Viewing profile — lojack

> This post is a advertisement same thing you said but in a different context... sir, this is a hackernews

Lets see: We have GitHub, and GitHub Enterprise Server, and a GitHub API. Then there's the command line and a desktop version, and one that is just browser based I guess. Then you …

Definitely not a prompt and pray type thing, though you can do that if you choose. It shows its work, in the newest version there's three modes (planning, executing, auto accepting…

> The reason for this law is simply to bring the various agencies under executive authority in line. Just to be very clear, since it actually matters... this is an executive order,…

> In every place I’ve worked, outside of independent contracting, the sales person didn’t do the trench work. Have you ever worked at a place where the sales people promised featur…

The first time I had the plug pulled on a public API a product I worked on used sucked pretty bad. At this point its happened to me so many times that its just another line item of…

> Anyone who's ever had to work on a system that had copious unit tests deep within will know the pain of not just changing code to fix a bug, but having to change a half-dozen tes…

As with all music recommendation engines, I want the ability to remove things from the mix. I have zero interest in music similar to Kidz Bop, it's just something I happen to play …

Interviewers tend to have one of two different mentalities... Some are trying to see you fail. They're looking for a reason to say "no". They tend to not be of any help on a proble…

but is a traditional database cryptographically secure? if a super user with write permissions (or, say, direct access to the physical data store) modifies records are users able t…

I also said: > Similarly, the work OP is doing may be much less important than they think it is.

Good leadership that sets clear direction and initiatives followed by good middle management that takes these initiatives and disseminates it into something relevant and actionable…

> is probably one request in a long queue of requests that team is dealing with You've explained away the crux of the problem without even identifying it as a problem. Queues are a…

correlation != causation OP was commenting on why there may not necessarily be a causation, and you commented on how the doctors tend to think there's a correlation. It just as wel…

Does removing PII preclude data from being surveillance?

Unless they're self hosting, this might even be a super easy thing to add. With AWS and many other cloud providers this is either the default or a simple checkbox.

I don't even necessarily think its just leaving your baby alone with other people. Pre-covid with a I suspect there has always been pressure to not leave your baby with someone els…

> I've done the math on my local lotteries and I only buy tickets when the EV of the return is greater than the cost of a single ticket. If you want to get really technical, you al…

> Good developers are the ones that create code that resists the slide from a 10x code-base to a 0.1x code-base. 10x is 100 times bigger than 0.1x FWIW. > but I argue that it is at…

> for time-beating purposes, it is optimal to instantly guess as soon as you identify that a guess is necessary Often that is the case, but sometimes you reach a point where you ul…

I think you misunderstand... Obsidian is precisely a personal wiki for me because thats exactly what I want. I don't even attempt to argue that I'm doing Zettelkasten in any way sh…

> and no one seems to be able to explain to me why it's not basically just a wiki That's actually precisely what it is for me. It's just an easy to use, lightweight, wiki that uses…

I use Obsidian (which is inspired by Roam). I know some people may use the graphs, but I personally have that functionality disabled. The real important bit for me is the fact that…

We're using Heroku where I'm at and looking to move off of it for a number of reasons. Review apps are one of the great things about Heroku, but once your team is above a certain s…

I think this is super helpful, I definitely don't think all scores on the Joel test are equal. I would steer very clear of a company that had an 11 on the Joel test because they di…