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harterrt

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About harterrt

Principal Data Scientist, Mozilla

http://blog.harterrt.com/pages/about.html#about

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42147674

    Agreed. Fwiw, Mozilla’s style guide prohibits rivers like this. https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/sql_style

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    Comment #42147641

    What would you change?

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    Comment #42147624

    Yes! I can’t see the point of enforcing fussing with indents to get a river.

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    Comment #42144123

    For comparison, here’s Mozilla’s SQL style guide: https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/sql_style

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    Comment #36594796

    blog.harterrt.com Mostly data science - been slow lately, but I’m working on a couple pieces again.

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    Comment #36420692

    Thanks for sharing. I want to hear more from him. Do you have a recommended book by McLuhan to start with?

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    Comment #35934225

    First time I've seen a good argument for tabs over spaces. Richard Hendricks would be proud

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    Comment #35139341

    +1 to servicability. It's hard to get someone who knows how to clean my minisplits. This looks really cool, but I'd need to be confident that I could maintain my units myself.

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    Comment #33100735

    Probably he’s referring to zettelkasten systems.

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    Comment #30193880

    OP hints at this - but the problem seems to be net metering lumps capacity payments in with the cost of power. Some markets run a separate capacity market that rewards power genera…

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    Comment #27175826

    Writing is useful even if nobody reads it. Writing clarifies and sharpens my thinking. I have ideas I wouldn't otherwise have. I wrote for the void for a long time. At the time, so…

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    Comment #26853964

    Thanks for the note and I'm glad the piece was useful!

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    Comment #26853957

    Thanks for the note! Doing opportunity sizing early in the product life-cycle definitely helps with this type of situation. Though, I've found it only really helps when it's a forw…

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    Comment #26853762

    Author here. I fully support prioritizing a project because it's fun! We need to own that rationale though. In OP's situation, it sounds like their counterpart is trying to argue t…

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    Comment #25398762

    The other posters are right, we're not going to be able to give you general OKRs that work everywhere. It's important that your goals ladder up into your companies goals. I just wr…

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    Comment #24931287

    lol, dang. Reverse psychology!

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    Comment #24931260

    Original author here. Super excited to see this on HN! That's a great breakdown. I hadn't put my finger on stakeholder or customer empathy before, but I agree they're critical skil…

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    Comment #24769947

    We can deal with this issue by running a randomized trial. Here's a link to a randomized trial [1] that establishes a clear causational relationship between Vitamin D and reduced a…

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    Comment #24769937

    Here's a link to the study [1]. It is a randomized trial so there's clear evidence that there is a causational link. Specifically, Vitamin D reduces the risk of needing ICU treatme…