scottbruin

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Comment · 3 years ago
Or you can view it as marketing spend. Getting lots of attention online from SWEs circa 2016 is far from a bad thing for a dev tools company.
Comment · 4 years ago
That’s kind of like saying an IDE has no clear productivity benefit when authoring software. It’s an IDE for note-taking.
Comment · 4 years ago
We're in a golden age of note taking so I'd check out some of the stuff in the "second brain" space. Obsidian, in particular, is like an IDE for notes that you can customize (e.g. note templates, YAML front matter, plugins that will parse the frontmatter and generate tables dynamically, etc)
Comment · 4 years ago
Going with the point re: cursor links, if your URLs look something like this then they would be shareable and more stable than page=11.

  ?startWith=<item_id>&sortBy=<alpha|datetimedesc|whatever>
Comment · 4 years ago
A student or intern (first-year resident) doing your surgery in orthopedics would be pretty shocking. If that’s really the case you should be upset.

In teaching hospitals in the US, orthopedics is a 5 year residency (after 4 years of med school). Technically residents are in training but they are MDs.

Oftentimes (again in teaching hospitals) attending surgeons (the person whose clinic you went to) might “run two rooms” in parallel. Usually because there is a lot of prep time, anesthesia time, etc so they offset patients allowing them to tackle more cases in a day.

To the general public this sounds super horrible but in practice you were likely operated on by a 4th or 5th year training, ie someone with 12 years of medical training if you include premed undergrad. And the attending was likely in the room and maybe even did the hard bits of the surgery.

It’s a tricky balance because running two rooms ultimately may keep costs down (more productive, etc) and can provide more opportunities to train the next generation of surgeons.

Source: family in orthopedics.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Bill.com seems widely used and liked by AP departments.
Comment · 7 years ago
AWS Fargate may be interesting as you can use containers but don’t need to manage VMs. There is support for scheduled tasks as well. I’d consider looking for convenience CLIs or wrappers on top.
Comment · 8 years ago
Queue management, albums as first-class, actually useful social/discovery features—so much good. RIP Rdio.
Comment · 9 years ago
FYI Kowloon refers to the peninsula part of Hong Kong which is incredibly, not to be confused with the removed walled city (the area of which is being redeveloped IIRC)
Comment · 11 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
What kind of quality shoes? Good dress-y shoes can be resoled so they should last more than 4 years.
Comment · 11 years ago
I used to like the aesthetics of naked domains but after having dealt with DoS issues and integrating a CDN, I'd say it's better not to use one for future flexibility. Since you (mostly) cannot use a CNAME for a naked domain, things can get difficult in certain types of setup that you might want down the road.
Comment · 12 years ago
Hey, I tried this out. There are some solid playlists in there.

A couple things I found confusing:

- I don't have flash installed in Safari (comes packaged in Chrome) and there was no explanation as to why music didn't play back when I was in Safari

- initially Rdio playback was limited to 30s samples even though I had my Rdio account linked. I think I fixed this by logging into Rdio in the same browser session, but not certain

Comment · 12 years ago
We've had issues with saturated upstreams and then been negotiating new ISP connections. All the ISPs I've asked (Level3, NLayer, Cogent) won't put an active restriction to only CDN blocks upstream.

The ISPs will help during a DDOS but response times are slow and we haven't tried getting them to put this type of block in place yet.

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