harshaw

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by harshaw 5y ago
to make this clear: as a SDM at Amazon who is probably not really authorized to speak about this - there are goals but there is no quota that says "you must fire your bottom 6%". At least, no one has said to me you must fire someo
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by harshaw 5y ago
There is no firing quota.
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by harshaw 5y ago
Power data is most useful when you are training for specific zones or as check when you are going to hard/easy. Of course, this requires a ant+ power meter but these are getting cheaper these days. Probably the best upgrade is a lower
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by harshaw 5y ago
I invested in Z-wave light switches that are marked as GE but in reality manufactured by Jasco. The problem is that for an earlier generation of these devices a power surge / dip could fry the electronics, causing me to replace severa
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by harshaw 5y ago
Great project. I have a 2018 giant quick e+ that is speed limited to 28mph for the US market - in reality gets up to 26-27. In general the push bike cycling technology is universal (SRAM, shimano, campy, etc kit works everywhere) but for e
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by harshaw 5y ago
Yes, as a hiring manager I have seen this. There is certainly less friction to moving jobs when all you do is show up on a different video call the next monday. However, I would argue that there is certainly something lost in the personal
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by harshaw 5y ago
To be a bit more obvious: I am afraid. I am not telling other people to be afraid. But I am very curious about the general public's view of this technology.
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by harshaw 5y ago
By human factors I mean people's interaction with and dependency on technology. As example say Tesla FSD works great on the CA highways and people start to depend on it. Maybe they starting scrolling through instagram on regular basi
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by harshaw 5y ago
lol no, Its that we have different road conditions and unique circumstances in different parts of the country.
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by harshaw 5y ago
I am terrified at the concept of "self-driving" or anything marketed as "self-driving" even if it is really advanced driver assist. When I talk to my engineer friends they are also deeply skeptical. Maybe its our age (m
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by harshaw 5y ago
This was a very interesting time in the development of mobile technology and as was mentioned you clearly could see the writing on the wall but the challenge was how to get to a useful mobile platform from all the crap that predated Android
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by harshaw 5y ago
Look, I've been working on infinidash PRFAQ for over 6 months and now a jokester means I need to do another renaming exercise. Product naming is no trivial business. The video didn't even mention a dinglearm, and I watched it 7
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by harshaw 5y ago
There are truly great things that can be accomplished in life with crunch time. I'd consider good examples as the early days of SpaceX or some other game changing endeavor. A rewrite of a mobile app doesn't seem to fit the bill.
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by harshaw 5y ago
another anecdote: an acquaintance let a friend borrow their Tesla X plaid (or similar, I think this was before plaid). Upon leaving their subdivision the "friend" immediately totaled the X by launching it into a drainage ditch in
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by harshaw 6y ago
AWS just has engineers full stop. No specific ops engineers.
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by harshaw 6y ago
Inflation data: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2010?amount=1 . I don't think that a 20% difference means 200K is a lot less. It's a bit less.
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by harshaw 6y ago
I don't want to derail this too much with personal anecdotes, but I suspect you are much more likely to build wealth with the more established tech companies - and that wealth is "rich enough". Maybe I am just unlucky or unsk
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by harshaw 6y ago
My Uncle started with a "family" farm in up state new york, maybe milking 80-100. Over the years as my Cousins took over, it turned into a commercial farm where they milk over 1000. The scale is pretty massive: from the barns tha
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by harshaw 6y ago
EFS attempts to solve this problem, although the speed of light between data centers is still a minor challenge.
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by harshaw 6y ago
There was an effort called GlowCaps that attempted to productize this years ago. Have no context in this space but not sure if this is a better mechanism or pillpack style drug delivery (self contained packets of medicine)
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by harshaw 6y ago
I'll bite. At the very least I would describe S3 as an object store (object semantics) and EFS as POSIX file semantics with an NFS interface.
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by harshaw 7y ago
This quote irks me: "Any tool that relies heavily on SQL is off-limits to business users who want more than viewing static charts and dashboards but don't know the language" The good business folks know SQL and aren't af
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by harshaw 7y ago
I am curious if the solution is from new sources (fracking and cracking) or historical sources like the Clairton coke works. I've heard that there are several new ethane cracker plants that have come online in recent years to support t
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by harshaw 7y ago
I need to have a lawn to separate the forest from the house. If you don't the forest encroaches and then you eventually have trees that fall on the house (think new england ice storms). I also need to cut back the trees to make sure
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by harshaw 7y ago
If you are a road cyclist, the plus of getting an ebike is that you can now do rides where your SO/friend rides your ebike and you ride your regular bike. This has enabled me to do rides with my wife (who is a bit shorter but fits on
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by harshaw 7y ago
I have a giant quick e+ and it has the gears to ride it without the motor, but it really sucks. I did a ride where I exhausted the battery and it sucked the last couple of miles. It's a 50 pound bike once the motor dies.
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by harshaw 7y ago
Startups don't necessarily have good management or the core values necessary to help weather changes. You will have problems and if you don't have either really good management or something like the Amazon leadership principles i
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by harshaw 7y ago
I have the hybrid Pacifica and it is a great car. The transmission and electric drive is amazing. I think the car sells itself, as I suspect the ID-3 will. But I don't think the ID-3 will be available in the US :(
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by harshaw 7y ago
The challenge is: there is ample evidence that misogyny (and similar offenses) has been unacceptable for years, but it continues. Part of the me-to movement, the election of Trump, ( and the Epstein blowback) is that we need to just stop.
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by harshaw 7y ago
Having just spent time overnight dealing with customer pain I can assure that we do care about customer happiness and talk about it every day.

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