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by ctvo 5y ago
> Easy to blame a toxic culture. Much harder to accept that your personality is part of the problem. And if this person could accept that, they'd hopefully realize that in caring so much about their work, they were damaging their ow
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by ctvo 5y ago
> The manager of that team demanded I get the release out, and just ignored anything else I had to say. I pointed out that it took them a really long time to respond to my initial report of the issue and we may have been able to come up
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by ctvo 5y ago
You're not bragging, but perhaps you're a match for the culture? Your communication skills are better than your colleagues? You collaborate better across teams, and get more done? You're better at planning, and delegating? I&
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by ctvo 5y ago
From personal experience: The stress of dealing with an organization with the wrong culture, and you having to clean up the messes made, with no agency for meaningful change due to leadership is something most folks with some years in this
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Historically, strong international IP protection only becomes extra important once you are an a big established incumbent rather than a developing upstart country. The theft of IP in a less interconnected age with different IP laws, at
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by ctvo 5y ago
This is an extraordinary position to take, one because it assumes "serious corporate customers" somehow take security seriously. Every. Week. There's a new breach from a "serious corporate customer". Then there&#x2
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by ctvo 5y ago
When did Tim Cook become interested in those things? No he can’t turn Apple into a pizza delivery service either. And?
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by ctvo 5y ago
This is bonkers. - Microsoft introduced Jupyter notebook support for Cosmos (who even asked for this?) and it was turned on for all customers automatically February 2021 - Security researchers find a way to break out of the container runnin
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Yet, SpaceX has developed three generations of rockets (Falcon 1, 9 and heavy), builds them, launches them, iterates on them, lands them, reuses them, and is now working on a fourth rocket (SuperHeavy). What does SpaceX have to do with
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by ctvo 5y ago
If you sold Carmack, you sold me. I have my opinions on Tesla as a company, but have always been impressed with SpaceX. Godspeed.
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by ctvo 5y ago
John is one of the great engineering minds of our generation. Don’t forget Oculus.
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by ctvo 5y ago
I got that already. Is it only the use of energy that's OK or is it other natural resources like fresh water too? Fresh water is much more renewable than some forms of energy so it's a curious distinction.
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by ctvo 5y ago
Say a possible way to extract gold is to run a hose outside your window and let it wash away the dirt. Sometimes flakes of gold are found after enough dirt has washed away. It's true that many other people use water in other ways. I&#x
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by ctvo 5y ago
Can you clarify how this can't be prepped for, and is a marker of intelligence instead of also being explained by average intelligence, coupled with means ($$) and drive? I attended a top school. I can assure you my classmates weren&#x
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by ctvo 5y ago
> my point is that MIT will have a higher percentage of mathematically gifted students, because it isn't something that can be prepped for. What are you talking about? The requirements to get into MIT are not mathematical genius. It
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by ctvo 5y ago
> If it's perfectly reasonable, perhaps there's no need for a court case? Or maybe you could concede that there's more details to the story and it remains to be seen if Amazon was being perfectly reasonable Anyone can brin
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Perhaps you missed my point? Governing is about more than keeping the most people alive. Actually I believe that’s table stakes for good governance. Trading known deaths for possible impact to development of children isn’t even in the
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by ctvo 5y ago
I’m genuinely curious: Couldn’t a quick Google give you this data? Where did you get your position from? Lots of folks have post fact information these days, based on FB articles and other sources, but how did you end up with yours as a lon
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by ctvo 5y ago
Because when they succeed it will return more than the investment? By many times? The product is being tested. Many things, including life changing drugs, are developed this way. We both agree Waymo definitely doesn’t sell its half baked pr
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by ctvo 5y ago
It really is the definition of clickbait. The article is so low quality I have a negative view of the co now.
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by ctvo 5y ago
I'd put it much lower on the list of readings. Complex domains are still around, developers should learn them before trying to come up with solutions but they're implemented differently: As services with clear boundaries, with exp
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Are you upset about the fact that you can’t have multiple isolated user-accounts on an iPhone? The iPhone was mentioned once, to connect it’s not possible on either iPhone or iPad. This is about the iPad, a completely different class o
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by ctvo 5y ago
Learn both. There's nothing particularly difficult about either. They have a lot of documentation, books, open source projects to learn idioms from. Rust obviously will take longer with more language features. I also think your alterna
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by ctvo 5y ago
Because Go is used by every large tech company in the world. If Google stopped investing in it, others would step in to move it forward.
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by ctvo 5y ago
People have been citing the failing of US state capacity for decades. This isn’t the first prolonged conflict in a foreign land we’ve wasted lives, money, and time on. We haven’t had a balanced budget, our public projects are delayed and 2-
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by ctvo 5y ago
The new FTC chair, Lina Khan, read this like Birdman, rubbing her hands.
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by ctvo 5y ago
Yes, it's very difficult to tell your style from your photos, social media presence, and explicit instructions provided when you signed up. This is sarcasm if you didn't pick it up. People who are as picky as you outlined self-sel
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by ctvo 5y ago
Technically, just to be that guy, many slaves worked all the extra time and was compensated with eventual freedom.
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by ctvo 5y ago
If you violate their agreement, and they find it, they sue you.
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by ctvo 5y ago
I was with you until the end. > Instead of counteracting this tendency in some way most Silicon Valley companies actually amplify the problem by running puzzle interviews and structuring their work around glorified paperclip maximization

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