MetalGuru

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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Curious, what comparison are you making with Plaid here?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Do they have on in SF?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
> throw tons of semi-structured data relating context and actions to tight feedback at your brain (personal pattern-matching neural net) What does this even mean? Relating context and actions to tight feedback? Can you break it down in a
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
That backfired. Hopefully, your world is richer because he corrected your misunderstanding.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Selecting for culture fit isn’t always bad. You could be selecting for good cultural values the company has.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
I’m genuinely curious, why is it a company’s responsibility (in a capitalist society) to hire someone less efficient? I agree that work is fundamentally important, but how is this not the government’s responsibility like any other welfare e
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Actually, I’ve heard from friends with extensive careers in finance that the value deduction for illiquidity is 30%. I’m sure this figure varies based on how far from liquidity said asset is likely to be.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
I agree. It’s just hard sometimes if you don’t experience the problem you’re trying to solve in your daily life. How can I dogfood construction software if I’ve never worked construction? Get a construction job?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Sounds god awful. What industry do you work in?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
This is what excites me about this project. Another commenter posted the NandToTetris course, which is along the same lines. Computers/software are so complicated now, so much understanding gets lost in the upper levels of abstraction.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Isn’t that exactly what parent comment’s promoting? His kids were bored with a relatively unstimulating toy, but they reached their breaking point and learned how to have fun with it.
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Ask HN: Developer Job Security During a Recession
8 points by MetalGuru 7y ago|4 comments
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
What was the first pivot?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
He’s not saying anyone is trying to argue that slavery is ok. He’s using it as hyperbole that without a specific definition, progress can’t be measured objectively.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
What’s your take on the sustainability of these subsidized rides? Will drivers still drive if this incentive is taken away? What are some of your favorite interesting insights from that data?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
This is hilarious. It was so obvious that there had to be some personal reason this guy is so disgruntled. He's clearly consumed by envy.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
> A better variant of the objection says that a machine can never "take us by surprise." This statement is a more direct challenge and can be met directly. Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. This is largely beca
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
> The webserver listening in on localhost:19421 should implement a REST API Is this server started by Zoom? In order to implement an endpoint, they’d have to ship a server along with the client. And this server would always be running? I
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
I wish he gave actual examples to illustrate what he was talking about. So you have an additional API layer the tests hit to call the functions you’re testing? Do endpoints map to classes? Modules? So aren’t you just tightly coupling this A
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
What do you mean by behavior-focused testing style?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
The author’s argument is that creating more supply will further increase housing prices because more educated professionals will move into the city. I see two issues with this argument. One, I don’t think it’s the limit of affordable housin
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Isn’t that what PayPal is? A universal checkout experience.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Can someone explain to me why Amazon can’t be the Amazon of Africa?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Can I ask why you keep your own location history?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Can you describe your experience with it (how resistant your depression was, how effective ket is, what the short and long term effects you’re noticing are)?
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by MetalGuru 8y ago
> inaudible sounds What?
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by MetalGuru 8y ago
So they’re proposing to use WiFi to connect to other phones, right? And the only way to exchange data from me (pointA) to somewhere else (pointB) is to have a chain of phone users connecting my location to pointB. And how close would each c
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by MetalGuru 8y ago
Even when carried forward?
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by MetalGuru 8y ago
Tax-loss harvesting is different than carrying losses from previous years forward. And in the case of tax-loss harvesting, the company wouldn't be realizing massive profits for that year because said profits would be offset by investme
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by MetalGuru 8y ago
But the max per year is $3k, which is garbage.

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