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3 years ago
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on: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
You can add a playlist to your library and it will show up in the Playlists section. Navigate to the playlist and look for an icon with throw horizontal lines and a check mark.
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?
This is a perfectly acceptable view of the United States if you only watch television news.
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3 years ago
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on: Index funds officially overtake active managers
Not OP, but I doubt it. These are individual mandates with mandatory minimums in the tens of millions of dollars for a small shop.
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3 years ago
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on: Index funds officially overtake active managers
Clients are heard and in charge. These are smart people who will terminate the relationship if their goals aren’t being met. This isn’t your retirement account. These are accounts in the 9+ figure range.
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3 years ago
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on: Index funds officially overtake active managers
You’re not considering that a lot of active managers are helping clients define bespoke investment strategies that suit their assets and liabilities. They set a strategy, pick a benchmark, and invest. In some cases, a portion of those investments may be passive instruments and other portions may be research-driven asset allocation by the manager.
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4 years ago
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on: When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
I've been doing this for a long time now. I present the candidate with a function (on paper) that compiles and runs. It does the job but it does everything poorly: an embedded connection string, leaves the connection open, no error handling, bad variable names, no comments, etc... EVERY candidate can find something wrong with this code and the things they pick up is informative. Juniors can find the easy stuff, more senior-level folks find the deeper flaws about the basic structure of the code like figuring that a lot of this is boilerplate that could be implemented elsewhere.
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
A certain amount of information can be gleaned from job descriptions from a company’s careers page.
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?
Neither by default. I look to be convinced that they've implemented containers because it made sense for their technical architecture or strategy.
I have a vendor who pitched their new "cloud-native" re-platforming project and it really spooked me. It's data management-type tool that was migrating from a traditional on-prem client/server architecture to an AWS-hosted Angular interface with a MongoDB backend. I got the same pitch a year later and the entire stack had changed. I was spooked the first time; now I'm really spooked and thinking about migrating off the platform.
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?
I agree. I've seen containerization mentioned by many vendors in the last year. It adds another layer of questions to vet like "do they possibly know what they're doing?"
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4 years ago
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on: Data Mesh Architecture
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4 years ago
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on: Diary of a first-time on-call engineer
The example week is quite concerning. She’s called multiple times for things that have no impact or importance. That needs to be fixed immediately.
My company has strict rules on what is allowed to escalate to on-call and the SLAs to handle that alert. It had to be breaking our overnight batch cycle or we’re not getting up. Brittle processes are stamped out immediately and management backs us up.
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4 years ago
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on: 20 Years of .NET
Technology is still central to "tech-as-a-cost-center" enterprises. I'm absolutely a cost center and contribute to the firm's market differentiation by using technology effectively.
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4 years ago
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on: Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas
Banks have provisional accounts which they use to make customers whole. They don’t know where your check went either but they’ll make you whole while they figure it out. Your check will be credited to their provisional account if they find it!
I worked for a large bank and they ran into an “issue” which required making a whole lot of clients whole out of provisional accounts while they figured out what happened. I can tell the balance of those accounts became a metric which many people were evaluated by.
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4 years ago
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on: Nothing of what makes science work is published as text on the web
Seems likely that the value may only be realized in hindsight. The post-docs saying it would have saved them time don’t say they would have paid before they realized that. I wonder too if the time they spent was more valuable and enriching than whatever this application would provide them. You don’t become an expert without “wasting time” researching dead ends or excruciatingly manual steps.
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4 years ago
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on: “The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says
Why’s that relevant? The payment is divided by the terms of the agreement with the author and associates. It was mutually agreed by everyone in writing.
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4 years ago
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on: “The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says
I’ve taken this approach in the past.
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4 years ago
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on: Tell HN: Amazon fraudulently canceling orders as returned items
Heads up on your landing page. I didn’t know what I was supposed to type into the search box. Category, item, zip code?
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4 years ago
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on: Microservices and the layers to watch for when architecting your system
Gall’s law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)
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4 years ago
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on: Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Above $65K on Strength of ETF Debut
This is obviously true but most people DCA into the market because they’re investing money as they earn it. The put $X I to their brokerage account on payday and buy more indexed ETFs.
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4 years ago
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on: I found an Amazon folder with thousands of audio recordings from my home gadgets
Wrong. That's a software switch, not physical hardware.
