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I've found Anastasia Marchenkova's blog posts easy to read and thorough https://www.amarchenkova.com/category/quantum-computing/ I like her because she writes code for a living AND…

I made the switch over to “customer facing tech savvy person.” Think Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Account Manager. Pays slightly less (until you get 5+ years expe…

The Wikipedia article states that it’s a cover for a hat, not meant to be worn.

Psychological safety is 10% job security and 90% how comfortable you feel with the people you work with. Simple to understand, hard to make happen - you need to hire well.

How do you manage dev vs prod instances with sequelize? Specifically, do you use migrations for your local dB or just force sync it?

Keep in mind the lockdown is meant to slow spread so the healthcare system doesn't get overloaded, not to stop it. It is successful in this respect, and IMO a healthy balance of ec…

I consulted for a company named FlowCrypt last year. Best email encryption UX of any I've seen. Open source and free-for-most business model. Highly recommend for personal use.

I'd like the power grid staffers to keep doing their jobs thanks very much

At the volume and frequency they need to process, it probably makes sense to do something more complicated than MySQL...

Bitcoin

Here’s one data point: I would not buy a book with thousands of business one-liners such as “know your customer”

What did the author use to make the charts?

Maybe I've missed the boat, but what's the big deal about collecting telemetry? You already trust Gitlab with everything you store in Gitlab, like source code, which is presumably …

Why not do a slow rollout, starting at maybe 5% of product. Then you can catch and fix deficiencies without compromising your entire production line, and ratchet up to 10, 15, ... …

Link? I'm interested in using something like this at work.

What kinds of things do you need to check for that aren’t automated? Maybe I’m spoiled by our CI pipeline. I’d love to take a look at your list

I’ll offer some speculation with no data to back it up: quality of life is good enough that after a certain threshold of wealth people aren’t willing to work extra hours any more. …

Love this site! Did you use a front end framework/template to design it? It’s so slick.

Sure thing. I’ll typically make a few cards at first trying to test different aspects of the MM (general concept, example applications, given definition identify the MM, quiz any i…

I love Michael Nielsen. He's so earnest and thoughtful. His recent forays into spaced repetition have been an interesting glimpse into his thought process. I am a bit of a spaced r…

Curious how you implemented this. I bought a Phillips “sunrise alarm clock” about a year ago, but the light was weak and I didn’t feel a difference at all. Did you hack together so…

Could not agree more with this, especially for creative ideas or knowledge that is most useful when instantly accessible (ie mental models and facts/concepts that help with making …

Because that's what people with money want to invest in, because there is a potential market for space travel/tourism/mining, and because money isn't always allocated such that the…

React/node is what I use for side projects. React is pretty annoying to set up yourself since it needs to be compiled, so use https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app to spin u…

Comments on the thread ( https://twitter.com/ali01/status/1078647601371799554 ) are generally useful.