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New comment by harterrt in "SQL style guide by Simon Holywell"

harterrt — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:20:50 +0000

Agreed. Fwiw, Mozilla’s style guide prohibits rivers like this.

https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/sql_style

New comment by harterrt in "SQL style guide by Simon Holywell"

harterrt — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:16:13 +0000

What would you change?

New comment by harterrt in "SQL style guide by Simon Holywell"

harterrt — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:14:38 +0000

Yes! I can’t see the point of enforcing fussing with indents to get a river.

New comment by harterrt in "SQL style guide by Simon Holywell"

harterrt — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:12:14 +0000

For comparison, here’s Mozilla’s SQL style guide: https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/sql_style

Leading with Data: Cascading Metrics

harterrt — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 21:27:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.harterrt.com/cascading_metrics.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39209648

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by harterrt in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

harterrt — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 02:10:34 +0000

blog.harterrt.com

Mostly data science - been slow lately, but I’m working on a couple pieces again.

New comment by harterrt in "Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’"

harterrt — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:30:28 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I want to hear more from him. Do you have a recommended book by McLuhan to start with?

New comment by harterrt in "ChatGPT vs. Bard: A Realistic Comparison"

harterrt — Sun, 14 May 2023 00:33:42 +0000

First time I've seen a good argument for tabs over spaces. Richard Hendricks would be proud

New comment by harterrt in "Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners"

harterrt — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:38:10 +0000

+1 to servicability. It's hard to get someone who knows how to clean my minisplits. This looks really cool, but I'd need to be confident that I could maintain my units myself.

New comment by harterrt in "Notes against note-taking systems"

harterrt — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 20:13:48 +0000

Probably he’s referring to zettelkasten systems.

Data Intuition Case Study: Grain-Free Dog Food and Heart Disease

harterrt — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:02:23 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.harterrt.com/fda-dog-food.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30390356

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by harterrt in "How should net metering affect your electric bill?"

harterrt — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:46:28 +0000

OP hints at this - but the problem seems to be net metering lumps capacity payments in with the cost of power.

Some markets run a separate capacity market that rewards power generators explicitly for their capacity - independently of whether they actually generate any electricity. (California's market (CAISO) doesn't do this)

A long time ago I was involved in setting capacity market prices if y'all have follow up questions.

New comment by harterrt in "Building a personal website in 2021"

harterrt — Sun, 16 May 2021 18:23:18 +0000

Writing is useful even if nobody reads it. Writing clarifies and sharpens my thinking. I have ideas I wouldn't otherwise have.

I wrote for the void for a long time. At the time, some folks on my immediate team found it useful. Now, a few years later, I'm still referencing those posts.

The important hard work was actually writing and polishing the idea until it was good enough to publish.

New comment by harterrt in "Opportunity Sizing: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?"

harterrt — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:39:37 +0000

Thanks for the note and I'm glad the piece was useful!

New comment by harterrt in "Opportunity Sizing: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?"

harterrt — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:38:47 +0000

Thanks for the note! Doing opportunity sizing early in the product life-cycle definitely helps with this type of situation. Though, I've found it only really helps when it's a forward looking analysis or (rarely) when part of a no-blame retrospective.

New comment by harterrt in "Opportunity Sizing: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?"

harterrt — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:20:12 +0000

Author here. I fully support prioritizing a project because it's fun! We need to own that rationale though.

In OP's situation, it sounds like their counterpart is trying to argue that this project is a "good thing to do" for the user/system. In reality, it's a bit of code hygiene that makes it more fun to do work (still important [1]).

That dissonance hides the true value of the work and makes it difficult to reason about.

[1] https://blog.harterrt.com/bad-tools

Opportunity Sizing: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

harterrt — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:53:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.harterrt.com/opportunity_sizing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26832752

Points: 64

# Comments: 25

Why Bother with Controlled Experiments?

harterrt — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:24:02 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.harterrt.com/why_experiment.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686256

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by harterrt in "Ask HN: What are useful OKRs and KPIs for SWEs"

harterrt — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:23:59 +0000

The other posters are right, we're not going to be able to give you general OKRs that work everywhere. It's important that your goals ladder up into your companies goals.

I just wrote a piece on how to break down corporate goals into something that's meaningful for you and your team [1]. If you're having a hard time figuring out what your goals should be it might be that your company's goals are too broad and need to be broken down more.

[1] https://blog.harterrt.com/cascading_metrics.html

Leading with Data – Cascading Metrics

harterrt — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:51:23 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.harterrt.com/cascading_metrics.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25364732

Points: 2

# Comments: 0