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by 40acres 4y ago
Strong agree. The need to transition to microservices will sneak up on an organization -- and that's okay. It's surprising how much life you can squeeze out of a monolith.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I agree with you for the most part. The number of people who could run Shopify at the current scale is definitely more than 80 people but probably less than 10000. They took a big bet on global growth and this would've exploded HC rela
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by 40acres 4y ago
I worked at Intel for 5+ years. I was a CS grad and most of my peers were EE grads. The amount of folks who I saw over the years retrain themselves for a move to software development was pretty large. If this is happening at a blue blood fo
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by 40acres 4y ago
I'm not too sure about this. Stripe has double trigger RSUs with a 6 or 7mo lock up. Let's say they went public in '21 instead of raising money in June of that year. The market would've already turned by the end of the l
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by 40acres 4y ago
One thing I've always wondered: how aligned is the current spot price to day to day transactions when the trading day is active? Let's say EUR/USD reaches parity for 2 hours during the trading day and I'm in Europe -- fo
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by 40acres 4y ago
And the court has previously understood and affirmed this "leeway" after Chevron v. NRDC. So its another case of the court overruling precedent.
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by 40acres 4y ago
The court has already ruled in Chevron v. NRDC that executive agencies have deference in interpretation of statues if Congress has not explicitly granted that power. The Clean Air act was passed in 1970 to ensure air quality, through scienc
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by 40acres 4y ago
I really don't understand the decision. In my mental model the executive branch exists to implement the laws that Congress passes, Congress deliberately leaves leeway in laws to give the executive branch flexibility, this flexibility h
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by 40acres 4y ago
Interesting to note that a decent chunk of this 9M goes directly to Stripe. SS has all these writers and subscribers but is making peanuts.
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by 40acres 4y ago
*In the west. I think gender equality may be a big culprit. Take the US for example: women will dominate the college educated class soon if they haven't already, and with that economic freedom comes more optionality in choosing a partn
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by 40acres 4y ago
I think this is overrated. I went to a rinky dink community college. It was a very urban school (meaning, no grassy hillside campus, we were in the middle of NYC and students had jobs and families to go) and did not have a campus life, so I
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by 40acres 4y ago
Klarna feels like a feature to me, not a self sustaining business. I don't know what other capabilities they provide for merchants but I don't think BNPL can stand on its own, especially in a downturn.
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by 40acres 4y ago
The first code base I worked on professionally was Perl. While I admire it's power I never got used to it. It was very difficult for me to read and our code base was pretty large and I didn't feel like Perl handled OOP well at all
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by 40acres 4y ago
I left Intel in late 2020. Worked a bit on Meteor Lake in the pre-silicon design phase starting around '18 or so. I never really got over the lag between the most intense period of my day to day on a particular product and launch.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I can't help but wonder if Netflix is considering going after password sharing. It may be a short term boost but at least then we can gauge the true subscriber base.
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by 40acres 4y ago
I don't know about the validity of the bid (fifty.. four twenty?) but man does Twitter need a kick in the ass. The product has been stagnant since birth but has so much potential, I'd be interested to see what reforms Elon would b
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by 40acres 5y ago
I joined Stripe in July. I'm new and at a lower level so I have not been tasked with giving interviews, but my peers are definitely swamped with interviewing on top of all the other crunched timelines and pressure you'd expect at
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by 40acres 5y ago
I joined Stripe over the summer. Sorry to hear about the ghosting, my interview experience was very different to yours, no re-scheduling, and my recruiter was great with respect to timely follow up. Now that I'm at the company, I'
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by 40acres 5y ago
Started a new job in July. It's my first time using slack so heavily for day to day business needs. After some adjustment I've gotten used to it and enjoy it a lot. Now it's down and I feel like I can't do anything. We h
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by 40acres 5y ago
I was diagnosed w/ ADHD in 2019. When doing research and seeing what the causes could be -- I noticed that lead paint was among possible contributors. I decided to google what lead paint looked like, and realized the apartment I was ra
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by 40acres 5y ago
This company is insane. Weak leadership that fostered a political culture that they eventually lost control of, and a workforce so engulfed in politics that they lost sight of focus. DHH playing sick is just the Cherry on top. I can't
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by 40acres 5y ago
Does anyone remember when DHH went on a long Twitter rant accusing the Apple Card as sexist? These guys built a culture that they couldn't control and when they tried to take a step back lost a third of their workforce.
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by 40acres 5y ago
Doubt it. They are bleeding talent, generating terrible PR, and definitely did not plan for a massive buyout this year. This plan backfired heavily. Am amazing case study in incompetent leadership.
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by 40acres 5y ago
From what I understood this wasn't a "we want to talk about Trump and BLM all day" situation but a "owners/leaders refuse to reckon with a toxic aspect of our internal culture". At some point the two mixed, the
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by 40acres 6y ago
Hold up. I could've sworn that I heard the other day that the German government was concerned about a militia like group that may have former military members involved. This headlines definitely made my ears jump.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Damn this is awesome. I'm actually dreading working from home because I don't have a desk, keyboard, or anything of the sort.
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by 40acres 7y ago
All players need to be tested. Thankfully they are young and healthy so the risk is low personally. Think about how many players lick their hands before a free throw and then pass it around, the refs touch the ball for tip off, etc. Damn a
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by 40acres 7y ago
I envy the broadcasters who have to bleep out all the cursing that normally is drowned out by crowd noise and arena music.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Corona really looking like the black swan event that ends this expansion. What a time.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Definitely. Imagine how long it took for news of the virus to bubble up the Chinese bureaucracy and how many people traveled during that time period.

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