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e9··on Ask HN: Higher order derivatives in everyday life?
For a second I thought you are referring to kids(first derivative) and grand kids(second derivative) haha
e9··on What I don’t like about working at a remote job
“ walking around the business park on foot” <- you nailed it, looking back at my career, the 1-1 time I got with managers or my co-workers walking together and informally talking things out is what made a lot of things efficient. It’s impossible to do this over Zoom. It’s just awkward.
e9··on Soon, life for 40M people who depend on the Colorado River will change
Check out Earthships for inspiration: https://www.newmexico.org/earthships/

There is cool documentary episode on them on Amazon Prime, show called Off The Cuff and episode called Earthships.

e9··on Ask HN: PayPal dismissed my claim, saying I didn't provide evidence (yet I did)
I had similar issue with Venmo. Venmo told me it's my fault. I went directly to my credit card and after 2 month and a lot of evidence, credit card company sided with me. Venmo said I can't use their products ever again. Fine by me, I use ApplePay now (until they screw me over I guess)
e9··on Will AI target software dev jobs next? A new way to predict how close we are
currently AI can only base its solutions on what's been done or shown as example before, especially in coding, so if you replace all software coders with AI then you have limits to what it can do
e9··on Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates
It's harder to keep muscles as you grow old. More muscles is indication of good metabolism, which correlates with good health (less chance of getting metabolic syndrome etc, somewhat relevant: https://betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/metabolic-syndrome-m...)
e9··on JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques by Example
You can use wasm disassembler (like https://github.com/JoseFMP/wasm-disassembler) as a starting point to understand what’s happening. It would be much harder if it was obfuscated on top of that.
e9··on How “let it fail” leads to simpler code
Funny thing, I had same experience. I also built robust ETL. It was for ingesting and manipulating financial data from 30+ different banks and I also did Pokemon Exception Handling to make it robust.

In general my philosophy is: I don't want to wake up at 4am unless it's urgent. What can I do to gracefully handle failures to achieve that goal?

e9··on Ask HN: Do most SWEs actually code at BigTechCo jobs?
I'm here with you on this. Tried bigcos multiple times. Couldn't last more than a year. Nobody wants to do this job and that's why they pay a lot for it.
e9··on Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquired company?
Firebase acquired by Google
e9··on Even Doom can now run Doom
Or create inception type game play in doom where you don’t know how many levels deep you are from original game lol
e9··on Did People Used to Look Older?
Sunscreens are a recent development in human history. Yes we do have worse ozone layer and more UV gets to us but we also eat like shit. Antioxidants are the original sunscreen and protector from sunburns and skin cancer. If you don't have sunscreen or allergic to it then make sure you consume antioxidants in form of fruits/vegetables/supplements and hydrate with water regularly when you go out.
e9··on Ask HN: How do you ensure everyone on the team is heard on Slack?
That's right. Most people need incentive. That's how humans operate unfortunately and you have work around that to get anything done. That's why being good manager is hard. For example, if you make a competition to give some prize for most fixed bugs, they will get fixed. Yes some won't be fixed completely and you have to redo them but I guarantee you there will be more bugs fixed than if you don't have the incentive.
e9··on Ask HN: How do you ensure everyone on the team is heard on Slack?
Even if question seems unnecessary at the time, more often than not some junior dev will find it helpful once your company grows. It’s about preserving knowledge and no question is dumb at that point.
e9··on Ask HN: How do you ensure everyone on the team is heard on Slack?
To solve this problem for smaller teams I like to use private StackOverflow for teams: https://stackoverflow.co/teams/ The added benefit is that history of issues encountered is preserved for future employees.
e9··on Vivaldi Mail 1.0: Email client built into the browser
this was a sincere legitimate question from me, I don't understand why it got downvoted
e9··on Vivaldi Mail 1.0: Email client built into the browser
Is there a reason why you are not happy with current Opera browser?
e9··on Ask HN: Which programming games helped you become a better programmer?
www.codecombat.com is focused on kids but I found it great for beginners in general. You can choose to learn JavaScript or Python. I had a lot of fun watching and helping my gf go from 0 to being able to write basic JavaScript.
e9··on Rocket.chat leverages the Matrix protocol for interoperable communications
There are number of areas where scalability issues can come up. Most of them are usually due to not well optimized database queries. There was time when real-time data subscriptions were too slow for me with Mongo but now you can seamlessly add Redis for that and bottleneck goes away. Any particular area you are concerned about?
e9··on Rocket.chat leverages the Matrix protocol for interoperable communications
Yes! I’ve built startup with Meteor in 2014-2017 and came back to it this year for my current job and I want to say it is still the best. It’s the only thing that works out of the box. I can get designers and PMs running it locally in minutes and have them help make things pretty in css/html etc

Amplify: I’ve worked with Amplify but it’s not production ready, they change and break things and you have to intimately know cloudformation. Developers used to wait for me to fix the problems. It was taking a lot of time from me to keep things reproducible across all dev environments. You don’t have time for this stuff when you run a startup and you have to prove business is viable.

e9··on Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins
yes and a lot of these coins claim they are all backed but it's just a lip service, it's too lucrative to not do full 1-1 backing, you are right only something like US treasury can do it.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/tether-c...

e9··on Ask HN: What fun have you had with tech recently?
I started using Meteor again and OMG it’s so fun I just can’t stop building stuff
e9··on Bolt announces layoffs
a lot of popular and semi-popular startups are hard for some VCs to invest in. So some of them like ESO fund (https://www.esofund.com) will give you money to exercise and pay taxes but on condition that they'll take a decent amount of profits when you sell the stock
e9··on Master at Arms Badge for Boy Scouts (1925) [pdf]
I disagree. It shows a track record of success throughout the life and that you are not just "one time wonder".
e9··on GraphQL Is a Trap?
I never used GraphQL to access database or do anything with database. I honestly don't see value there. I only used it to replace REST API. It's great way to define typed API and let tools generate code so you basically use it like RPC and not worried about validation and route handling etc. Calling API becomes as simple as calling a function.
e9··on Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative
I got my node script working with Kestra
e9··on Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”
If they ban your account and you don’t know why
e9··on Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?
I had to modify FFmpeg for a job and I found it surprisingly accessible and easy to read/modify: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
e9··on Ask HN: Why do my online accounts keep getting banned?
Fidelity is the worrisome one. Someone could be impersonating you.

- check your credit report for any suspicious activity

- if you are tmobile client(or network that uses tmobile underneath), check to see if your SSN and DL was leaked last year

e9··on Ask HN: Why don't many video hosting companies adopt PeerTube or P2P?
Roku can probably provide this service given they control hardware and can provide SDK for the apps to do it.
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