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by ebiester 5y ago
This was my first startup idea. I started digging into it in 2010 with the idea of making it more sticky by "step 1: plan your travel around the attractions you want to see. Step 2: We'll show you the best hotels close to where yo
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by ebiester 5y ago
From another perspective: having dependents reduces some avenues of risk that one might otherwise pursue.
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by ebiester 5y ago
I'm fine for empathy for people who have children. I'm not fine with people who challenge my decision to be without children as "forgo[ing] a natural and essential part of life" and being responsible for society "be
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by ebiester 5y ago
Principals, in this context, means people applying directly, rather than recruiters on their behalf.
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by ebiester 5y ago
So, you are in a place where you have very niche experience, and if you were laid off you would have significant work to find another job. And your manager is unable to put you in a position to succeed. So, it may be time to take a step dow
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by ebiester 5y ago
One of the components of "right tech stack" is "how many people does it take to support it?" For example, K8s might be the right tool for many things, but unless you have explicit K8s experience it probably is wrong for
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by ebiester 5y ago
If you want to see it with this lens, then look at "trending." I don't tend to have an issue with the algorithm - I like that I get amateur science, humor, and puzzles. I don't use it to watch political content, so I don
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by ebiester 5y ago
How often are early developers staying for long enough to realize that value anymore? Or, alternatively, how often are they given pay bumps because it would otherwise be logical for them to leave?
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by ebiester 5y ago
So, that's an orthogonal problem. I was pointing to the direct advice and suggesting that people will look at this advice and their prejudices will lead them to hire a younger person over an older person because the older person will b
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by ebiester 5y ago
I dislike this in that it promotes ageist thinking in many people. There is a presumption that younger people will have a higher slope. In one sense, it's true. Consider the weightlifting analogy. It is easier to train to deadlift from
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by ebiester 5y ago
On top of that, when I'm going to have to put it back on in less than 5 minutes, I'll often just leave it back on. It's really not that big of a deal to wear.
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by ebiester 5y ago
I really love autofocus for this: http://markforster.squarespace.com/autofocus-system/ It gives you the permission to "just" work on something for five minutes. I like to look at it like this: time management
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by ebiester 5y ago
Most of us would consider that nightmare scenario to work in. The closer to startup life you are, the less that exists. Smaller organizations die if they have that kind of dysfunction. When everything succeeds, there's no problem. When
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by ebiester 5y ago
The problem is that you think a high school biology class is sufficient to understand the broader implications. What is the limitation of this study? For example, in the context of the paper, "immunity" means that your immune syst
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by ebiester 5y ago
I agree to the payment. I disagree to the subscription model. I absolutely would try to hook users on any SaaS. However, I go out of my way to avoid such products. If I can pay for them once, I much prefer it. (For something like jetbrains,
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by ebiester 5y ago
I don't have too much "smart home", but I am really tempted by lighting. Being able to dim and change the color temperature of the light depending on the time of day is compelling. Dimming is easy conceptually, but it would
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by ebiester 5y ago
It's a common microservice antipattern. When people go "yay microservices" but have no experience designing one, don't bring in people with that experience, and don't get lucky, they end up in the antipattern. It is
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by ebiester 5y ago
You add nothing to the conversation. Make an actual argument. Are you saying that the legislation reduced the level of housing created? Are you saying that redlining increased housing stock? Are you saying that black people having equal acc
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by ebiester 5y ago
I use it on the left because I have an ultra-wide monitor and run out of vertical space before horizontal space.
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by ebiester 5y ago
Tens of thousands were in this trial. How many hundreds of thousands of people should be sufficient to get it out the door?
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by ebiester 5y ago
PMs explicitly know the issue with interruptions. Most PMs I know work 1-2 hours either before or after business hours precisely because this is the only time they can get work done. Engineering Managers understand this too. And the goal is
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by ebiester 5y ago
In general, an averagely successful paper in most disciplines will get 200-250 readers. It’s only when there is outsized media attention that there is any issue. And luckily, for those cases today, sci-hub is available.
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by ebiester 5y ago
If things are so complex that someone can lose their money through an intricate set of rules, that's exactly the type of scummy behavior that we are talking about. It's not a matter of "whose" fault it is, but rather tha
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by ebiester 5y ago
There is a difference between developers, who today have many options, and those who are affected. I, as a developer, would not choose to work at Amazon because of how those who are affected are treated. That is because I have options. I do
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by ebiester 5y ago
Cloud Foundry Enterprise is still quite expensive, and based on my CF experience, we took a few years of development upon the open source tools before we really had our development environment dialed in.
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by ebiester 5y ago
Boston may be a bad example. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-... https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description
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by ebiester 5y ago
Always assume that you will have bad luck and will need a few months to get a job. More importantly, you will have higher standards for your next job if you have the financial security to do so. That said, I forsee a lot of gap years in 202
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by ebiester 5y ago
However, their kids will be at school or daycare, they will be able to run errands in half the time (service slowed way down during the pandemic due to safety protocols), and people at just happier with their social connections without a tw
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by ebiester 5y ago
After all, your business never changes and neither do the constraints.
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by ebiester 5y ago
The first part was serious in order to set up the joke.

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