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That's what I had in mind! The whole post is a claim that evaluating knowledge work got more expensive because cheaper measures stopped correlating well with quality. If someone wa…

Which means you can't select all on text which isn't editable - insane!

My blog is at https://blog.happyfellow.dev if you'd like to read it. I'm also the Head of The Institute for Type-Safe Memetic Research which website is https://typememetics.institu…

Author here. I wonder about that as well!

Of course practitioners shouldn't expect to understand the bleeding edge without investing a lot in learning the subject. However providing people with software engineering backgro…

It's closely related to another truth: Unconstrained curiosity is a vice, not virtue.

Thank you, this makes much more sense and it's a classic issue Matt Levine's readers will be familiar with. Allegedly being investigated is also quite far from "been manipulating m…

source?

You’re right, there are downsides like turbine you mention! We mitigate it by running a hot backup we can switch to in seconds and a box in which we test restoring backups every 24…

It’s incredible how much Postgres can handle. At $WORK, we write ~100M rows per day and keep years of history, all in a single database. Sure, the box is big, but I have beautiful …

It really makes me happy to know that my writing struck a chord for at least one person - thank you!

Yeah, I was angry when I was writing it, not denying it.

Author here. I did not expect to see my post on HN! It was a rant, I was venting, it’s not supposed to be an objective statement about the state of tech. It’s shouting into the voi…

Hah, thanks! I really wanted an optimisation rabbit hole and seems like this projective going to deliver on that :) I also tweet about the progress on @onehappyfellow if you’re int…

Learning Rust by building a simple database using it. I’ve done my share of programming languages (PHP, C++, Python, Ruby, Haskell) and for the last 10 years I’ve been working in O…

Just a normal deck is fine, you have to prepare it but it’s not a big deal.

You should play a lot of hands, or organise a tournament, for Figgie to really make sense. It's fun but I prefer to play in person.

For related background read the (horrifying) description of Leverage, a “research” institution with links to Zizians: https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-res..…