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I used to live under the guy that ran Lost Weekend on Valencia street. Held out till like 2014/2015. At the time I wasn't really sad about it but now I wish it was still around

Thanks for that! I'll have to get a pint next time I'm there (for some prog-metal in like two weeks). Concert beer tastes better in glass glasses too heh

Sorta sounds like Enneagram types is what you're looking for?

Finally a place for new desktop wallpapers after http://exoteric.roach.org/bg/ Also I would describe your server situation as "brave" and "a mood" (I mean that in the very best pos…

First, I understand what you are saying and understand the constraints keeping you at a job you have issues with. I've certainly seen organizations go too far on consensus even whe…

Secret third option: spun out of the Business School!

Data has always been plural! Datum is the singular. But actually treating it as plural is mostly a question of where the person speaking/writing is based. Americans treat it as sin…

Hello, yes, recent member of the HN note-taking crowd here. Throwaway meeting notes are exactly my use case. It helps that I do most of my thinking on paper anyway so I have a pen …

Hey komali2, why'd you have to go and describe me this sharply on a Saturday morning? Is it that I accidentally crowded you out at the Four Barrel pour-over bar and now you want yo…

This is what I hear out of Bangalore too. Maybe even further? Like you can command Valley level comp (or at least base+bonus) if you can clear the right hurdles. Though maybe in Po…

Some amount of post-install runtime loading is basically necessary on Android if you're using shared native libs. Can't remember off the top of my head what needs to happen but bas…

Yes! I've seen these called guardrail metrics. Having a single metric be the one to optimize works pretty well if that optimization is what you want. But optimizing a teams work is…

All infra teams eventually become platforms. All product teams eventually become experiences. When viewed negatively this is called scope creep. I don't know what it's called when …

The super power I see is not so much written communication as intentional communication. I try to get myself to communicate intentionally by having command-enter send my Slack mess…

Hmm... I think the idea with synchronous communication is very much the same as it is with with synchronous method calls. Synchronous communication lets you break your thoughts dow…

I sort of see what you're saying. When a person with Great Authority says that Something Needs Doing, I need to think through what I'm going to say about what I'm going to do. But …

Just got a three pack of Iroshizuku in! The tsuki-yo, kon-peki, and take-sumi. Only tried the first so far but it's lovely. Maybe I need to get the set with asa-gao soon? > it has …

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective. Flies a little under the radar. I'm definitely biased here (TA'ed the class that originated it). But by the end of it I left with a de…

Pretty much. I'm all about data classes so the code reads just fine. Definitely less boilerplate than something like JsonObject. But using Gson means non-nullable fields can still …

Hard same on the Kotin/Jackson sadness. Gson also has a bunch of issues. Really want to cut my code over to Moshi but haven't worked up the energy for it. Maybe we all just want to…

CMU's Compilers course (15-411)[1] does a lot of what you want. Students write code generation code in the very first assignment. A particular delight of this approach is that the …

Ah I wasn't even thinking about motivation! Yeah it makes sense that I'd have to start with motivation when I'm breaking down a perf problem. I'm reminded of the talk So you want t…

Ah dark knowledge through blood sacrifice. Was hoping they'd found an easier way :( Thanks for the pointer, been a bit since I read some OG John Gruber