JimboOmega

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by JimboOmega 7y ago
(Disclaimer: Former Employee) As I mentioned in another comment this is probably PR fluffery for the IPO that should eventually happen[0]. I don't know when that IPO might happen and I really, really wish I did :) I'll also add th
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
(Disclaimer: Former Employee) Poshmark is quite well known in fashion (especially women's fashion). Not quite HN's target market.... but if you're a woman who shops for clothes online you've probably seen the ads at a ba
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Also says something about the general cross section of HN users that $600/mo is "steep but worth it". There a lot of people for whom $600/mo is wildly unaffordable for anything, even essential medical care. (FWIW, I&#x27
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Also, as my username combined with what else I've said might imply, I'm a transgender woman. I really thought dating women as a woman would be harder after transitioned, because most women are straight. But the confidence benefit
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
One of my complaints is sending what I consider very obvious "I'm not interested" signals - like putting in earbuds - still doesn't stop them. There's something that stops me from just saying "I'm not inte
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
In the context of a lyft/uber it's a bit different; it would not only be socially awkward but also usually make me late (and possibly even dangerous) to stop the ride halfway through and exit. It's not the case (thankfully) t
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
As a woman, there are definitely times I don't want to deal with a driver hitting on me. It happens annoyingly frequently, and it's this delicate social situation that requires more mental effort to negotiate than I want to give i
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
As an openly transgender person, I had the same thought. Specifically, in the Bay Area I can be a walking pride flag, and in fact strike up conversations with all kinds of people in all kinds of places and feel very connected. There's
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Just like AWS, then. "Some users are experiencing increased error rates" = "Everything has been down for hours"
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Suburbs are a (relatively) new invention, and the original reason to move there was "get away from the black people" not "tired of city and wants space". It was made possible (sort of) by cars and freeways which made liv
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
But why would Japan run out of phone numbers with the population shrinking? While of course IoT devices need to be addressable, that's more of an IPv6 problem than a phone number problem.... right? A person might have a few numbers, a
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Is that what it is? Every time I see some rant or new study on "processed" foods I really ask what it means for food to be "processed". There's a huge difference between a cooked slab of meat and a meal in a frozen
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It's just an anecdotal point, but I've been meeting way more people in real life than online for dating purposes recently. What's interesting (and a little frustrating) is that most of these people profess that they are intro
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Yeah, that's what I was referring to as short term - hours to a day. The linked YouTube video is a year. If a cis-man was to take a similar dose (and thus say, have double physiological T levels) they would certainly not notice their v
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
That video is a year, not (as the winner effect as I understood it) over a period of hours or days. I'm transgender myself, so, I actually do know about these things. The effects are one way, also. Once your voice goes down, even if th
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Short term testosterone would have little effect. However voice pitch is highly social and situational... it could still all be correlated. Someone who feels confident and feels like they "won" might subconsciously lower their voi
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I was awkward, and it was about the only place I could focus entirely on academics and be among peers that valued that. My identity is complicated (and queer) and while my adolescence would have been a mess no matter what, having something
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Also share concerns about the delayed bubble situation, but... also doesn't the current glut of IPOs drive down valuation for them on its own? There's only so much public demand for new tech company shares.
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
The question (with Uber in particular) is that if this business model really covers up a huge ponzi scheme. Before the last decade (or even 5 years?) the amount of money some of these companies have been raising would have been unheard of a
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
It kind of worked with the Soviet Union. They tried to keep up, but just didn't have the economic power to do it. It won't with China, because China isn't playing the force projecting world superpower game like the SU was.
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by JimboOmega 8y ago
But I've been wondering, why not make the shitload of money first, and once you've got many years saved, then go off and do a moonshot? The usual explanation is something about lifestyle and mortgages and children and so on, but w
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by JimboOmega 8y ago
They'll never share the actual cap table in any case. With preference etc, the strike is a bit of a fantasy anyway.
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by JimboOmega 8y ago
I recently interviewed at Square (who is on that list), and they don't have whiteboard coding challenges. There was still a design challenge that involved a whiteboard on which I could draw basic aspects of my design, which sounds li
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by JimboOmega 8y ago
What is the new licensing and how is it committing suicide? Last I checked everybody uses java for everything, especially Google, which then makes it ubiquitous (on Android devices, etc.)
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There are all kind of things that happen seasonally that might dampen your mood (for instance people taking vacations, students being home from school, work being more/less busy, outdoor exercise options changing, etc). Your depression
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by JimboOmega 8y ago
A similar thing happened to me outside of Amazon. When the person I didn't get along with was made my manager I immediately went outside my reporting chain to find a place to transfer (though I considered quitting on the spot) It didn
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by JimboOmega 8y ago
Comparing overwatch to League of Legends, League is sooo much worse, and I don't know why. Also FWIW the voice you use in OW can cause drama. I've definitely had games where I get flak for my voice - when it was more androgynous o
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by JimboOmega 8y ago
The article mentioned that he mailed them from a box across from a police station, not a store. And basically yes. You get the tracking number when you create the shipping label, and the info is generated when it's first scanned, no n
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What does it mean to score very poorly on this? My therapist uses a different questionnaire that has more negative questions like "Little interest or pleasure in doing things" or "Poor appetite or overeating". I tend to
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