habosa

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by habosa 6y ago
Where did Facebook say that "cost of living" will impact salaries? At Google (where I work) salaries vary a lot based on location but cost of living is not part of the equation. It's based on the cost of hiring in the market
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by habosa 6y ago
Someone once told me this is called being "matador-ed" because it's just like pulling the cape away from the charging bull. I love that term and the Android share dialog has always been my top example.
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by habosa 6y ago
Notion is just a fantastic piece of software and the team seems focused on making it better and cheaper at the same time. They should be unequivocally congratulated for this and I wish them more success. Also if you ever change your mind o
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by habosa 6y ago
Google pay varies by office (quite a lot) and they're upfront about it but it has nothing to do with housing costs. It's based on the cost of hiring in the local market. I am voluntarily transferring from Google SF to Google Lond
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by habosa 6y ago
I strongly agree with this quote from the article: "What bibliophiles really fear isn’t the disappearance of books but the elimination of the time and space needed to enjoy them." I absolutely love reading books but it takes a rea
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by habosa 6y ago
Life expectancies were longer than people think back then. A lot of times we see stats that are dominated by high infant mortality. If you lived to 10 you were gonna make it a while.
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by habosa 7y ago
I have done plenty of serious reading on economics but as far as an approachable start, I don't think we can do better than this: https://economixcomix.com/ If you or a friend wants a crash course on econ, check it out
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by habosa 7y ago
I am one of the maintainers of a popular Node-based CLI (the firebase CLI). This type of thing has happened to us before. I think the real evil here is that by default npm does not encourage pinned dependency versions. If I npm install is-p
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by habosa 7y ago
Is there a good plant ID app that's not based on my camera? I was thinking something that will ask me increasingly specific questions. "Where are you?" "What kind of bark does is have?" "How large are the leav
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by habosa 7y ago
I got an call on my Verizon phone. It showed up as Verizon on the caller ID. The guy said there was a problem with my payment but I was busy and said I'd call back later. When I called that number back later they didn't know wh
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by habosa 7y ago
Has any company ever raised more VC money and then produced so little? This has to be up there with Theranos, not sure if there are other contenders. Magic Leap is one of those companies where it seems like everyone (in tech) was rooting a
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by habosa 7y ago
Soon Go will have both generics and package management, two things the maintainers really didn't think it needed on Day One. I don't say this to insult anyone, Go has always been a great and unique language. I say this as a plea
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by habosa 7y ago
Is there a simple guide to understanding the str/unicode changes from python 2 to 3? I've made mistakes with strings that ruined every single piece of code I've upgraded from 2 to 3 unless I just littered the code with defen
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by habosa 7y ago
The link is to a GitHub release page with no release notes. Can someone point me to an authoritative 3 vs 2 comparison?
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by habosa 7y ago
Congrats on a very cool idea that seems well executed. I rarely buy anything on an installment plan (never done it for a phone, etc) but for art it's for some reason very appealing to me. I think I will buy something from here. If I
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by habosa 7y ago
Android has Instant Apps. Not sure how others feel but I hate it. Compared to a website it's slower to load, harder to share, and outside of my normal flow. I guess it would be cool for a demo but I dunno. Also iOS apps are so large
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by habosa 7y ago
I know it's not that old but after ~7 years on paper books I recently went back to my Kindle Paperwhite 1st generation which I bought in 2012 ... I was pretty shocked that it just booted up and I was able to start buying and reading bo
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by habosa 7y ago
Switching jobs right now would cost you: a) Income you need to provide yourself food and shelter in a time of insecurity. b) Healthcare loss during one of the worst global health crises ever. The switching cost is near infinite and not refl
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by habosa 7y ago
Tells you a lot about why "the market" won't always give you the outcome you're looking for. People value delivery more than ever right now. It's literally saving lives. However that value does not result in the
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by habosa 7y ago
Seems like the original developer should have left a comment about why their nested for loop was the right implementation (if they knew it was). Would have saved everyone a lot of time.
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by habosa 7y ago
My favorite bar (The Tempest in SF) shows all the major Bay Area sports games with the volume on. They have an employee quickly flip the audio to music whenever the feed hits a commercial. This is one of the best things about watching spo
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by habosa 7y ago
Thanks for the tip! Just looked at OsmAnd for Yosemite and it's definitely much more useful than Google Maps.
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by habosa 7y ago
If you're an amateur like me there's one thing you can/should do with no downside: download the area you're going to using Google Maps offline feature. It's not super detailed in backcountry but it will have major t
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by habosa 7y ago
I don't know what took me so long but I recently realized how many Bay Area drivers are driving while using their phones (I don't have a car). Every single day there are multiple accidents on 101 despite it being a straight line
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by habosa 7y ago
Hmmm I swear I heard a story about a Stanford student doing bogus blood tests before ... can't remember where though.
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by habosa 7y ago
Getting something to work end to end, however small, is so important. In my experience the earlier you do that, the better. Otherwise you have no idea what you're building.
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by habosa 7y ago
Can you explain more about this?
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by habosa 7y ago
"The End of Alchemy" by Mervyn King is a great book that explains fiscal/monetary policy and the modern banking system from the ground up. King was the head of the Bank of England during the last recession. This was the boo
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596 points by habosa 7y ago|167 comments
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by habosa 7y ago
This is not helpful but wow 100 services for 25 people! Nothing wrong with that, but it really shows how many dependencies a business has today on software alone. I have to imagine that at least 1% of those services go bust every year.

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