Denzel

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by Denzel 4y ago
The Minto Pyramid Principle is what you're looking for - https://www.amazon.com/NEW-Pyramid-Principle-Writing-Thinkin... . A timeless book on how to structure writing. Once you understand it, you'll start to notice
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by Denzel 4y ago
Most of what you say is accurate however it’s worth understanding that GTO really only applies in specific situations. E.g., heads up (2 players) play. GTO is unable to produce an unexploitable strategy against 2+ players. Additionally, as
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by Denzel 4y ago
I don’t disagree. What I mean to say is that FSD is not worth $12k or whatever insane price it is today and there’s no sign that it’ll ever be worth it in the near-term 2 years. And when I say FSD I mean the literal FSD that’s supposed to n
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by Denzel 4y ago
True, 2015 Teslas are much different (read: worse in some ways) than 2018 Teslas. That’s why I waited for them to improve the technology haha. Been following them since the Roadster’s R&D. I remember having to convince everybody back th
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by Denzel 4y ago
Ok? As a Model 3 owner for 3+ years the car shows well and has been rock solid this whole time. > Parts break difficult to replace I think I had a set of squeaky control arms that Tesla replaced under warranty in less than a week, free o
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by Denzel 4y ago
Speaking from the perspective of working remotely for over 5 years with multiple teams (all of differing compositions): salaried + contractors, US (all three timezones) + South America + Europe (Eastern and Western) + Asia, junior + senior
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by Denzel 5y ago
Props to you for designing the life you want and thanks for the reply :) Happy to hear you're having more fun in this arrangement.
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by Denzel 5y ago
Are you still doing software while training to become an electrician? I'd like to become a licensed electrician. After completing a few successful projects around the house, and studying the 2020 NEC inside out, I looked into becoming
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by Denzel 5y ago
If there’s an unserved market need: you want it, society and the global economy needs it; then go compete in the market, create your own competitive alternative. No one is preventing you from doing that. The market will dictate how right yo
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by Denzel 5y ago
> people should be able to install anything they want without some unwanted middleman What “people” are you referring to? The millions of people, like yours truly, who’ve made the conscious decision to pay Apple because of their App St
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by Denzel 5y ago
Allow me to give a counterpoint to the feedback on your book. It’s not the type of book I’d read, but the cover actually looks cool / interesting / professional to me. The first chapter was moderately engaging, much more so than w
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by Denzel 6y ago
Reading your post felt like I was reading my own experience. My mom just passed away a month ago from stage 4 stomach cancer after a brief, hard fight. > Having an advocate There aren’t enough upvotes in the world to highlight this! The
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by Denzel 6y ago
Congratulations, that's great! There are certainly different paths towards achieving the same goal. I'm sorry you weren't able to get any promotions to work out.
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by Denzel 6y ago
You and the article author are both right! From the author: > For example, I didn’t teach her how to advocate for herself or how to navigate the system. In fact, it takes less energy to advocate for a promotion with a new manager than to
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by Denzel 6y ago
Finding the optimal execution time of an arbitrary program is equivalent to the halting problem. [1] If you narrow the “arbitrary” constraint to only include well-structured, analyzable, guaranteed-to-terminate programs, then you can at lea
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by Denzel 6y ago
> other technologies can be leveraged That’s my point: your software architecture must evolve to deliver on your promises (open-source Datadog) because it’s impossible to satisfy your promises with the architecture as it exists today
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by Denzel 6y ago
No need to be sorry, you do a great job moderating HN dang! I just felt let down because the promise of the title (which I was excited by) doesn’t match reality in that it’s quite impossible to deliver Datadog’s feature set for metrics, tra
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by Denzel 6y ago
The headline feels deliberately clickbait-y and disingenuous. I love and support the idea. Aspirationally, the founders may want to compete with Datadog, but OpsTrace overlaps some small percentage of Datadog’s feature set. I’m surprised th
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by Denzel 6y ago
This is not a bug. I also drive a Model 3, spiritedly. Of course, I’ve rotated my tires many times, on schedule, but I replace them all at the same time. It’s standard practice. I’ve never experienced OPs behavior. The algorithm is such t
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by Denzel 6y ago
7 jobs; 2-3x offers over career, and I’ve never written a cover letter. Involved in interviewing for 2/7, and a cover letter has never factored into a hiring decision.
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by Denzel 6y ago
Not to be shallow, but this runs counter to Amazon's purported customer obsession - no? I say this as someone recently "tricked" into buying some movies through Prime. The layman in me thought, surely the distinction between
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by Denzel 6y ago
> If Tesla's goal was to have an impact on climate change they should allow other car companies to purchase their batteries and motors to build from. They have and they did. [1] You have it backwards. The other car companies have c
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by Denzel 6y ago
Counter anecdote: my mother started Nutrisystem and prioritizing fitness because the pandemic gave her the time away from work to focus, experiment, and dial in a new routine. She’s lost almost 20 pounds and counting, healthily, and curre
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by Denzel 6y ago
> They're the ones who the accounting is ultimately for. I absolutely agree with you. I just don't agree with the conclusion this article reached: that stock-based compensation must be accounted for as an expense that affects i
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by Denzel 6y ago
That's the crux. :) I don't have an answer for you, but that seems to be why the different sides are talking past each other in this discussion. If a company can just dilute, there's no real tangible expense outside of the co
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by Denzel 6y ago
Exactly this. I find the article unconvincing as far as its conclusion is concerned. At the end of the day, shareholders pay for the stock-based compensation with dilution. There’s no expense to the “company”. As a thought experiment: say s
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by Denzel 6y ago
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ is a good start.
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by Denzel 6y ago
I was shoulder deep in primary source material (#4) on real-time fuzzy search and wasn’t able to make heads or tails of where everything fit. Until I found a #3 overview that referenced most of the primary sources and put them in context. T
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by Denzel 6y ago
No, it's not just about ordering grocery pickup/delivery the day you run out of food. The big problem is that there is no queue! For weeks now, I've seen, "We're sorry! All times are currently booked. Please continu
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by Denzel 7y ago
I think you're misunderstanding. It starts with an async slack conversation. 90% of conversations go well and end with a shared understanding without much back-and-forth. Done. For the odd 10% of conversations where you've gone ba

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