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by gautamnarula 8y ago
They also talk about this philosophy in their earlier book Getting Real (which I highly recommend, one of the best product books I've read): respect your customers by making it easy for them to cancel and take their data with them and
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
I use a third party mobile client and am very happy with it, but I know it's only a matter of time (despite what they've said in the past) before they kill/rate limit/price the API in such a way to kill off all the third
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
I'd also add "And keep learning/avoid stagnating"
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
In my uneducated opinion, I think this is the direction things will go. Typescript will steadily supplant JavaScript and browsers will eventually roll out native support for it, and JS will be relegated to a legacy language.
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
ChessNetwork on YouTube is an entertaining channel to help you get excited about learning more. Jerry's enthusiasm for chess is infectious. In terms of books, Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan is a great introduction to the game an
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
What should he have done? Negotiated a 60-90 day payment cycle with his supplier?
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
Some teams on Amazon still stubbornly remain with IRC. Source: worked on one such team at Amazon in 2017.
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
I've heard speculation that Amazon might take over the Citi building in LIC, which Citi has been steadily vacating over the years.
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
As an example of this, there are many explicitly "new grad" SWE positions in companies of all sizes, but new grad PM roles really only exist at large tech companies and even then are rare in comparison.
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
I currently use my phone provider's tethering plan (10GB at 4G, then throttled to .6MBPS after but with no additional charges) because there is only one ISP where I live and unless I signed a 12 month contract, I was looking at ~$80-90
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
Would factory resetting your phone be sufficient, or is data still recoverable even after the standard factory reset option on Android (and I assume, iPhones)? I don't really know much about these "serious forensics."
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
In this sense, I find NYC to be more affordable than the bay area. The better public transit means it's a lot more viable to live in neighborhoods with cheaper housing and commute to work than it is in SF.
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
There has been a similar debate in professional chess as well. Grandmaster Evegny Sveshnikov has spoken out about game scores--the sheets of moves made in a game that the players write during the game--being the IP of the players. His argum
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
I own this book and highly recommend it for anyone interested in TDD, especially on a web development context.
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
I really like this extension of the concept of overfitting to codebases in general. I especially noticed this in libraries/packages that were "community owned" in a company--instead of one team owning the package and being th
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by gautamnarula 8y ago
> They do not address the possibility that the atypical minority (which presumably is apartments used exclusively for AirBNB and not otherwise occupied by a tenant) might cause the $626M rent increase illustrated by the study. This parag
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
I think the only way to get around this loophole is for companies that offer "unlimited vacation" to have a mandatory minimum amount of vacation, and if you leave without taking the full mandatory minimum you're compensated b
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
Vizio may not be such a great choice: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/02/...
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
In addition to TripleByte, there seen to be an increasing number of companies that require HackerRank online timed coding assessments as the first technical filter before you get to ever speak to an engineer.
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
This is definitely much more preferable to the typical 90 day window + pay the tax this year scenario. Even if the company does not go public, the employee at least now has five years to come up with the money to pay the tax bill. If you ar
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
I was thinking that Spotify would actually need to go in the Netflix direction and have the music equivalent of "originals" (that is, signing artists and having their own label) because otherwise record companies would try to spin
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
This is one of the biggest appeals NYC has over Silicon Valley in my opinion. It's also why, when I had the choice to intern in Silicon Valley, I chose to intern in Santa Cruz instead. It's close enough to the Valley that I could
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
I actually have bad reasonably good experiences selling random stuff around the house on eBay. I also thought it had been overtaken by professional sellers, especially when bidding is basically no longer a thing on eBay anymore, but I set u
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
Vanilla Android with a decent camera. It is far too difficult to find a phone that meets those criteria.
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
What are you basing that off of? Trump barely lost Minnesota in 2016 (46.9 Clinton to 45.4 Trump), and it's a swing state in virtually every national election.
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
Smart people moving into cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency being a bubble aren't mutually exclusive in another way: the long term potential of cryptocurrencies could be valid, even if it's in a short term bubble. I think there are
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
Android? Waymo? Tensorflow? I get what people are saying but it's not like Google's been coming out with nothing new and useful for over a decade.
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
This is really cool, and something I will definitely want to buy whenever I own a home and have Airbnb guests. Nice job!
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
Yes, this is absolutely the correct metric. For instance, nuts are touted as a high protein food but from a calorie perspective they are often worse than bread - 15% of calories from almonds are protein, compared to ~20% in many breads. Len
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by gautamnarula 9y ago
Isn't that deflation?

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