Eridrus

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by Eridrus 2y ago
1. Smart people can learn new things. Musk was also a SWE before starting his companies. I don't know what he demonstrated to convince investors, but if nobody else is pitching you a supersonic jet company and you think a supersonic je
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by Eridrus 2y ago
There's a real (small c) conservative bias where we should keep things as they are rather than changing them for all sorts of reasons. People who want to actually change the world are a bit of a rarity.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Even if you look at industry contributions, this is not actually why code is open sourced. The individual incentive is to open source code to show the rest of the industry what you have been able to build, with personal returns to you if it
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I guess I don't feel super locked in to doppler either; everything takes creds via env vars these days, so it's not even that locked in. But there would be a bit of work to migrate thing, etc, like with everything. Good value is p
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I think I have a personal sense of unease when pieces of my systems are proprietary, very hard to replace, and under control of a different entity. But it's really not my primary concern. My primary concern is moving quickly and not sp
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Seems like they got into tech, like many people leaving science: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa19/speaker-or-organize...
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by Eridrus 2y ago
No, lol. The people who think closed source software is evil are an incrementally small minority of the population who just happen to be very loud about it. Developers are broadly on the other hand, super cheap, and generally unwilling to p
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I think the drug war has been such a colossal failure (often doing more harm to many of the people it was ostensibly meant to protect) that trying to make comparisons to drugs doesn't make the argument that you want. I think sports gam
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by Eridrus 2y ago
You can make work trials that are obviously not competitive if you are really concerned, e.g. contributing a needed feature to an open source project. Realistically, companies are also just not going to sue. If people are concerned about th
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by Eridrus 2y ago
They do. You get signals on how well people can work independently on a non-trivial task. How well they can understand their is being communicated to them, whether they clarify what is important, etc. How well they can get themselves unstuc
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by Eridrus 2y ago
There's no way to make a hiring process that makes everyone happy. Though the length here was not specified, it could be e.g. 3 days that you can do while still employed.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I think we don't have good solutions for scaling down prod. Our relatively simple prod architecture has 5 containers & a hosted database (so 6 containers when run locally), and any less would impact our product goals. I still find
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I can personally say, I am not super concerned about it being killed. Google supported TF1 for quite a long time and all these projects have a shelf life. What concerned me about JAX, at a small company, is that it doesn't benefit from
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I feel like tree style tabs made sense when monitors were just a little narrower and so you wanted to make use of unused real estate. These days I want to split my window in half and have two windows open at once, e.g. code editor & bro
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Ah yes, when I get together with my homies, I love to talk about B2B SaaS products.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Acutely feeling the pain that the product purports to solve.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Not all products and services are good, yes. But you don't spring forth from the womb knowing about all the good ones either.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
This assumes that you know everything there is to know about the world. Customers often do not know that products or even product categories exist and need to be informed about them.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
It probably did test well. If you take a bunch of average people and ask them to view an ad with a simple uplifting message (eg tech helps you connect with people and be the person you want to be), it will almost certainly test positively.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I have no idea why people are saying this is common. There are plenty of cloud credits programs for startups from GCP, etc, but they are not funded by VCs, they are sales & marketing programs funded by the cloud vendors. A small minorit
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Search is great, search works, but there was not a tonne to learn from the AlphaGeometry paper unless you were specifically interested in solving geometry problems.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I've bounced around the US a bit (Seattle->SF->NYC) so I've reset/made new friends several times. It's usually relatively easy to make friends at work if you are young & in tech IME. Many people move to the tec
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by Eridrus 2y ago
I moved to the US to work for a big tech company. I don't regret it. The US has far more opportunity for smart & ambitious people than anywhere else. It definitely wasn't comfortable though - you leave all your friends and fam
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Do they actually have 15 dedicated first line managers? For a team of 3 people you can definitely get away with a TL who spends most of their time coding.
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by Eridrus 2y ago
Yeah, that line seemed super weird to me too. Obviously "improve X metric" is not a plan, but without any key results to evaluate against, it's easy for things to be "done" poorly or to not be targeted at something
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by Eridrus 2y ago
This doesn't seem to describe either Wise (international transfers, not an account) or Mercury (business banking where you can get your money out in a bunch of ways that do not involve debit cards).
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by Eridrus 2y ago
The COVID boom was basically over at the end of 2021, and all of 2022 was quite flat with minimal growth, and we did not return to growth until 2023. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see 2023 as a return to growth, but it's hard t
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by Eridrus 2y ago
The biggest factor is that internet companies experienced a huge boom during COVID and hired assuming this boom was permanent, but it turned out to be temporary, so they ended up with more staff than they needed, particularly when growth se
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by Eridrus 2y ago
> Can somebody give me another reason why they did this--"coincidentally" all at the same time--other than to deliberatly lower our salaries? Market actors respond to market forces. Information cascades are real. Etc. There are
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by Eridrus 2y ago
You should try and name a specific off the shelf drone here that can carry a missile payload.

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