jarjoura

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by jarjoura 3y ago
I loved having my own office briefly during the end of the 2000s, but that's not really a perk in my mind. If I'm going to commute 45 minutes into an office, the value is being next to the people I'm there to work with. Going
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Google is overperforming in-spite of its CEO, not because of him. Google hasn't really been doing anything recently other than run on the fumes of its past successes.
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Well, that's not entirely fair, Jobs was credited for making a huge partnership with Microsoft that saved Apple. That deal would never have happened if any other person in the world tried to make it happen. It literally had to be Jobs
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by jarjoura 3y ago
I'd argue that us rank-and-file employees should receive profit sharing if our company is overperforming. It's impossible for any one of us to compete for that CEO position on any realistic grounds. So, we're left at the merc
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Well, residuals are just a fancy term for profit sharing. Disney has used artificial scarcity to keep the value of its content high since I can remember. You'd never find a Disney movie in the bargain bin, for example. Stopping DVD&#x2
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by jarjoura 3y ago
How does a gigabit fiber network get access to the internet? Is it connecting to smaller nodes owned by Comcast or ATT? Or does this connect to Level3, etc.? With all the data prioritization that these companies have set up, does that mean
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Humans have tried all kinds of value transfer systems for thousands of years. Giving someone "tokens" (ie. currency) to convert that into whatever they want, or need has been the most flexible version of whatever has come before i
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by jarjoura 3y ago
No way this happens in the next decade. This is something that will take the government a decade-plus to resolve. Just look at how long it took the government to break up AT&T. We look at Microsoft and Internet Explorer as some kind of
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Sure, but I'm not really a believer that any government will have the political power to restructure the economy. At least nothing would actually change unless states utterly collapsed and there's loss of life. I don't think
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Actually, economists are now saying that the 20th century was an anomaly in terms of QoL and we're reverting back to U shaped distribution of wealth. It will be very interesting times when all that 20th century earned Baby Boomer wealt
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by jarjoura 3y ago
If the promise of AI means I can do 1/2 the amount of work and maintain my high quality life, then I'm all for it. However, every advancement that has come in the last 100 years that improved efficiency has only meant we're p
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by jarjoura 3y ago
What is the response you expect from everyone? Americans were replaced with off-shore call centers last decade. Now they're replaced with AI. Both are equally shitty because there's a very real human cost here. I certainly don&#x2
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Journalists have always been best at reporting the facts given to them, even without understanding intent and all the other nuance surrounding those facts. So we as readers should never take what you read at 100%. I don't think that wi
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Yes, but something like that costs productions a boat load of capital to pull off. They can't really half-ass it either because then you run up against Uncanny Valley and people end up rejecting the movie or show, wasting your investme
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Can someone help me understand if I missed something here. Did they negate all the hypothetical performance gains made from Rust by crippling it with JSON IPC? If so, the mental overhead of Rust memory management doesn't seem worth it.
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by jarjoura 3y ago
This is such a weird study. People that choose to keep separate finances seem like the exception rather than the norm. So you'd find way more people in the shared bucket than not. Personally, I grew up watching my parents relationship
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Uber and Lyft kind of did shutdown the taxi cartels across the world in one big grassroots swing. It took insane levels of lobbying and political power of taxis to keep a hold on some of their biggest cities, and there are now few places wh
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by jarjoura 3y ago
There is a weird sort of analogy where universities spent the last 20 years putting their classes online, or associate professors and grad students uploaded YouTube deep-dive videos, etc. Point is, enrollment at Universities are way down no
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by jarjoura 3y ago
The person the tech is replacing will still need to work and earn a wage to afford the goods the system that replaced them is delivering. It's not replacing a relatively high risk job or allowing that driver to scale themselves and imp
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by jarjoura 3y ago
You sir sound like someone who is in that upper management realm. People ARE hard. Something that has kind of annoyed me with upper management folks. At the companies I've worked for in the bay area, they all copy each other with the s
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by jarjoura 3y ago
I guess that's kind of true. However, once a company involves funding and builds a board of directors full of industry leaders, those same leaders are now on the hook to provide company value in the same way as any other company. In fa
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Laws are written and designed for humans who constantly try to push it to the limit and get away with things. These cars are all over the place and I've been caught stuck on a street in Bernal Heights because it couldn't quite fit
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by jarjoura 3y ago
If you're already familiar with system languages like C++, I think you'd make progress in Rust a lot faster than you think. However, it takes a LONG ass time to truly know the language and internalize good intuition around the kin
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by jarjoura 3y ago
This is exactly the kind of innovation I see coming out this current AI boom we're in. Take legacy codebases and spit out complete rewritten versions in whatever language that not just translates, but takes it much further and re-inter
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by jarjoura 3y ago
TIL what hip-tech-du-jour is lol
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by jarjoura 3y ago
LOL, at least Ruby inspired a new generation of languages that we have today.
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by jarjoura 3y ago
I know you're being hyperbolic, but during my time there, your impact was measured only on measurable things like performance gains but never on lines of code. So engineers would always go in the direction of whatever gets you the bigg
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Phabricator w/ "arc & jf" were my bae. Wish they would fully open source all of it or expose a public version of it to compete against GitHub.
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by jarjoura 3y ago
As an ex-meta mobile engineer, I 100% agree that I found Eden to be impossible to use productively. I always had to pre-warm the cache, pretty much defeating its stated goals. Maybe it has gotten better since I left a year ago, but I had 2
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by jarjoura 3y ago
I think people assume CoPilot is built to be your pair-programming coworker. Maybe that's Microsoft's fault for allowing that hype to go unchecked. Honestly, the correct way to understand this is, it's just Microsoft's I

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