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ttymck··on Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry
I haven't seen a postmortem or RCA from Crowdstrike yet. Do you work there?
ttymck··on Ask HN: Business logic is slowing us down
Right, this is why a bad PM is worse than no PM. "Just build this one use case, and since it's so simple, I promised it by nex week". Instead of digging deeper, as you suggest.
ttymck··on Ask HN: Business logic is slowing us down
But "YAGNI" has completely brainwashed the mind of "the lazy developer" so option (2) is seen as "resume driven development"
ttymck··on Ask HN: High Focus Activities
A Jigsaw puzzle?
ttymck··on Ask HN: Reasonable reasons to refuse coding assessments
So you're not looking for reasons so much as alternatives? I've never been in a position to dictate the interview process as a candidate. I'd view differing opinions on acceptable interview practices as a good indicator that the role is not a good fit.

Maybe this changes at 20+ years of experience, but I haven't gotten that impression from my professional network.

ttymck··on Ask HN: What Is the SQLite of Queues?
ElasticMQ: https://github.com/softwaremill/elasticmq
ttymck··on Ask HN: What Is the SQLite of Queues?
Notably not a persistent queue, correct?
ttymck··on United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency
So they should possess them but not acknowledge them?
ttymck··on Show HN: I made an SDK that lets you rate limit your APIs using a UI
> All you need to do is install the SDK in your code and it does the following

It also requires signing up for the service, correct?

ttymck··on Ask HN: How do you fairly split donations among an open source team?
This seems like it mostly tests whose code has the most test coverage, not which lines of code are most important?
ttymck··on Htmx: Simplicity in an Age of Complicated Solutions
> vastly underestimates what a good SPA can do

Such as?

ttymck··on Ask HN: How to grow a concert visuals business?
> then, I always paired up with people who get work

This is shockingly salient advice, and I'm surprised I hadn't heard it before now.

ttymck··on Ask HN: Is a 6 Day Work Week the new norm?
No.
ttymck··on Ask HN: Those who got layed off. Have you found a job?
> contractor to a major government agency doing enterprise API management

Glad your situation has worked out. This sounds like my ideal kind of opportunity. Do you have any search keywords, or perhaps tips on how to steer my career in this direction?

ttymck··on Show HN: Crawlee for Python – a web scraping and browser automation library
Can you link to some of the cutesy code? I've never heard this before.
ttymck··on YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable
Any tips or examples you are able to point for on this solution? I am coincidentally working on this exact problem at the moment.
ttymck··on California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA
Did MTR have a history of developing profitable mixed use properties around stations before they started developing profitable mixed use properties around stations?
ttymck··on Show HN: A Kotlin/JVM database client for those who want to write SQL
In the example

``` status = $status """ if (vip != null) { +"vip = $vip" } ```

Does that concatentation automatically add the "AND" to combine the where clauses? How does it know the vip bit is a where clause?

ttymck··on Ask HN: How Do You Handle "Power-Users" on an Unlimited Plan?
It sounds like your unlimited plan is not actually unlimited. You could take a page from telecom and "throttle" the app for users over certain usage thresholds. Put their requests in a queue, etc
ttymck··on Ask HN: Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep?
Doesn't postgres also access the disk in order to service queries which come over the network?
ttymck··on How AI Can help small Business to grow?
I was asking how exactly does a business use AI to "streamline operations, improve customer experience, and make data-driven decisions to support growth and success"
ttymck··on Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
Your buy a coffee link was not clickable on Firefox Android
ttymck··on Ask HN: How would you implement auth for a self hosted product?
How do you deploy keycloak? Does keycloaks load scale linearly with application usage?
ttymck··on Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll
Do you fly to Mexico city often? The altitude makes landings unusually eventful.
ttymck··on Ask HN: What are some knowledge gaps you commonly see for web developers?
What Kafka is well-suited for and how difficult it is to operate.
ttymck··on How AI Can help small Business to grow?
How?
ttymck··on Mexico’s anti-avocado militias
> We finally managed to recall the first name of our point person on the council

How do you not have at least a hand scrawled itinerary ready to prompt you?

> Uli joked about our holdup at the checkpoint, but Marcos didn’t laugh

Why were they so unaware of the severity of the situation?

Is it uncharitable to say their behavior makes me question the caliber of their journalism?

ttymck··on Ask HN: Are you aware of a sane path to selfhosted email server?
Sounds like maybe it's not a piece of cake
ttymck··on Own a weather station? We want your data
As opposed to purchasing a personal weather station, is there anything in terms of building your own weather station (buying a raspberry pi and sensors)?
ttymck··on Oklahoma Stakes Its Claim to the Tallest Building in the U.S.
Or, as it usually is, it's fraud.
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