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by jboggan 10y ago
I'm solely talking about the long term effects of filling your lungs with fine particulates.
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by jboggan 10y ago
I've really been wondering about the long term effects of marijuana smoke, in particular the bewildering strains that have been bred in response to market forces and growing constraints over the past 50 years. I have a feeling that it
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by jboggan 10y ago
Most tech companies are like nation states, ruled from above by a single strong leader (Apple under Jobs being the best example). I've become to understand Google is much more like Germany in the mid-19th century - a collection of comp
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by jboggan 10y ago
The cynic in me notices that this comes at the same time as Perf season in Google. It's such a bad running joke internally that we have a never-ending multiplication of chat apps that I had to check the calendar to see if today was sud
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by jboggan 10y ago
Thanks for the compliment, I didn't realize it would turn out so long. I think I ought to start writing more often. I joke about the interview process existing to inflate the ego of the interviewer, but it isn't that far off. Ever
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by jboggan 10y ago
This was about 5 years ago. It was a mess from the get-go since I was applying for a data scientist position. At the time I didn't have the slightest idea what working as a data scientist entailed, nor that despite 7 years unsuccessful
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by jboggan 10y ago
I have a soft spot in my heart for Kaggle. I was motivated to get into the software industry 5 years ago when they ran their first Facebook hiring challenge. How else to break into an industry I had no degree in? I didn't do so well in
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by jboggan 10y ago
Well Google is leading the charge, and everyone wants to be like Google so . . . I feel lucky that at the LA Google office I only have a dozen people in my glass-walled pen and that I am not out in the general cubicle areas.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Throwing myself fulltime into building a product. That particular venture didn't work out in a business sense but oh my, having to build everything on my own with no help made me level up so incredibly quickly, and exposed me to proble
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by jboggan 10y ago
Alright Google, that sweet holiday gift charity is paying off!
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by jboggan 10y ago
Brand new 2.65M condo units next door to me in Santa Monica. One immediately sold and I expect the rest to go as soon as all these paper millionaires in the neighborhood turn real. Venice has already turned into the most expensive rental ma
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by jboggan 10y ago
Santa Monica and Venice are going to get even more expensive in 6 months.
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by jboggan 10y ago
And Snapchat recruiters are talking to me about coming over and helping their data scientists productionize their models and monetize their data. Why not both?
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by jboggan 10y ago
Nasty flu this time of year, or so I've heard.
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by jboggan 10y ago
A bit like the ending of "God Emperor of Dune". I have nothing but great things to say about the quality of the engineers at Google . . . but I do think our purposes are suboptimal.
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by jboggan 10y ago
It's laughably common that Googlers don't know about a product that they themselves would be interested in using until they see external news about the product being cancelled. It's pretty demoralizing. We are the biggest eva
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by jboggan 10y ago
From my admittedly limited experience at Google, given the size of the input data even a "small" project deals with those little algorithmic inefficiencies really add up quickly. You have to do a lot of optimizing and using clever
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by jboggan 10y ago
I made the mistake of deadlifting the morning before trapeze practice once.
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by jboggan 10y ago
4 months of record snowpack still to melt. It will be summer before any repairs can be seriously made.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Probably should be spending that money on infrastructure (read: dam) maintenance.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Yeah I am laughing out loud at the landing page, I think it's pretty brilliant and I somehow missed the condom over the camera until I started sending it to other folks. The color scheme matches the intended use . . . I mean if I pulle
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by jboggan 10y ago
I'm headed there Thursday, here's hoping it can hold off a few more days. On a related note, is WOW Air actually running flights below cost in some sort of promotion for Icelandic tourism? I know a lot of people in my social circl
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by jboggan 10y ago
They're pretty much the same raw talent, just with 6+ extra years of navigating the Goog and collecting all the arcana that makes you an effective engineer there. Of all of the complaints I have heard from older and newer Googlers, not
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by jboggan 10y ago
I've only been there 13 months but I've found the quality of previous and new hires are ridiculously high. Given the number of talented people applying every day I think Google could increase hiring by 100% with no appreciable dro
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by jboggan 10y ago
I agree with this. I made a 32x return on a front-month WAY out of the money options trade in March of 2008. I tried to pull it off again and lost all of it. Good tuition money.
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by jboggan 10y ago
X Gon' Give It To Ya vs. A Thousand Miles had me cracking up for some reason.
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by jboggan 10y ago
My guess is that the human capital they need for such a build-out is hard to come by and mostly already working for Google Cloud and AWS.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Literally every motorcyclist I know here in California calls it lanesplitting or just splittin'. We're not very good at sharing which is why we are riding single person vehicles in the first place.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Given all the crazy corner cases I know they have covered I cannot imagine they don't deal well with emergency vehicles. For example, I know Waymo has put a ton of work into just covering the cases when motorcycles are lane-splitting a
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by jboggan 10y ago
Only child, grew up in the 90's in a neighborhood of one and two child families. We were all wild roamers, generally disappearing on weekends and summer days from sun up to sun down. Usually at someone else's house or in the creek

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