fatnoah

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by fatnoah 11d ago
I'm the same. As a student, I could vividly picture the page of the book containing the details of whatever problem I was working on. I have close to zero artistic and design ability, but am very strong in engineering and spatial rea
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by fatnoah 11d ago
Sorry for missing this. We're hybrid in-office right now and can't do remote.
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by fatnoah 25d ago
DeepL | Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer / Sr. Staff Software Engineer | New York, New York (Hybrid) | $200k-$300k+ plus equity DeepL is a Language AI Company providing text, document, and real-time voice translation t
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by fatnoah 26d ago
FWIW, I worked on map rendering in a past life at another large tech company. General policy was to show "official" names and borders based on the user's country. It wasn't quite that clean, but IIRC there were a surpr
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by fatnoah 1mo ago
I grew up in a house with little to no sugar and never really developed a "craving" for sugar. I'll absolutely eat it if it's there, but really only consume it if it's zero effort, and generally in small amounts si
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by fatnoah 2mo ago
...and Coinbase directs you to send a physical letter when their voice chatbot fails. Seriously. I had a login issue preventing me from accessing tax forms and the phone tree eventually got to the point where a sane provider would hand yo
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by fatnoah 2mo ago
Art of the deal: Pay $1.2B in exchange for a $900M investment elsewhere.
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by fatnoah 2mo ago
> Buying a house can be an investment, but it's also buying a place to live. I'm a strong proponent of both owning and renting, and each has tradeoffs vs. the other. I've moved between renting and home ownership a couple t
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by fatnoah 2mo ago
I saw this in action on a smaller scale. In a past job, my wife organized events for a decent sized company. After an event, she'd typically have a $300k+ balance on her corporate Amex. When she went on maternity leave, the person fi
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by fatnoah 3mo ago
My favorite recent example was submitting a resume for a job that was almost a word-for-word description of my current title and job at a similarly sized company. Within 24 hours, I got the rejection, and several days later, a recruiter re
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by fatnoah 3mo ago
I was VP Eng of a 40+ person team at a startup, and my workaholic CEO once asked me if it bothered me that other people on the team didn't work as hard as me. My answer was very tactful, but noted that in any decent exit, I would walk
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by fatnoah 3mo ago
I'm in the northeastern US and it's very common for weather reporting to include the Heat Index ( https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex ) which takes temperature and humidity into account.
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by fatnoah 3mo ago
I fully experienced postnatal depression, starting around 12-15 months, and it wasn't until relatively recently (my kid is now 18 years old) that I realized it. We were living in a 1 bedroom in the city when we had our kid, and moved t
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by fatnoah 3mo ago
> I get almost physically ill when I hear about kids getting harmed. Same. I literally have trouble sleeping after hearing about things like this.
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by fatnoah 3mo ago
>My guess is the bad experiences have to do with bad execution. This is the key, IMHO. I have not been able to access my Coinbase account for some time due to a login issue. (No error is displayed, but a successful login returns me to
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by fatnoah 4mo ago
Possibly (probably?) a coincidence, but it did look like broad changes to how reading was taught started to land in 2010-2012: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/common-standards-dr... The real culprit is probabl
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by fatnoah 4mo ago
> Is that really such a naive suggestion? IMHO, yes, but that'll depend on the kid, their friends, and all the parents involved. If everyone does line up and agree, than it might be possible, but I think the reality is that kids ar
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by fatnoah 4mo ago
I was in the Financial District in NYC when this happened in 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/mete... I thought it was the firing of replica cannons or something similar
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by fatnoah 4mo ago
As a child in the late 1970s/early 1980s, I was FORCED outside by my parents. The same was true for other kids in the neighborhood. We were told that chilling indoors was not an option, so get outside and be back by the time streetligh
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by fatnoah 6mo ago
CS started as a major for "computer nerds" who were very into computers. Computers were a hobby for virtually every one of my CS classmates in the 90's. Studying computer science was an extension of that interest, so majorin
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by fatnoah 7mo ago
> As long as the penalties for data breach are a slap on the wrist and buying everyone one year of credit monitoring, no one will. And, of course, that one year is totally useless when one is subject to multiple breaches per year. Throw
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by fatnoah 7mo ago
FWIW, that was the second time I interviewed at Google. The first time, which resulted in strong yes across the board at L7, the first system design was to design Youtube Video Upload. The second was a more practical problem about replaci
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by fatnoah 7mo ago
> He got the prompt, asked questions about throughput requirements (etc.), and said, “okay, I’d put it all in Postgres.” He was correct! Postgres could more than handle the load. I had this happen in a Google interview. I did back of th
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by fatnoah 7mo ago
I worked at a no longer extant networking equipment manufacturer as an intern in college in the late 1990's. My role was to work on software for an in-development 45Gb network switch, and a bunch of the software I wrote ran on prototyp
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by fatnoah 7mo ago
I don't know where my car keys are, but I still remember a significant portion of the "Our Father" that I had to memorize in Old English in the early 1990's.
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by fatnoah 8mo ago
> Also, _Discord_ deleting them is really only half the battle; random vendors deleting them remains an issue. This really is the issue. Of the 5 or so data breach notifications I received last year, none are from an entity I have a dir
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by fatnoah 11mo ago
>The wider implications of this are left to the reader. IMHO, it's actually worse than we realize. The Medical Loss Ratio requirement is good because it requires insurance companies to spend 80% or 85% of premiums on health care.
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by fatnoah 1y ago
Thank you! I'll have to check it out when I'm not on a work computer that's convinced filebin is a darkweb haxx0r paradise.
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by fatnoah 1y ago
Is there a text version of this somewhere?
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by fatnoah 1y ago
I'm sorry for your losses. My dad died of cancer when I was 26, and I had very frequent dreams where it felt like he was real and present, though never speaking or interacting directly with me. The grief persisted for years. Nearly 2

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