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by akavi 4y ago
I've gotten all my jobs except my first by gathering a list of companies that I thought were interesting on whatever axes I was considering at the time, then finding people in my extended network to refer me to them; sort of a hybrid a
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by akavi 4y ago
Oh huh, TIL! Well, then I have no idea at all what my caste is.
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by akavi 4y ago
I think it's pretty normal as a human to attach oneself to various identity groups (An anodyne example being local sports teams), and the more you salience an identity, the more likely and more strongly individuals are to attach themse
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by akavi 4y ago
I think the argument that "efforts to raise awareness of these issues in the United States would sow further division" isn't totally without merit. As an America-born Indian-American, I honestly don't know what my caste
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by akavi 4y ago
> When population goes up: positive - the area is vibrant economically; negative - rent is spiraling upwards out of control What's endlessly infuriating is population going up in a city should be an almost unmitigated positive. It
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by akavi 4y ago
What is OOP today in practice if inheritance is dead, as you say, and mutability is out of style, as I've notice in all of the codebases I've worked on since ~2014? It feels like we're just left with a heavyweight syntax for
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by akavi 4y ago
The distinction between pointer and optional is not vast. The distinction between pointer and not optional is. The whole idea of optional is to make not optional possible.
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by akavi 4y ago
As good a time as any to remind everyone there'll be a total solar eclipse traversing the US in 2024[0]. If you haven't had the chance to see one before, this is likely your best shot until 2045 [0]: https://en.wikipedi
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by akavi 4y ago
Just anecdata, but I've been given offers without interviews purely on the basis of my resume, and viewed it as a pretty big red flag. I've known enough people who've gotten where they've gotten with little technical abi
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by akavi 4y ago
It's not scaled to the viewport for me. It's centered in the middle of it, but still tiny.
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by akavi 4y ago
As someone who is strongly pro-choice, this strikes me as begging the question. > There is only one entity involved with both the ability and the standing to justly apply either defensive or retributive force in response to a threatened
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by akavi 4y ago
Huh, a lot of this doesn't ring true to me, as someone who's negotiated comp at 6 (mostly YC backed) startups over the past 5 years. In my experience, 10 year expiration dates for options and reasonably detailed financials (at the
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by akavi 4y ago
Vitalik's the only person in the entire crypto space that gives me pause about my belief crypto is 90% a mixture of useless and fraudulent. He's clearly much more intelligent than me and much more thoughtful, and has come to the
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by akavi 5y ago
People certainly pass on specific kinds of insulin when their price increases. Note that the "old" kind of insulin is available for 25 $/vial. It sucks in a lot of ways (requires more frequent dosage, and has a smaller margin
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by akavi 5y ago
Is that an april fool's joke?
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by akavi 5y ago
No, the exact opposite for me: Code that works on first run is almost always actually bug free; if I find one bug in a piece of code, then I almost always fine more eventually.
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by akavi 5y ago
I've worked at 5 different tech companies across that period (2 YC startups, 2 FAANG, 1 mid-size). It might be a US coastal tech thing, but it's certainly not a single office thing.
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by akavi 5y ago
The Myth of the Paperless Office seems less like a myth and more like a premature prediction. As someone whose career started in 2011, I don't think I've ever used a company printer for anything but a convenient way to print out p
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by akavi 5y ago
Does your calculation try to recreate the 0.83 $ statistic by assuming the proportion of the workforce of a given (gender, race) is the same as the population as a whole? Because that's not necessarily a valid assumption.
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by akavi 5y ago
Go has multiple return values, so you could instead do: matches, mismatches := slices.Partition(xs, func(x) bool { return x == condition });
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by akavi 5y ago
Oh, interesting. TIL, thanks!
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by akavi 5y ago
> Monads Are "just" an interface a data type can implement/obey (in languages that support higher kinded interfaces) > a foreach method/function for iteration over data Again, "just" an interface a da
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by akavi 5y ago
Java doesn’t have union types
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by akavi 5y ago
Given that mental illness is stochastically predictable via genetics, I'd be very surprised if that's true. A quick google found a twin study suggesting that they're significantly inheritable: https://pubmed.ncbi.n
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by akavi 5y ago
I would strongly expect it to be clustered in specific populations. I'd be very surprised if the rate among HN readers was equal to the rate among the general population.
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by akavi 5y ago
> If that was true, the poorest would be the most corrupt and the richest would be the least corrupt. It seems clearly true to me that poorer countries have greater issues with corruption than poorer ones. What makes you say that's
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by akavi 5y ago
> OOP is a great fit for UI frameworks. The biggest UI framework of the past decade is decisively anti-OOP in its philosophy
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by akavi 5y ago
Sounds like getting rid of some hygiene theater is another benefit of self-driving cars then. Covid transmission via surfaces is basically non-existent, as far as we can tell.
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by akavi 5y ago
"Explicit deductive reasoning" is pretty darn rare. (and "meticulous attention to detail" is not strictly necessary, as my own career attests.)
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by akavi 5y ago
Offered lower comp than my competing offers and their growth metrics didn't look too hot.

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