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by ctvo 5y ago
> I think it's a bit too early to break out the outrage cannon. This is just an automated system. Maybe? I'm not in the ads space. I don't know if there are automated systems built in with "you now only have 16 hour
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by ctvo 5y ago
Yes. And I also know how he failed in the presidential and New York City mayor race. And I also know his history with his non-profit. And I also know his performance in ventures before that.
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by ctvo 5y ago
> despite a lot of them growing up in much harder conditions than your average black person in tech. How would you know? And how do you measure it? It was harder to grow up in Kiev because you were in worse poverty than blacks in the US.
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Fine, if there really are 50% less conversions, that's an issue, but frankly 6 hours won't really matter. You buried the lede with things we already know for some reason. Two things: - It's 6 hours and 60 million dolla
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by ctvo 5y ago
Citation required.
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by ctvo 5y ago
Good to get confirmation. I had a sense Yang was incompetent, and now I know. I still like some of his ideas, and I'm thankful he led to more Americans learning about UBI from the presidential race.
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Nothing the whistleblower has revealed is shocking or previously unknown. Yes facebook tweaks an algorithm on your news feed to drive engagement and make money. Can you provide a citation here? People have suspected these things exte
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by ctvo 5y ago
For those curious, what was the outcome of this closed issue? Did Casey make a working terminal on Windows outside of a text renderer? Did Microsoft incorporate his feedback? My worry is that Casey did this technical performance for the ben
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by ctvo 5y ago
Do you work in distributed systems at a level where you understand their claims, and the significance of this work vs. a general dislike of their high level implementation choices? Not implying anything with the previous statement except th
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by ctvo 5y ago
In case anyone reading this is unsure, DO NOT deposit 90+ million USD into half-baked crypto platforms.
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by ctvo 5y ago
If this isn't incentive to sign up for as many half-baked crypto platforms as possible, I don't know what is.
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by ctvo 5y ago
Don't doubt it. It sounds horrific, and I hope you land elsewhere. Your tenure of ~2 years give or take is very close to Facebook's ~2.5 years average. I'll only compare Amazon to Facebook in this case because both are known
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by ctvo 5y ago
Having tried to play Jeopardy on a device with Alexa support multiple times, I can confirm this will most likely be terrible.
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by ctvo 5y ago
> If so, curious what would happen in a scenario where a region requests an object that has been persisted at another region but not yet propagated? Will it result in a 404 or is the system smart enough to route the request to the regio
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by ctvo 5y ago
One of the most toxic environments on the internet, filled with people who define themselves by their employment at big tech, and how large their salaries are. Think WallStreetBets meets tech but with less self-deprecation and emotional mat
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by ctvo 5y ago
There's nothing extraordinary about Amazon having a 2 year tenure average. Here's a somewhat dated (I'd guess it's gotten even shorter since) article from 2018 listing many more company tenures: https://www.in
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by ctvo 5y ago
Can you fill in the curious on what U.S.S.A stands for? Edit: I understand the reference to the USSR, but I'm really curious if you've actually filled out the acronym.
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by ctvo 5y ago
"Being an American is a privilege few have. Let's share our American issued social security numbers!" <Over photo of a bald eagle>
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by ctvo 5y ago
The absolutely crazy thing is the person who caused this doesn't even think they did anything wrong: https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/13783#issuecomment-92724... And there are people supporting their
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by ctvo 5y ago
In addition to what others have pointed out: https://twitter.com/jorgebucaran/status/1441886210998239238 The commits in nanocolor's git history also don't include Jorge's verified signature, which w
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by ctvo 5y ago
I'm losing my mind with people who keep replying with "That's open source baby! Don't make it open source if you don't like!" The problem with this behavior is as follows: - The MIT license requires attribution
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Attribution is required, but a couple lines in some random file do you a fat lot of good if someone forks your project, rebrands, and essentially builds on top of your ripped off hard work. Creator of the original work understands th
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by ctvo 5y ago
The original author mentioned reaching out privately. https://twitter.com/DerianAndre/status/1441851684095811585 As a "prolific and known" open source personality you'd think they'd be more car
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by ctvo 5y ago
Agreed. It's like this person's fan club is out in full force to defend their honor. Impossible to see this as anything other than both unethical and a violation of the MIT license. The issue only being resolved [1] when public sh
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by ctvo 5y ago
Used them recently for brunch. Super easy, scan the receipt, and go. They seem to have ignored a few sacred truths. They scaled more slowly, raised capital less aggressively, and shockingly have real human customer support. This is the inte
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by ctvo 5y ago
> I seldom write down a detailed project plan (I write about that here[1]. Feel free to not read it, as well). Instead, my projects start with what I call a "napkin sketch," and evolve, as they progress. The results can be ama
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by ctvo 5y ago
In my experience a key characteristic of a good software engineer is their ability to handle dense, technical texts. We do it all the time, from academic papers (less often) to documentation (every other hour). Not liking to read (?!), and
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Chatted with some early-stage-then-IPO-ed engineers yesterday, I asked "aren't your company IPO-ed and you should have retired?", the answer is, after multiple dilutions in rounds of fund raises, his options ended up wo
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by ctvo 5y ago
> If you are self-taught, lacking credentials, and don't live in a major market, it can be difficult to get in the door at a FAANG. Whereas start-ups can be much more likely to take a chance on someone with a non-conventional backg
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by ctvo 5y ago
When you turn it into a binary "we need to stop them from absolutely sharing any privileged information" or all is lost, it's an unsolvable problem. Alternatively a few achievable steps could make a large improvement: - Force

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