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by fatnoah 1y ago
In general, many (most?) internet plans specifically prohibit running a web server with a residential account. A business account would be necessary in these cases.
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by fatnoah 1y ago
The very first DVD player I ever purchased was a Pioneer model with all the possible outputs, from composite to component video, 5.1 discrete audio channels, and coax + optical digital audio outs. I purchased it somewhere in the 1996 to 199
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by fatnoah 1y ago
> Zune The Zune was 100% uncool, but man did I like the hardware and software sooo much better than the iPod / ITunes. I was just sad that I never found anyone to "squirt" at.
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by fatnoah 1y ago
> You’re not paying for a service, you’re bidding in an open market. IMHO, this isn't a new phenomenon. Close to 18 years ago, I lived in a city with a popular pizza spot that was about a 10 minute walk away. Normally I'd wal
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by fatnoah 1y ago
App Store rules are completely arbitrary. Many moons ago, I worked at a startup that made a mobile messaging app (back when SMS cost money). We were mostly a consumer app, but had a trio of businesses that wanted white-label versions of t
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by fatnoah 1y ago
> And most importantly you have to write. A lot. Writing allows our brain to structure our thinking. Enables us to have a structured dialogue with ourselves. I feel like to goes beyond writing to really any form of expressing this knowle
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by fatnoah 1y ago
>This will almost never be the case. This doesn't account for different share classes, liquidation preferences, preferred stock, all of which get exercised before common shares. >Equity as an incentive truly favors the employer.
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by fatnoah 1y ago
> Who's going to buy it, though? AWS, Google and Microsoft do have European datacenters and many users here use these regions but the whole point is to be politically, financially, and "privacy-ally" completely independent
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by fatnoah 1y ago
Thanks, and I was trying to highlight the challenges of any situation like this. I do agree with the fundamental premise that we need to get better and deciding when to scan and coming up with non(or less) destructive techniques.
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by fatnoah 1y ago
On the other side of the coin, my always healthy dad did 6 weeks of physical therapy for hip joint pain that turned out to be cancer, which was immediately detected when they finally decided to perform a CT scan. He passed away almost exac
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by fatnoah 1y ago
I was laid off by a consultant. It was somehow even worse than Up in the Air since they made my manager sit in on the call.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
As an MIT reject (technically waitlisted), my very first post-graduation job was at Raytheon and much later in life, I ended up at Facebook, where I managed a team that had several engineers that joined directly from MIT. While I can'
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by fatnoah 2y ago
It's multilayered. I've had technical and non-technical bosses at large and small companies, and the universal thing that made them "good" or "bad" was whether they gave me sufficient context and trusted me t
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> That is great QAing. It also speaks to why QA should be a real role in more orgs, rather than a shrinking discipline. As a software engineer, I've always been very proud of my thoroughness and attention to detail in testing my cod
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by fatnoah 2y ago
>This genuinely threw me because in my experience the suburbs are the antithesis of this, just lots of people occupying neighboring space and rarely talking to each other. I've lived in both settings, and my own experience has been
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Probably no leetcode-equivalent for managers? For FAANG, most front-line manager roles have a leetcode style coding round, though it may be easier and/or weighted less heavily than for an IC.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> it's that this style of violence really is so pervasive Agree, and it's tragic that this is were we are in the US, and the only concrete action we're willing to take (thoughts and prayers don't count) is to try to m
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> I know I’m behind the times, but I was surprised recently when, at an elementary school in the US, they showed me painted lines on the floor of the classroom, indicating the zones out of the line of fire for somebody shooting through t
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> It’s not supposed to work like this, but it plays out this way in many companies. Absolutely, and I've been on both sides. We go much more with a carrot approach than a stick approach, and have no ability to "block" any
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Then they become gatekeepers, refusing to allow anything on their platform unless it conforms to their ideal vision As the owner of a platform team, this very common attitude of platform teams kills me. Yes, we have a long-term vision
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> All paid for by the company they worked for. One of my internships in college was at Sun Microsystems in the org that provided this connectivity to employees. My job was to automate pushing updates to connection software and modem fir
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> The technical aspect that contributed the most to this burnout was both the lack of observability tooling and the lack of organizational desire to invest in it. One of the most significant "triumphs" of my technical career ca
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> And though they would have you believe so, Meta and Apple are not evolving these HMDs into the spectacles form factor. FWIW, when I was at Meta, and working on wearable devices, it was stated up front that all day wearable AR glasses w
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by fatnoah 2y ago
It's been a few years since I worked on wearables at Meta, so things may have changed, but the goal from the beginning was to move as much compute off the device as possible to deal with the related problems of power consumption and he
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> But I guess it's mostly a problem with the tooling not being there. For me, it's the tooling plus AR glasses that have roughly the same form factor as my safety glasses. Having plans in front of me, ability to measure distan
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> However, it seems like I'm stuck at my level. Have you gotten any feedback in your current role about why you're stuck? The reasons can vary from the difference in expected behaviors from level to level, no room at level +1,
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I had a Subaru that required over $1000 in labor replace a $13 master wiring harness that was chewed by a rodent. Of course, nothing will beat having a rodent die somewhere in the engine, and not noticing it until exiting the car after a 45
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> The only way to escape is to be clever about preserving multiple 'zoom' /C4 levels of diagram. Fully agree. Having gone through startup funding rounds and acquisitions, that's the set of diagrams that I have ready o
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> That said, you probably don’t want to be making theoretical architecture diagrams most of the time. My take on this is that it's really hard to have one diagram to rule them all. I think there's a time and a place for differ
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I'm 50 and grew up in a medium sized New England mill town. One of the few memories I have of my grandfather is taking a quick trip to the local egg farm to get some eggs. These have all but disappeared from New England.

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