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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
From people I know: they aren’t aware of / comfortable with traditional financial instruments, so they just buy houses and have the rest in a savings account. Their houses aren’t even “investments” to them, they’re lifestyle properties
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Which was the way housing was for many years. A house used to be viewed as a consumable good a hundred years ago, not an appreciating asset. (Before the New Deal commoditized mortgages)
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
There are very few people with that many houses anyway. These people do not affect rents in any meaningful way. > Small investors who owned between one and five properties held 87% of the single-family homes owned by investors; those own
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Bon Jovi selling insurance during the Super Bowl… Tough look.
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
In particular, CS students are feeling it more than most majors. (Especially compared with the shock that most of them probably thought CS was the field for job security.) Saw an article recently that said CS majors were up there with per
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Role is a combination of title + company. Head of Eng at 50 person startup (with 25 engineers) might be Manager 2 at FAANG. So I mostly ignore the title and look at the work history and YOE.
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Nicely said.
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
I interviewed with a company that said that. They promoted an engineer 18 months out of undergrad to senior. They said it to indicate growth potential at the company, but I saw it as a big red flag.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
That’s all about money… they don’t want Apple to sell services to their customers when they believe it’s “their” territory. Carmakers want SaaS revenue as well now.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
And also those early Spotify days where Spotify would automatically post what you’re listening to to your Facebook wall. I’ve always seen that practice of using the user as your recommendation lever without their consent as unethical.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
Cold applications are very difficult, especially because of the sheer volume of applicants. Unless I have a referral, it’s such a low probability exercise it’s not worth it for me. Whenever I see “100+ candidates have applied” on LinkedIn,
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
I’ll answer that once my brain’s usage limit resets at 10:30pm
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
When I’m hiring, a human recruiter (or the hiring manager) reads most resumes. For us, there is some sorting by basic keyword analysis and we start near the top, but there is no proverbial black box that rejects candidates outright. If cand
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
There are services that will do this as well - I’ve used them both on my LinkedIn and resume with decent success.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
I’ve searched the net to find the example, but I remember this happening during the dot com era too… Some unknown tiny company made an offer to takeover Yahoo (or some similar company)… the tiny company made headlines for a moment then disa
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
I think the lack of evidence for LLM productivity is not an indictment on LLMs… it’s an indictment on the industry still having no real way to measure developer productivity in general.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
Yeah there are similar “joke” tools / languages that found their friendly audience for a time. I like when programmers do creative, goofy stuff rather than spending all their time cranking out sterile soulless SaaS. It’s what separates
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
Oh man, what could go wrong. Edit: to be clear for anyone reading, don’t do this, it’s a really bad idea. You need to patch your stuff, even behind a VPN. If you’re unsure, just google: “examples of security breaches of unpatched software b
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
I’ve argued the opposite most of the time in build vs buy. Buy in almost every case unless it’s a real competitive advantage to you. I know developers love to build, but do you think: 1) self-hosting git provides any competitive edge to the
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
Hey Aloke! Thanks for the tip, I’ll give this a try and see how it goes.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
I really like Warp. I’ll admit the UI has changed a lot recently and I find it more intimidating than when I was using it a year ago, so I mostly use Ghostty now.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
That… actually seems kinda fun… I know this wasn’t the point I was supposed to take from your comment but I’m liking this idea
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
The question was percentage of net worth :) That will tell me how confident you are. $10k out of $500k would say you’re toying around. $10k of $20k seems like you believe it works.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
One last question - as a percentage of your net worth, how much of your own money have you put into the stock picks generated through this analysis? I have a feeling I know the answer, but wanted to check.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
A question I have: do you have a background in capital markets? Because what it looks like is you asked Claude to create a stock picking newsletter based on signals that retail commonly thinks are bleeding edge but institutions have been us
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
The internet is a content beast, and the beast must be fed.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
I have been a part of over-built solutions. It’s usually because executive management bakes hyper growth into the assumptions because they really want the biz to grow, then it becomes marching orders down the chain as it gets misinterpreted
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
Hate to say it but kind of a lousy article... zippy writing but lots of Monday Morning Quarterbacking for something the author doesn't seem to show much knowledge of. Maybe this is his style to gin up subscribers, but I'm not a fa
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
Is it? I’m curious because I thought they were raising prices to pay for exorbitant training costs, not because subscribers are expensive on a unit basis. I thought inference was cheap so there was little marginal cost of a new subscriber.
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by Esophagus4 6mo ago
A few enterprise customers I know are upgrading to the higher plan now that their limits have been nuked. I imagine Anthropic is trying to see how many users they can push to higher tiers with these new squeezes. I hate to say it but I imag

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