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by gen220 4y ago
I was a ThinkPad maximalist in my personal computing life for the last 5ish years. This year, I needed to interview for jobs without having access to a "work" laptop for the task (i.e. an overspecced MacBook Pro). Faced with the p
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by gen220 4y ago
There's an angle to consider – why is it that people who are technically skilled and financially experienced do not take on venture funding and build billion dollar plus companies? [1] Perhaps, they know (from business experience) that
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by gen220 4y ago
Why do you want money? As any financial advisor worth their salt would tell you, money is a means to an end, not an end in itself, and it's up to you to decide what those ends are. It's very possible that you'd be perfectly h
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by gen220 4y ago
It appaeared like the investopedia article I linked contains contradictory information. In one passage it says you can elect 83(b) at grant. In the section you quote, it says you can't. As it turns out, the information isn't actua
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by gen220 4y ago
I'd strongly disagree with the idea that ChatGPT is essentially as trustworthy as humans and human-generated content because humans occasionally bullshit and misrepresent reality. You can rationalize what people are saying based on the
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by gen220 4y ago
On their page, they claim "Python 3.11 compatibility" – perhaps they've added it since you formed your impression, or is this "compatibility" word misleading?
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by gen220 4y ago
What resource leads you to believe otherwise? The 83(b) election applies to RSUs [1] It even applies to ISOs (if your company allows you to "exercise early", i.e. pre-vesting). The important thing to note is that the deadline time
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by gen220 4y ago
From NYC, within a 15 minute walk from my door: - Whole Foods - Key Food - 2-3 specialty grocers (think italian importers, etc.) - gourmet grocer - two butcher shops and a fresh fish shop - CVS (yes, they sell groceries! spooky) - 2-3 bodeg
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by gen220 4y ago
Have you considered working with any third-party recruiters? It seems that going through one is the only way to get the attention of most companies, these days. I would advise not taking the lack of responses personally, because cold applic
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by gen220 4y ago
It depends a lot on the company. Pre-funding/pre-pmf is hard to judge. But there are plenty of companies with arguable PMF at the seed stage, for whom raising an A vs going alone is an actual choice. If you're filtering for B&#x2F
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by gen220 4y ago
If you're interviewing with an early stage (read: pre-series B) startup, the founders believe you're a good fit, and they have seeded a good culture, they will be happy to let you interview every person they've hired so far.
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by gen220 4y ago
I think the issue of telemetry is fundamentally a human issue of incentives and trust. The system you describe is wise because it recognizes this and attempts to address it. The difficulty with telemetry is that even if we design the perfec
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by gen220 4y ago
FYI, many VC funds' blogs have RSS feeds you can subscribe to [1] [2] [1] https://www.sequoiacap.com/feed [2] https://a16z.com/feed
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The Magic of Sampling, and Its Limitations(research.swtch.com)
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by gen220 4y ago
I've a frontend-only friend at $big_tech_co who's on $200k TC post-tax with a half decade of experience. Lives in a major metro area in the US, not sure what their rates are abroad. In general, the big cos hire maybe 1 JS dev for
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by gen220 4y ago
It's a demand side issue. Most C++ jobs are maintenance jobs. Most maintenance jobs are at low-growth companies who can't justify the TC of engineers at high-growth companies to their board. There are pockets of the C++ ecosystem
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by gen220 4y ago
It's a mix of both. But there's also the IC-led interviewing component, as well as the regular hiring committee meetings. There's deep norms in those rituals that disappear/diverge if they stop meeting regularly.
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by gen220 4y ago
For the context of this decision, this is strictly false: Larry and Sergey are on the board and on the executive committee. If it wasn't a board decision, it was at least an executive committee decision.
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by gen220 4y ago
That's good context! Perhaps there's some institutional memory from that, i.e. that they regretted that trade-off, in retrospect.
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by gen220 4y ago
Cuts have no impact on 2022 Q4 metrics, because the laid off employees are still on the books through 2023 Q1. It's anybody's interpretation as to why it would trade higher. Raising buybacks to pre-2022 levels, in conjunction with
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by gen220 4y ago
Of course, but one must acknowledge that past growth is a large (often, dominating) contributing factor to future growth. But that's part of my question: what did they predict that merited a layoff, when their cost structure wasn'
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by gen220 4y ago
I personally doubt the mimetic explanation is the explanation they gave to themselves, which is the one I'm more interested in (even if the mimetic explanation is the most likely root cause). Reflecting on it, maybe one explanation is
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by gen220 4y ago
To me, Meta's 2022 FY results were a textbook profile for "this company should lay people off". (flat revenue across a whole calendar year, coupled with ballooning costs) Google's 2022 FY results are not Meta's: mod
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by gen220 4y ago
I'm more talking about the fact that, if there were a new Instagram or WhatsApp for VR that threatened their social media hegemony, Meta would most certainly be blocked from acquiring it. Especially because it seems the current FTC reg
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by gen220 4y ago
I don't know if we can draw much from the comparison to WeChat. WeChat is effectively an operating system for the domestic Chinese economy within a single app, it's 10-100x more complex than a messaging app, and it enjoys official
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by gen220 4y ago
Yes! Sorry didn't mean to sound like I was disagreeing, I was more just riffing on what you said. More riffing below :) I think $META will continue to win the "social network" game on any computing platform into the foreseeab
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by gen220 4y ago
I think the current after-market price ($180ish) pushes it out of the "value" category, at least for me (there's no hard science on this). To me, $180ish prices-in some growth that I'm personally skeptical towards, hence
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by gen220 4y ago
Do you think Metaverse ad revenue will not cannibalize social media revenue, as people shift their attention from one to the other? Or that Metaverse attention will somehow be 100x as valuable as social media attention (current global socia
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by gen220 4y ago
They're currently priced at 3.5x annualized revenue. If you assume they could capture 20% of that revenue consistently, that's 20x annualized profits (equivalent to 13ish years of profit on this basis). To me, this seems close to
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by gen220 4y ago
How does this concretely translate into a marginal $30bn/year in revenue? Inverting the question, who would collectively pay $30bn/year to buy "AI/ML from Meta", assuming you're talking about a new product offe

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