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by brd529 4y ago
I was extremely disappointed to see this statistic trotted out in the New Yorker - almost as a throw away line. It’s such a weak claim for something to be “reputed to be” or “estimated by some” which is probably how it got past the fact che
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by brd529 4y ago
I also noticed this - e.g ‘wheel’ - I assume noun first would be a better default but haven't thought about it deeply
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by brd529 4y ago
It was 30% of the recruiting team that was laid off today which almost certainly includes recruiting coordinators, sourcers and other entry level non technical roles. It is a challenging time to be looking for a job if you are a recruiter,
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by brd529 4y ago
FWIW I always configure my bank to bank transfers with micro deposits - I am very uncomfortable giving plaid my credentials. It takes a couple days which is lame but feels much safer.
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by brd529 5y ago
Came here to say this. The other point I would add, and this gets churchy but it is also the wisdom of the ages “to find your life you have to lose it” - the great thing about a church is you are instantly plugged into a community of servic
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by brd529 5y ago
> How do you go from talking to someone during some hobby activity to a friendship outside of that activity Ask them for their phone number and text them to invite them to things, even if just to lunch
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by brd529 5y ago
What did you do to beat Mixpanel to IPO - when they had a couple year head-start?
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EFF asks Dartmouth to withdraw cheating charges against med students(eff.org)
16 points by brd529 5y ago|4 comments
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by brd529 5y ago
You can. Airtable is what salesforce would look like if it were built today. Because CRM is so dominated by salesforce though, Airtable's defaults are not CRM and it doesn't market itself as such.
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by brd529 5y ago
It's not unreasonable to say Salesforce was MS Access / Filemaker in the cloud, and the cloud made all the difference.
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by brd529 6y ago
> Historically, our merchants in China have benefitted from lower shipping costs due to the Universal Postal Union Treaty (“UPU”). Certain expected changes to UPU postal rates that went into effect in July 2020 are likely to increase the
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by brd529 6y ago
Disagree hard. This piece is interesting because it is a relatable window into the history of database concepts and what it's like being on teams that work on them. For anyone who has done serious work on databases its a fascinating re
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by brd529 6y ago
This explains it: https://harveymultani.substack.com/p/startup-employee-syndic... The idea is for employees to raise money from their network into a special purpose vehicle, and have that SPV invest in their employer,
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by brd529 6y ago
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral!
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by brd529 6y ago
Usually they have a paper at Sigmod 2018: https://sigmod2018.org/sigmod_industrial_list.shtml RAPID: In-Memory Analytical Query Processing Engine with Extreme Performance per Watt 2020: https://sigmod2020.org&#x2
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by brd529 6y ago
100% this. I do believe that a lot of two-job families would love for one or both parents to go part time. This way one parent doesn't have to 'give up' their career. Some generic advice I give to new grads which I never cons
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by brd529 6y ago
It's true that a company can't issue ISOs if the termination window is more than 90 days, they have to be NSOs instead. IMO the downside of the NSOs (pay tax immediately upon exercise instead of at next year's tax deadline -
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by brd529 6y ago
Bravo bravo bravo! This piece neatly encapsulates all the problems with ISOs. The biggest one is mentioned at the beginning - information asymmetry. I don’t really understand why most companies, especially small ones less than 100 people, c
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by brd529 6y ago
Thanks for putting this up for feedback. I read with some interest. For me the biggest piece that was missing was evidence that the ideas work. The content sounds aspirational “wouldn’t it be nice if” and not grounded in lived experience. Y
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by brd529 6y ago
The top open-source ecommerce platforms (magento, woocommerce, etc) and content management systems (wordpress) are all in PHP, and yes they were written before 2000. You don't need to know PHP to be a successful web dev if you are work
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by brd529 6y ago
My first glance reads it to be more like airtable or even salesforce at some level, which to your point are the modern iterations of access / filemaker. Drag and drop all-in-one database and application designer that by virtue of being
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by brd529 6y ago
In the article it makes clear that doordash calls the restaurant from their call center to make the order and gets the correct total verbally. Ostensibly this is what gets loaded to the delivery worker’s card. Since this was part of a “dema
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by brd529 7y ago
I've heard that premium processing has been suspended for H1Bs. If someone on an H1B loses their job right now, what does that mean for their ability to find a new job?
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by brd529 7y ago
There is a large fee (~$5k iirc) to apply for a TN by mail. The fee for applying at the border is around ~$100.
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by brd529 7y ago
The chronicle mentioned earlier this week that most of the $600k is supposedly for the mandatory environmental review. What a city.
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by brd529 7y ago
It’s a total tax on the entire ecosystem. Every merchant that chooses to accept credit cards has to build 2-3% into their margins to cover the interchange fees. It’s often against their agreement with visa/mc to charge the fees for cre
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by brd529 7y ago
The looker blog post addresses this though the google one doesn’t: > For customers and partners, it’s important to know that today’s announcement solidifies ours as well as Google Cloud’s commitment to multi-cloud. Looker customers can e
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by brd529 7y ago
Most looker instances I’ve seen are wired to redshift. How long until support for non google cloud databases is dropped, deprioritized, etc?
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by brd529 7y ago
Having done logistics this happens all the time in international parcels. I saw 0.5% of parcels have some massively weird routing error to countries that made no sense. If this had been a us govt request they wouldn’t have scanned the packa
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by brd529 7y ago
Related - Some SF Supervisors are going to put a retroactive 1.12% stock compensation payroll tax on the November ballot: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Here-come-the-I...

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