nirvanis

Hi, OP here. Thanks for this.

I don’t seem to have cracked the Hacker News writing formula yet. A few years ago I got similar feedback, but for the opposite reason: people complained that my English felt awkward because I’m not a native speaker. This time I asked an LLM to smooth out the wording, and it seems I accidentally outsourced my personality too.

The content and research are mine. I spent a few hours trying to collect all the moving pieces into something I wish I’d had as someone returning to frontend after many years away. It was just meant to save a few fellow dinosaurs from opening 47 tabs and wondering why they suddenly need seven package managers.

Key Limitations [...] Perfect adherence to schedules in public transport, unlike real-world variation

LOL

Somewhat related tip: prepend LANG=C to many console commands such as grep to speed up many tools processing large files, as they will assume ASCII input (which is probably what you have in most cases)

It's more common than we imagine. That's usually the start of many of the historical network incidents. The important part, as usual, is to make sure the remediations of such incidents focus on how to limit blast radius of small changes, and how to accomplish that without imposing artificial gatekeeping and bureaucracy into the change process.

I have around 18 hours per week of prebooked meeting time (1:1s, team meetings, planning, 1:1 with manager, sync meetings with different cross initiatives, interviews, candidate screening, etc).

I have observed that my biggest productivity killer are not those meetings (I try to make them useful for me and I try to make sure they are useful for everyone). The biggest problem comes when the time around them is very fragmented. For me, a week with 30 hours of meetings can be more productive than a week with 15 hours if I manage to defragment the time around them.

I have recently worked with my team and other peers to put an effort to defragment my calendar by batching predictable meetings together (this is a process I repeat every 6-12 months) and I feel an immediate boost in focus.

My rule of thumb is trying to make sure I get daily focus slots as close as possible to length X where X is:

X = ( (40 hours) - (prebooked hours in meetings) / (5 weekdays) )

In my case (40-18)/5 = 4.4 hours. I currently have two 4-hour slots monday and tuesday, a 5 hour slot on wednesday and a 3 hour slot on thursdays. Not bad. But that degrades quickly!

I'm from Barcelona (but abroad now). The whole bus system is being revamped (for the last 4 years) and is being done gradually.

It's been a painless transition for most. In general, the amount of transfers to reach a destination has dropped, the average speed of bus routes has increased and the frequency of the revamped lines is better than the old ones.

Basically, the buses "adapt" to the grid following "horizontal", "vertical" and "west-east diagonal" routes (as much as possible).

The streets the buses run on are either main streets (those that will be the veins of the supergrids) or pacified streets with dedicated lanes (in some cases reverse direction lanes [such as Carrer Pi i Molist]).

The transition, as I said, is being implemented gradually, with very intensive campaigns informing impacted neighborhoods. IIRC, 50% of the new routes are in place. New ones are introduced twice a year approx.

Regarding your comment about the intersections in Eixample... I bet you will not find anyone in Barcelona who does not love them. They make the city open. And even if it seems impossible, there are occasions when they can be used to make the neighborhoods come together: http://eldigital.barcelona.cat/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/en...

:)

I hate to be that guy, but I believe I need to share this. I was amongst the "lucky" ones who managed to get one of the phones of the first batch they sold (my Serial Number is lower than 1500). After using the phone for 20 minutes, I realized that the OS is _very_ far from being usable. I was able to spot more than 10 bugs that would prevent any regular smartphone user to use Ubuntu Phone as a replacement of a rudimentary smart phone.

I guess we will have to wait/help/contribute a lot to get it closer to an acceptable quality level.

In the meantime, I wonder if there is any way to install Android on the Ubuntu Edition E4.5.

Practical Makefiles: nice oxymoron.

On a semi-related note: Man Pages in HTML that do not look ugly: http://linux.bar/man1/memusage.1.html

No.

Good job! Which card manufacturer are you using?

I've yawned between 10 and 15 times while reading the article...

Trust me, Nenad is not a bot :)

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Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, Spotify is a Swedish companies, but we have several engineering offices in the US and in Europe. The current openings are listed on spotify.com/jobs