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repler··on We don’t use a staging environment
Exactly. “Staging never matches Prod” - well why is that? Make it so!!
repler··on Be good to your mentors
Thank you for sharing this - I wish I had read something like this much earlier in my career.

Sadly I am unable to properly thank my mentors of 25+ years ago but perhaps I can still send a nice note to those who more recently are "someone who answers questions more than once.”

repler··on James Webb is fully deployed
How often do you look at exterior photos of the Hubble?

Secondly, do we collectively as smart people honestly care what the ivermectin crowd thinks about exploring the cosmos?

repler··on Betty White Dies at 99
I had a hunch we were on this timeline.
repler··on Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
NYTimes has some pretty great explainers:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/moderna-covi... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/pfizer-biont...

I don't think they are paywalled. Worth a read.

repler··on An UPDATE without a WHERE, or something close to it
This is all well and fine, but if you're going to go commando and update a production system by hand you should have a backup plan in mind before you start.

With SQL, that could be as simple as starting a transaction, doing your commando stuff, and committing it when you are satisfied.

But don't do that. Why are you doing anything like that in production. Why why why.

repler··on Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using medication and coaching
What are your plans for the information that got filled out on the form, though?
repler··on When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?
worked for Saturn too
repler··on 890M-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found
The age of the rocks it was found in.
repler··on U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry
There are a whopping 505 amendments for this bill.

Thank you for the direct link to the Wyden/Lummis/Toomey amendment.

I don't know how anyone can keep track of what a final bill would look like - seriously need something like Git to even keep up.

I think I understand now when folks in Congress complain they "don't know what they're voting for". They need better tools.

Here are all 505 if anyone is interested: https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/senate-ame...

repler··on You Are Not Free to Move Out of the Country
> The article lists expensive options for citizenship and residency permits before concluding that expatriation is impossible.

I seem to recall that retiring to Mexico has been extremely popular the last decade or so. I have to agree with your point - each country is a quite different experience. If retirees can make it work then surely someone with a career can.

repler··on Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
Yes
repler··on New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
What Apple SHOULD be working on right now is FaceTime for Android.
repler··on It is now 100 seconds to midnight
points for the hat tip to Watchmen
repler··on New York Fed Again Upsizes Liquidity Plans for Turn of the Year
> The New York Fed’s repo (repurchase agreement) loan program began on September 17 when repo loan rates spiked from approximately 2 percent to 10 percent

Here is some context on the September 2019 bailout (dated September 23), and they actually foreshadow that more intervention would be likely:

https://fortune.com/2019/09/23/repo-market-big-deal-400-bill...

repler··on You might literally be buying trash on Amazon
100% agree. Costco actively curates the products they sell.

They even have "roadshows" where vendors literally compete with each other to get selected.

Why this matters to me is that by doing so, they have earned my trust. I have confidence that if I buy something at Costco I don't need to research it to the ends of the earth. I know it will be of good to great quality, and competitive on price.

It's almost literally the opposite of Amazon in this regard.

repler··on Apple’s Activation Lock Will Make It Difficult to Refurbish Macs
There’s a reason why the ‘98 Honda Civic and ‘97 Honda Accord are the most stolen cars to this day.

Anti-theft features largely work very well.

Removing the anti-theft features from very expensive phones is going to be a non-starter for the vast majority of people.

repler··on FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes
> I'm fine with that. If its using 5G then it's not on my LAN and the concern in the featured article is no longer a problem.

Not on your LAN but still harvesting your usage data (a feature!), and still hackable (smile for the camera!).

repler··on The Hierarchy of Cringe
> What was the creative outlet of regular people before the meme culture? It feels so massive and unhinged that it almost makes me think that we didn't have anything equivalent before.

I was just thinking about this yesterday.

In the 80s and 90s it was popular to parrot moments from movies. Quoting them, mimicking them, or simply pointing at someone and drawing a parallel. In the early/mid 90s my friends and I used to make our own WAV files and we would even photoshop pictures every now and then.

Political memes are kind of like modern-day political cartoons in that they distill key points down into a very relatable and shareable form.

Human nature is human nature - I think it's always been around just using different tools and distribution methods. Kind of cool actually!

repler··on About the Apple Card
If the algorithm is (accidentally?) biased, how do you un-bias it without collecting the data points you are legally prohibited from collecting?
repler··on EFF is at a public hacking conference, publicly shaming individuals
ha ha I got downvoted. whatever guys. I guess charitable giving is dumb and I should stop.
repler··on EFF is at a public hacking conference, publicly shaming individuals
I'm still going to donate every month. I wish everyone would.

They do important work, and they're human.

repler··on Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
I couldn't agree more.

This issue is super duper clear but nobody seems to "get" it.

Too enamored with the idea of a folk hero to consider the fallout from a long view perspective.

repler··on Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
The whistleblower protections that Snowden did not bother to use are the same ones currently providing the spark for the impeachment proceedings in the US House of Representatives.

Really wish he had gone that route instead of the one he chose - and we'll never know for sure how pure his intentions were/are because of it.

repler··on Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
I guess now we know why Apple didn't roll this out on iPhones.
repler··on Broken
That cavalier attitude is fine for NEW features, but not for basic apps and foundations of an OS.

iOS 13 shipped with the Mail app broken. That's almost as bad as not being able to make calls.

Would a BlackBerry ever ship with a broken email app?

repler··on Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated
I feel like people get hung up on UML conventions and try to follow every process exactly and create every piece of documentation perfectly.

That was never the point. The point was to be able to communicate complex concepts in a way that people could understand and work with.

Bravo for having done that!

repler··on Surprisingly popular
Again? Party like it's 1799.
repler··on Jeremy, I think you'll wan't this job
Recruiters just parrot words they hear without knowing what they mean and always have.
repler··on Stripe's API was down
I think it's increased Cyberwarfare activity. It all started happening in groups right after the drone takedown over Iran.
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