Eridrus

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by Eridrus 9mo ago
The people on the inside often like all the gatekeeping.
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by Eridrus 9mo ago
I don't really know what sorts of scale you've worked on, but software operating costs growing roughly linearly is pretty normal. You need to process X% more requests, you need X% more machines. You need to store X% more data, you
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by Eridrus 9mo ago
SaaS software is not generally zero marginal cost since you run the infra, have support, etc, but maybe in your situation is close to zero since its very simple. If you have no sales, but your costs are very low, you should try it. The main
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
I have no personal experience with the SRE agents, but I used Codex recently when trying to root cause an incident after we're put in a stop gap, and it did the last mile debugging of looking through the code for me once I had assemble
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
I don't think the company would be very different if these projects had never existed and everyone had to pay for proprietary tools. The people meaningfully benefiting from open source are the people and companies on the margin, not th
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
There were directories there for sure, but I honestly never saw anything get used from there (except I think TensorFlow was in there?). My personal experience was I never used any OSS code (that wasn't Google Open Sourcing its own code
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
Google is actually kind of infamous for not using much in the way of OSS software. The list of things I can think of is: * Linux * LLVM * Webkit/Chrome (which they have done the majority of contributions to for a long time) * Java &amp
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
This is extremely simple software. Claude is extremely verbose when it generates code, but this is something that should take a practicing software engineer an hour or so to write with a lot less code than Claude. I like all the LLM coding
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
I am sure you can make OpenAI stock liquid pretty easily.
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
A selling point of monorepos is that you don't need to maintain backwards compatible contracts and can make changes to both sides of an API at once.
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
Atomic changes are a lie in the sense that there is no atomic deployment of a repo. The moment you have two production services that talk to each other, you end up with one of them being deployed before the other.
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
Thanks for the details. It's definitely true that common stock gets $0 if the acquisition price is <= (sum raised + debt). That sort of sounds like the startup wasn't doing well, and the acquisition wasn't for a lot of mon
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
I think grit and hard work will still be valuable attributes, even if AI starts producing perfect software tomorrow. The world also just doesn't change that quickly. Even with the most rosy projections, there is no way that software en
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
Do you actually know this is what happened? Dividends to only one class seems crazy. I would be kind of shocked if that was legal.
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
Liquidation preferences are typically 1x these days, so they only matter when companies are sold at fire sale prices where basically nobody is making any money. The deals are all weird so it's hard to really know what's happening,
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
I'm well aware of dual class shares, but preferences are typically 1x, and none of the deals were for less than the amount raised, so they're not relevant here. The fact that these are not really acquisitions doesn't change t
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
Can you say more about why mechanically she didn't get anything? If you exercise your options you have real stock in the company, so I don't see how you can get shafted here. Did investors do some sort of dividend cash out before
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
I think this is a not insane prediction, but much like truck driving and radiology the timeline is likely not that short. Waymo has been about to replace the need for human drivers for more than a decade and is just starting to get there in
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
Why would it? Someone has to go and write the code to do it and the spec doesn't look like it covers them. Playing with window.location and meta redirects in jsfiddle, they both seem to lose cross-site context when I link to them.
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
Well that's a good decision. I doubt it covers client-side redirects, but still good for like 95% of cases. People do still allow 3rd party images/links on websites. Much less common in typical software, but it does happen.
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
I haven't actually dug into it, but I would assume that open redirects would strip a Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site header and replace it with none or same-site or something. So would things like allowing users to specify image URLs, etc.
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
It's good that folks working on browsers are working on making this easier, but I don't think you can really rely on this for GET requests. It's often easier to smuggle a same-origin request than to steal a CSRF token, so you
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by Eridrus 10mo ago
I generally recommend the book Founding Sales (available for free online), but it's targeted at SaaS founders. But you're actually doing something even more common: running a consulting business, and there's plenty of content
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by Eridrus 11mo ago
Federal law makes it illegal to retaliate against people for forming a union. Companies still do, and there's no law saying they have to keep hiring in that unit, but if they fire everyone they will probably lose the resulting lawsuit.
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by Eridrus 11mo ago
Are you in a different timezone? I an in EST and do not see any traffic before 7pm Nov 26 EST. I can confirm I am seeing data in EST time because the latest data available is from 20 mins ago in EST.
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by Eridrus 11mo ago
This does not currently show up on Google Trends, so unless you're trying to go full conspiracy mode here I don't see why we should trust this random screenshot to be accurate: https://trends.google.com/trends&#x2F
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by Eridrus 1y ago
> To me, this heavily biases towards engineers that have already built or at least designed a similar system to the one you're presenting them. Yes, this is not an IQ test, we are trying to see how people react to problems in our do
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Ok, but this was an RCT, so enrollment was randomized after people self selected into this experiment.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
At my company, we do interviews remotely and record them and then sometimes review them and give feedback.
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by Eridrus 1y ago
Maybe I am just bad at interviewing people, but I have tried giving the experiential interviews Casey describes, but I find it quite hard to get signal out of them. You run into questions of how well a candidate remembers a project, which m

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