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Great article. Health checks often seem like an afterthought in most applications.

Never had psychosis but have had a few major depression episodes (sleep all day, lose a bunch of weight, get stuck in a cycle of negative thoughts, etc). I did end up in the hospit…

First of all its not a misrepresentation of the memo. The memo states: > Users should log into applications, rather than networks, and enterprise applications should eventually be …

Good catch. It seems like they implemented binary search, but not the jump tables yet.

Your point stands, but the OPM breach was done by the Chinese government: https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/09/21/bolton-confirms-china-be... . It seems like governments have gotten go…

The US has social safety nets. Nearly half the federal budget is spent on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And there are numerous other programs: unemployment, housing assis…

I was given a 2-hour coding challenge once to build a language server for a programming editor. It had to implement 3 functions: 1. show help text (type/doc string) for a word 2. g…

Here's an app that simulates bad networks named Comcast: https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast :)

You might find freedom.to useful. You can block websites for certain times of the day and it works with all devices. I've found that if you can break the habit of reaching to some …

Also known as a honeypot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing) .

It's about keeping things in perspective. Sure explore the reasons or try to fix the backward slide, but maybe we should have a basic posture of gratitude. I suspect most of us hav…

And the richest person in the world 30 years ago couldn't afford a single iPhone because it didn't exist. Shelter 500 years ago was barely better than a single-room, unheated hut. …

For work I used to use Evernote, but these days I just have a folder of markdown files named by date. (20200208.md) Anytime I run a new command, SQL query or work on a new issue I …

The oil and gas industry is essential to the well being of billions of people. It's literally the fuel for the world’s economy. Without it we would have substantially less food, tr…

I've interviewed mostly at startups. I've worked in Boulder, Menlo Park, Austin and NYC. Once I spent quite a while in NYC trying to get a job only to give up, move back to Boulder…

Right. I'm not good at those kinds of questions. I can code quickly but rigorous thought takes time for me. I need to ponder a design question for a while or work on two or three p…

Indeed. That scene where he's running on the treadmill with a recorded heartbeat is so true to life.

Indeed this is something I've had to learn to do. I'll spend a few weeks working coding problems on whiteboards, practicing answering questions, clean up my resume, try to showcase…