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This is pretty cool - very close to https://shipula.userbugreport.com/ that I've been cooking up to make my own life easier.

Besides reduction to search — solr / elastic / Lucerne / xapian, which is the most common approach I have used commercially, my actual favorite is precomputation. At the moment, ke…

We’ve been using our own setup for 4 years now. https://github.com/wballard/starphleet We have 200 services, counting beta and live test variants. Most of the difficulties vanished…

That is the best comment I’ve seen all year. Bravo.

Hmm — fake analogy. Bridge fall down would be more on the scale of, a software install stopped all service permanently, self erased, and could never be restarted. Real software qua…

Control software for the baby oil and baby powder plant.

Same here. Totally agree. Check out the new weldment and pipe features in OnShape, just noticed this last night.

Ahh sweet Rhetoric! Arguments of sophistry and nationalism are not data, but bias. None deserve preference for the accident of birth. Over the whole course of the human experience,…

What works for me having managed 20 years now: -accept that different folks work at different speeds, measure success on dollars made or saved -- real business metrics -- not are t…

This is a cool paper, I love recommeender ideas. I've always set up a multi algorithm bake off for live systems. And every time, showing a block of popular links, either globally, …

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Interesting points, but I feel that the root cause of these process debates is one un-natural act: estimation. Personal opinion is that far too much energy is put into processes to…

Guys, rich people don't keep a Scroogey-McDuck pile, large concentrations of funds make venture possible, as it lowers the marginal risk. Try having our current startup fueled cycl…

I hear you, but that's not in your own interest to feel that way. Honor in this case is meeting your commitments, your explicit commitments. In this case, you are -- at least in yo…

"Let me check my confidentiality agreement to make sure that won't get me in trouble and I'll get back to you"

Hmm, so a raise in no way implies a commitment to stay. Raise your sights -- going from 'broke' to 'getting by' may be motivating, but not quite as lucrative as going from 'getting…