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5y ago
Elon says a lot of things. Elon also brought out a person in a robot costume to dance. I stand by it takes giant leaps to think Tesla is an AI company at this stage and them collecting data doesn’t change that.
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5y ago
The giant leap is Tesla is an AI company. Most companies gather data if they can, you wouldn't call them an AI company. A concrete example: Amazon, Walmart, and Target collect a lot of data on their respective ecommerce websites. Are t
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5y ago
> Binary trees during the hiring process for software engineers is not a part of the entire industry. I'd be surprised if it was even the majority. But it is prevalent, and posts pop up here regularly disparaging it. Google, Amazo
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5y ago
Or an explanation that doesn't require such giant leaps: they want to capture as much data as possible in case they ever need it and know there's nothing stopping them, so why not.
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5y ago
Can we stop with this meme? I've seen it now twice in this thread and across the boarder Google threads today. The hiring process is this way for the entire industry. Multiple startups have failed trying to move it away from its curren
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5y ago
It feels like they outsourced this, or hired the people willing to do the work most cheaply. More likely they hired the people in their network who had any experience in this space and hoped for the best (Bill was director of engineering
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5y ago
In my opinion empathy for users (doubly important in a multi sided marketplace e.g. hosts and guests) helped Airbnb succeed. They no doubt removed friction, and prioritized that internally, and that helped them become an aggregator for thei
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5y ago
> By that logic, you can hire a freelance dev to do all the programming too. The market for developer talent and designer talent are visibly different. Different in terms of supply, compensation (as a factor of supply), and risk (due t
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5y ago
> The #1 skill I am always hoping to find someone with that I vibe with is design. No matter what you build, both UX design and a consistent visual aesthetic are very important Is it surprising? Design is cheap, and outsourced. You can
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5y ago
Unsure if it's the incompetence of the the cover up or the actual violation that's more bothersome for me.
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5y ago
Can I ask a stupid question? Who is Dan Luu and why does he keep appearing here? The content hasn’t been amazing. It’s not amazing here either. The blog doesn’t have an about me page as far as I can tell. Google says Dan is a systems engine
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5y ago
You seem to work at Amazon. Not OK to hijack threads with hiring links.
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5y ago
> Yes, he has a website where he pats himself on the back for all of the good calls he's made. I've seen it. Ask yourself, why does a short seller need public confidence at all? It's because they want to be able to move t
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5y ago
If you add a few more “easy” to it it may hide you have no idea what it takes logistically or have ever built something of similar scope / complexity.
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5y ago
> Hindenburg is not the real deal. If you think Hindenburg is the real deal you should pay closer attention to their activities. They (he) are one of a number of noisy short sellers who try to drive stock prices with their tweets/r
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5y ago
How I would bet anything I own that there isn't, and won't ever be one, knowing Apple. This would admit there's a problem and some users may not like the new innovation allowing for more screen space.
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5y ago
> There are not so much professional use cases which will agree on removing screen estate and adding visual distraction. Screen estate is the main difference in professional UX. You seem to have a misunderstanding of the new screen? Ap
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5y ago
Idea: Write a utility to add in a software bezel for folks like this. We can call it distraction free mode. We'll take the extra space back and replace it with a black bezel. The webcam and front facing utilities are now within that sp
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5y ago
Additionally, I remember browsing through BuildBuddy's project and saw they used it for build run isolation in their enterprise offering. - https://www.buildbuddy.io - https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/b
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5y ago
> Mind Blowing Way to Build Frontend Is it? Why not just demonstrate it with a snippet of code -> the output above the fold and let your audience decide?
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5y ago
And the rest of that list? And as an aggregate? If you're going to pick / choose to ignore the obvious point, why even reply?
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5y ago
Who wrote this update? > As we said previously, the incident was a result of a server configuration change that allowed improper access by an unauthorized third party. It opens needlessly defensive / combative, and then is sparse
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5y ago
You've been going on and on. I linked you the AWS marketing page on Lambda that includes it scales with no infrastructure and can be used for all use case. You've had two chances to cite something on their vast marketing and docum
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5y ago
> You are running space tourism for the rich. If you gave a shit about human kind you would pay your workers a living wage and do something about the environment. Are you this upset over 500k cars? Purses that cost 20k? Watches that co
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5y ago
> I feel this is a gross misrepresentation of AWS Lambdas. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, creating workload-aware cluster scaling logic, maintaining event in
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5y ago
What you and others are doing is attempting to predict your peak traffic when you take this approach. It may work for some companies, but more commonly in my experience, it hides P99+ tail latency from companies that may not instrument deep
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5y ago
This is another example of AWS over marketing Lambda. Lambda is horrendously expensive when requests pass a certain level per second. You can graph it against ECS / EC2 to see the point it stops becoming economical. Taking all of this
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5y ago
This incorrect. They've made optimizations in this space, but it's a hard problem with a lot of variables. Examples include mostly solving for VPC + elastic interface provisioning, which used to take much longer and made Lambdas w
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5y ago
I have a lot of trouble with Web3. Generally there's mass adoption when we solve some need for users, usually around two areas: - Price - Convenience The problems so far we've solved with crypto seem to be around bypassing nation
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5y ago
It’s not similar to Dropbox. For the initial Dropbox idea it was doubt that user convenience mattered (just use rsync!) not that there wasn’t a worthwhile problem. What is the problem and solution here? If you say illegal activities, gambli
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