hkarthik

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by hkarthik 5y ago
Decide what you want to optimize for. Every option has its trade offs. If you're tired of SF proper, but the rest of the Bay Area is fine for you and you still want the best tech jobs in large numbers, move to the Peninsula, East Bay,
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by hkarthik 5y ago
Don't force it. It's an in-person skill that some people simply don't have, and as an Engineering Manager, I honestly don't think its particularly valuable. I find the quiet folks often have the most valuable insights. P
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by hkarthik 5y ago
A lot of folks in here in CA rent homes and apartments because the cost of living out here is so insane. You can't really get a 240V EV charger installed in your garage or driveway unless you own a home /w vehicle parking and can
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by hkarthik 5y ago
It also incentivizes teenagers to work instead of hang around parking lots being goofballs.
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by hkarthik 5y ago
I really like educative.io. I pay for it every year. Lots of great content and it is well curated.
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by hkarthik 6y ago
My theory is that college has become too expensive to afford to drop out and start a company with a massive student loan bill that you may never pay off, and will cripple you with debt for a couple of decades. Given that reality, it makes w
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by hkarthik 6y ago
My view is that Rust is pretty much where Go was about 3-4 years ago. About to see a lot of strong adoption and emerge as a pre-eminent language for writing backends. Strong library support and first class tooling is probably the only thing
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by hkarthik 6y ago
I think having a moral compass is important, because a lot of people will optimize for themselves in the short term, and screw up society in the long term. But I don't think this is obvious at all to people unless they're taught,
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by hkarthik 6y ago
I think the argument could be made that most of the top countries you mentioned are linguistically and racially homogenous. I don't really have a conclusion on whether religion helps or hurts a more racially diverse population but just
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by hkarthik 6y ago
It's an interesting argument that you lay out, and as agnostic that came from a religious family, it's something that I've personally grappled with. In the absence of religion, where do people find their moral and ethical com
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Just because they eat it, doesn't mean they digest it and get it out of the ecosystem. That's the problem with plastic, breaking it down without consuming a ton of other resources, or getting even worse by-products in the process.
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by hkarthik 6y ago
It’s not that it isn’t used, more that it’s not encouraged long term due to several downsides. First and foremost, top tech companies encourage autonomy. It’s hard to achieve or support autonomy for an engineer if they become too reliant on
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by hkarthik 6y ago
It's a much smaller scale problem than the pesticide issue. Here in Northern California, we're actually unable to use poisons on pest rodents like squirrels and rats since they often enter the ecosystem through raptors ingesting t
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Electric assist bikes. I don't have one yet but I've rented them in SF before. They make biking in a hilly city a far more enjoyable experience. If the cost falls enough to be on part with a normal bike in a few years, I suspect e
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by hkarthik 6y ago
10 years ago, there was a case to be made for Austin, TX really fitting this bill. However now with so many moving there from other parts of the country, it's gotten crowded and more expensive. I would no longer consider it "cheap
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by hkarthik 6y ago
This is interesting but I think it's just a matter of time before the dam breaks and all the tech companies with a UK presence start increasing salaries to get more competitive. The same thing happened in NYC around 2015-2020. At some
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Web like projectiles to grapple and swing around NYC sky scrapers?
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by hkarthik 6y ago
If you are already in London, I would stay put. Major FANG companies like FB are already making major inroads to build out offices in the UK. And they will likely disrupt the UK/EU salaries quite a bit in the coming years. Look for con
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by hkarthik 6y ago
I struggled with this too, and it actually got even worse when I started managing people. I also started writing people off as "amazing folks can take feedback, and not great folks who can't." What changed my perspective was
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Why not find a new CEO to run the day to day, while you switch to more of a chairman/advisory role? You could then create enough incentives in place to grow everything towards a meaningful exit. I worked at a company that used this exa
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by hkarthik 6y ago
yes you are absolutely right, these are more oligopolies not monopolies. I think the oligopoly term hasn't really entered the North American vernacular. Even I think about Russian oil companies when I hear it. And yes, we're still
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by hkarthik 6y ago
"Big Tech" has become an umbrella term which can mean any of the following: * Big Tech monopolies controlling news and information: Twitter, Facebook, Google * Big Tech monopolies on Advertising/Marketing: Facebook and Google
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Uber rewrote its entire backend and both major mobile apps between 2014 and 2019. While there was definitely some reuse, we switched languages on several of these so there were direct ports as well. It took a lot of engineers to do this whi
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by hkarthik 6y ago
On that link you posted, they updated and said they sunset the program because it didn't work.
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by hkarthik 6y ago
I see a lot less value in these benchmarks than I did 6 years ago or so when they first started appearing. Maybe I'm showing my age but the speed argument just isn't that important to me any more. These days when I'm evaluati
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by hkarthik 6y ago
I can throw an ambiguous business problem at you and you can reasonably solve it with technology. Your seniority is based on how big a problem you can solve and how reasonable your solutions remain.
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by hkarthik 6y ago
I suspect that hunting, field dressing, and butchering lost their mainstream appeal soon after industrialization. It's one thing to do these things once a month on a hunting trip for leisure versus doing it nearly every week in order t
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by hkarthik 6y ago
You're partially right, and creating additional supply (especially with restaurants) was one of the main challenges. We tried bringing chain restaurants like McDonalds to table to start to address this. The latest version was a concept
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Thanks for sharing, had no idea about the dabbawalas but that's fascinating. Definitely I think the demand and supply patterns of such a system have found their equilibrium over the past 115 years. Which is probably what makes it work
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by hkarthik 6y ago
The logistics of mobile distribution of a fast expiring product are much more complex than you think, and spoilage and expiration losses need to be acceptable at some level to proceed. I think in the case of the vaccine, the latter is well

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