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by awa 6y ago
I was definitely feeling a burn-out by End of December, the main causes: 1. Kids at home including a 2yo who needed regular attention. 2. Working late nights to get un-disrupted time for work (see 1). 3. Fear of getting a bad performance re
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by awa 6y ago
Its more about messages taken out of context or a banter about a competitor between 2 random ICs getting highlighted in a big case.
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by awa 6y ago
Is there a reason to use spotify instead of youtube music?
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by awa 6y ago
Target with redcard works well for me. FS on a lot of general items else FS on $25/35 for grocery items.
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2020 Google Interns projects open sourced(github.com)
3 points by awa 6y ago|0 comments
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by awa 6y ago
I am bummed about this. The Microsoft store near me was a great place to check out the latest windows hardware and what xbox is upto nowadays. I liked that I could just hang out at the store and browse around with no sales pressure.
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I’m Married to an Emergency Room Doctor in New York City(superorganizers.substack.com)
3 points by awa 6y ago|0 comments
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by awa 6y ago
Frankly, I would take a machine as an leader over a lot of other options we have. Predictability and lack of emotional outbursts would be great qualities to have in a leader.
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by awa 6y ago
The why is because, without a lock down app store windows machines were known to be an easy target for viruses, malwares and fake software. Advanced users can still jailbreak and install other apps. Unfortunately, the vetting process has is
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by awa 6y ago
Google started breaking out youtube numbers in their recent quarterly results (once sundar became Alphabet CEO)
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by awa 6y ago
link: https://www.realworldtech.com/
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by awa 6y ago
Supporting example: WE are making bubble teas with boba at home, takes about 10 mins and they are amazing and much cheaper and convenient than $5-6 that bubble tea places here charge. Counter example: We basically rarely ordered delivery an
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by awa 6y ago
Most of the food deliveries services are running using VC funds. I don't think there's much scope of profit here for a ~$5-$7/delivery charge having someone someone pickup and deliver a package along with other costs like bui
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by awa 6y ago
Google has multiple products apart from search with >1B users (Gdrive, android, photos, maps, youtube).
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by awa 6y ago
I think uber investment was also working out for them before the coronavirus hit (they paid $10B for 15% stake) . Apart from that I can think of Alibaba, ARM, Supercell, Flipkart that have been successful.
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by awa 7y ago
I am not sure about the funding level but the Google internal tooling for build/code review/search are the best I have seen.
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by awa 7y ago
Here's a global tracker: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
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by awa 7y ago
Any recommendations on podcasts?
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by awa 7y ago
It's "Adjusted EBITDA" which being a non-GAAP measure in this case excludes Corporate G&A and Platform R&D. This line item was -644 million.
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by awa 7y ago
I have tried to use Asana for personal use cases multiple times over the years and it just feels "slow". Unfortunately, wunderlist is going away and I will need to keep hunting for a good alternative.
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by awa 7y ago
Another anecdote, My target.com spend during the holiday season has been +$500 across multiple items since I don't trust amazon for various items now. Also, the customer service is going downhill and I have been pleasantly surprised ho
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by awa 7y ago
Shoprunner tried to be somewhere in that niche, but it kind of has died down after the initial hype, I still see a few sites using it but the big retailers seems to be gone from the program.
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by awa 7y ago
Doesnt Apple push the same way to connect you apple id to your machine?
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by awa 7y ago
That's how you get a black market/under-the table cash payments.
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by awa 7y ago
Works fine in the us right now
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by awa 7y ago
Counter example, Washington state doesn't allow tips to be counted towards employee's wage ( https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/washington-laws-tipp... )
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Programming Models for Distributed Computing(github.com)
2 points by awa 7y ago|0 comments
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by awa 7y ago
There's an actual "Article" mode which cleans up the text and puts text in onenote (and not screenshot). Disclaimer: Ex-MSFT/onenote engineer.
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by awa 7y ago
So they are just killing the alternate UX, the content is still there just needs to be accessed via the main youtube website
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by awa 7y ago
I agree, and technically the university can cap the number of students taken this way and try to understand the first and second order effects. (If we take this 1 extra student we might be able to take in 25 extra regular students in 5 year

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