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The old UX was fine. I really don’t get the push to build this.

I haven’t found any value added in the new design at all - has anyone else?

If they want to stay ahead of GitHub Actions, they need to make sure their feature set is ahead of the game. I wonder if this is part of a major refactor to enable more velocity, because otherwise I just can’t comprehend the rational to spend so much time on it.

Yes

The absolute minimum number of people may still be significant

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Nchan is amazing

In grad school, we took an unofficial survey of GRE verbal and quant scores. Far and away, the non English speaking students scored significantly higher than natives. Anecdotally, The non native speakers actually studied in that way you describe, and the native speakers assumed the fluency would carry its weight instead

So I shouldn’t thank or say nice things to my team, because they might see it as disingenuous? Seems better than the alternative, no?

The article got close to touching on a successful method of motivating, which is making sure individuals’ contributions are communicated throughout the organization in a clear and ideally public manner.

I would!

100% yes. Works with almost everything. Trash guys missed your bin? Blow em up on Twitter. Cable company shrinking your bandwidth? Blow em up. Instant results

My experience has been that HR stonewalls all efforts to use external recruiters due to perceived cost. Yet at the same time they can’t deliver quality candidates so a position stays open for 6 months; incredibly infuriating.

In Neal Stephenson’s new novel Fall or Dodge in Hell (spoiler alert), social media becomes all powerful. A tool is created to bombard so much artificially created negative content about a person being cyber bullied, that the effect is to drown out all real condemnation, thus removing the social media collective’s power over that person.

Sounds like an effective mechanism to potentially remove mass murderer’s ability to effectively communicate their reasons or beliefs. Since effective gun control in the US is impossible, it’s going to be out of the box ideas like this that might end up actually helping (besides god forbid some real focus on mental health in this country).

Source?

Maybe a gofundme campaign? The platform already exists and is familiar to most people.

Screen time for children? This is hacker news -the collective groupthink will eat you alive for that suggestion /s

My guess is either total comp, or hired.com metrics are biased towards the top 10% of candidates / shops.

Your viewing history is worthless. The aggregate viewing history and patterns of 50 million viewers though? Seems to be a pretty valuable commodity that networks would be willing to pay for.

It does exist: https://www.hudl.com/

Lots of your local and state tax money for high school / university sports programs gets dumped into it

If that’s your belief, why bother doing anything productive at all like earning a paycheck or learning a skill. What if you’re wrong? What does that cost you?

Not only is it great work, it's greatly named work. He's brought such gems to the community as "Experiencing SAX:..." and "Hot SAX", and "Group SAX".

They specifically used names with minor revisions or tweaks in some of those cases to discourage folks from thinking to recertify the whole vehicle. 1.1 for example was basically an entire new vehicle - physically bigger and revamped avionics throughout. No customer wants to be the first to put their three hundred million dollar satellite on an untried platform, but a 0.1 difference? Meh, that’s practically the same thing!

Imagine a Venn diagram where there is no overlap

Two reasons why this is interesting:

1. 2+ million plays on spotify, and only 12K in royalties? That seems like a pittance.

2. Provides a good indication of popularity of various streaming services. Spotify has the clear edge, with only Pandora, and surprisingly Apple Music, able to shake a stick at them.

Ok, three reasons. Who the heck still uses Napster?

I think you’ve accurately described the vast, vast majority of production code that’s hasn’t been through a second wave of engineers/management and rewritten. If it works, and requirements aren’t changing, then your MVP has become the gold standard

To be fair, they are operating at a scale probably unmatched anywhere (Facebook?). There isn’t exactly a well trodden path for them to fall back on.

What I value from DataDog are the vast number of integrations available. Want to monitor and alert on prometheus endpoints? No problem, just set up a little config. Want to monitor your EC2 nodes? No problem just link up your AWS account. Want to monitor k8s, etcd, nginx? Cool, no problem, there's a thing for that too.

If Logs Insights can match the simplicity of integration that DD and the like services provide, then those services had best watch out. On the other hand, DD's dashboards are pretty slick and I can't imagine AWS's utilitarian UI/X ever competing. I wonder if that is a big enough differentiator. DD can get really expensive as well, but I'd love to see some comparisons on price.

Phillip Morris makes money, where’s its value add?

True, and the lesson to be learned from North Korea is to depose despots with nuclear ambitions early.

> every dictator in the world now knows that apart from the threat of nuclear war, the American military's capabilities are far more limited than some perhaps had thought

Every dictator in the world fears an American military attack, because they will undoubtedly be overrun and dethroned. Look at how Ghadafi and Saddam tried to bend over backwards to show that they had no WMDs. American military prowess is second to none by a wide, huge margin.

A small occupying force like those allocated to Iraq/Afghanistan after the initial invasions simply can not defeat guerrilla warfare. The lack of post-invasion plans doomed these conflicts, but the initial dictators/governments had no chance of survival.

I used to work at SpaceX on avionics software, in a role very similar to OP, and my experience was similar in some respects.

The tech and products were complex. The turnover rate was high and training new hires was a lengthy process. The new projects coming down the pipeline never ceased (this was during a period where FH/F9-1.1/Dragon/Crew was all under design/development and constant iteration).

It was fun for a young engineer, but burnout is real.

*WarpDrive was actually pretty impressive given the amount of stuff that it did.

From the article, it seemed like the “tech” is just text messages triggered based on flight paths of aircraft. How does that translate to killing more people?