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by pokoleo 10mo ago
They sent an email a few minutes after I posted, saying that their fulfillment centre dropped the ball and they're escalating internally. I guess complaining on HN worked. Hope they can figure out the dispute with Rebble. Maybe they en
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by pokoleo 10mo ago
Summarizing the dispute, for anyone interested: Rebble's "one red line" is "there has to be a future for Rebble in there." They fear being replaced/made irrelevant after Core builds their own infrastructure usi
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Jemalloc Archived (2005-2025)(github.com)
1 points by pokoleo 1y ago|1 comments
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by pokoleo 2y ago
From my experience working on SaaS, and improving ops at large organizations, I've seen that "on-call culture" often exists inversely proportional to incentive alignment. When engineers bear the full financial consequences of
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by pokoleo 2y ago
Needs (2015)
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by pokoleo 3y ago
Wouldn’t be the first. See also Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, and Bonaire (to name a few)
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by pokoleo 3y ago
The usual answer to a DDoS from some users is to add rate limiting, not “remove the service”
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by pokoleo 3y ago
I've been using Colemak for a little bit more than a decade now. Super happy with it. I switched while interning at a ~failing startup. I was a Canadian in the US, and had forgotten to plan to do stuff over Thanksgiving weekend. I had
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by pokoleo 4y ago
It's a nice way to say "Hello there :)"
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by pokoleo 4y ago
Can you cite a source on the Japanese connection? I don't see anything obvious in their Wikipedia pages. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Econo
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Ask HN: Pricing for a Jet Lag App?
2 points by pokoleo 4y ago|7 comments
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by pokoleo 4y ago
I once interned at an easily google-able Secondlife competitor. They fought against NSFW content for a long time, but then figured out how to fix it by: 1. Incentivizing users (with in-game currency) for reporting NSFW content, and 2. Restr
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by pokoleo 4y ago
Soft deletion always feels at odds with privacy-related "right to have data deleted" laws. Would be super interested in a technical writeup on how they do this.
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by pokoleo 4y ago
Will's a great communicator, and quite personable: I know this because I've worked with him for a few years. I don't think it's bravado, SRE is a common industry term.
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by pokoleo 4y ago
@dang: here's a better version without scroll lag https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
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by pokoleo 5y ago
I've been wondering: if this robot is only flipping fries, could it be made by putting the basket on a simple track, and adding an actuator to move the basket along a track? Why need an arm? My speculation: a robotic arm makes for a gr
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by pokoleo 5y ago
Does "tightly coupled with the database" work, in practice?
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by pokoleo 5y ago
Interesting! Do you find that returning an array of errors works in practice? Most validation I’ve seen looks like: raise error if foo raise other_error if bar This pattern turns into one exception per response, and some foresi
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by pokoleo 5y ago
The article is about REST API design, not JSON APIs! It’s a whole different ballpark.
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by pokoleo 5y ago
The error messages could be better yet. The example uses a different code per issue, for instance: "user/email_required". Most integrators will build their UI to highlight the input fields that contain an error. Making them p
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by pokoleo 5y ago
Major difference in Canada is the # of banks. The big five dominate[1] unlike in the US where there are 100+[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_and_credit_union... [2] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by pokoleo 5y ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -Sinclair
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by pokoleo 5y ago
Once as a new grad I asked (after he gave a talk on the virtues of oss) why the newly released Wolfram language wasn’t open source. He called me naïve, said that my question was childish, then asked for the next question. If dunking on a 23
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by pokoleo 5y ago
Some smart TVs already ship with sim cards. It just requires a deal with AT&T/Tmo/etc.
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by pokoleo 5y ago
NFTs
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by pokoleo 5y ago
@dang: can you change the title? Simple typo meterorite → meteorite
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by pokoleo 5y ago
You should use cointracker: https://www.cointracker.io/ If you want to DIY instead, I think it's an invocation of wikihtmltopdf + a simple script that turns CSVs into PDFs.
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by pokoleo 5y ago
For anyone looking to rent a car, I'd recommend using autoslash.com It's an aggregator that allows you to pick from the other aggregators, and you don't pay until you pick up. The prices are consistently within 10% of the low
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by pokoleo 5y ago
Yet another case of competing standards https://xkcd.com/927/
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by pokoleo 5y ago
CRT displays and floppy disks

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