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by emmett 9y ago
Golden loot boxes are basically guaranteed to have good loot in them...try it, you might like it !
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by emmett 9y ago
We care a lot about stream quality at Twitch. Can I ask where you're watching from that you get so many stutters? That's a key metric we measure ("buffer empties per hour"), so I know for a fact it's not high every
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by emmett 9y ago
If you join a startup immediately following a Series A and you only get 0.01%, you almost certainly got screwed. We were fairly stingy with equity, and an engineer joining then would have gotten around 0.5%, 50x what you're basing your
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by emmett 10y ago
The first design was expedient: we needed something in order to launch the website. So we did a really minimal amount of work. It was never great -- nothing done in four hours can be great -- but it sufficed to be able to launch a product
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by emmett 10y ago
The first version of the Twitch brand, space-themed, was created by Jacob Woodsey (our only designer at the time and now owner of all social features at Twitch), in approximately 4 hours spread over the course of a single day. So probably e
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by emmett 10y ago
Trump's senior strategist, his appointee to the Security Council and political advisor is Steve Bannon. “Isn’t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we gotta get sorted here, not illegal im
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by emmett 10y ago
My father was an expert witness in electronic discovery cases for many years in the 90s and early 00s. I remember so many stories growing up about similar situations. The main lesson was that it was actually way easier to be an expert witne
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by emmett 10y ago
You don't need partners great at scaling profitable companies from 100 to 500 employees. You need partners who know how to help a company go from two to ten employees and raise a first round of funding. I'm a part-time partner, an
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by emmett 10y ago
Do you really think it hasn't occurred to WayMo/Google that maybe they should test their cars in snow/rain/sleet/fog/confetti?
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by emmett 10y ago
A famous aphorism of David Wheeler goes: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" (the "fundamental theorem of software engineering"). This is often deliberately mis-quoted with &q
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by emmett 10y ago
I went to a private school. It was pretty non-traditional in many respects, and it wouldn't surprise me if writing a thesis wasn't common at other schools.
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by emmett 10y ago
Chicken and egg. Subways enable density. Right now if you greatly increased the density of many SF neighborhoods, you'd overwhelm the transportation infrastructure. (Obviously there are neighborhoods with transit that could already sup
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How Twitch uses Postgresql(blog.twitch.tv)
4 points by emmett 10y ago|0 comments
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by emmett 10y ago
I'm not super familiar with facelift costs over time, but a quick google gives me this link: http://www.drhodgkinson.com.au/news-resource/different-types... Quoth the article: "Facelifts have come a long way
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by emmett 10y ago
Historically, expensive treatments for the rich have become universal treatments for everyone over time. What makes you believe that life extension will be any different? Or, if you disagree that expensive treatments generally stay expensiv
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by emmett 10y ago
You are exactly correct. Nothing is off-topic on Hacker News; the rule is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", so that's a pretty wide mandate. I know you're saying you're not complaining, bu
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by emmett 10y ago
Status emails are not a "Potemkin supervisory framework". They're a scalable way of communicating progress broadly in a way that can be referenced later, rather than an ephemeral way to communicate to one person.
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by emmett 10y ago
I don't think my anecdotal evidence is particularly stronger than the author's. My point is just to take it all with the knowledge that what worked at google in an experiment there won't necessarily work for you in the same w
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by emmett 10y ago
I love scifi, and but I totally agree. I thought Ready Player One was terrible. My only explanation is that it's a huge nostalgia rush for a certain set of Gen X readers. I really liked Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store, but I thin
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by emmett 10y ago
I'm pretty sure a first year security engineer at Facebook gets paid a lot more than $5k too. They're not your employer, they don't owe you money, if you want to mess around looking for security vulnerabilities in your free t
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by emmett 10y ago
I still don't see how on average it's worse for students. It might be worse for student A who would have applied to MS knowing a higher chance of getting in, but that's then probably worse for student B who genuinely wants to
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by emmett 10y ago
Why is sharing the rating with students so critical? I can see why people would be curious, but I'm not sure why it matters so much?
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by emmett 10y ago
(1) I totally agree that there are people who violate this rule and do great. Hiring really senior early can totally work, especially if you get the product right the first time. In fact, it can be a huge accelerant. (2) There's a diff
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by emmett 10y ago
There are multiple ways to be a "senior" employee. The first is to be a very experienced individual contributor. Amazing programmer with deep experience, world class designer, sales person who can get to the right person in any or
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by emmett 10y ago
From the article: A note about this post, which is being linked to from all over the internet: This situation is not about “young people today.” The letter-writer’s generation is far from the first to bridle at dress codes or misunderstand
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by emmett 10y ago
If you had to guess what the net loss for Facebook at IPO was, what would you say? More or less than Twilio?
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by emmett 11y ago
We're working on the switch (I announced at TwitchCon). It's particularly hard for live video, but that's just an excuse. Clearly the time has come.
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by emmett 11y ago
While I think you describe the unfortunate common case, my personal experience has not run this way. Much more often, there has been agreement that there is a need for a new layer of leadership that we did not have before, and then we have
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by emmett 11y ago
Intrinsic wrongness of inequality is basically argument #4 from your link. It's the idea that the split of wealth is just inherently unfair, not because of any bad consequence, but because of something being wrong with having wealth to
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by emmett 11y ago
The previous thread had lots of reasons economic inequality is instrumentally bad. I really saw nothing about how it's intrinsically bad, and I was looking. Can you link to a specific comment maybe?

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