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by coward8675309 6y ago
Yes. Most of my grey hair has come from those months that my job was mostly sorting through the rubble.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I've been at startups where we experienced 90% engineering turnover over 12 mo. due to M&A or change of leadership. We got by. I'm sure Fb could cope.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
No. If milk prices were unregulated you'd pay less, at least in the US and I believe Europe. https://www.fb.org/market-intel/how-milk-is-really-priced-in...
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Yes, pretty spot on. Would these Facebook employees be happier if Fb decided the equilibrium point was way below SV/SF subsistence and reset everyone's salary accordingly? "We're being fair. Work from wherever you like
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Or clearly a result of Covid. Or clearly a result of Republicans’s and Democrats’s newfound love of using tech companies as punching bags. So many single, all-encompassing theories that clearly fully account for every act.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
So had Apple done this but told no one it wouldn’t be PR — and you’d be praising them right now? Would they be allowed to tell the affected developers? The FAANG are random assortment of companies that share little in common aside from bein
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by coward8675309 6y ago
And/or are you cynically interpreting this as a piece of PR to rake in the karma? Nearly every act by every person or institution can be interpreted as a cynical attempt to curry favor. Who gets the benefit of a doubt and who gets cond
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by coward8675309 6y ago
That's not what I'm getting at. Regardless of the details of the cloud offerings, migrating from Linux to Apple Silicon would help the MacOS and iOS developer experience, because it'll all (MacOS, iOS, Apple's rack OS)
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Yeah, just like they hassle me with my wire-wrapped homebrew OpenBSD-based SDR mobile phone in my blue Radio Shack project box every time I try to get on an airplane. Why does The Man always pick on me ?!
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by coward8675309 6y ago
The cloud is changing. At my gig we've embraced GCP's managed cloud services, and I do not want to go back to 2015. The operating cost savings (no devops people!) and the low cost makes engineering systems for cloud-agnosticism ve
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by coward8675309 6y ago
That's why I commute to the office via horse — so I don't need to deal with those fascists at the DMV. Sure the costs of boarding and hay and horseshoes pile up, but at least I'm not being hassled by The Man.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
There are few more odious Internet pass-times than relentlessly harassing someone for some perceived infraction until they give an imperfect apology and then nitpicking until they ritually humiliate themselves exactly according to your wish
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by coward8675309 6y ago
The world needs less optimism and idealism. They lead to disappointment, burnout, and bitterness. In healthcare doctors-to-be now often receive training and education that encourages thinking in terms of small victories and approaching trea
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Our company has committed to using Google Cloud Platform. I do not see a lot of need for writing much new infrastructure. Someone needs to create and manage Kubernetes and its ilk, but the people doing this will make up a similar percenta
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I was CTO at a company that got bought by an enormous company with these sorts of procurement processes. I mused with my engineers multiple times about a company that would simply do billing process arbitrage.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
My CFO didn't care about the line items inside our $20,000/mo Heroku bill. What he did care about its size. When I told him we could save a lot of money by fostering a direct relationship with companies like Redis Labs, he was v
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by coward8675309 6y ago
A lot of people don’t have the luxury of doing both those things. They’re confronted with a problem and need to solve it, and solving it requires choosing and learning how to use a tool. If you have plenty of free time, choosing C#, Swift,
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by coward8675309 6y ago
If R is a reasonable tool for a given problem, C# or Swift or Java almost certainly will not be. The realistic alternatives to R are other numerical analysis packages, Julia, and Python. “The” answer for any given person or project is lik
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by coward8675309 6y ago
No, I was referring to a line of thinking very common among folks I’ve met who grew up in post-USSR Russia vis a vis the worldview of many of the people I know who grew up in the USSR before. The former tend to think everyone is corrupt and
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by coward8675309 6y ago
You hit the nail on the head: the cynicism. Cynicism isn’t a morally neutral stance. Assuming everyone else is arguing in bad faith and in favor of their crude short-term political/economic interests. Asserting that all property is t
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Yes, though the expression “an up round is an up round” has a lot of truth to it. Dilution is important if you care about control, but as long as the stock is worth more on a per-share basis, you’re doing better. The problem is when people
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by coward8675309 6y ago
The reality is that many startup employees may have stacked Stanford STEM degrees yadda yadda yadda, but they can’t do basic math, don’t have a good intuitive grasp of probability, have outlandish expectations, and/or don’t ask clarify
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by coward8675309 6y ago
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I totally agree. I much prefer tools like the now-deprecated Yesql for Clojure that provide for easy mapping of actual SQL queries to function wrappers for those queries. Also, given that the database is where your data model’s consistency
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by coward8675309 6y ago
And this is why in general I don’t like ORMs, even my favorite ORM, Django’s. They hide from you the query complexity — and perhaps also the number of queries — that your ORM query produces. There are situations where a different ORM approa
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I think that’s a level of media sophistication that’s hard to instill in people. After all, motion pictures, literature, and art of all kinds produces emotional effects because at some level, people accept what’s presented to them. It takes
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by coward8675309 6y ago
These people are not rich. Where is this recurring erroneous assertion coming from? Is your moral framework that all evil comes from wealth and therefore these people must be wealthy? We all get bees in our bonnet about different things and
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by coward8675309 6y ago
The kids of Dogtown committed many, many property crimes as the trespassed to skate the empty swimming pools of SoCal during the drought and created modern skateboarding as we know it. Skaters all over America during the ‘80s and ‘90s were
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by coward8675309 6y ago
If you read TFA you’d note that quite possibly none of these people are rich or elite according to any reasonable Progressive taxonomy of evil. And they are not showing that the law doesn’t apply to them; they realize that what they’re doin
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by coward8675309 6y ago
This is a much more plausible use for the energy produced by this method than on-site glass bottle manufacturing, alluded to elsewhere among the comments.

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