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Re:Seeking new custodian for godoc.org on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:13PM (#22241608)
It is not dubious advice. It's disingenuous to frame it like that. And more importantly, it is not only a matter of license issues. Changing where you host the content won't change the risks Google lawyers put force. Stop spreading FUD.
Re:Ketamine Could Soon Be Used to Treat Suicidal Ideation on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:39AM (#19086231)
Is the incidence of suicide lower among regular ketamine users?
sidekick - the TSR app for DOS
Re:Facts and charts that show the world is getting better on Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:27PM (#18269016)
MiniPlenty - 1984
Re:Cycling Is Key to Safer, Healthier, More Vital Cities on Friday September 14, 2018 @01:41PM (#17989209)
I am under the impression that the author never really biked in Amsterdam 5:30pm from center to south in a week day.
Re:Google tracks users who turn off location history on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:04PM (#17759146)
11 months ago, I posted a Ask HN exactly about that. I got flagged. Now I see that I was at least partially right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15170372

I don't believe Microsoft.
Russ Ackoff's "Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management" di Russell L. Ackoff.

http://a.co/6LvRWPO

And also Ackoff's talks on Systems Thinking:

https://youtu.be/EbLh7rZ3rhU

Serenata de Amor is a brazilian candy: https://hibrazilmarket.com/products/garoto-serenata-de-amor-...

From their faq: https://serenata.ai/en/faq/

1 - We were inspired by the Toblerone Affair, a case in which a Swedish politician was pushed to resign after being caught paying simple Toblerone chocolate bar with public money. That’s what we want to do: empower social control of public expenditures including values as low as a chocolate bar.

First I acknowledge that is not really useful to single out a day as productive or not. The finest-grain level I check is days streak. And in that case, I usually say that I had a good week or good weeks, or once I had a whole good quarter.

When I average the year, I have been having more productive years more or less consistent. Like the global warming, the year that wasn't really productive was still higher than the least productive year before the last peak.

Well, with all that said, some patterns seemed clear to me:

1 - Societal overload: that place and country you live directly affect your productivity. I lived for many years in the biggest city of a 3rd World country, where the government works daily to make your life miserable and hard. The moment I moved to Europe, I had a surge of productivity because those "little" things that rob you of your energy were gone: the violence, the crappy infrastructure, and a technology market generations behind than the 1st World.

2 - Peers Level: being the ugliest among the pretty is better than being the prettiest among the ugly. When you are the least good among very competent engineers you have a lot of opportunities to learn from people that know more and better than you. You become a sponge of methods that can help you to work better and faster.

3 - Reused experience: The best world scenario is to be a generalist and be able to work on whatever is thrown at your hands because you are clever and skilled. However, it doesn't mean that you can't get really skilled and experienced in some aspect of your craft. For instance, through the years I become an expert on bootstrapping greenfield projects and prepare to hand them over to a team that will look after them. This has been invaluable and my longest days streak happened in this situation.

4 - Keep reassessing your toolset all the time: we tend to feel comfortable and confident with the tools we know how to use. That's fine. But keep an eye open to new technologies. There might be one new technology that solves (or attempts to solve) some fundamental problem that you daily face - that if it didn't exist, you would be even more productive.

5 - Manage your attention: nowadays we live in a world perfected to steal your attention. Learn how to manage it effectively. You can't be productive if you are distracted or constantly interrupted.

I hope it helped you. (PS: HN is a huge attention stealer.)

Ask HN: What are the quintessential jobs of a manager?

In your opinion, what's the quintessential job of a manager?I've heard in the past, for example, that a job of a manager is to create the condition for people to do their best work, and make it hard for them to stay if they suck.I'm not sure this is right, but this fits a single description.

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Not really because the StackExchange thought police really does not let people freely answer the questions. It means in practice that if you write an answer not in alignment with the correct thought you get scolded and penalized.
I wonder what do the bots commit in the monorepo. It is something that has been making me curious for a while.
Similar to StrongDM, except it does less. SDM implements the SSH protocol which allow both session logging (for audit and training purposes) and on-prem deployment. It supports all SSH services such shell (for interactive operation) exec (for remote scripting, like ansible and scp) and subsystems (like sftp). And on top of that it supports DB connections through the same tunnel (again with query logging for audit purposes).

The on-prem part is really neat.

Disclaimer: I work at StrongDM.

Edit: fixed typo

Re:What boredom does to you on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:46AM (#15609867)
The researcher didn't test MacGyver (the original one)...
Re:10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings on Sunday August 27, 2017 @04:40AM (#15109766)
This reminds me of a document, allegedly from CIA, teaching spies infiltrated in decision committee and alike on how to derail meetings.
Re:July 2017 Hacker News Hiring Trends on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:10AM (#14900760)
Lovely that PHP has been relegated from programming language to framework.

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