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Been at 2 series A/B startups for the past ~3.5 years. It was a really fun 3-6 months followed by 3 very not fun years. My N is low, they were both non-Bay (NYC) startups, maybe so…

AFAIK the 90 day thing was more of a legal thing than something the companies themselves wanted to enforce?

What makes you say this is 80:20? The thing that got him out of the funk was fixing a minor UI issue: > Once he asked me "Father, what is this thing in the list of things I can ord…

> Not only does that seem relatively simple I haven't thought about this too deeply, but I think "simple" is overstating it. Being able to turn on versioning for any table by basic…

Had no idea until recently that MariaDB supported this out of the box. Does anyone have experience using this? How does it compare to https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal ?…

Can't tell if serious...

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I meant expand on how those things make code easier to understand, not why unit testing causes you to adopt them.

Yes but discovering those hypothetical defects is usually less important than discovering the actual, currently present defects.

Compared to integration testing and end-to-end testing.

> Loosely coupled code is also easier to reason about and easier to refactor. Can you expand more on this? I think this is where the author would disagree. E.g., how is the code ea…

Yeah, I think that's what's missing for me too. Like, what do they expect LeCun to be doing instead? I guess it's possible to suggest that, given the lack of diversity in training …

A theory I've heard is that any kind of diet is useful for losing weight, because it forces you to think more carefully about what you're eating. But ditto, I've lost 50lbs twice i…

Switching between pages is pretty hit or miss for me in Notion. If it's a page I've been to recently it's very fast, but it's noticeably slow on some page loads. hey seems consiste…

Not measuring but just going off of my memory, hey feels subtly but distinctly snappier than discord.

Yeah, maybe it's different the further you are from the US or something, but from my use of hey, I have no idea what these people are talking about. It feels about as snappy as mos…

The implication being that the NYT wants to use real names to drive clicks and appease advertisers?

IME it does deliver. Not necessarily directly (like, you're not going to come up with an action plan white meditating), but, over time, it helps cultivate a state of mind where tho…

Maybe, but the article is kinda just saying that -- I don't see the quoted sentences from the instructors as evidence that they just want to suppress anger or think that anger is a…

>In many programmes, students learn that emotions such as anger, anxiety and fear stem from reactions in a brain region called the amygdala. They are taught that mindfulness helps …

> I've seen it suggested in other articles here before that mindfulness programs for employees are often a way for employers to try and get their staff to be more accepting of crap…