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A16Z Substantially Invests in New Adam Neumann Real Estate Startup(techcrunch.com)
14 points by Icathian 4y ago|16 comments
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by Icathian 4y ago
I genuinely don't understand why big names, who are generally considered very smart, are sinking money into this. I'm trying really hard to stay curious here, and wonder what they see that I don't. Unfortunately I seem to be
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by Icathian 4y ago
A variety of things nobody else will care about, but the big one was VM support. I can't do my job without the occasional Linux VM.
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by Icathian 4y ago
I used an m1 pro for work for about a month. I wound up returning it and getting issued a Linux laptop instead. The laptop itself is absolutely amazing. The thousand paper cuts with things not properly supporting m1 was just too much to be
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by Icathian 4y ago
Echoing what the other commenter said, this is entirely inaccurate. I grew up hunting and even random deer rifles are just so much louder than even Hollywood is willing to show.
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by Icathian 4y ago
I think you're probably right, by and large. The trick, then, is to get as many rolls of the dice as is possible, and to recognize as early as possible whether you've won or lost. If you've lost, cut your losses and roll ag
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by Icathian 4y ago
I think at this point it's pretty well-established that general availability of self-driving cars is not going to happen any time soon. Do you think Uber can hemorrhage money for another ~20 years? I think that's probably a reas
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by Icathian 4y ago
People are hung up on it because it's the gate to making ridiculous amounts of money doing what we all enjoy. Also, because there isn't really a "good" option for interviewing (especially at scale), the door is always le
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by Icathian 4y ago
While I can understand some of the arguments made about juniors getting some extra benefit from having everything close to hand, the sheer pace of the hit pieces against remote the last month or so is hilarious and very telling.
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by Icathian 4y ago
It's hard to get real numbers from across the spectrum but the short answer is that the popular ones are doing very well. I posted a link on HN to a Magic the Gathering YouTube streamer doing an incredibly transparent breakdown of his
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by Icathian 4y ago
I'm currently waiting on a recruiter to get my panel interviews scheduled. You guys are in "dream gig" territory for me. Any tips? ;-)
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by Icathian 4y ago
Mininet is what the Georgia Tech OMSCS Computer Networking labs use. It's not bad, the two labs that stood out to me were using it to implement BGP and a Distance Vector Routing protocol.
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by Icathian 4y ago
They got bought sometime last year. I was a very happy customer until that announcement.
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by Icathian 4y ago
Ocaml is absolutely playing in similar spaces as rust. I see the tradeoff there as one of runtime performance (Rust) against less syntax / dev effort (Ocaml). If you don't need your code to go fast, Ocaml is probably just fine f
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by Icathian 4y ago
Your blog link is 404ing. I was curious, hope you can stand it back up! Thanks!
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by Icathian 4y ago
Infamously, successful SC2 pro player Whitera only had about 100-125 APM. I manage that pretty comfortably as a middle aged dude. I think you could definitely do more to de-emphasize micro, but even the big bad SC2 isn't as high-APM
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by Icathian 4y ago
Same. Also I was hired remote, which does not look promising.
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by Icathian 4y ago
When I see superpower utilities like this, my immediate question is usually "why can't/don't the mainstream options do this do this?". Based on the opening of TFA, my assumption is that they could, but just haven&#x
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by Icathian 4y ago
Go to therapy. Seriously. Helping you work through your mind not doing what you want is literally their profession. I've found it incredibly helpful multiple times throughout my life, for lots of things vaguely similar to this.
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I'm almost done with my OMSCS run. An hour a day won't cut it. Most people either do a couple hours an evening plus a chunk on weekends, or else dedicate most of their weekend. I tend to fall in the first camp, and then also add
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by Icathian 4y ago
It's funny you should say that, I definitely was the DS who wanted to be an SWE. I switched hats and am just thrilled, but I do run into a lot of my new peers who wish to go the other direction. Finding some perfect compromise for tho
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by Icathian 4y ago
True believers think court interpretation is inherently corrupt and a systemic flaw, while these are just implementation bugs and ultimately fixable. Everyone else is either running a con, or a mark. There's really only three categor
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by Icathian 4y ago
This explanation rings a lot more true to me than the rest of this thread. Everyone here seems to be looking into shadows for the woke gestapo, when I'd be willing to bet that this explanation is a lot closer to how this tool actually
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by Icathian 5y ago
If labs are really struggling to find math-literate programmers, I would imagine it's in part because the process for matching them with the work is so terrible. Generally speaking, skilled programmers do not want to (and certainly do
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by Icathian 5y ago
That isn't what Amdahl's law says. Amdahl's law is an equation describing the theoretical paralellizability of a given task. It doesn't have anything to do with systems bottlenecking on one resource vs another.
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by Icathian 5y ago
I wasn't sure so I googled it. You are talking about some kind of cattle ranching? https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/beev... Regardless, congratulations on taking the plunge! I ho
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by Icathian 5y ago
There are an uncountable many "consultants" that basically did this, and use their GitHub basically for lead gen (I've gotten a good handful billable hours off people finding mediocre little packages I've posted for arti
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by Icathian 5y ago
If you don't have someone else watching your children while you work, you're probably not going to have a good time working remote regardless of coding style. Most of us working from home have addressed childcare and aren't
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by Icathian 5y ago
Having larger groups collaborate like that is called "mob programming". I'm not sure how popular it actually is but I see it talked about on HN and Reddit all the time.
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I've had mixed experiences with RQ. It works great most of the time, but I've observed that you can get into weird states if you OOM your system or otherwise throw curveballs at it. Overall I think Python makes it easy enough to

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