to show you, CTR is something like one in a thousand for display.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
I see this sentiment a lot, but I think it probably does make financial sense to show you ads for a thing you already bought. There are often a few whales out there who are buying one of a thing to sample and then might later buy hundreds o
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Probably the most honest explanation of how companies actually hire I've seen.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
https://medium.com/teachable/how-we-code-at-teachable-ff4285...
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Inside the Mirrortocracy(carlos.bueno.org)
3 points by patmcguire 8y ago|0 comments
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Elastic, Mongodb, and Docker all have this business model. I guess the difference is in their case they developed it first and then open sourced - they've got a much more credible claim to superior support.
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Faraday Future CEO accused of trying to break investor deal after spending $800M(theverge.com)
2 points by patmcguire 8y ago|0 comments
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Yeah, at least the R code only goes up and down, line by line. Most non-trivial excel code will have different bits of code going right and left (formulas sit in a row,column pair). One you get into extra tabs/sheets that's yet an
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by patmcguire 8y ago
They keep quite a bit more than what you see on the surface, or what would be needed for the simplest definition of play history https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1025024813889478656
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Or you file a chargeback, or someone playing on your account uses an aimbot, or anything else that attracts their unilateral ire.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
The unmentioned context here is that Debian is stricter in how they handle binary firmware than most distributions. I believe they refuse to distribute any not under a free software license, most others will ship binary blob firmware.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
> In April all of the top ten companies tracked at least 50% of pages, whereas in July only five companies do so. Looks like the people who predicted this would lead to consolidation among the biggest players were correct.

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