WestCoastJustin

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by WestCoastJustin 4y ago
Yeah, it's a good question. I suspect with corporate carpooling, sure there is tons of people commuting, however they are using a mix of their own cars, public transit, and carpooling. So it's sort of an unproven market to sell in
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by WestCoastJustin 4y ago
Yeah, this is a good point. What happens if you get stranded or something. I haven't figured that out. One solution might be to give you more suggestions of who lives nearby so that you could ask someone else if your ride falls through
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by WestCoastJustin 4y ago
Ah, yeah. This is meant for companies to pay, not individual people, then the company would roll this out as a carpooling initiative. So, companies would pay a small monthly fee. Maybe I should make that more clear. Thanks for the feedback.
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by WestCoastJustin 4y ago
Hey, been working on this for quite a while and looking for feedback. It's meant for co-workers that are interested in carpooling together, to and from the office, where only people from the company can join. You can quickly discover w
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Show HN: Work Carpools(workcarpools.com)
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by WestCoastJustin 4y ago
More of a Musk fan myself. Since you mentioned him, Jim Simons has a really good interview too and it was pretty cool to hear his story [1]. Worth a watch if you haven't seen it and are into RenTec. [1] https://www.youtube.
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by WestCoastJustin 4y ago
If you google "ray dalio 1980" you'll see he's talked about that being his biggest mistake and massive learning opportunity [1, 2, 3]. He even dedicated a chapter to it in his book (chapter 3) [4]. It's sort of hard
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by WestCoastJustin 4y ago
Personally, I found his chat with Lex Fridman [1] pretty good where he covers the same topics. I suspect it's hard to take a 570 page book [2] and get into bullet/talking points without the context. When I read the book over the 2
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Fan of https://zombo.com/ myself.
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
100% agree. This used to be my secret weapon for finding things. -"term" along with "other terms you were looking for".
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
An interesting observation is that over the years, I've sort of found that if there are not many good results, maybe I'm not asking the right questions, or I'm not thinking about the problem the right way. For example, you co
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Ah, I totally misread that. Hilarious. Brain auto-correct strikes again.
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
It's correct for me. What are you getting? Edit, yes I'm wrong, did a mental s/mars/moon/ without noticing.
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Might want to investigate ML/Data Science. Python + Math background == big money. All type of hedge funds use python for quant type stuff. Pretty much any company doing ML is using python. These are all extremely high paying jobs. Pers
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Yeah, there is definitely something to be said for that. There is also the feeling though of knowing you afford a house, have a family with kids, and put them through college. So, there is sort of a balance here. Realistically, I guess you
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Anyone know what the red-tape / pay is like there? It seems like government organisations are just at such a disadvantage in terms of red-tape and large pay gap between the private sector. I know some have more discretion in their hiri
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Currently, more than 10 per cent of Canada’s GDP is derived from residential real estate activity: renovations, ownership transfer costs and real estate commissions. [1] [1] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/can
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
What are you looking to get out of it? This might help in getting you pointed in the right direction.
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Great post called "Achieving 11M IOPS & 66 GB/s IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation" [1, 2] that basically walks through step-by-step that your computer is just a bunch of interconnected networks. Highly recommend the
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
For what it's worth -- I agree with you and is why folks are flocking to docker/kubernetes and devops tooling like Terraform. I just think you're missing the scope of it. Say for example, a big box store, they might have 500
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Yeah, wishful thinking. I work with them everyday and get to see under the hood. I 100% agree with you on investing in fault tolerant clusters / automation. There is a massive trend happening to modernise legacy infrastructure. Almost
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
This greatly depends on the organisations size and if you're on-prem vs cloud. If you have a small-medium startup with a single product and a fairly simple architecture in AWS this might make sense. But, if you're a bank or someth
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
> 15 years as a sysadmin, anyone have suggestions for my next career move? I made the switch to Technical Product Marketing after 15+ years doing linux sysadmin stuff. This might seem weird at first but all tech companies have complex pr
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Yeah, I was confused when first looking at this. But, the title of the English version is "Why I am reclaiming my mother's language before it's too late". So, pretty cool on CBC's part to put make a translation like
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Yeah, makes sense. I agree with you.
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Your suggested title is too long for submission. Sometimes you need to use your best judgement in applying the HN guidelines.
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Yeah, you're right. Same logic applied. Updated links to the correct company.
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Spotify is a BIG Google Cloud customer with a $450 million commit back in 2018 [0, 1, 2]. Companies want to keep these types of customers obviously and will leverage other teams internally to get a value add to get that renewal. This is lik
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
+1 pick 3. You need to extrapolate this out 5 years and realise you're throwing away a 1 mil+ because things suck right now (future comp, promotion, bonus, etc). Tough spot right now for non-profits too since people are tightening thin
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by WestCoastJustin 5y ago
> you have to learn it from people who have done it or even better are doing it. I have often wondered how to distil this point down. It's like these people know the patterns/systems that work to generate the results they want.

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