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Re:Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
on Sunday February 09, 2020 @06:27AM (#22281594)
Not sure about their underratedness, but I find the following newsletters interesting and insightful:
Two Truths and a Take by Alex Danco (tech, VC, and broader topics): https://danco.substack.com/
The Uncertainty Mindset by Vaughn Tan: https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/
The Diff by Byrne Hobart (finance, tech): https://diff.substack.com/
Kneeling Bus by Drew Austin (urbanism, tech): https://kneelingbus.substack.com/
Software Development at Startups
Re:Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
on Friday September 06, 2019 @09:10AM (#20895269)
I've been using Yabai[0] for a few months and am generally pretty happy with the i3-like experience on macOS.
Re:People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Kno...
on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:42PM (#20128898)
This resonates with me to a surprising extent. My perceived threshold for expressing an opinion is very high, and I also find that I don't really have any particularly _strong_ opinions to begin with.
The "hedge my answers extensively" bit is spot-on, as is the isolating nature of this "trait", unfortunately.
The Splintering of the Second World
Re:Bandaid – Dropbox service proxy
on Thursday March 01, 2018 @05:23PM (#16496952)
Interesting. I wonder if that choice would lead to a noticeable impact on perceived latency (from the perspective of a human end-user) under some high-load/pathological scenario.
Re:Bandaid – Dropbox service proxy
on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:51PM (#16496717)
The justification for using LIFO (vs FIFO) queues for requests is interesting: at no/low load it makes no difference, while at high load the requests least likely to time out get serviced first.
Is that a common architectural decision in reverse proxies or queuing systems in general?
Re:Ask HN: Do you like where you live?
on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:07PM (#16181461)
That's close enough that I can look at the weather report in the morning and decide to take a day off work.
This is an amazing advantage.
How's the tech scene there?
Ask HN: Do you like where you live?
Does location matter to you? What are the pros and cons of living in your current city/country? Would you rather move somewhere else, and if so, where?
Re:Grit is a muscle, train it
on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:10PM (#15941245)
Regarding your last point: this is an idea I first encountered a couple years ago in Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness", and it's been on my mind ever since.
Monetizing successful people's advice on how to become successful seems seems to be a pretty profitable endeavor.
Accepting that success, among many other things, is more random than post-hoc explanations make it seem is scary yet somewhat liberating at the same time.
Re:High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables
on Monday December 04, 2017 @10:56PM (#15849586)
IEX is an example of an exchange doing just that.
Which Skills Are the Most Employable in Tech?
Re:Ask HN: Career advice for a new grad
on Sunday April 09, 2017 @04:31PM (#14074222)
Over the years, how has your perspective on the stack + the type of work you're doing changed? I feel like due to my age I don't have the context to make a decision based on factors that will actually matter in the long term.
Re:Ask HN: Career advice for a new grad
on Sunday April 09, 2017 @04:24PM (#14074184)
I'd be working in Kanata and would prefer to live somewhere closer to downtown, hence the estimated commute times (by public transit).
Thank you for adding some perspective. It seems whatever choice I end up making, my brain will find a way to rationalize it post-factum.
Re:Ask HN: Career advice for a new grad
on Friday April 07, 2017 @06:38PM (#14064014)
Where did you move from? Curious to hear about things you like and dislike about living and working in London.
Ask HN: Career advice for a new grad
Hi HN,I've been agonizing over a decision between two offers.The first one is from a company in Ottawa (Canada), doing systems programming (C/C++) with an above-average salary (for a new grad). The second one is from a company in London (UK), with ~ £40k salary. I'd be working with a more "modern" stack (think Python/JS/Ruby/Go/etc).Following is a somewhat unstructured collection of...
Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017
on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @02:14PM (#13933304)
Interesting how "Knowledge of algorithms and data structures" is the third most important thing developers think should be prioritized when recruiting (3.77/5), following communication skills and track record.
Re:Ask HN: Invaluable Command-line Tools
on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:46PM (#13843420)
The ranger [0] file manager is probably my most used app -- it's fast, extensible and has VI bindings.
Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave
on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @10:46PM (#13604517)
As a soon-to-be engineering graduate, I am very thankful for Octave. I've used it (instead of MATLAB) for projects involving numerical methods, control systems, image processing, and all kinds of data manipulation. While it may not be as powerful as MATLAB for certain use cases, it is an amazing piece of software.
Debunking the myth of higher pay in Silicon Valley
Ask HN: Ideas for a Robotics/ECE capstone project?
I'll be entering my final year of engineering in September and I need an idea for a capstone project. We'll have a team of 3-5 smart, hard-working people and around 6 months to complete it. I would like to tap into the wealth of knowledge of HN readers and hopefully find a suitable idea.Some thoughts I have so far:1. Whatever the project is, it has to be something we'd be able to quickly...