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Based on my experience and conversations with friends, my impression is that companies with strong engineering cultures don't focus on time tracking, unless they're billing clients…

Not that I'm looking to hire one, but when a non-technical company like Southwest has a meltdown, and they can't fix it on their own, who do they call? Is it big consultancies or a…

There might be some open source tools that use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing , which allows you to set a threshold for a number of people in a group with …

Citymapper incorporates transit delays/outages. When I switched from using Google Maps several years ago, they didn't, and I haven't had much of a reason to switch back. Big differ…

Broadly, I've seen two different families of engineering job titles in the wild. What I think of as the "startup" or "high tech" family typically just has levels of engineer: junio…

Out of curiosity, what's the legality of using a brand name in a domain? Does Dell have any standing (copyright?) or is this covered (in the US, anyway) under existing free speech …

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I liked "Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter but I'm not well-read in the area: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/477.Collapse_of_Complex_...

This is as far as my lay understanding goes: the idea was that you could better handle potential outbreaks by creating potential outbreaks in a lab, and studying them there. If you…

I always thought it was a reference to valuable stuff picked from trash, which I understood to be slang from sanitation workers, but apparently that's local to the NYC area.

that's really cool, I've been playing w/ Shamir a bit. I noticed I could change the last character of one share and still get back the secret. not every replacement character worke…

or safari

How do you measure neutrality?

I loved Simple when it started, but had to transfer away in 2018 after they rolled out some new security system which started flagging withdrawals from nearby ATMs, at stable local…

The Better Business Bureau logo in the footer actually made me more dubious.

Just listened to this Bloomberg podcast, where they interviewed Viktor Shvets on the meaning/implications/future of negative interest rates: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/20…