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Ask HN: Does “work hard party harder” works?
Today I heard one of the successful person mention that to be very productive and to get very good at something faster, one should work hard at it. This will be easy to do if you are willing to put time and sweat behind it.

However what will not be easy is taking time off to "party harder". People underestimate this. Doing Some kind of activity which engages brain in the same way as it was engaged when you were working hard.

Has anyone experience this ? What would be scientific the reason behind this to work ?
Free snacks is all fun until somebody ruins it by deciding they can take an exorbitant amount of them home.
I've been a developer in both good and bad Scrums. Usually, the difference boils down to one or more of these points:

- Is the product owner any good? (physically present, has mandate, shields the members from company politics, open to story input from the team; like taking care of some tech debt or swapping stories around to fit developer needs, setting requirements that are not too rigid)

- Are the team members any good? (physically present, self-sufficient, experienced enough or with a buddy, communicate open and clearly with the product owner and other team members / disciplines, flexible enough to produce a balanced result within the requirements)

- Is the scrum master any good? (physically present, proactively alert for difficulties in the process or team, encourages interdisciplinary pragmatic solutions, expectation management product owner, balances the needs of the team vs the needs of the product owner, enforces 5 minute standups in the morning and a good but short retrospective after a demo)

- Is the project any good? (realistic budget and MVP, enough room for creativity in development and design, good reason for existence, stakeholders that show up for demo's and stay for the drinks after)

- Is the location any good? (a reasonably creative environment, preferably where stakeholders cannot make surprise visits, with an open floorplan so interdisciplinary communication is encouraged, with all needed materials and enough room on the walls for a scrum board, a burndown chart and to drown them in things like post-its, designs and technical schematics)

- Is the timing any good? (one to two sprints minimum to get the team oiled, not more then 3 days a week - so the other 2 can be spent at a lower tempo, no team members with large attendance gaps or shuffling people in and out, not more then 12-16 sprints because if the project needs more then clean it up, have some downtime, and start a phase 2)

I probably forgot something, but I believe these are the main issues that can really influence the success (and pleasure within) a scrum. One or two issues can be worked around; any more and the project is a drag or even a bust.
This is like saying it's rude to choose not to give all your money to charity - after all, that too is a choice that is only justified by benefitting the would-be giver.

Doing what you want with the resources available to you is a perfectly valid choice within any system - unless there was a corporate decree saying you can only use so many Tejava bottles, that person's not doing anything problematic.

Their behaviour may be an inconvenience to other people, but that behaviour itself is not the root cause behind the inconvenience. The short supply in the office is an artificial constraint, and could easily be increased at nominal cost, which the bottle taker rightly points out.
I suppose it heavily depends on what is considered impact and the right reasons.
I call them ninjas. They're quite common in my country, especially in dimly lit or not lit at all rural areas, usually coming back from work or worse - drunk from the pub. There's also a worse kind, the ninja cyclist, who rides a bicycle equipped with no lights while being dressed in black/grey and usually also drunk.
It's a blog post, not a Nobel Winning paper.
My cat has three legs.
Yes, and agile is a framework which ensures you can select your features and meet your deadlines.
I restocked the fridge at Blekko. Its a surprisingly interesting problem to solve efficiently, which is to say if you want to always have consistent stock of things people want. I had set up a model with a couple of feedback loops to set up orders such that the quantity on hand remained consistent. And adding in new things to replace things that were out of favor.

The toughest was flavored water which came in a variety pack but not all varieties were equally popular. If I could have the vendor make a special mix it would have been easier.
I rather be dependent on vendors' tooling and enjoy productivity than dealing with lower grade tooling for the greater good or whatever.

Be it Borland, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Oracle, OutSystems, Adobe, Qt, ...
As long as the author can keep his hands from injecting "Sponsored-By" headers into my responses, I'd call it a win.
They said that they will focus on supporting enterprise clients, so that’s probably where the money will come from. This is similar to what Nginx is doing I believe.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

If C is chosen from the exact same distribution as A and B, I wonder if the strategy works even better than if C were any other random distribution. My intuition says yes.
I wouldn't expect frontend to get random DP questions at any company (well you never know with Google..)

I interviewed a couple of years ago at Lyft (for a backend team) and definitely got FAANG-class systems whiteboard questions.
Yep. They always seem upset if anything is too popular.

Other pattern seems to be replacing something with a healthier variant, then removing the healthier variant because no one is eating it.
All of the venues used for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games are used extensively, the only two I don't personally know if they are used extensively are the Whistler Sliding Centre, and the Whistler Olympic Park.

Canada Hockey Place (aka Rogers Arena): Vancouver Canucks NHL team home stadium and concerts.
Cypress Mountain: Very popular local mountain for ski/board and snowshoeing.
Pacific Coliseum: Used for PNE, concerts, and events.
Richmond Olympic Oval: Popular skating rink
UBC Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre: Amateur sports teams and other events.
Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre (aka Hillcrest Centre): Now used as a rec center.
Whistler Creekside (aka Whistler Blackcomb): The go-to location for ski/boarding nearby.
Whistler Olympic Park: Unsure.
Whistler Sliding Centre: Unsure.
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All I know is that now I want to try out a bottle of Tejava
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The fed a private entity controls the printing and distribution of money into the system. The government gave them this power back in the early 1900s.

The government can easily print more money or have the FED do it for them. I'm sure there needs to be a balance in how much more vs taxes. Taxation is just a mechanism of control as is the current system. Wages in a lot of ways are slavery. You don't work you starve to death. You do work but don't work 2 jobs in some areas you starve to death.

You don't work on the plantation you starve to death or get beaten to death - it amounts to the same thing.

I for one would like to do away with taxes and the IRS as well. Instead we should have a VAT or sales tax system that would also ensure anyone visiting the country would pay. We could have an ID card so citizens get a lower tax -thus negating a lot of the anger/resentment about non-american's in the country.

Sales tax could adjust 1-2% each year based on balances and surpluses. Since all would pay the tax without deductions/etc more money would come back. The tax would ALSO apply to all spenditures i.e. hourly wages is taxed at the same 10% or whatever it is, investments taxed at 10% when placed, and the investee pays when paying back. If money exchanges hands there's a tax by the recipient of that money (not private exchange) but consumer-to-business, employer-to-employee, business-to-business. We also should up estate taxes, and land/property taxes in order to get the fair share from the wealthy.

With the sales tax though there's no filing except for businesses/employers for most things. People just don't think about it.

With UBI, sales tax, and universal healthcare combined we get rid of the following bloated bureactratic systems:
IRS,
Welfare facilities,
Housing Assistance,
VFA (give veterans a higher pay | universal healthcare),
Medicare/Medicaid (Streamlined into one org at least),
Insurance Companies
Medical Billers
Lawyers that deal with healthcare/insurance issues
Local/State welfare and ancillary services
Homeless Shelters (Make the only requirement for UBI be you have a place to live and are not homeless. Checks can be mailed to a physical address only).

I may be missing a few agencies...but I'm sure we could easily get rid of 5-10 million needless jobs. Lucky for them they all get basic income.
Is right about future actions the company should take, is extremely wrong about what he/she _did_ already, if one person takes all the stock intended to be distributed company-wide that raises thousands of red flags as team player, doesn't matter if tomorrow they get a magic fridge that has an infinite amount of Tejava bottles, I still wouldn't want that person near any executive positions in the company.
There was a time in the west when we build the infrastructure we watch decaying today. I don't think we had totalitarian regimes, concentration camps and involuntary organ harvesting back then.
You're right:

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-1-0-and-1-1/

It should be noted that DOS would theoretically be able to run on the base PC model with 16KB RAM. However, this was not an option in practice: The PC’s BIOS loaded the boot sector (from a floppy) at address 7C00h, which is 31KB, meaning that it was not possible to boot DOS on a PC with less than 32KB memory.
Ah the rescue board of FOSS projects, because some devs can't be bothered to pay for their tooling.
How to never be surprised by your AWS bill again
Look out for the second 2019 GPS week number rollover
Depends, are you willing to actually pay in some form for using it?

Donations, books, patreon, pull requests.
Is this specific to Microsoft SQL server or is it the same for every database?
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A subsidized vending machine is really powerful. The 25 cent barrier is enough to keep me from buying that candy bar that I don't reaaally want, and it thereby also ensures adequate supply.
That's fine for an argument in a bar, and not so helpful for people who are doing software engineering with code that is developed under multiple compiler versions. Or who build old code versions with a new compiler version.
There's nothing wrong with my sentence. It might be a bit informal, but "power use for a length of time" is a quantity of energy.

The decrease in speed you're describing is one time, not continuous. This is the issue both parent and I are pointing out. It's a shame to me that you aren't willing to see your error and instead resort to nitpicking, but I'm not going to try to explain a third time.
Almost any European country has, with a much smaller economy, better social wellbeing/coverage and a better high speed rail infrastructure (perhaps with the exception of the UK, unless they commit to HS2) so I'm not sure the comparison you should be making is China.

You don't need a totalitarian regime to get modern infrastructure. That's just a ridiculous statement.
The person single-handedly consuming 3/4 of the total supply of a beverage stocked for dozens of people isn't in the right. Sure, a company can supply more; soda is cheap. That doesn't make the guy in the story not an asshole here.
The company is obviously failing to meet demand, but there are also social rules about utilizing a shared resource. The person in question is extremely inconsiderate to preemptively allocate all shared stock to themselves. Did you see the argument they made? "Let me come first and take all of the popular snack, because otherwise other people will take some and I won't have enough.". That's defecting in a prisonner's dilemma-like situation; exactly not the kind of behavior you want to see in a team.
Right, it's bimodal. Absence or abundance; just avoid scarcity!
Somehow rachelbythebay links always seem to jump to the top of HN, no matter how banal they are. I never understand it.

Not being able to get the specific type of free iced tea that she wanted annoyed her so much that she saved an email about it for (presumably) years so she could make a blog post complaining about how mildly rude her coworker was.
The Advent of Next Generation Robotics
Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?
I'm always surprised how apparently not-deterministic SQL Server appears to be when it comes to performance.

We use for our apps Kendo grids at work which allows you to create any report by dynamically choosing the filters and columns you want. On the server side a query is composed from the parameters the user chooses, including only the columns that are necessary. The data source for the query is a inline table valued function (TVF).

At one point we had trouble with performance after going live, and it could not be explained by changes to the TVF. Even when we reverted the released TVF changes the issues kept happening.

A day or so later I was with a database expert one day long optimising the query (may I plug the excellent free Sentry One tool here?). Eventually we had optimised the query. However, when we put the query back into the TVF performance was down again. The slightest things that changed affected the performance.
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Put your car out in front of the street, put the blinker on and watch the traffic go around... takes about 20 minutes for a single lane two way to be removed out of waze completely.
Valve (maker of Steam) is another company that has been private since 1996.
Second paragraph:

> Some other companies have the same sort of thing going on. They don't always get the same name applied (sometimes they're just "kitchens"), but similar behaviors seem to follow them around.
But he's right in that echinoderms split off before much in the way of legs, fins and flippers evolved. (despite technically being members of Bilateria as someone else points out)
Ours are called kitchenettes. They differ from an actual kitchen in that they don't have real food, cooking ware, or cooking appliances (except perhaps a microwave or coffee machine).
I think it's a vicious circle. People want to feel safe on the road, so they buy a SUV or a truck because it's less likely to get smashed and squashed in a car crash.

This is probably also why "sport futility vehicles" like the BMW X6 or the Mercedes GLW Coupe have appeared: they are cramped inside and their off road performance is utter crap (too heavy, built for the road).
Are you sure you aren't being rejected for other reasons?

Generally, if you can finish any random medium difficulty leetcode question in 30 minutes, you are at the algo bar. But there's still systems, behavioral, communication, etc.
Oh, thats so british. "we want brexit, but we want a deal with all the benefits". Another reason to want a hard brexit yesterday. The british play this pick and choose game since they joined the EU. When push comes to shove, they end up siding the the US, not even caring about EU policy. And the EUR was also never really interesting to these classy brits. Sorry, but its time to end this, fast.
Great news!!
Is WDF obsolete? There is a book for Driver Foundation development.

https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/articles/article.aspx?p=...
Something like SQL's NATURAL JOIN? Essentially a relational "AND" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_(SQL)#Natural_join
I'd be more shocked if the headline was "Facebook Now Requires Ads to be Truthful".
For me the crazy part is reading all the other comments on this page.

- buy more beverages

- increase beverage supply exponentially until supply catches up with induced demand

- it seems selfish to hoard beverages for yourself

- it’s not selfish because there’s no rule on the books about hoarding

- switch to fountain drinks

- implement an automated, personally trackable snack surveillance system with badges

- stop buying beverages altogether
Text messages produced by Kurt Volker suggest that there was a quid pro quo [pdf]
Nginx does have paid-only features, so I don't really think your "purity move" hit the target...

The harsh truth is that even Free Software costs money to write, and developers should be paid.
And not just the gag order, there is limited reporting so you don't even know if the laws are or are not being used.
I wonder if it's possible to craft a non-gigantic C++ file which causes a clang frontend to crash.
Ah! I had that turned on. Thanks! What is the default for these experiments? I can see me turning that one on, but a lot of others are enabled that don’t make sense to me.
The other end is the conventional development method where each work in their own silos without a detailed idea of the others. This leads to bloated systems.
Yeah, it makes sense, a lot of the appeal of these places is tied up in their admitting the children of the rich and powerful, but it's still messed up.
You miss the point of the author. "Doing what you want with the resources available to you is a perfectly valid choice within any system" isn't valid social behavior when resources are constrained. That's how societies fail. This is called "tragedy of the commons", which author explicitly references.

Sure, in this case the company could easily increase the amount of resources at little cost. Then again, said person may then start taking a dozen bottles home, because they've already displayed antisocial behavior.

There are two separate problems here: one is unnecessarily constrained resources. Second is a person who defects instead of cooperating when faced with resource constraint.
I thought this document was so damning. What are your thoughts?
There are valid reasons for a "never rewrite history" policy, but their validity pales further you go from the master branch.

The thing is that in a lot of scenarios people need to do huge chunks of work in feature branches. Sometimes a 3000 line "refactor the world" squashed commit is really unhelpful. The best policy is always well thought of weighted case-by-case decisions.

However, on projects with a lot of hands on the keyboard such policy is unrealistic and someone will do the opposite of what they should and wont ask or discuss. People, especially in our business, hide incompetence behind aloofness and silence.

So in that case, with a lot of people that are hard to manage, stiff policy is the best choice and there probably are reasons why people want to preserve history, no matter how hairy it looks, at least it's there and you can find stuff in it.
All such value of life logic and cost figures go out the window with cars and alcohol. For our driving and drinks, we’re pretty much A OK with daily carnage.

Our society at large acts just fine with drunk driving deaths; looks like killing people while drunk is less abhorrent to us than trading photos of a teen.

I’m guessing it has to do with sense of purposefulness, malevolence vs. negligence, or identifiability with the commission of the crime?
No. Try to maintain work-life balance. "Work hard, party harder" is stupid statement that you rarely hear outside of college. Anyone still using this statement outside of college is probably not someone you should follow.
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It’s pretty bizarre, but I guess it’s instructive about the bubble many HN users are in.

(My company doesn’t have a micro kitchen...)
LOL. I did not realize "all" was not all. Jesus Christ. Maybe I will finally be able to figure out what is causing my program to crash.
"usually correct" is what the general media is, and they all usually have an agenda. Whenever they get it wrong, the process of commenting itself is a fact-checking exercise that s usually better than the "fact checkers" (case in point this thread). That nullifies the idea of factcheckers imho

I think the biggest issue with social media is: do not make truth a popularity contest
I understand your point but I disagree. Just memorizing does not help, but memorizing definitely increases the ability to gain understanding.

Connections required for understanding start to happen automatically when you start thinking about things you remember. If you don't remember the facts and fine details, your understanding will be shallow. Deep understanding requires going trough the facts and finding connections. Sources outside the head, like books, notes, Wikipedia and Googling can't make the connections. They are dead outside the mind.

Of course, if you are memorizing trivial facts, it does not help.
Is it because China is a totalitarian regime, you can just state untruth about it without feeling guilty or using your brain?
Barrow/compiler-warnings is a nice reference for all Chang and gcc warning flags, which flags implicitly enable other warnings, and in which compiler version they were added:

https://github.com/Barro/compiler-warnings/
That's because it was founded by billionaires and funded by the DoD...if you have infinite money, you can stay private for as long as you'd like.

Palantir isn't a startup, it's a defense company.
> even the original sponsor, Microsoft, never shipped a complete implementation

I guess mostly because they decided that in what concerns improving Windows system programming safety they were better moving everything into C++ and let others keep bothering with C.

And nowadays their are eyeing into the C#, C++ (with Core Guidelines analyzers) and Rust.

The exception being Azure Sphere, but I bet they will eventually add Rust there, as using C taints the security story of Azure Sphere.

The resistance among C devs to move away from micro-optimize every line of code while writing it down is too big to ever adopt one of those primitives for bounded arrays and slices.

Leading to solutions like ADI enabled SPARC Solaris, or the future Android devices that will be coming with ARM memory tagging enabled.
And the calls for breaking them up dissipate accordingly.
You can when you build new lines for your maglev trains.
Well, $25/per instance/per month is quite steep if you’re a small developer, especially not based in the US.
Figured a license change was in order given the Gab use case.
And according to Xi Jinping, you're probably a fascist.
My company is expanding an paying recruitment bonuses. So I try to recruit THEM. I mean our recruitment dept. is hiring too! Fantastic opportunity, signing bonus, etc. And it's all actually true too.

How much are you making? I can double that!

I've made a couple good checks and a the rest stop bugging me.
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For sure. Generally it boils down to a non-gigantic number of template instantiations or macro expansions that end up generating a huge parse tree.