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by diiaann 6y ago
https://www.axios.com/zoox-fired-ceo-tim-kentley-klay-fe6f06... His previous experience was running an animation studio in Australia...so there's that too...
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by diiaann 6y ago
I was talking to a few European friends (1 Dutch, 1 French) and what they described was that even the most bright students typically go to their regional universities which are all "equally good". Here in the US, the rankings are
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by diiaann 8y ago
A bar closed in my neighborhood and and when I was chatting with them they too blamed the spending habits of the tech crowd. I think if anything, people spend more money on eating out and drinking than the average person. So I don't th
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by diiaann 8y ago
I know some people are very critical. I'm a big transit enthusiast but I still see how some work routes are long to walk, but not well served via transit, i.e. NoPa to Brannan St (Airbnb, Pinterest). Friends that were faced with tricki
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by diiaann 8y ago
I think there are plenty of good looking open source fonts, but there aren't that many super solid ones. Glyph wise, I would love to have both tabular and proportional numbers. I also want great hinting so it looks good on Windows devi
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by diiaann 8y ago
Paula Scher, you can't win them all.
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by diiaann 8y ago
Koopman has a talk here on his blog that has more details about how ETCS (Electronic Throttle Control System) is safety critical. "If a driver pumps brakes, loses vacuum power assist...WOT requires an average of 175 lbs of force on bra
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by diiaann 8y ago
Mitra congrats! I'm dismayed by the folks harping on the sodium content (for health reasons not taste). I think it warrants a deeper look because sodium intake is controversial. But there's lot of evidence that people can have mor
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by diiaann 8y ago
Seems like a perfectly fine amount of sodium to me. "An estimated sodium intake between 3 g per day and 6 g per day was associated with a lower risk of death and cardiovascular events than either a higher or lower estimated level of s
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by diiaann 8y ago
Yeah, this seems like a very indulgent project. It seems more of a labor of love for those who worked on it than something that moves the business forward. It's the same feeling I get when I look at the Airbnb service fee and get irrit
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by diiaann 8y ago
“A 4.0 does signal something significant, that that student is good,” said Stuart Rojstaczer, a former Duke University professor who has studied grade inflation for years. “ A 3.7, however, doesn’t. That’s just a run-of-the-mill student at
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by diiaann 8y ago
This. I think people forget that majors are also an operational consideration.
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by diiaann 8y ago
My uncle in China had a seat belt chime defeater that also doubled as a bottle opener.
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by diiaann 8y ago
Lattner was fired.
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by diiaann 9y ago
I think I've read every single Poirot, my favorites are: Murder on the Orient Express Death on the Nile Appointment with Death Cat Among Pigeons
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by diiaann 9y ago
This makes me sad. I don't care about Bill Ackman being right or wrong about Herbalife's business. What I care about is that I truly believe that the world would be better off without MLM. If you have ever read sites like Pink Tru
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by diiaann 9y ago
I liken the bootcamp business to the mortgage lending business before the subprime crisis. In the beginning, there were plenty of candidates that were suited for careers in software engineering. Now we are at the point where each school has
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by diiaann 9y ago
We are using VWO now! :D
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by diiaann 9y ago
We were using Optimizely until we didn't qualify for the lowest tier paid plan. Not enough impressions? We knew at our traffic tier, Optimizely experiment analysis was not going to be statically robust. We were going to have our data p
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by diiaann 9y ago
I find that I actually use both vim and GUI editors. If I'm writing a lot of fresh code or exploring a new codebase, I like to use GUI based editors. Anything quick or repetitive, I tend to open up vim because its speedy to open and ed
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by diiaann 9y ago
I also put it off to the last minute. I had a pernicious bug in my coalescing code that was hard to debug. After one failed rewrite and only a few hours left, I resorted to taking the book's array version and optimizing it for utilizat
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by diiaann 9y ago
We have a "private" office in a WeWork. For me the worst part is the desk itself, it's totally substandard as a task desk. Same with the chairs, people joke about the college analogy but I had better desking as a college stud
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by diiaann 9y ago
These seem in line with what I've seen from friends and acquaintances. I've also heard 100K signing bonuses to new grads at FB. https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-rationale-behind-Facebooks-1...
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by diiaann 9y ago
Most people I talk to assume that marriage is a boon for taxes. It is not. Our current tax policy can penalize both low-income and high-income earners. https://taxfoundation.org/understanding-marriage-penalty-and...
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by diiaann 9y ago
There is another meal planning serving called Cooksmarts without the raw ingredients.
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by diiaann 9y ago
I feel similarly. I find that conferences are kind of wasteful, from the signage, materials to the travel to get everyone into the same place. I can see greater value if a company is remote and you want to engage with a community that way.
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by diiaann 9y ago
Getting that first bit of experience seems hard for a product manager. Most places will only hire people with experience as a product manager, and for those who will hire someone without prior experience, they seem to prefer MBAs. This at l
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by diiaann 9y ago
Though a stretch...announcing the leadership change could fall under: "gives information about a change in terms or features or account balance information regarding a membership, subscription, account, loan or other ongoing commercial
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by diiaann 10y ago
I got $500 from United for being bumped on a SFO -> BOS flight. My resulting flight was only 1.5 hours later and I got moved to #1 on the upgrade standby list. From what it sounded like, it was a computer system that decided the amount,
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by diiaann 10y ago
My father was extremely careful about this when he wanted to start his own company. He quit his large corporation, and then worked at much smaller company until what he wanted to do solidified in his mind. He was extremely scrupulous about

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