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by habosa 4y ago
These new models completely changed my mind about how much impact AI will have in my lifetime. They are the most impressive software achievements in decades and anyone who has a “meh” reaction will absolutely end up looking silly. I’m not o
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by habosa 4y ago
Here in the UK the NHS website has excellent SEO. I land there all the time
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by habosa 4y ago
I used to work on Firebase. I also use Firebase heavily in my work and personal projects. I am normally quite skeptical of “Firebase but X” projects because they often seem to be running head first into the issues that the Firebase team so
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by habosa 4y ago
I really hope this somehow combines crypto and timeshares. Two of the most famous scams of all time ... brought together under Adam Neumann. It will make for a truly hilarious postmortem.
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by habosa 4y ago
I’ve been working on my “startup” (codeapprove.com) in addition to my full time job and busy social life for about 18 months now (no kids though, before anyone asks). Finding time to build the thing hasn’t been all that hard. A few hours a
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by habosa 4y ago
I love this framing, those percentages match up 100% with what I saw on the inside of a FAANG company.
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by habosa 4y ago
As many others have said here: 20% of the people at these big companies are not just doing nothing, they are getting in the way and providing negative value to the 80% who come to work to honestly try and get something done. It is bad for t
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by habosa 4y ago
I think most of us had a lot of respect for Marc because of the Netscape days but hopefully we can now all agree that he’s become a total fraud motivated by greed. His whole-hearted embrace of everything crypto despite being obviously smart
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by habosa 4y ago
I lived in SF from 2014 to 2020. Lived in Soma, the Mission, and the Haight. I saw a lot of really sad and disturbing things but I never saw or heard of a whole city block being barricaded by gangs of criminals. Where was that?
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by habosa 4y ago
Yes this is true and unfortunate but what is the relevant advice for hiring managers here? Ignore resumes altogether? I worked at a FAANG company for a long time and now work at a startup. In general I have no desire to replicate their hiri
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by habosa 4y ago
The worst part is we all know these people and they're almost never the people providing the most value to the company. They're just good at selling themselves. They come in, spend 6 months onboarding, do 18 months of acceptable w
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by habosa 4y ago
When people do this effectively they get a title increase with each switch. So even FAANG to FAANG jumps work if you're getting a "free promotion" with every one. I've seen it happen, unfortunately.
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by habosa 4y ago
I’ve yet to hear of someone paying Accenture to do dev work and having a good experience. I’d be curious if any such story exists.
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by habosa 4y ago
In my experience at a FAANG company it was basically impossible to fire people for low performance. People who did zero valuable work could last for multiple years without having to fool anyone. I’m talking about people that had zero or ne
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by habosa 4y ago
Reading about this problem makes me sick. Scams are harmful far beyond their direct consequences. They tear at the fabric of a society. If we’re always wary of a scam we have to spend so much time and effort defending ourselves in all of ou
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by habosa 4y ago
A few points here: 1) That’s a JOIN and Firestore is not unique among NoSQL databases for being bad at it. 2) That’s the code you’d use in a web browser to load Firestore data. That code also handles all of the API and Authentication code y
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by habosa 4y ago
Quit.
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by habosa 4y ago
Sounds like this is just a memory issue which makes sense because it does only happen when I let too much memory pressure / swap build up. I only have 8GB, Apple should have never sold a Pro model with that little RAM. Still, I feel li
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by habosa 4y ago
OT but does anyone else find their M1 Mac to have very bimodal performance? I have an M1 Macbook Pro (2020 model) and in general it's very fast. It's certainly the fastest web-browsing machine I've ever used. But when I overl
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by habosa 4y ago
When I interviewed at Microsoft the same thing happened. The final interviewer asked me a question I had already solved while studying. I told him I had already seen the question before and knew the answer. He said that’s fine and just had
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by habosa 4y ago
I believe they are referring to the fact that most JWT-based auth systems use one-hour token expiry and have no ability to remotely revoke tokens. You can only revoke the user's ability to get the next token. This often leaves a one ho
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by habosa 4y ago
Don’t let all the shenanigans at the top stop you from doing good. It’s clear that the American system of tax preference for philanthropy is easy to abuse, but while it’s there you might as well use it to help people if you can afford to. I
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by habosa 4y ago
This x 100. In the normal office environment audio cues are pretty much the main thing you can't bring home. Just hearing small conversations going on around you and being able to passively process them and jump in and out as necessary
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by habosa 4y ago
Unlike with BTC with Monero you can’t tell what I did with the coins in between the two fiat transactions. For most people that’s a very meaningful level of privacy, even if it’s not perfect.
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by habosa 4y ago
You are 100% correct but I don't think we can ever get there. There is a huge (not big enough, but still huge) class of normal hard-working people who have >75% of their net worth tied up in a single home. Anything done to punish th
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by habosa 4y ago
I have come to believe that the algorithmically curated personal feed should be illegal. It’s too powerful and we can’t handle it. Any social network should either have: a) One feed for everyone (like news website) b) A personalized feed
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by habosa 5y ago
You might be interested to read "The Dawn of Everything" which discusses all of this. Cities and agriculture are far from requirements to have civilization. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/314/314162&#x2F
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by habosa 5y ago
Successful speculation is still luck. The point is that the person who purchased the land may have gained value far in excess of the improvements they made or the capital they provided. Under a LVT the community and government which gave th
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by habosa 5y ago
If you're on a Mac, use Shush [0] to give yourself global mute control with a single keypress. You can set it on push-to-talk mode or push-to-silence mode, both are extremely useful. I have mine set to the Fn key and leave in PTT mode
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by habosa 5y ago
I do think it would be healthy for more companies / teams to ask: how would we run this if we could never hire another engineer? Or even what if we had to slowly shrink our engineering team? I don't think engineers at AirBnb are o

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