tomwheeler

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by tomwheeler 27d ago
Or, in the words of Morris Day, "It takes more than a hat to call yourself a chef." More people have the capability now, but not necessarily the experience or understanding.
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by tomwheeler 1mo ago
Moreover still, there are still communities in Alaska that have (locally mandated) prohibition. In fact, there is a pending Supreme Court case related to this in which a pilot's airplane was confiscated when his passengers were discove
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by tomwheeler 1mo ago
My parents bought a relatively inexpensive television in 1987 and it came with complete schematics, printed out as an addendum to the user manual. I was more excited about those than the TV itself because I had just learned to read schemati
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by tomwheeler 1mo ago
This is really beautiful. It's wisdom that seems so clear at my current stage of life, but wasn't obvious to me at age 15 or even 25.
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by tomwheeler 1mo ago
I once read about a father who told his daughter, "real friends are people who care how your life ends up." I think that's a pretty good definition to go by.
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by tomwheeler 1mo ago
At the risk of sounding like the hipster who liked your favorite band first, I didn't trust Atlassian long before the last 18 months. Much like Microsoft Word, I think JIRA peaked about a decade after launch and since then it's mo
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by tomwheeler 2mo ago
Don't forget Trumpet Winsock [1]. I worked for an ISP at the time that provided it on a floppy disk (along with a newsreader, FTP client, telnet client, and web browser). Although I doubt many customers paid for it, Trumpet Winsock was
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by tomwheeler 2mo ago
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by tomwheeler 3mo ago
Hi, Temporal employee here. Just want to confirm that Temporal Cloud can and does handle this scale, well beyond it, in fact. As our CEO and co-founder Samar Abbas stated in the keynote at this year's Replay conference ( https:/&#
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
After those are used up, it moves to Devanagari, Hangul, Katakana, Hiragana, and then Kanji.
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
I can't speak for the specific case of Stripe, but it's fairly common for private companies to have a "tender offer" in which employees have the opportunity to sell some portion of their equity. This is often done in con
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
It's semantics, but the latest raise might have been a follow-on to Series M, not a new round (to be clear, I know nothing about their finances, just speaking from experience at another company).
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
Effectively infinite. Databricks is a good example. They're still private after 13 years and closed a Series L round last year. Stripe is similar. Having been through an IPO before, it was good for employee liquidity, but bad for the c
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
As evidence, search for "How do I disable the 'beautify this slide' widget that keeps appearing in Google Slides?" The top results are a bunch of pages in support.google.com in which the weary support person says "Y
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
> the volumes of The Art of Computer Programming I'd speculate that the number of people who own these outnumber the people who have actually read them by a pretty wide margin.
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
Aside from any downward trend attributable to LLMs, technical book sales were always lower than most people would have imagined. I've known a few authors who published with O'Reilly and other major publishers and most told me that
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
I can confirm this is true for Acura. I owned an Acura Legend and the same car was sold in Japan (well, the right-hand drive version) as the Honda Legend. I had seen pictures of them online in the 90s, but happened to see a Honda Legend in
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
One that doesn't seem to be listed is "overconfident fork" in which someone forks an existing project out of anger or hubris, but that fork never gains critical mass and eventually withers away. The opposite is what happened
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
Yeah, when I was a kid you had to go to the AT&T store to get a phone.
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
I'd enjoy someone copying Steve Wozniak even more.
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
Seems to be a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183579
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
Seems like the status quo to me. I'm a human and they block my legitimate access on multiple sites a day. I hate that they've inserted themselves as the unwanted guardians of the web, but I'm also stunned at how absolutely ba
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
The leftmost icon on my browser toolbar is the "kill sticky" bookmarklet ( https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky ). I grew tired of sites hiding the dismiss buttons or omitting them entirely, so anytime somethi
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
If only there was AFM to read these days.
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by tomwheeler 4mo ago
Right. It's self-indulgence by product managers and/or designers who think users are as interested in the software as they are. Worse yet, sometimes these tours seem to be a band-aid for an unintuitive UX. If usability was the pri
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by tomwheeler 5mo ago
I also own a W212 E-Class, which I purchased used a few years ago specifically because it's the ideal balance of features I care about (e.g., heated seats and the ability to play MP3 files) without most of the ones I hate (touchscreens
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by tomwheeler 5mo ago
How do the police pull over a driverless vehicle? Who hands over the license and registration? How do you get it to sign the ticket?
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by tomwheeler 5mo ago
At least this one was significantly faster than Cloudflare and required no action on my part.
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by tomwheeler 5mo ago
Back in January, I was debating whether to buy an M3 Ultra Mac Studio or waiting for the M5 version, which many believed would be announced two months later. The 192GB M3 Ultra was on sale at the local Microcenter for $200 below what Apple&
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by tomwheeler 5mo ago
Temporal employee here. I'm very surprised by your comment. It's true that we recently had a Series D and that VC firms recognize the value of what we do. The Temporal Server software is 100% open source (MIT license: https:&#x2F

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