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thecourier commented on Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity   antirez.com/news/112... · Posted by u/sathis
thecourier · 9 years ago
"The number of hours spent writing code is irrelevant without looking at the quality of the time. Lack of focus can be generated by internal and external factors. Internal factors are procrastination, lack of interest in the project at hand (you can’t be good doing things you do not love), lack of exercise / well-being, poor or little sleeping."

Get your ass up from the chair and go outside to exercise if you wanna reach Antirez levels of mastery

thecourier commented on Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]   channel9.msdn.com/events/... · Posted by u/nailer
thecourier · 9 years ago
This is the end for mac
thecourier commented on Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing   danielmiessler.com/blog/g... · Posted by u/danielrm26
thecourier · 9 years ago
I have been suffering with AMP. try to share a link to an article and you current url is an AMP url. if the site didn't make a hard link in the post title, you are gonna have a bad time.
thecourier commented on If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them   qz.com/891537/if-you-dont... · Posted by u/artsandsci
thecourier · 9 years ago
your presencial influence as leader matters.

I can't imagine facebook or amazon being built using remote workers. grinding is hard, painful and demoralizing. but a close team of uber-focused engineers led by example, frequently beat the asses of the 'work-from-home-is-so-comfy' guys.

about why I hire these people: they are gems, who need a coach to make them achieve greatness as a team. this is moneyball.

thecourier commented on Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?    · Posted by u/bsvalley
logronoide · 9 years ago
Gigolo
thecourier · 9 years ago
what about a gigolo's funded winery? think about the possibilities
thecourier commented on Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?    · Posted by u/bsvalley
mrlyc · 9 years ago
When the tech world moved away from me (doing mainly embedded C for the last thirty years might not have been the best idea for my career), I became an aged carer for my disabled mum. I learned a lot about cleaning, gardening and adding subtitles to films as she is going deaf. I also learned a lot about editing spoken word audio files for pacing, volume and noise reduction as she wrote a memoir then recorded an audio version.

In the future, I could be an aged carer as I really like looking after people, although it doesn't pay well and there can be a lot of poo to deal with. On the other hand, one of my former managers has been working at Google for about ten years and is quite enthusiastic about my working with him there. Unfortunately, they are in California and I am in Melbourne so I'd have to move.

thecourier · 9 years ago
ETFPOS programmer here. yeah, it's easy to become obsolete in this area, considering most of the time we work with legacy code
thecourier commented on Ask HN: Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?    · Posted by u/mkrecny
malisper · 9 years ago
One of my coworkers used basic reinforcement learning to automate a task someone used to have to do manually. We have two data ingestion pipelines. One that we ingest immediately, and a second for our larger customers which is throttled during the day and ingested at night. For the throttled pipeline, we initially had hard coded rate limits, but as we made changes to our infrastructure, the throttle was processing a different amount than it should have been. Sometimes it would process too much, and we would start to see latency build up in our normal pipeline, and other times it processed too little. For a short period of time, we had the hard coded throttle with a Slack command to override the default. This allowed an enginneer to change the rate limit if they saw we were ingesting to little or too much. While this worked, it was common that an engineer wasn't paying attention, and we would process the wrong amount for a period of time. One of my coworkers used extremely basic reinforcement learning to make the throttle dynamic. It looks at the latency of the normal ingestion pipeline, and based on that, decides how high to set the rate limit on the throttled pipeline. Thanks to him, the throttle will automatically process as much as it can, and no one needs to watch it.

The same coworker also used decision trees to analyze query performance. He trained a decision tree on the words contained in the raw SQL query and the query plan. Anyone could then read the decision tree to understand what properties of a query made that query slow. There's been times we're we've noticed some queries having odd behavior going on, such as some queries having unusually high planning time. When something like this happens, we are able to train a decision tree based on the odd behavior we've noticed. We can then read the decision tree to see what queries have the weird behavior.

thecourier · 9 years ago
the decision tree for sql analysis sounds great
thecourier commented on Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?    · Posted by u/ShaneCurran
pavlov · 9 years ago
http://wordsafety.com

I made this last year, but failed to build on the initial audience... There's no revenue, so any offer will be considered.

The site was launched in August 2015 and got 79,000 pageviews in its first month. It also got some media attention which has given the site quite good search engine ranking: it is a top-3 Google result for most of the relevant keywords and search phrases.

I can also throw in the domain BabyNameCheck.com. There's no site there currently, but you could easily reuse the word check back-end from WordSafety... Just make a new baby-themed design and it could be a site that any parent would want to check out when trying to decide a name.

(Edit: Please don't post word suggestions in comments - there's a form for that on the site :))

thecourier · 9 years ago
just looked: toto. nice two bad meanings, still it means vagina in Dominican Republic.

totto is different in written form, but phonetically it's the same

thecourier commented on I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me   bbc.com/news/world-africa... · Posted by u/CapitalistCartr
clueless123 · 9 years ago
There is a point in life when like it or not, switching roles with our parents is the right thing to do. The hardest part is accepting that this is necessary.
thecourier · 9 years ago
this sounds about right. I advice to open a trust fund so changing hands is just question of setting up a new president
thecourier commented on Taking PHP Seriously   slack.engineering/taking-... · Posted by u/smacktoward
thecourier · 9 years ago
duplicated posts

u/thecourier

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