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by akavi 3y ago
Notion (valuation 10 G$) and Asana (market cap 5 G$) are both nodejs down to the DB layer, to name two codebases I have personal experience with. Not quite Fortune 500 tier, but certainly not small potatoes.
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by akavi 3y ago
I've always been amused by the fact that "chilly" in English is so similar to the synonymous "ಚಳಿ" (roughly "Chuh-ly") in Kannada (my family's mother tongue)
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by akavi 3y ago
"The acid"? Capsaicin (the compound responsible for a pepper's "heat") is not an acid. Also, I've never noticed "black veins" in any peppers I've prepared, including very spicy ones.
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by akavi 3y ago
I've never been asked "my greatest weakness" or "my greatest strength" in an interview. What sort of jobs have asked you those questions? (I've worked (and interviewed) as a programmer at VC backed startups and
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by akavi 3y ago
Pagerduty was explicitly modeled after an internal tool at Amazon
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by akavi 3y ago
I believe it's pronounced very similar to the English word "man" (with the vowel being a little farther back. Halfway to "mon" as in "pokemon")
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by akavi 3y ago
Moderates believe supply and demand applies to housing, and that building more housing, regardless of whether it is explicitly "low income", is the most important thing to improve housing affordability. In practice, this means fav
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by akavi 3y ago
If I did this, I wouldn't be out of a job. Which of us is right? Maybe both (corporate culture can be pretty heterogeneous). Hard to say, regardless
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by akavi 3y ago
It's Anglo-Norman[0], and means "to tell the truth" ("voir" being cognates with modern French "vrai", not "voir") [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language
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by akavi 3y ago
I would simply have small firetrucks in urban areas, and large fire trucks in rural areas.
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by akavi 3y ago
Smaller fire trucks.
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by akavi 3y ago
I guess I still fail to see the advantage of this over Haskell: dot = (sum.) . zipWith (\*) p = [2, 3, 4] q = [1, 0, 2] p `dot` q Like, the only difference to my eyes is using names for sum/zipWith, and not having
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by akavi 3y ago
Or its twin cousin: forcing me to login after updating my password.
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by akavi 3y ago
This is fascinating to me. The list of things the author suggests the cerebellum handles is a tailor-made list of things I'm oddly bad at: 1. I'm very uncoordinated, with a noticeable intentional tremor 2. I'm particularly
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by akavi 3y ago
As a single anecdote, I’ve taken 12 Waymo rides over the past 3 months, and I’d put them at ~90th percentile with respect to human Uber/Lyft drivers in terms of smoothness/quality of reaction to the various hazards of SF streets.
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by akavi 3y ago
It might not be the only story, but it's very possible for growth in demand for housing quantity to outstrip growth in population. Say if there was a sudden move to working from home, which encourages home offices, concentrated in th
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by akavi 3y ago
Pro-tip for everyone reading these comments: The "easiest", "clearest", "most neutral" accent is generally the one you're exposed to the most often (or the one spoken as a 2nd language by speakers of the l
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by akavi 3y ago
YMMV. I have a sneaking suspicion that eg, Nagarle, Karnataka[0] wasn't issuing written birth certificates in the 1910s [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarle
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by akavi 3y ago
> Wages are definitely up, but if you factor in all the price increases of rent and groceries, I don't see how anything is better for the poorest. That's what inflation adjustment is for. > The poorest people in the US saw f
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by akavi 3y ago
No[0]. As a percent of population, number of Americans with multiple jobs is well south of where it was from 1994-2009. [0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1cpAm
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by akavi 3y ago
The economic statistics that show the economy is booming are medians (eg, median real personal income and median household income) and population ratios (ie, things like prime employed percentage of population), which are insensitive to s
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by akavi 3y ago
There's a huge difference between LLMs and "higher level languages": Determinism The same C++ or Java or Haskell code run with the same inputs twice, will cause the same result[0]. This repeatability is the magic that enables
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by akavi 3y ago
But what's preventing realtors from defecting and offering their services for a lower rate?
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by akavi 3y ago
I read the article, but I still don't understand how the National Association of Retailers enforce the 5-6% total commission. Does anyone know? The incidence question (is the fee "paid" by the buyer or seller) is a semantic o
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by akavi 3y ago
150 k$/yr is roughly dividing line to the top quartile of software developer pay. 150 - 275 k$ definitely does not encompass 75% of software jobs in the USA
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by akavi 3y ago
Barring evidence to the contrary (internal emails/discussion), I definitely would assume mistake over malice. I've worked in Monetization at 3 SaaS cos (admittedly all smaller than Uber, O(100-1000) employees), and at all of the
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by akavi 3y ago
Seems odd to have a strike with 33% of the population in a democracy. If that many people support the changes, couldn’t they just vote for them? I can’t imagine that fully 75% of the non-striking 66% would turn out to vote against whatever
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by akavi 3y ago
I don't see where you're seeing execs making any money off of Convoy in that quote. If there are any outstanding debt obligations (which I expect there are), then those would be senior to voluntary severance even if the company ha
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by akavi 3y ago
Better search is super valuable though. You don't always have to create new paradigms; integrating existing ideas can work wonders.
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by akavi 3y ago
That’s the name of the alumni slack (serious)

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