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I tend to use logs the least when debugging production issues. I realize that's a personal anecdote, so I see your point.
Neat idea. Why logs, and not metrics too? You can characterize an accurate "baseline" system behavior through a combination of system level and userspace metrics. This profile would offer more depth than what you'd otherwise piece together with userspace logs.
Re:Robinhood S-1 IPO on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:48PM (#27706320)
At this point a Musk tweet is likely priced into the asset
Re:Adjustable recipe on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:03PM (#27241589)
Yeah. It’s especially frustrating when recipes list ingredients like flour by volume.
That's TC though, can't think of a company that pays this much in base.

130k base salary is comparable to a new grad or mid level SWE in the bay.

It doesn't really need to be taken to Twitter. There's almost zero benefit in publicly shaming your colleague like this.
Re:The Black-Scholes formula, explained (2019) on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:25PM (#26773582)
The vol smile is mostly a byproduct of greater demand for far OTM options to hedge tail risk, alongside more sellers for ATM options which depresses the middle portion of the curve. I am not sure why this is a problem
Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @03:39PM (#26716423)
For a moment there I thought was gonna be written by Richard Branson.
Re:Visual Studio Code March 2021 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:55PM (#26652258)
I must be shallow but these massive feature-rich updates they produce continue to make me want to use VSC less. I just don't want to have all these features I know I'll never use baked into my code editor
Re:Apple doesn't care about album cover art on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:39PM (#26652077)
Which is a shame. I can think of an handful of records that sound exactly like their cover art and I believe that detail helps tie the record together
Re:Apple doesn't care about album cover art on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:37PM (#26652045)
If you want to appreciate the album art then purchase the LP. A tiny JPEG on AM or Spotify UI is never going to cut it for anybody who is interested in inspecting the cover art. These tools are designed for background listening
Re:Sublime Text 4 [video] on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:21AM (#26648425)
Love the native TS and JSX support. Will my Subl license carry over to Subl 4 or will I need to repurchase a new license to use this?
Yes, they're valuable because they capture many listeners and generate revenue. It doesn't need to interesting for it to be valuable.

Plenty of interesting music flies under the radar. Even without the massive marketing push some artists get, the same artists would still rise to the top producing familiar song structures the average listener can recognize.

The majority of music listeners. It's designed to resonate with the lowest common denominator and capture the widest net possible.
Re:FicusJS on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:09PM (#26616634)
Why this over react, vue, or angular?
Re:Whimsical Guide to Compensation on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:52PM (#26603617)
I don’t think so. Most companies in familiar with price their hires with respect to seniority and interview performance.
Re:Click on Saturday March 20, 2021 @02:26AM (#26521217)
this is what i’m preaching
Re:Click on Saturday March 20, 2021 @02:25AM (#26521211)
why create the array?

for(let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) button.click()

wouldn’t be surprised if Javascript has some weird optimization under the hood!

I’m guessing it’s a hedge in case one fails
You could use the extra day to work on a side project that may produce more than 1/5 of your salary.
I worked at a large co that did a 4/10 work week schedule. I didn't feel any more productive but I was certainly happier overall.
make a nightly cron job that blocks HN's domain during sleep hours
Re:Help College Students Ace Technical Interviews on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @09:10PM (#26485348)
> How much do these courses cost? The class is free for students. We work closely with a number of partners who help us cover the costs of the program.

How do this company earn money? Do these partners pay to use this platform as a recruiting pipeline?

I thought it was always done the first way, where recruiter is a preliminary filter that provides the dev team with a list of candidates.

I feel like involving the dev team at the early stages would cut into engineering productivity

Re:Justice at Spotify on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:53PM (#26479411)
The nominal figure of what the platform per stream pays artists should not be discussed without taking into consideration the amount of monthly active users using the platform. Tidal and AM have significantly fewer users than Spotify
Re:Do Python developers want static typing? on Saturday February 27, 2021 @06:04PM (#26289003)
Barrier for entry for new developers.

I think JavaScript's huge success in the last decade is primarily attributed to the plug-and-play dependency ecosystem and dynamic typing

Beyond that, not much

Re:SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak on Saturday February 27, 2021 @05:59PM (#26288964)
And its at the expense of a young professional just starting their career...
Re:Are You Trading or Gambling? on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:36PM (#26286979)
“It feels like negative value bets don't exist in investment.”

Options are deliberately negative EV. They need to be negative EV to be long so that there is an incentive for option sellers to sell premium. Otherwise option seller would just get steamrolled every time.

Re:Are You Trading or Gambling? on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:32PM (#26286948)
I am not sure why people are viewing gambling in a negative light here. Investing is absolutely gambling but that does not imply investing is a bad thing. The reality is that there is no such thing as reward without any risk, you need to willing to lose something to gain something else.

This is essential to option pricing, it is why low delta options are cheap and high delta options are expensive. A high delta option will have a high probability of success but will demand the investor to risk more on the position.

If there wasn’t a gambling aspect to capital markets, there would be zero liquidity as nobody would deliberately take the negative expected value side of the trade.

Re:Bit (1.0) – a modern Git CLI in Go on Saturday February 27, 2021 @12:50AM (#26282981)
I’m generally very skeptical of anything that abstracts away git with UIs. This looks really cool though and I like that you embedded common git workflows into the CLI

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