ymerej

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by ymerej 8mo ago
I stopped reading at "engineering students trained on the latest tools to start in more senior positions." I've seen the kind of mistakes that entry level employees make. Trust me, they will, and they will be bigger, worse m
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by ymerej 3y ago
Doesn't it all boil down to economics in the end? When I worked at AOL, QA was very important/valued because our SW was shipped on CDs (I know, I know), and every bug/update cost us users because we had to download an update
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by ymerej 3y ago
Best mic drop.
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by ymerej 3y ago
I'm going to tell your mother you said that.
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EV battery has 50% more energy density than trad li-ion, 10-minute charge(pv-magazine-usa.com)
19 points by ymerej 4y ago|16 comments
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A Global Economy of Decentralized Computing(nunet.io)
2 points by ymerej 5y ago|0 comments
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Diamond Batteries Are Forever(zmescience.com)
10 points by ymerej 5y ago|5 comments
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by ymerej 7y ago
I think the message is that we should make the basic stuff "just work" before we start adding the complexity of more bells and whistles.
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by ymerej 7y ago
Speaking of ICQ, I remember when AOL bought out ICQ and had a huge engineering success when they pulled the switch and all of sudden, ICQ users were seamlessly on the AIM infrastructure. When you think of the sizes of those networks it was
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by ymerej 8y ago
I liked the reference to the "String Handling Interpretive Translator".
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by ymerej 9y ago
I went through what must be five cycles of returning counterfeit Samsung batteries (easy to detect counterfeit -- the NFC didn't work) to get replacements which were counterfeit. Chatting with customer service was an exercise in futil
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by ymerej 9y ago
I would guess they've already done this calculation. Similarly, due to externalities, the cost (to banks) of credit card and similar fraud is small compared to the expense of preventing it.
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by ymerej 9y ago
Time to fire your bank.
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by ymerej 9y ago
Four or five times in a row, I bought what were supposed to be genuine Samsung batteries for my SGS4, and every single one was a counterfeit. Each time I had a chat conversation with Amazon, explaining the situation and each time I was tol
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by ymerej 10y ago
. MNM.
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by ymerej 10y ago
For you, there is Github issues. Have fun, cowboy.
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by ymerej 13y ago
Is there any other kind of error?