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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'm looking forward to the Netflix limited series about him, though that assumes I don't cancel Netflix and that he doesn't buy it.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Corollary 1. Who can, and sometimes does, un-rot the fish from the bottom? An insane employee. Someone who finds the forks, crashes, etc. a personal offense, and will repeatedly risk annoying management by fighting to stop these things
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by fatnoah 4y ago
There are many web-based things that technically require Internet Explorer, even though other browsers seem to work fine. The real issue is likely that most of the things were built with IE in mind and only formally tested on IE. I feel li
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The bill pegs the cost at nearly $300M/year for 5 years, with the funding coming from the state's "General Fund". According to the State of NH, that fund supports about $1.7B in total spending. There's no way a st
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>Still, I'd guess you'd be right that it would be enormously expensive and difficult to bring this back. I've moved into and out of downtown Boston over the past 20+ years, and it's been interesting to see this trend
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> There must be something else which you are thinking about when wording it with this positive connotation? A surprising number of teams are NOT involved in things like news feed, story ranking, "engagement", etc. Some teams,
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This is the "correct" interpretation. Of course, it's sometimes a perverse incentive since getting something out and moving a needle or getting another team to use your work is also "impactful", and leads to many o
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Turn by turn directions > Interior building navigation Disclosure: I worked at one of the companies spending big on AR and worked on these exact use cases. Sadly, the company was not excited by these cases in the short term, so th
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> > A killer app for me would be floating name tags above people's heads, but I imagine that would require better HW than what is available here. Which is too bad, since I see AR as potentially being a massively useful device for
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Yes, yes you could.
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I love management and, after over 17 years in an IC capacity, find that it fulfills me in a way that writing code stopped doing. I was also a manager at Meta in a past life, and really didn't love the experience due to the nature of t
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Looking at SEC filings, he received a grant of 612,499 shares of stock on July 8, vesting quarterly over 4 years. That means ~153k shares will vest in 2023. Zoom stock is up $4 based on the announcement, making his RSUs worth over $600k m
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by fatnoah 4y ago
They haven't released 2022 financials, but for 2021 base + bonus for Mr. Yuan was about $313,000 and he received ~8400 RSUs (about $670k at today's price), which fully vest on April 8. Additionally, it looks like he received an R
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> The issue is that Amtrak is a terribly impractical way to get from Chicago to San Francisco You are correct, and that's why most long distance routes don't have end-to-end riders as the main customers. In 2019, for example,
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I loved it. It's hard to convey how different it is from flying. > Then you get on the train and you get to completely relax. I brought a book to read and some stuff like that, but I spent more than half the time literally jus
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I can only speak for myself, but as an employee of "big tech" from 2016-2021, my own personal inflation resulted from the massive pay those companies offered. My startup was acquired in 2016. Net result of my 1% of stock was $0,
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I have a 15 year old and have directly observed the "tuning out mom" phenomenon. For whatever reason, my own dad voice still seems to bear weight. It's not clear to mom or I why that is, but I think the general consensus is
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I think you raise some good points, and I think there are ways to handle DEI hiring well, and ways not to do it well. IMHO, when it's done well, DEI hiring isn't about filling quotas or giving anyone an edge, but it's about
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I'm a senior dev at one of the FAANGs with more than 15 years of experience, but the rest of my team consists of devs with an average of 2 years of experience. I'm going to guess that it varies widely. I managed a team of 13
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by fatnoah 4y ago
In a past life, I was part of calibrations for L8/L9 at a FAANG. Even though "impacts the industry" is part of the spec, it didn't come up in calibrations I sat in on. Major impact on the most important company initiat
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by fatnoah 4y ago
This is definitely a complicating factor. I had my first job search in the remote area after getting laid off this fall (previous one was fall 2019). In the past, I'd check job listings once a week or so, and over the course of the s
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My issue is that the controls aren't fine-grained enough for me. I'm not a heavy IG user, so that doesn't matter as much to me. (DISCLAIMER: The only reason I even have IG is because I worked at FB and my team made a couple
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Makes sense. They are different use cases as well. On FB, I'm interested in people, not "content", whereas TikTok is about the content, which does require some means of discovery.
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I guess this is my pessimism about an algorithm really ever working well for me. On FB and other social sites, I'm hesitant to engage any one-off content because my feed becomes flooded with it. I guess if I had more fine-grained con
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> The app uses algorithmic predictions, which Kevin Systrom sees as ‘the future of social.’ I see this as the anti-future. All I want from social (e.g. Facebook and Instagram) is a chronologically ordered list of things I chose to follo
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I have a very high level of scepticism towards non-technical founders without deep pockets: A relative of a friend is a Dr. that had a good idea for a useful product and hired a consultant to build it. After about 18 months and a litt
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by fatnoah 4y ago
This year was the first time I've been laid off in my almost 25 year career in tech. I was already looking elsewhere, so I semi-volunteered for the layoff. The end results is that I took a huge paycut, but am in a role that I'm m
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> At best, ChatGPT seems to be well suited for the "infobox" value-add thingies they put on search results. But those are infamously inaccurate and/or misleading, and it's unclear to me that ChatGPT will perform any b
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Mini-me also has ADHD and the electric toothbrush has made trips to the dentist far more enjoyable.
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> One thing that pick out of all this is that it is mostly motivated by fear and inferiority, even if it is a long-term business strategy I had an inside view and fear is a real thing, but not fear of others being ahead or innovating mor

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