enthalpyx | 7 years ago | on: Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?
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enthalpyx | 8 years ago | on: Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”
The CYP1A2 gene affects how quickly you metabolize caffeine. Stopping at 3pm may not be enough.
enthalpyx | 8 years ago | on: To Stay in Love, Sign on the Dotted Line
Better title: "To stay in love, communicate honestly and openly" | these guys just happened to find a way to do that in writing
enthalpyx | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Hands hurts from coding too long?
If you're experiencing any sort of pain, do not attempt to power through it. It's your body trying to tell you something's wrong. Step away from the keyboard and get some rest.
enthalpyx | 12 years ago | on: The 800 Pound Gorilla Amazon Tried to Kill is Google's Trojan Horse
Especially when the author could actually do an apple-to-apples comparison. The shoe organizer that cost $18 at Google (with shipping) is $16 at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001M2D9D0
enthalpyx | 13 years ago | on: Passport ownership in America, by state. Let’s play "Correlations"
Wealthier states do more global travel? It's expensive.
enthalpyx | 13 years ago | on: Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson
Similar idea: http://code.google.com/p/recordstream/
enthalpyx | 14 years ago | on: The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore
"If you live in Cambridge and neighboring communities, you can order online and get any book delivered the same day by an eco-friendly Metroped “pedal-truck,” or a bicycle, as I like to call them. Beat that Amazon."
Here's how: any book, ever published, in 60 seconds or less. Kindle.
enthalpyx | 14 years ago | on: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot
I love that this is on the front page of HN -- which is to me, what Slashdot was 10 years ago.
enthalpyx | 14 years ago | on: Cheap and fast hydrogen for fuel
Wondering how much cheaper this makes hydrogen relative to traditional fossil fuels...
enthalpyx | 14 years ago | on: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
... and what does not come up as the first result for "decision"?
enthalpyx | 15 years ago | on: College is a waste of time
"We can be productive members of society without submitting to academic or corporate institutions." -- says the guy writing for .... CNN.com
enthalpyx | 15 years ago | on: Angry Birds for Chrome in Canvas and WebGL
With a 2006 MBP, it works in FF4, but not in Chrome 11 (just a blank screen). Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
enthalpyx | 15 years ago | on: From Redmond with Love - IE team sends cake for FF4
I wonder if Google gets a cake too...
enthalpyx | 15 years ago | on: SourceForge.net Gets A Makeover
Too little, too late. Github has won.
enthalpyx | 15 years ago | on: Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
"so Google set up a honeypot – some made up words like [hiybbprqag] linking to random unrelated sites."
That's not my understanding of what Google did at all. Google fed back search results for keywords that didn't exist on the Internet -- period, and they started eventually showing up in Bing.
enthalpyx | 15 years ago | on: Enlightenment Foundation Libraries release version 1.0
I'd love to see some demo apps.
enthalpyx | 15 years ago | on: Weekly free delivery service from Amazon.com: AmazonTote
eco-consciousness
enthalpyx | 16 years ago | on: Are 80% of Harvard Students First Borns?
These descriptions reminded me of horoscopes... I saw characteristics of myself in each one.
enthalpyx | 16 years ago | on: Choosing Consistency - Strong consistency options for SimpleDB
No, it's Jeff Barr - AWS evangelist type person.
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Being the engineer on-call when the website/service/app is down and the company is losing $xMM/minute while you debug the problem is the very definition of stress.
Some companies like Google cordon this responsibility off to SREs. While Amazon has started developing a similar job family, the burden of supporting critical services still largely falls to software engineers.
While software engineering is certainly not the worst job from a stress perspective, my experience (particularly with operations at Amazon) is far from the zen-like state the author describes. It can also be pretty exciting.