sarks_nz

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by sarks_nz 1y ago
Distribution of art (particularly digital) is a recent phenomenon. Prior to that, art in human history was one-off. Are we just going back to that time? Similarly with music, prior to recording tech, live performance was where it was at. Yo
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by sarks_nz 1y ago
Yep. They forget there are all sorts of "families" and some are very dysfunctional.
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by sarks_nz 2y ago
I'm working on a Tournament Manager for Pickleball at http://pickleballtourneypro.pages.dev because the current incumbent is very difficult for non-technical people (aka volunteers) to use, and super expensive (10-15% of to
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by sarks_nz 2y ago
I did Kyokushin karate to Shodan. The board we broke were solid pine boards. They are definitely not "cut". My technique was a little off, and I wrecked my knuckles for months. They ended up permanently moved. So maybe all karate
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by sarks_nz 3y ago
My only advice is (to quote Arnold Schwarzenegger) is to be useful. To yourself, your wife, family, pets, friends, job (people), hobby groups, community. Produce things/knowledge using your skills (present and future skills) that other
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by sarks_nz 3y ago
"Having kids is the greatest thing you will ever do" is a binary "True" in a probabilistic world, so almost guaranteed to be wrong for a large number of cases. Having kids is not for everyone, and even for those people w
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by sarks_nz 3y ago
This is my experience too. I hadn't been rejected from a job since starting work in the late 90s. Significant experience from coding (which I still do) to startup exec level. Multiple "it came down to you and one other" situa
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by sarks_nz 3y ago
I just got "Slay the Spire", a deck-building, casual, rogue-like and it's awesome. Can play a little or a lot at a sitting :-)
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by sarks_nz 3y ago
Nick Bostrom proposed the "Vulnerable World Hypothesis" which (amongst other things) says that a technology as powerful and accessible as AI requires mass surveillance to stop bad actors using it as a weapon. https://ni
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by sarks_nz 3y ago
+1
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by sarks_nz 3y ago
I love Siri with Apple Maps in New Zealand /s Me: "Siri, give me directions to vaguely ethnic sounding café" where café is about 2km away. Siri: "Getting directions to other cafe in London/Europe/Tajikistan&quo
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by sarks_nz 4y ago
"Let’s go to bed and try again tomorrow" sounds like the epitome of being human to me. My new mantra.
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by sarks_nz 4y ago
In New Zealand, Apple Maps is the worst kind of useless, especially when paired with Siri. The Dumb and Dumber of the tech world. If I ask directions for a cafe within a 5km radius, either of these scenarios will occur: 1. Siri won't u
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by sarks_nz 4y ago
Long time laptop user. 2012 macbooks were solid. Just worked, never thought about them much. The 2017-18 macbook pros (touchbar) were complete rubbish. Everything was rubbish. Keyboards. Heat. Battery. Processors. The M1s are gods gift to d
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by sarks_nz 4y ago
I found microservices had the benefit of increasing release cadence and decreasing merge conflicts. Are there complications? Sure. Are they manageable? Relatively easily with correct tooling. Do microservices (with container management) all
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by sarks_nz 5y ago
re: finances. Stick 79% into index funds, 10% in bonds/bank deposits and 1% in cash . Donate a little to buskers et al, things that make you feel good. Then forget about it. You don't have to _do_ anything with it. Don't go d
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by sarks_nz 5y ago
This statement assumes the only bad outcome from COVID is death.
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by sarks_nz 5y ago
Thanks for the article. Curious how you ensure dev outputs match up with other (external) deadlines, for example, the sales/marketing teams firing up a promotion of your new functionality. How do you incentivise devs to hit those timef
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by sarks_nz 5y ago
Thanks for that. I'm talking about the difference between hitting the deadline on Monday versus Friday. How to incentivise that? ie, do half an hour more work for a week, or skip the table-tennis when someone asks, etc. As a developer,
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by sarks_nz 5y ago
How to make developers want to hit their deadlines with quality? Startup land. There was no feedback loop that rewarded developers to meet the estimates. Stock options weren't an option, and I didn't want them to do a sloppy job j