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A professional sports organization that employs ~500 players total is irrelevant to corporate hiring practices.

This is a real benefit of public corporations: anyone with significant ownership is public. The names of the owners and executives are trivial to find.

Google, with the monopoly profits it commands in search, can afford to subsidize everything else. A startup that does one thing cannot.

Better late than never - Google and Apple have since added OS level clipboard protection and notifications.

I immediately thought of this Vox breakdown of rhyming in rap. https://youtu.be/QWveXdj6oZU

If you pick a technology to deploy within a company, you need to own the outcomes of that choice.

“I didn’t know” isn’t an acceptable excuse. When faced with unknowns, it’s your job to anticipate, mitigate, uncover problems, etc.

No one can know everything. That’s a fact. But these issues with Neo4j aren’t exactly hard to find. There are loads of folks who have talked about their negative experiences with it. Setting up a proof of concept would confirm them.

Yes, the show is clearly History channel schlock. But classify it as fiction? Give me a break. This is a waste of everyone’s time.

It was once widely believed that for the body to be healthy, it needed the right balance of “humors”: black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. That was partially right, but mostly wrong. We don’t believe that model any more.

It’s always valuable to reassess common knowledge. That is the heart of human progress.

Dick picks are the only infinitely renewable resource on this planet. Pretty sure Stable Diffusion isn’t the reason.

> They urge caution: gamification can steer the behavior of software developers in unexpected and unwanted directions.

Adding streak counters steers behavior towards maintaining streaks. That’s unexpected?

Is it time to bring back web rings?

From what I can tell, the author is incorrect about the example given in "Optimizer gremlins". I tested an example on my own data and micro-partition pruning was active.

The issue with dbt models in Snowflake is that if you ever perform a full-refresh and don't sort it, you ruin any natural clustering that arises from an incremental model. I've run into this issue many times. Auto-clustering gets too expensive at scale and Snowflake doesn't give you much guidance on alternatives.

This "Slotted Counter" approach optimizes for a write-contention constraint, specifically row locks. From 10 seconds of Googling it seems InnoDB has other locks it uses on INSERT, I'd first check if moving the write contention to gap locks actually helps or not.

One side benefit of this approach is that getting the final aggregate is cheap, where compacting an append-only log table might not be.

We live in the richest time in human history for free, high quality text translation.

It’s all just Mandela effect and fans needing reasons to be mad.

There’s a notable “off-season” effect in TV subreddits. When there’s no new content but people still want to chit-chat, crazy theories and over-analysis start to get popular.

That’s not how anything in the consumer world works. If you want guaranteed volume and throughput, sign a contract for it.

dbt is great, but I'm not sure it's appropriate to manage objects in a production transactional database. It's designed for analytical, columnar databases.

You may also enjoy this post originally from The Witness game dev blog: The Nebraska Problem. It’s about how to arrange a series of sprites to avoid visible seam patterns in between them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7692332

This is practically misinformation.

This flavor of “fraud” is something I’d expect an activist investor or short-seller to address, not the SEC.

You only exist in this world because trees were cut, soil was scraped, and concrete was poured.

It's interesting to note that Facebook just decided to sunset its trusted contacts feature.

It’s worth noting that Luigi is no longer actively maintained and hasn’t had a major release in a year.

Just like in real life sports - high school basketball often devolves into who is tallest. That's a little different than professional basketball, where being tall is necessary, but not sufficient to compete.

There's lot available on the internet to learn about competitive pokemon. Something like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBw6UXAiq0A) is a good entrypoint. But even better - go to a competition with your kids! If they're interested, of course.

"Netflix sunsets an online publication about Netflix shows that no one has ever heard of or read" is not the MBA-led apocalypse you make it out to be.

TikTok is the only social platform where you can reliably train the algorithm and it sticks.

On Twitter, no amount of curation, mutes, or blocks will save you from screenshots of content you don’t want to see.

On Reddit, you rely entirely up to the mods of a subreddit. Once a subreddit gets too popular, the submission rate overwhelms volunteer resources.

Facebook is just garbage.

User control has a big benefit here. I want certain devices to sacrifice battery power in exchange for fast wireless re-connections over bluetooth. My headphones for example - I don't want to wait, use the bluetooth antenna all you want.

But I don't want that 100% of the time. With a power switch, I get my ideal user experience (fast reconnects) and I have control when to apply that user experience (on/off switch).

Get a high-paying job in FAANG and invest your savings.

I knew the writing was on the wall for Heroku a few years back. I had asked a group of Salesforce sales reps about Heroku Connect (two-way sync between postgres and salesforce - amazing!), and they had no absolutely no idea what it was. They checked back with their team and weren't able to get any information. We basically couldn't buy it.