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by aripickar 6y ago
Apple doesn’t take a cut from advertising, which funds the vast majority of apps.
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by aripickar 6y ago
Sometimes you want apps that are silo'd off and are not connected to the entire web. Mobile apps can provide users with a better experience since they are more locked down in terms of permissions
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by aripickar 6y ago
I disagree. Once you increase your knowledge of AWS and associated systems, you can decrease cost of what you are doing through tips like what you see in this article. I don't quite get the point about optimizing cloud costs solely by
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by aripickar 6y ago
I disagree with the premise of the article, since it takes the POV of an experiences trader, but that isn’t necessarily the whole story. The alternative for a lot of Robinhood traders wasn’t / isn’t trading on e trade or another platfo
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by aripickar 6y ago
I disagree with some of the things that this article is saying since there are ways to fundamentally do the same scam, but not make it so incredibly obvious that it's a scam. Or, the user could cause disruption in other markets that ar
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by aripickar 6y ago
If my 2000 person intro to computer science class required roll call, not only would everyone not fit in the lecture hall, but attendance would take the whole class period.
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by aripickar 6y ago
I think that the biggest thing about slack is just how nice it is to use. I remember first trying it for groups in college, and it was a godsend compared to most messaging services.
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by aripickar 6y ago
The optimistic scenario is that Tesla is so far ahead of the curve in self driving capabilities that they become toyota sized in terms of cars sold, while mainaining the low gross margins on software sold. Tesla is largely a software play,
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by aripickar 6y ago
It was more of a case of "Donate money to these causes and see what happens". Not fraud
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by aripickar 6y ago
It doesn’t. Base is 160k/yr, and stock probably is something like 4 mil over 4 years at onset, so he probably made 1.5-2 mil this year.
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by aripickar 6y ago
I normally have a 42” widescreen monitor at my office, but I still use the laptop keyboard and trackpad under it. Using the laptop alone isn’t that different
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by aripickar 6y ago
It's a survey from blind. I trust basically nothing on that app.
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by aripickar 6y ago
I have had a different experience with working at AWS. I've heard really terrible things working in retail, but AWS has been a pretty good place to work, with normal 9-5 hours. I can go more into detail about how my experience has been
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by aripickar 6y ago
The only point of certification is signaling. Right now there is only 1 (Ga Tech's OMSCS) online program that would be a positive signal. On the other hand, including an online certification in most resumes would probably be a negative
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by aripickar 6y ago
The elasticity of talent of the average engineer is so much higher than that of Peter Norvig it doesn't really make sense to discuss it. For an individual person it doesn't matter where they work if theres no replacement, but for
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by aripickar 6y ago
I'm pretty bearish on the pandemic actually leading to massive change in the number of people permanently working from home. My boss put out a survey a week or two ago among my org (30 or so people), and 70% said that they want to work
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by aripickar 6y ago
Most people railing against "fake markets" haven't considered the fact. Grubhub has long been profitable, same with Seamless. People still think that their uber rides are being subsidized on every ride, but uber now makes pro
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by aripickar 6y ago
I think being allowed to work from home doesn't mean that people actually will all suddenly start doing that. My boss put out a survey a week or two ago among my org (30 or so people), and 70% said that they want to work from the offic
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by aripickar 6y ago
Are there any good resources for illustrating the technical components of a brokerage? I haven't seen many.
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by aripickar 6y ago
I work for AWS, so (in the most pedantic way possible) technically yes
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by aripickar 6y ago
I meant that there was a group of people the size of the population of brazil that were expected to be hungry, but are not. That should be celebrated. Its easy to lose the sheer size of the difference between 800 million and 1 billion, but
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by aripickar 6y ago
Undernourished != starving, and 821.6 million != 1 billion. While there is plenty of work to do left, theres a lot of progress that has been made so far and its important to recognize that.
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by aripickar 6y ago
I think it's interesting how one prediction that they made was that 1,000,000,000 would be starving. However, the massive reduction in extreme poverty[1] that the world has made, especially since 2000, is amazing and under-covered. Tha
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by aripickar 6y ago
I think you should accept videos since zoom allows them as backgrounds.
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by aripickar 6y ago
This has been my background for as many calls as I can do without it being unprofessional. https://v.redd.it/84tmrvcuqbs41/DASH_480?source=fallback
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by aripickar 6y ago
I love the conspiracy theory that masayoshi son is a CIA plant designed to drain Saudi money.
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by aripickar 6y ago
Theoretically, augmenting the blurred image with some sort of random, changing offset for the HSV values on each frame would prevent supersampling attacks, right?
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by aripickar 7y ago
I think that the main reason that students want tutors and other resources is because office hours are slammed during projects, event though there are lots of TA's and readers. There are a lot of resources to help students with materia
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by aripickar 7y ago
Actually the context is missing but in a kinda different way. Berkeley CS has about 2000-2200 students in 61A each semester, and an average grade of B+ (3.33). Students need a 3.33 average in 61A and two other classes, 61B and 70. However,
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by aripickar 7y ago
I mean yeah, that's not really a secret. The head of the intern program that I was at straight up told all the interns that it was worth it to the company if even 20% of the interns who were hired returned as full time employees.

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