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by jahewson 2y ago
Stunning!
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by jahewson 2y ago
Yeah, I see, you mean deterministic in the strongest sense - no state, no side-effects. A pure function. Might be worth phrasing it that way as React devs are familiar with that terminology but not the former.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Good concept, buggy implementation. That’s not ok for a distributed system that glues together important pieces of your product.
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by jahewson 2y ago
These docs don’t fill me with confidence. That’s… weird given who’s behind the project. What gives? > Workflows provide the following reliability guaranteees: > 1. They always run to completion. You can’t guarantee that. > 2 […] Re
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by jahewson 2y ago
Before then.
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by jahewson 2y ago
To answer your question about the Xbox One, I visited Microsoft Research during the development of the 2nd Kinect and the researchers were excited about all the technology they were going to pack into it and the great success that it would
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by jahewson 2y ago
What’s your industry?
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by jahewson 2y ago
What is this laptop that costs less than a Mac but is good for gaming?
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by jahewson 2y ago
Unicorn or bust is the name of the game. Once you understand that it’s not so bad. It’s also possible to level-up pretty well from an acquisition, where maybe the equity was not life changing but you’re now in a bigco at a higher level than
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by jahewson 2y ago
My understanding is that 83b applies to stock, not options, so you have to first exercise the options and hold unvested stock. That requires early exercise.
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by jahewson 2y ago
How much do Canadian tech companies earn per employee? There’s your answer.
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by jahewson 2y ago
They definitely do, take a look at how much big US tech companies pay in London.
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by jahewson 2y ago
That’s really about not falling foul of insider trading laws. Regular employees are free to set up limit orders within their trading windows (eg sell if stock hits $200) if they want. Can’t subsequently cancel it though! It makes way more s
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by jahewson 2y ago
90 day exercise window is a big part of the problem here.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Allow me to introduce you to HSMs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module
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by jahewson 2y ago
Approximately 33% of all smartphones in the world are iPhones.
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by jahewson 2y ago
What if it was pre-determined that they would not believe in determinism?
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by jahewson 2y ago
A worthy goal We’re not even close to that, though. The various depression questionnaires used in research haven’t been updated in decades and the questions on them have little overlap. A long way to go.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Microsoft’s WPF does this and then applies a bezier recovery algorithm to (approximately) get the curves back.
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by jahewson 2y ago
What makes the machines expensive is (as the article says) the capital cost. An investor must sink a considerable amount of money into producing or obtaining a machine before any money is made, that money is now locked up until the machine
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by jahewson 2y ago
Ok the asymmetry complaint makes sense. I’m confused that you’d cite the opportunity cost of interviews as an issue - the cost to the employer is substantial. It costs thousands of dollars in engineering time to put a candidate through a fu
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by jahewson 2y ago
How’s that different from sitting through 3 hours of interviews to be rejected for being “too expensive”? I just don’t get the logic.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Indeed, but then I can’t measure the true positive rate. :) I suppose we’re really talking about having an anxiety disorder that impedes the ability to deliver vs feeling anxious on the day. The former should manifest noticeably somehow, b
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by jahewson 2y ago
This totally happens, but keeping the questions simple and the atmosphere friendly goes a long way to mitigating it. One thing my previous company did was to have a short take-home replace the live coding, then the candidates simply answere
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by jahewson 2y ago
Yep, I’ve had exactly the same experience. Super-simple questions, qualified candidates from large companies - almost total disaster on “hello world”.
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by jahewson 2y ago
I don’t get the hate for unpaid take-homes. It’s not like you are getting paid for multiple hours of interviews.
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by jahewson 2y ago
If you print to stdout but nobody is around to read it, does it count as an effect?
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by jahewson 2y ago
Well, my parents could track my location by just asking other people in our village where I was, but that’s not quite the same.
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by jahewson 2y ago
While you’re not wrong about people’s motivations, or the market’s sentiments, I do think this isn’t the right take on globalised industry. There’s no need to close US factories and move workers - it will happen naturally. For example, nobo
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by jahewson 2y ago
The web search itself till happening on the cloud though? And instead of searching one provider it now searches multiple… not sure how much better this is really.

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