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I heard from former, recently departed Facebookers that their standards for hiring dropped quite a bit during the pandemic. If I had to guess why Zuck isn't happy, it's that the new hires plus the increased organisational bloat of
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Aw, thank you :) And I see the confusion about my previous response.
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It's kinda a long story, but there is a semi-well known poet in Toronto that writes poetry for hire and she works near a park that we both walk by with some frequency. I described how I felt about the person I was about to go on a date
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If my wife were the poem-writing type, I would love a poem a day for 30,000 days, let alone four hundred. But paying attention to people when you give them something is very important. People are different. You may cringe at poems, but I
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(Don't worry about the hate Mike, that type of tone doesn't belong here.) Some people have trouble working from home and need a bit of social pressure to get things going. I personally prefer cafes or coworking spaces over a manda
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There is, but I can't remember the link, haha. You just kinda learn things over the years. This one can be reached by clicking on the domain name of a linked article, so it's easy to remember how to get there.
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They've always been around and fairly frequent. Pretty high quality source for hacker related stuff. Check out this, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=news.mit.edu&next=220...
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REST vs GraphQL doesn't really matter for this type of app. Since you're restricting the choice between Phoenix/Elixir and Wt, I'd definitely go the former, but you'll have something out the door even faster with Ru
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Some early tech decisions matter, but most don't matter as much as people think they do. Other than the OS, I haven't really seen it be a complete deal breaker for anyone that's willing to put in the work in the first five ye
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Yeah I think single machine has its place, and I once sped up a program by 10000x by just converting it to Cython and having it all fit in the CPU cache, but the cloud still does have a place! Even for non-bursty loads. Even for loads that
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I can't speak to your experience, the Korean and Japanese friends I've had have had a way, way better time than other Asian subgroups. The white people I know don't think of Asians like they think of white people. They break
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These results look fishy. I don't have time to dig into everything, but I did read the relevant part of the PDF where the questions were. I don't know where the error is, but the variance in how whites answer alone would cause m
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If you stop thinking about time being wrong from what is officially correct, and instead see this whole exercise as a error minimization framework I think it is far easier to make the case for ending leap seconds as it is for keeping them.
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This is why appraisals for tax purposes should always come with the right to sell the property back to the city for 90% of this value. If you won't pay $900k for a $1m home, then it isn't a $1m home. Also, there should be carveout
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Yeah, well, we got married fairly recently, so we're actually saving a decent amount of money compared to before we met. Plus we both like pretty small places. Enough room for the cat and for love.
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I can't speak to your experience as a Portuguese person, but Porto really made a mark on me to the point where my half-Portuguese (of Azores descent) and I are considering to make Porto our second home outside of Toronto. Portugal in g
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I appreciate the reply, but after thinking about it I think it's more akin to someone having been sold a house only to be told eight years later that the seller of the house knew that if someone tied a shoelace to the front door and pu
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The word "broken" came from before we had constant arms races in technology. Obviously we don't call clubs broken because we now have rapid artillery, but there was enough time between clubs and swords, and swords and guns to
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Long term plans do work. The Marshall Plan worked. The James Webb Space Telescope took two and a half decades of effort, but the plan worked. I could list a thousand plans that worked. Now, why do we, as software developers, not think plans
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Imagine all of those minds that went into oil extraction and where else they could have been better spent over the years. I know turbines really leveraged computer models to achieve such stunning efficiency, but in all honesty I don't
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As someone that dated an Atlantic contributor (as well as her being the senior editor over at The Walrus, Canada's answer to The New Yorker) I can very clearly give you an answer here: The Atlantic is great, but it is in no league with
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> They take a long time to build, but they can be destroyed very quickly. I agree with the vast majority of what you've shared, but this one is a bit trickier. Reputations can be destroyed quickly, but it isn't normal or easy
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Even checking A/A tests won't surface all the issues. A proper A/B test is one that samples over a long enough time to adjust to the true audience of the service. For example, imagine a costume shop that ran a couple dozen A&
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The problem is that corruption is widespread throughout most of the world, and especially places in poverty. A stable, just society is able to bootstrap into relative wealthy pretty quickly, so most of the countries that have the largest ne
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Right, so this is why I keep harking on the fact that we need a non-billionaires OS license. People will say "oh, no, that's not real open source" but it sure is as open as their chequebook. I'm hand waving a bit here, b
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This is a decidedly personal, anecdotal story too, but I think it's illustrative of some of the reasons to hope for the world. I was dating someone that was a civil engineer and she absolutely hated the constant sexual harassment that
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Australia: Our brother to the hot south with more sex appeal and far less marriage material.
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I've found Notion (or Google Docs, etc) to be a clearer source-of-truth and place-of-collaboration than Slack, which I've found to be better to debug ongoing issues or as a place to point people to the right notion doc. Making sur
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This is one option, and I'm sure it works for some people, but I prefer to overdeliver for the trusted contacts that I actually have then get introductions slowly over time to more important people. Not my only tactic, but by far the b
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Yeah, I'm not Catholic, but I go to services in all three major branches (Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic) and I am a Christian. Granted, I've only been to one service in the USA in recent years, but even still, Canada is not so di

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