mcfunley

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• Fell in a Hole, Got Out

  by mcfunley on 7/12/2025, 4:57 PM with 3 comments

• The Omniscience Expectation and the Mardenfeld

  by mcfunley on 3/5/2025, 12:50 AM with 0 comments

• by mcfunley on 3/3/2025, 3:39 PM with comments

• On Misery

  by mcfunley on 1/12/2025, 6:00 PM with 3 comments

• We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong

  by mcfunley on 1/11/2025, 5:13 PM with 1 comments

• The Guerilla's Guide to Influencing Leadership

  by mcfunley on 12/20/2024, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• The Guerilla's Guide to Influencing Leadership

  by mcfunley on 12/19/2024, 5:30 PM with 0 comments

• Egoless Engineering

  by mcfunley on 12/3/2024, 8:38 PM with 298 comments

• The Guerilla's Guide to Influencing Leadership

  by mcfunley on 12/3/2024, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• Egoless Engineering

  by mcfunley on 12/2/2024, 9:11 PM with 1 comments

• Egoless Engineering: Misery Is a Dumb Strategy

  by mcfunley on 12/1/2024, 4:45 PM with 0 comments

• Egoless Engineering

  by mcfunley on 11/30/2024, 4:30 PM with 0 comments

• Egoless Engineering

  by mcfunley on 11/29/2024, 11:50 PM with 0 comments

• Egoless Engineering

  by mcfunley on 11/27/2024, 8:22 PM with 0 comments

• Egoless Engineering

  by mcfunley on 11/26/2024, 7:40 PM with 0 comments

• Egoless Engineering

  by mcfunley on 11/25/2024, 6:16 PM with 0 comments

• Egoless Engineering: Misery Is a Bad Proxy for Results

  by mcfunley on 11/23/2024, 2:20 PM with 0 comments

• Egoless Engineering: Misery is a shitty proxy metric for results

  by mcfunley on 11/21/2024, 8:10 PM with 1 comments

• I tried to use AI to read an AI book

  by mcfunley on 6/17/2024, 2:23 PM with 1 comments

• I Tried to Use AI to Read an AI Book

  by mcfunley on 6/13/2024, 4:16 PM with 0 comments

• I Tried to Use AI to Read an AI Boom

  by mcfunley on 6/12/2024, 3:21 PM with 0 comments

• I Tried to Use AI to Read an AI Book

  by mcfunley on 6/10/2024, 8:31 PM with 0 comments

• Google Reader Killed RSS

  by mcfunley on 12/19/2019, 5:33 PM with 42 comments

• Show HN: PugSQL, a Python Port of HugSQL

  by mcfunley on 5/29/2019, 3:09 PM with 53 comments

• Banning Nazis: A Policy and Technical Primer

  by mcfunley on 7/21/2018, 7:57 PM with comments

• Making Big Changes

  by mcfunley on 4/14/2018, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• Making Big Changes

  by mcfunley on 4/7/2018, 5:14 PM with 0 comments

• Making Big Changes

  by mcfunley on 3/31/2018, 9:47 PM with 0 comments

• Making Big Changes (2018)

  by mcfunley on 3/30/2018, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• Choose Boring Technology

  by mcfunley on 1/25/2018, 4:15 PM with 0 comments

• The Push Train (2017)

  by mcfunley on 5/13/2017, 3:36 PM with 0 comments

• The Push Train

  by mcfunley on 5/12/2017, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• The Push Train

  by mcfunley on 5/10/2017, 4:22 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Idlewords-inspired improved export for Keynote presentations

  by mcfunley on 5/9/2017, 6:30 PM with 1 comments

• The Push Train

  by mcfunley on 5/9/2017, 5:11 PM with 0 comments

• You Can't Have a Rollback Button

  by mcfunley on 3/3/2017, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

• You Can't Have a Rollback Button

  by mcfunley on 3/2/2017, 4:29 PM with 0 comments

• You can't have a rollback button

  by mcfunley on 3/1/2017, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• Mistakes You Apparently Just Have to Make Yourself

  by mcfunley on 2/24/2017, 6:11 PM with 1 comments

• Mistakes You Apparently Just Have to Make Yourself

  by mcfunley on 2/22/2017, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• The Happy Genius of My Household

  by mcfunley on 9/18/2016, 3:11 PM with 0 comments

• The Happy Genius of My Household

  by mcfunley on 8/29/2016, 10:01 PM with 0 comments

• No Way Out but Through

  by mcfunley on 8/25/2016, 6:14 PM with 0 comments

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Planning

  by mcfunley on 2/5/2016, 2:21 PM with 0 comments

• Do You Work at Amazon?

  by mcfunley on 1/27/2016, 7:01 PM with 0 comments

• Common Pitfalls in Experimentation

  by mcfunley on 12/1/2015, 6:28 PM with 0 comments

• Magical Thinking and Thought Terminating Cliches

  by mcfunley on 10/29/2015, 8:12 PM with 0 comments

• The Age of the Cockroach

  by mcfunley on 9/30/2015, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• How much is Basecamp worth? I don’t know and I don’t care

  by mcfunley on 9/16/2015, 5:23 PM with 0 comments

• The Pixel Factory: WebGL, GPUs and Math(Box)

  by mcfunley on 9/16/2015, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• What writers make in 2015

  by mcfunley on 9/8/2015, 6:50 PM with 0 comments

• Targeting Broad Queries in Search

  by mcfunley on 7/30/2015, 3:06 AM with 0 comments

• Choose Boring Technology: Expanded, Slide-Based Edition

  by mcfunley on 7/27/2015, 4:38 PM with 2 comments

• Great Teams, Great Products

  by mcfunley on 6/30/2015, 3:45 PM with 0 comments

• Failure is an Option

  by mcfunley on 6/29/2015, 5:10 PM with 1 comments

• FCC overturns state laws that protect ISPs from local competition

  by mcfunley on 2/26/2015, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• Re-Introducing Deployinator, now as a gem

  by mcfunley on 2/20/2015, 6:52 PM with 0 comments

• Call Me Maybe: MongoDB (2013)

  by mcfunley on 2/6/2015, 7:22 AM with 0 comments

• Taste

  by mcfunley on 1/25/2015, 10:46 PM with 0 comments

• Occupational Licensing Hurts Low-income Entrepreneurs

  by mcfunley on 1/19/2015, 9:43 PM with 0 comments

• Feedback

  by mcfunley on 1/6/2015, 6:22 AM with 0 comments

• Top Five Digital Media Launch Mistakes

  by mcfunley on 12/31/2014, 9:22 PM with 0 comments

• US Links North Korea to Sony Hacking

  by mcfunley on 12/17/2014, 11:15 PM with 104 comments

• by mcfunley on 12/9/2014, 5:36 PM with comments

• Back to Square One

  by mcfunley on 10/31/2014, 6:38 PM with 0 comments

• The Common Genius of Lincoln and Einstein

  by mcfunley on 10/30/2014, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• How Will the Universe End?

  by mcfunley on 10/29/2014, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• The Search for the Anti-Facebook

  by mcfunley on 10/28/2014, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• In Search of Uber’s Unicorn

  by mcfunley on 10/27/2014, 10:16 PM with 0 comments

• Stop Bashing Bash and GNU

  by mcfunley on 9/27/2014, 9:36 PM with 4 comments

• Data Driven Products Now

  by mcfunley on 9/20/2014, 7:51 PM with 0 comments

• Data Driven Products Now

  by mcfunley on 9/18/2014, 3:09 PM with 0 comments

• Thoughts on Five Years of Emerging Languages

  by mcfunley on 9/16/2014, 11:01 PM with 3 comments

• Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court

  by mcfunley on 9/12/2014, 6:14 PM with 98 comments

• The Lesser Known Normal Forms of Database Design

  by mcfunley on 9/11/2014, 5:20 PM with 0 comments

• [pdf] Style in the Long Tail – Best Industry Paper at KDD 2014

  by mcfunley on 8/26/2014, 9:19 PM with 0 comments

• Etsy Acquires French Marketplace A Little Market

  by mcfunley on 6/23/2014, 10:20 PM with 0 comments

• Opsweekly: Measuring on-call experience with alert classification

  by mcfunley on 6/20/2014, 5:55 AM with 0 comments

• Conjecture: Scalable Machine Learning in Hadoop with Scalding

  by mcfunley on 6/18/2014, 9:56 PM with 0 comments

• What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google

  by mcfunley on 5/21/2014, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• On Piketty on Capital

  by mcfunley on 5/2/2014, 8:01 PM with 0 comments

• Why Etsy’s Future Depends on Redefining ‘Handmade’

  by mcfunley on 4/9/2014, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• Advanced Topics in Continuous Deployment

  by mcfunley on 4/3/2014, 10:46 PM with 0 comments

• Manual Delivery

  by mcfunley on 3/10/2014, 7:56 PM with 0 comments

• Recruiting Designers – By the Numbers

  by mcfunley on 3/7/2014, 3:33 PM with 0 comments

• Scalding at Etsy

  by mcfunley on 3/4/2014, 9:53 PM with 19 comments

• A/B Testing Framework: Build or Buy?

  by mcfunley on 2/19/2014, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• We Don't Sell Saddles Here

  by mcfunley on 2/17/2014, 8:01 PM with 2 comments

• The Case for Secrecy in Web Experiments

  by mcfunley on 1/16/2014, 9:20 PM with 0 comments

• The Etsy Management Challenge: Building Sales While Protecting Culture

  by mcfunley on 12/10/2013, 3:03 AM with 0 comments

• Eject, eject

  by mcfunley on 10/4/2013, 10:41 PM with 0 comments

• Complaint against DPR detailing $80K contract on Silk Road employee [pdf]

  by mcfunley on 10/2/2013, 11:57 PM with 0 comments

• Eight Ways You've Misconfigured Your A/B Test

  by mcfunley on 9/12/2013, 9:03 PM with 0 comments

• Atomic Deploys at Etsy

  by mcfunley on 7/1/2013, 5:54 PM with 0 comments

• A Corollary to experimentcalculator.com, With Examples

  by mcfunley on 5/19/2013, 9:30 PM with 0 comments

• How long will your experiment take?

  by mcfunley on 5/13/2013, 8:43 PM with 0 comments

• How Etsy Increased Diversity in Its Engineering Department [video]

  by mcfunley on 4/18/2013, 3:00 PM with 0 comments

• Bitcoin is a Ponzi Scheme

  by mcfunley on 4/11/2013, 9:39 PM with 8 comments

• Do Paid Search Ads Work?

  by mcfunley on 3/12/2013, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• Programming is not Math [video]

  by mcfunley on 3/7/2013, 7:45 PM with 0 comments

• There's Nothing Pink About Interviews at Etsy

  by mcfunley on 2/14/2013, 5:34 PM with 0 comments

• Do something useful with those recruiting emails

  by mcfunley on 1/31/2013, 8:20 PM with 0 comments

• Etsy Acquires Mixel

  by mcfunley on 1/22/2013, 8:25 PM with 0 comments

• Google's Michael Jones on How Maps Became Personal

  by mcfunley on 1/3/2013, 7:49 PM with 0 comments

• Availability: Nuance as a Service

  by mcfunley on 1/3/2013, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• Kerning Etsy

  by mcfunley on 1/3/2013, 3:49 PM with 0 comments

• Effective Web Experimentation as a Homo Narrans

  by mcfunley on 1/2/2013, 3:30 PM with 2 comments

• Who Really Benefits from "Big Data?"

  by mcfunley on 12/27/2012, 3:04 PM with 1 comments

• A Little Perspective

  by mcfunley on 12/27/2012, 4:47 AM with 0 comments

• Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy

  by mcfunley on 12/26/2012, 3:54 PM with 70 comments

• Freshdirect's Domain Expires

  by mcfunley on 12/25/2012, 1:51 PM with 1 comments

• C++ Quirks, Remembered

  by mcfunley on 10/9/2012, 11:43 PM with 1 comments

• Scaling User Security

  by mcfunley on 10/9/2012, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• The Challenge of Developing a Capability

  by mcfunley on 10/8/2012, 1:52 PM with 0 comments

• The Silver Fox

  by mcfunley on 10/5/2012, 6:35 PM with 0 comments

• Continuous Delivery: The Dirty Details

  by mcfunley on 10/2/2012, 2:38 PM with 0 comments

• Can Etsy Go Pro Without Losing Its Soul?

  by mcfunley on 9/27/2012, 1:27 AM with 0 comments

• Announcing the Etsy Security Bug Bounty Program

  by mcfunley on 9/11/2012, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• NYC Dining: The Cost of a "B"

  by mcfunley on 8/26/2012, 10:57 PM with 0 comments

• Etsy Sponsoring Hacker Grants for Fall

  by mcfunley on 8/22/2012, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• Demystifying Site Outages

  by mcfunley on 8/21/2012, 1:39 AM with 11 comments

• The Making of Warcraft, Part 2

  by mcfunley on 8/15/2012, 7:13 PM with 14 comments

• Ding Dong, Daily Deals Are Dead

  by mcfunley on 8/14/2012, 10:36 PM with 19 comments

• Oldtweets: a service engine for the first year of Twitter

  by mcfunley on 7/10/2012, 5:11 PM with 0 comments

• A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it)

  by mcfunley on 7/6/2012, 6:36 PM with 128 comments

• Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It’s Supergrep

  by mcfunley on 6/28/2012, 8:31 PM with 0 comments

• Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time

  by mcfunley on 6/18/2012, 8:03 PM with 213 comments

• 38 Studios' Downfall: The Gamasutra Report

  by mcfunley on 6/1/2012, 3:33 PM with 1 comments

• Robots, Graphs, and Binary Search

  by mcfunley on 5/24/2012, 1:39 PM with 0 comments

• Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture

  by mcfunley on 5/22/2012, 5:06 PM with 0 comments

• How ETSY Is Changing the Way We All Do Business

  by mcfunley on 5/11/2012, 3:06 PM with 1 comments

• Etsy Raises $40 Million For International Expansion

  by mcfunley on 5/9/2012, 4:12 PM with 5 comments

• Lending Club Loan Analysis: Making Money with Logistic Regression

  by mcfunley on 4/8/2012, 7:36 PM with 0 comments

• Why you shouldn’t believe the theory behind Groupon’s business model

  by mcfunley on 4/3/2012, 1:45 PM with 0 comments

• Where's _why?

  by mcfunley on 3/15/2012, 11:45 AM with 0 comments

• Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent

  by mcfunley on 1/23/2012, 6:46 PM with 13 comments

• A Note on Bravery

  by mcfunley on 1/19/2012, 12:56 PM with 0 comments

• The Product Hacking Ecosystem

  by mcfunley on 1/4/2012, 5:28 PM with 0 comments

• Translation Memory

  by mcfunley on 12/5/2011, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• Why is Enterprise Tech so Far Behind Consumer Tech?

  by mcfunley on 12/5/2011, 12:17 AM with 0 comments

• Multilingual User-generated Content and SEO

  by mcfunley on 12/2/2011, 6:29 PM with 0 comments

• Dispatch Author Responds to the Scala Email

  by mcfunley on 12/1/2011, 1:53 PM with 10 comments

• Supreme Court of Assholedom: The People vs. Steve Jobs

  by mcfunley on 11/16/2011, 7:12 PM with 0 comments

• Engineering Social Commerce

  by mcfunley on 11/9/2011, 7:34 PM with 0 comments

• Bad Timing

  by mcfunley on 10/24/2011, 12:30 PM with 0 comments

• Your ORM Sucks

  by mcfunley on 10/24/2011, 1:05 AM with 1 comments

• Killing the Abraham

  by mcfunley on 10/18/2011, 4:19 PM with 2 comments

• Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right (presentation slides)

  by mcfunley on 10/5/2011, 6:48 PM with 0 comments

• Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos?

  by mcfunley on 9/23/2011, 6:38 PM with 0 comments

• Just Ship

  by mcfunley on 9/20/2011, 4:28 PM with 0 comments

• Hey, let's report errors only when nothing is at stake

  by mcfunley on 7/29/2011, 4:02 PM with 0 comments

• Cost of False Positives

  by mcfunley on 7/24/2011, 12:38 AM with 7 comments

• by mcfunley on 7/21/2011, 2:22 AM with comments

• The good, the bad, and the ugly of Google Plus

  by mcfunley on 7/8/2011, 10:35 PM with 0 comments

• Why PostgreSQL doesn't have query hints

  by mcfunley on 2/4/2011, 2:13 PM with 60 comments