digb | 1 year ago | on: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
Been on this tip for 6 months, glad to hear i am not alone
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digb | 1 year ago | on: I ditched the algorithm for RSS
It's because you are not an Average Human and so averaging everyone's humor doesn't really work for you. I think this is precisely why Instagram and tiktok are actually more addictive, they give you these personalized algos that are powered by your personal engagement stats, vs Reddit which just sort of sorts by other people's opinions
digb | 3 years ago | on: Companies can no longer silence laid-off employees in exchange for severance
There are other rights (forced arb) that you sign away when you sign a voluntary severance
digb | 3 years ago | on: The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (2010)
I mean they're basically a college student given the YOE and where this was published, sounds like the kid got mugged by reality. But yea, definitely jaw-droppingly naive.
digb | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: TinyClock – a tiny true 5-arch universal Mac OS X single-binary GUI app
What does 5-arch mean? Single Google yielded nothing (which may be more of a comment on Google's quality as of late)
digb | 3 years ago | on: What I Learned at Clubhouse
I see a lot of these retrospectives from companies that (to a certain degree) failed to live up to their hype. I don’t want to invalidate the sort of lessons you can only learn by living through these hyper scaling phases, but I sometimes wonder if some of the lessons folks learned are potentially why things went wrong?
digb | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquired company?
Having previously worked at SFDC, I would not wager that it's much more dynamic than Tableau.
digb | 3 years ago | on: What Drop-In API Observability Looks Like, Pre-Launch and Post-Launch
"Almost immediately after installation, Akita provided all the endpoints’ requirements, as well as some examples of expected values, which allowed us to better understand the service that the contractors had built. Once we could understand the data flow (including not only the request body, but also headers and authorization), improving the system became a lot easier. After we had the mapping,"
Interesting... could be cool to see a value-add service on top of Akita or another Obs vendor that just inspects req/res payloads and generates OpenAPI specs based off what was observed. I can't count how many times I've dropped into teams and tried to piece together their API contracts just to realize... they don't have specs! Having to then turn around and reconstruct them backwards based off code spelunking and maybe some design docs is... frustrating.
digb | 3 years ago | on: No Refrigerant Left Behind
I really really love how this post touches on the bullshit that is the carbon credit market. Question: what incentive do BigCos have to buy your "high quality" carbon offsets vs the inferior ones you mentioned? Do you price cheaper per ton of CO2 credited? At the end of the day they're just trying to comply at the cheapest price possible, right?
digb | 3 years ago | on: 2022 Cloud Report
was discussing this the other day with colleagues. you google CockroachDB and are immediately served Yugabyte and PlanetScale, which are imo much "hotter" right now
digb | 3 years ago | on: 2022 Cloud Report
"we" meaning you are an author on the report, or just at your job?
digb | 3 years ago | on: Purdue Starts Comprehensive Semiconductor Degree Programs in U.S.
Doctors. The US is way understaffed for doctors.
digb | 3 years ago | on: Purdue Starts Comprehensive Semiconductor Degree Programs in U.S.
This seems like a smart cross-section of the existing ECE major and IE majors offered at Purdue, and would likely be a good way to lighten up the major (IE was considered easier than the other programs when I was in undergrad).
digb | 3 years ago | on: FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting
Instagram used to do this too
digb | 3 years ago | on: Tech Layoff Tracker
Tech companies are like lewdness, we know them when we see them. I’m sure Maersk and Walmart rely a lot on tech and engineers, but no one is calling them tech companies.
digb | 3 years ago | on: Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football
If anyone here likes this book I highly recommend his documentary series, Fighting In The Age of Loneliness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3FHjiwb_8)
digb | 6 years ago | on: Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown
The MX Master 2 or whatever has been absolute trash for me on my work mac. There's the standard issue with macs and third party mice where the "inertia" or whatever of the mouse feels off, but more than that there has to be some sort of interference because the thing just floats and jitters constantly. Completely unusable, I gave it away to one of our finance guys.
digb | 6 years ago | on: Collaborative Software That’s Wary of the Cloud
Didn’t Google Wave first use CRDT’s? Well before 2011?
digb | 6 years ago | on: The Future of DEV (dev.to)
I've been hoping to see them take this direction for a while. They've fostered a great environment and built out a robust platform for "drop-in" communities. I also like that it seems like they're trying to scale out and ratchet up the amount of advanced content.
digb | 6 years ago | on: Anil Dash on the Facebook Brand Update
Does the new logo (wordmark?) remind anyone else of the old Uber logo (maybe the current one? I can't keep up anymore and don't really care). This branding feels somehow more evil.
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