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Genuine question: What in your opinion are the differences between a great and an average band leader? I've been making music as hobby for most of my life, and band leading is a to…

Kinda. In this context I mean "response SLO" - how much time you have between receiving the page and starting debugging stuff. I think it's also important to clarify; I've been on …

Personally, I also ask more questions about on-call: - is there a SLO? - what is the schedule? 24h is no go for me. - is non-business hours on-call compensated (even when there are…

I used to really like Spotify when I first installed it long time ago, but over the years they worked really hard to make me hate them with passion. It feels like their motto is "C…

Well, that's sad news. Wolt used to be the only food delivery company that had actually functional customer service. They replied swiftly, sometimes automatically even granted some…

I liked the concept when I first saw it but honestly it's more trouble than it's worth. On my old work laptop, it would sometimes bug out and stop registering touch. That's a probl…

> there's no great firewall of europe Not yet, but it seems someone is thinking about one, see: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...

Perhaps he gambled on the options being worth more. I don't know about all the companies mentioned, but Sumo IPO'd last year.

> What might interest you is all the psychedelics I did were technically legal. Shoutout to 4-AcO-DMT and 4-HO-DMT. They are both illegal where I live (Poland). The government main…

Not OP, but I've met people that seemed to sort of lost their agency and ambition, because their psychedelic insight was that the universe will sort everything out on its own. Thou…

> to not want to appear dumb Few production incidents are enough to change this mentality. I'd rather write more verbose but "obvious" code than "clever one liners". I feel sorry f…

Yeah, good luck when someone with experimental temperament decides to implement some of your crucial functionality with semialgebras. (that's what happened in my previous job where…

Actually Rob Pike said that Go was supposed to be "easy to understand and adopt": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwajp0g-bY4

> I suppose this is obvious but the traditional way of increasing prices is to lower the supply. I've been thinking about this recently and it feels like the current culture in sof…

Sidenote: I really like how this stops playing sounds when I change the tabs. It'd be nice to have browser setting that does it.

Similar situation in Poland. Also my anecdotal experience is that Haskell classes are not considered to be the most difficult, rather they are somewhere in the middle.

I had similar opinion to yours until around 2015, then things started to break randomly. To be fair, I discovered some good stuff via recommendation and I like other features you m…

Looking at title I thought it was rant about product quality. But it's not, so I'll provide mine. Since 2013 when I've started paying for Spotify it has turned from one of my favou…

> Don't worry about sanitizing inputs--extra effort slows you down. I feel like many people downplay how important this is. I've wasted way too much time because of this. Doing cod…

I vaguely remember learning similar fact years ago, but it was phrased something like "There are as many floats in [0, 1] range as in [1, infty]". Leaving aside where exactly "midp…

Another fun fact about this system: something changed in how the binaries are evaluated and one VST plugins I've downloaded months ago was marked as malware. The plugin is quite po…

> Git is one of those technologies where it's super important to get a good grasp of how to internals work. In my opinion relying too much on user understanding implementation is a…

I haven't used Windows in long time, but it feels like "the gap" was closed by Apple, by letting their system degrade. The high end 2019 MacBookPro is in many regards less reliable…

I don't think I will give this a shot anytime soon. I'm still unhappy about upgrading 2012 Macbook Air to 2019 Macboook Pro. The main reason for that is that audio setup seems much…

This seems a bit similar to Melodics[1], except open source and it actually uses the standard notation. I know how to read music and started taking classical lessons as an adult. S…