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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
I have experienced a dive like this on a flight before. The airplane had some kind of pressure failure so the pilot intentionally dove from about 10k feet to 1k feet in 30 seconds or something crazy. Extremely scary, nothing communicated ov
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
The ambitious people who take 500k/year jobs at HFT firms are to top .25% of "workers" in some abstract measure, and have different expectations and causes of burnout relative to the median burnout experiencer who is for exam
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Disagree with what? I never said _you_ are a dummy for using distributed compute. There are many good applications for distributed compute. I used spark and flink at a big tech job. The stack worked well for some things, and for others it w
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
IC reports to tech lead manager (link 1). TLM reports to senior manager (link 2) senior manager reports to other senior manager (yes, this happens, link 3), senior manager reports to director (link 4) director reports to senior director (li
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
yea, I don't think the manager/IC thing is a point of leverage TBH. I think the real issue here is that you have senior managers that manage 4 ICS and 1 manager of a 6 person team, and that manager should just report to a director
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
its really difficult to do any kind of analysis without relational queries. The standard way you do this is to have an app datastore in DDB, and an ETL job that pipes your data into some data warehouse env.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
I think this is a great move. My understanding is that some reporting chains in facebook have 12 links between IC and Zuckerberg, which is crazy inefficient. Enormous organizations are able to run effectively with 5-6 links from IC to CEO.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
There are functionally less than 1000 organizations that currently require distributed compute for data analysis. You can get off the shelf AWS units with 1000 cores, terabytes of ram and storage, etc. The cost of compute has decreased fast
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Yea, that is the role. Don’t let anyone sugarcoat it for you. The point is to return value to shareholders. It’s difficult/impossible to do that while acting maliciously or without having gained trust so no one is trying to hurt people
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Our solution here to quickly manage out the folks who don’t build trust. Using a simple “yes/maybe/no” framework and have maybe converge with no in a month, you quickly get to a team with high trust.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
This is correct. Work like a dog and like you have a target on your back, because you do, and you’ll be safe for as long as possible, maybe even until retirement.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
This is exactly wrong. The people you want to take care of are the top 25% of your team. When you let someone go, it’s often because someone in the top 25% is complaining that they do not trust the low performer and the low performer increa
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Unless you’re a front of the field AI researcher or have other extremely specific domain knowledge in high demand areas then this is reality, get accustomed to it.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Yea. It could be! It’s my job to work really hard and have a huge impact so that option seems like a bad idea. I expect to one day be fired or demoted for someone better who can help the company grow more than I can.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Peer group: CEOs, VP eng, CTO, directors at seed-series B companies where leadership team is Bay Area based. I think you’re seeing this wrong. Every other locale is a discount to SFBA/NYC. Many companies can and should pay top of marke
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Exactly this, the two stable equilibria are “the company is the employees, we all work together in office” and “the company employs labor to solve our customers problems, and the company does this in the most cost effective way possible”.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Employees in the bay and NYC have more opportunities and thus more negotiating leverage. It doesn’t mean they’re better at the work. Hiring in competitive locales does mean more brain space dedicated to “how do I retain this employee” and
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
I’m a CTO at a small startup, not forcing RTO on anyone BUT the vibe I get in my peer group is that managers don’t know how to manage remote teams, don’t want to do real performance management, and they personally have some loneliness issue
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Free transit is stupid. When surveyed, the huge majority (98%) of weekday transit riders say they want increased service over decreased prices. Everyone wants 10 minute or less headways. People will pay 3 dollars for a bus ride if the line
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
LTA is not google/alphabet affiliated
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
It depends on the structure of the contract. There are a few famous cases of short positions being locked out of value for some arcane reasons. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-11/-go-to...
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
this is what DAOs are. There are a bunch of them, but so far they haven't accomplished the things they set out to do and have generally been at best a disorganized mess that accomplishes nothing and at worst a straight rug pull.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Which is an entirely fair use case, and the total market value of this use case is between 1B and 10B USD and will be decreasing over time as these nations develop banking systems. That is not what was being sold though, what was being sold
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Having felt both “brain hunger/body hunger” And “obesity hunger/glp1 hunger” they are very different. The glp1 drugs remove a compulsion to eat that many thin people just don’t have. It’s like being a smoker, and then nearly insta
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
"I brought cookies for the team today, who wants one"
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Eating food and drinking alcohol is a core part of most social activities. When you're losing weight, you can't really fuck up, you really need to stick to your diet. I found it difficult to maintain my diet in social settings (g
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
"Weight loss is a journey" -> it doesn't have to be, and it isn't for me anymore.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
for me, the side effects lessened over time, and are pretty low now. Everyone reacts differently though.
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
I’m 6 4 though, so not far off
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by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
Across the board

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