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by wting 2mo ago
I think experiences vary depending on person and personality. I'm fine with doing nothing for a long time[0], but know friends and family members that struggle with not filling idle time with their phone. I do think this is learned beh
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by wting 3mo ago
> Fool me once, shame on... shame on you — George Bush, 2002 The original saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I think an intellectually honest take is that it's advantageous and prudent to depend on allie
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S&P and DJI indices decline changing inclusion requirements(press.spglobal.com)
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by wting 4mo ago
Rust has clearly opined that they prefer a small standard library and a "choose your own libraries" vs "batteries included" approach. If Rust included a crypto lib and a vulnerability was discovered, many fixes are backw
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by wting 5mo ago
There are a few flashlights that have USB PD power bank functionality and also run on 18650 or 21700 rechargeable, replaceable Li-ion cells. I bought a Loop Gear SK05 Pro to replace Anker power banks for this use case.
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by wting 9mo ago
As a hiring manager that visited every resume Github link because of my FOSS background, >99% of them had nothing of substance (no activity, school projects, etc).
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by wting 9mo ago
This requires those with power to relinquish authority and/or try new, unfamiliar practices and accept possible failure. Any company/organization can theoretically change its culture, but it's quite difficult in practice.
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by wting 11mo ago
Eh, us-east-1 is the oldest AWS region and if you get some AWS old timers talking over some beers they'll point out the legacy SPOFs that still exist in us-east-1.
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by wting 1y ago
> I know that concentrating knowledge / ownership at a person is not always good, but perhaps a better way to manage this is to... hire someone else who is competent or make other people more vocal. > And yes, I don't like m
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by wting 1y ago
Visa, Mastercard, payment processors, banks, etc act as accountability sinks[0] for governments and political group by design . They are arbiters for moving/blocking money, not taking principled stances; there is no net neutrality equ
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by wting 1y ago
Because of goomba fallacy. The EU is not a hegemonic state, but rather an economic supranational organization. France/Germany tend to be primary proponents of increased EU strategic autonomy, while Poland/Czech/Baltic states
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by wting 1y ago
Chrome launched in an era where IE didn't stop the gazillion pop ups and crashed pretty often losing dozens of windows, before tabbed browsing and with no restore. Firefox was a resource hog due to memory fragmentation. Google was also
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by wting 3y ago
For clarification, "The Matrix" refers to the urgency vs importance decision matrix and not the movie: https://asana.com/resources/eisenhower-matrix It's a framework to prioritize important tasks instead
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by wting 3y ago
Another perspective is that planning is a breadth-first traversal of the solution space, and coming up with a path to the solution. When reality hits and the path is often wrong, one can switch to other paths quickly since the graph was cre
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by wting 3y ago
After the roadmap is finalized, as the manager I ask every one on my team to stack rank at least N preferred projects from the roadmap. I map preferences to projects with some optimizations (e.g. career progression, avoiding knowledge silos
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by wting 4y ago
> It does, though. Your karma basically determines the visibility of any new post you try to make. User karma has no impact on the default sort ranking[0]. The source code is available here (as of ~2018): https://github.com&#x
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by wting 4y ago
Yes, but in the end it's because people who like Go because they prioritize a certain set of features (language, community, ecosystem, etc), and those who prefer non-Go languages prioritize other features. I don't like Go persona
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by wting 4y ago
Many (most?) banking systems run on SFTP today.
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by wting 4y ago
I have two similar commands, both written as zsh functions but easily adaptable to shell scripts, other shells, etc. # wait on a path and do something on change, e.g. `wait_do test/ run_tests.sh` wait_do() { local watch_f
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by wting 4y ago
SLAs per product.
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by wting 5y ago
To add on to ethbr0's good response, a few other things to do: 1. Find early adopters of the thing you're building who are willing to use and give feedback (bugs, friction logs) in the early stages of the feature. 2. Build relatio
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by wting 5y ago
It's not possible to increase availability with redundancy in all cases, because not all financial actions are idempotent. For example, sending money via a banking wire. If the bank goes down, you can't send a second wire through
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by wting 5y ago
There's too much money in Rust, and many power brokers at play here from Google, Amazon, MS, et al. People are incentivized by money and career growth to lead Rust's future. I think core members should be the one leading the found
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by wting 5y ago
The person who created Twitter's experimentation platform is also at Reddit, and heavily influenced Reddit's experiment design and review process. But yes, a revolving door of product leaders and decisions is going to bias towards
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by wting 5y ago
Edit: "reined in" and not "reigned in". I apologize for the Freudian slip as my edit window has passed.
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by wting 5y ago
One of the ways to measure long term impact is through the use of a golden cohort that is never opted into experiments. Unsurprisingly, I could not get this work prioritized on the roadmap. We also worked with growth consultants (read: Bay
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by wting 5y ago
Features are only launched after running a successful experiment. We try to appeal to power users when possible. For example with the current signup flow has optional emails, though intentionally non-obvious. This means new users sign up wi
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by wting 5y ago
I was the EM for Reddit's Growth team around this time. I am responsible for / contributed to a few features like the current signup flow, AMP pages, push notifications, email digests, app download interstitials, etc. There was a
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by wting 5y ago
Stripe | Java Services Infra | SF/Seatle/NYC/Remote (US, Canada) | Full Time We're leading the charge to servicify Stripe, working closely with product and infra teams. Our team and the service stack is ~18 months old, a
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by wting 5y ago
At a previous company we asked candidates to calculate the median value given an array of numbers. We also gave them test cases that covered 100% of what we wanted. 23% of applicants could not produce a working solution.

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