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by austinl 6y ago
The most effective recruiting emails I receive (in terms of how likely I am to reply) are: * Plain text * Directly addressed to me from name@company.com * 3-4 sentences max, slightly personalized * Optionally have a link to the company care
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by austinl 6y ago
Yeah, this 100% semantics, with a misleading headline. A better story would have read "How the U.S. Navy leverages Twitch and esports as a marketing channel". Instead, it takes a quote from one of the players, Crosswhite, then lab
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by austinl 6y ago
You mentioned expensive art, which is a pretty fascinating field because the value of individual pieces can be fairly subjective and difficult to appraise. This has massive tax implications in the United States. Imagine donating a piece of
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by austinl 6y ago
I have to agree with this. I was on Notion for a while, and I've tried every other app out there, but found I was wasting too much time thinking about the structure and features instead of the content . I've gone back back to App
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by austinl 6y ago
Yeah, agree FAANGs have too much volume for this.
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by austinl 6y ago
My favorite interview experience of all-time was essentially a two day contract. The company listed a couple of simple tasks in their codebase that didn't need a lot of context to complete. And there was no pressure to complete all of
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by austinl 6y ago
Take some time to read through Aaron's blog if you haven't: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/archive . I'd recommend starting with his series of posts called Raw Nerve ( http://www.aaronsw.com&#x
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by austinl 6y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, and came out so disillusioned with the public education system that I'm struggling to decide what the right answer will be for my children. I understand that many kids are not this way, but I was the type that r
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by austinl 6y ago
When I was in elementary school, my math class spent a good amount of time playing Roller Coaster Tycoon in small groups. I can't remember exactly how it worked, but I think we rotated who got to drive, while two or three other kids wa
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by austinl 6y ago
Less than half of the students from my alma mater graduate within four years. When I learned this I was dumbfounded. The incentives are just not correctly aligned. The university is able to profit off of students taking fewer credit hours
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by austinl 6y ago
I've returned to manually calling people manually from the Contacts app because of how frustrated I'd get every time I'd try to make a phone call through Siri. The whole exchange takes about 20 seconds: "Hey Siri, call J
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by austinl 6y ago
Not at all — you can control what commands are actually executed when developers hit the play button or do ⌘+B/⌘+R in Xcode. Xcode is fundamentally just an IDE, even though we forget that sometimes since it's traditionally coupled
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by austinl 6y ago
We're using Nix where I work as well, and while I can say it was not the most user-friendly to set up, once we got it in place it has reliably worked for the last two years. We used to have a long and flaky shell script which set up th
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by austinl 6y ago
Curious about what you're doing. I also dedicate a good amount of time each day to learning, but am still pretty skeptical about the ROI for some of the things I'm doing. I spend a lot of time on Coursera, reading eng. blogs, watc
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by austinl 6y ago
Reminds me of the Wikipedia vital articles. I've been trying to learn German, so I've been picking one mostly at random and reading the German translation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_article
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by austinl 6y ago
This is the closest thing I've seen to Borges' fictional language described in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius . The language has no nouns, so words are made of up sets of adjectives. "moon" becomes "round airy-light o
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by austinl 6y ago
Engineers are unaware of the needs of these businesses, and often, the businesses are unaware that it's possible to solve some of their problems with software. That's why successful engineer-founders often have prior industry expe
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by austinl 7y ago
I honestly prefer working from home, but that seems to be a rarer opinion. I feel like it gives me the flexibility to fill the gaps with other productive or relaxing things. Even though I feel like my work environment is great, I feel press
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by austinl 7y ago
Another counterpoint (although I totally understand where this sentiment comes from): Pro Gran Turismo players have been banned from competing as gentlemen drivers because they're too good. For folks not familiar with the concept of a
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by austinl 7y ago
I took the course at Purdue that built on Xinu (CS 354, Operating Systems) — Xinu is really just used for teaching purposes. Doug Comer (the creator of Xinu) was my favorite professor — it was inspiring to hear from someone who was pretty c
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by austinl 7y ago
It doesn't exactly work like that — you can't just go into hiding to wait out the time. Since there was a warrant out for his arrest, and marshals were actively looking for him, I'm assuming the limit was suspended. See: htt
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by austinl 7y ago
Similar abuse occurs in Apple's ecosystem as well. It was really easy to subtly sign someone up for a $99/week subscription, but I'm not sure if this is still the case. A lot of these scam apps appeared regularly in the App S
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by austinl 7y ago
I'd strongly recommend this longer read by Jason Guerrasio about the rise and fall MoviePass: https://outline.com/ZPqaXs — really captures the whole story end to end. Original link with ad-block paywall: https:/&
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by austinl 7y ago
Not sure how active it still is, but there's a site called VC Fund My Life ( http://www.vcfml.com/ ) which catalogs coupons offered by start-ups for growth hacking (likely just VC money).
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by austinl 7y ago
I can relate to this. We have a few thousand people in our general channel. The channel description is: Please do not use @ here in this channel. (You can mute this channel).
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by austinl 8y ago
I've got a similar anecdote: my friends in San Francisco or New York have moved over to Instagram entirely. My friends in the midwest or south (Chicago, Austin) still use Snapchat. There's probably a network effect — a couple of s
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by austinl 8y ago
I started to program in Lua with the LÖVE game engine in early high school, and can say it's one of the main reasons I was motivated to study CS in college. It's a simple, 2D, open-source game engine that runs on all platforms — I
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by austinl 8y ago
Looking forward to seeing where this goes. This is one of the primary reasons I use Google Keep for everything, which at least gives me Google search for all of my notes, todos, saved articles, etc. Of course, there's still a lot of ro
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by austinl 8y ago
This has been my experience. Most posts I see criticize a team, product, or person (usually an executive) — and it's often clear they have very little context / criticism is usually directed from one part of the org to another.
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by austinl 8y ago
I started to appreciate stand-up comedy a lot more after realizing just how much effort goes into delivery. It's almost uncanny to watch a comedian perform the same routine twice, because their timing is so consistent. Here's a g

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