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by ctvo 4y ago
Did anyone claim a linear (let alone 1:1) gain? This was the relevant part of what you replied to: > It doesn't certainly doesn't mean anything as broad as "a company cannot do more things by increasing its employee count.
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by ctvo 4y ago
> implies nothing Nothing is a strong word. A similar idea was tried, by one of the largest tech companies in the world, pushing it on to their already established user base, and it didn't catch on. Will it fail again? No idea, but
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by ctvo 4y ago
> I have a concept for a social network that would eliminate many pain points. And what is this concept? Hidden in this question is a strong undercurrent of "I'm an ideas person with a world changing idea. I can't share it
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by ctvo 4y ago
If that's your view on privacy, fine. But what about these accounts? - https://twitter.com/BillGatesJet - https://twitter.com/bezosjets This selective ban is indefensible, obviously personal, with no t
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by ctvo 4y ago
The company that ignored Covid restrictions to push workers during the height of the pandemic to continue producing. The CEO that's all about hardcore mode, who installed beds so employees can sleep at work at one of his other companie
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by ctvo 4y ago
To add some context to this seemingly random praise: > Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with OpenAI to invest more in the seven-year-old research company. > … The money would come on top of the $1 billion Microsoft invested i
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by ctvo 4y ago
Or solve it a different way. I don't think your users care. It doesn't change the fact that it's a limiting factor right now.
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by ctvo 4y ago
The idea is to offer extensibility points in software by embedding their runtime into your current software. Say you have a database and instead of a DLS for querying, allow someone to upload a WebAssembly binary that has access to APIs you
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Experienced devs, what language would you learn today? The language that was required by the company I'm joining. Experienced devs assumptions: - Basic familiarity and can read the popular languages already (Java, TypeScript &#x2F
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by ctvo 4y ago
Why is it difficult to get your stance on this? Even in your original post, it was unnecessarily circular. Are you saying the crowd shots are still being shown in China? Yes or no? How do you know?
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by ctvo 4y ago
Are you saying this is false and crowd shots are still shown? Are you in China right now?
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by ctvo 4y ago
This 1 weird trick of doing free work and hoping they 1) have headcount 2) pay attention / see value in your free work. > … you are test driving each other. Unless you think the way they run their open source projects is the way the
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Despite being a staff engineer, managing 12 engineers, and having a solid revenue stream tied to my current team - I've mostly gotten rejections without interviews How do you expect the HR folks to validate (or even to have read w
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by ctvo 4y ago
Where did you get your legal training?
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Under the new system, managers have reportedly been asked to categorise six per cent of Alphabet’s workforce – corresponding to about 10,000 employees – as poor performers. Stack ranking eventually comes for us all.
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by ctvo 4y ago
Instagram, when it was acquired, wasn't too concerned about making money: It was still VC funded, and was looking at raising another round. The founders controlled the small set of features available, and weren't beholden to, say,
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by ctvo 4y ago
> On anything vaguely Elon related I've learned to ignore high-frequency reporting. True, but not for the reasons you’re implying. Those reporting are accurate Elon is doing these things, but Elon is impulsive, and gets reined in of
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Many consumers don’t trust Amazon anymore How did you come to this conclusion?
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by ctvo 4y ago
Can you answer the question with use cases and examples instead of this rhetorical question? It doesn't help your credibility when you can't list off 10-20 use cases and examples for your groundbreaking technology without contorti
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by ctvo 4y ago
It's a fantasy for you to think this will include Elon Musk. There are legions of SpaceX and Tesla engineers -- did they form this deep human connection with Elon that you're expecting? But you think it'll happen here? Again:
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by ctvo 4y ago
Elon, nodding along to your explanation of how authentication works, sees how intelligent, capable, and full of potential you are. He stops you: Wait Bob, do you have a startup idea you’re working on that I can invest in? Can I at least get
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by ctvo 4y ago
The PayPal mafia had equity / ownership that paid off when they sold the company. Those people in the photo are employees with essentially 0 upside in terms of real ownership. For there to be a “Twitter mafia” Elon would need to, out o
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by ctvo 4y ago
This is the same across the entire industry. https://insights.dice.com/2017/08/22/tech-jobs-last-2-years-...
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by ctvo 4y ago
I’ve gotten offers at all of those places except Netflix. It’s luck of the draw. My experience: Snap > G > F > Amzn > Apple = Stripe = Twitter = …
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by ctvo 4y ago
> They seem mostly isolated to these mega-corps that got PPP money, hired way too much, and are now trimming back the fat. I think your general point is correct: FAANG over hired during the pandemic, but I'm not sure you understand
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Managers at Amazon are expected to put 5 to 10% on a PIP or manage them out every review cycle. A slight correction: An organizational unit larger than a 2 pizza team -- think 50 engineers, is expected to cut 5-10%. A team within that
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by ctvo 4y ago
Unlike Facebook Alexa was somewhat successful. See Alexa microwaves, cars, TVs, etc.. It looks like Amazon also knows when to move on vs. Meta.
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by ctvo 4y ago
NYC, which isn't the best bike city in the world, but for where we want to go (~2-3 miles at most, in Manhattan / Brooklyn) it works out well.
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by ctvo 4y ago
Priced the economical Lucid Air with a few upgrades. Came out to be $99,900. I think they're gorgeous, but I can't do it when, surprisingly, e-bikes gets me where I want to go locally without fuss. Short / medium trips: e-bik
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by ctvo 4y ago
> He must have been aware of verified accounts getting sold and used for scamming so maybe he wanted to dip into that instead of losing it to middleman. I don't think we can assume he must have been aware of anything. That team was

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