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by jlizzle30 3y ago
The best signal to gauge Eng performance is their impact against business objectives. Money saved, UX improved, costs reduced, modules deleted, etc. Collect weekly bite-sized updates to know how your team is doing.
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by jlizzle30 3y ago
I’ve wondered if a ‘follow’ feature would be useful on HN. It’d allow curating timelines of comments from interesting users.
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by jlizzle30 3y ago
I've been looking for a 'Grafana for personal metrics' (eg. weight, personal finance, etc.). Does anything like this exist? Ideally very simple, stripped-down metrics/observability w/ ability to input data in UI or
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by jlizzle30 4y ago
No I just don’t have time to write an entire epistemological defense of “reproduction and parenting is a key milestone for humans”. It should be self evident. If you don’t think so, consider what happens if untrue (hint: no more humans).
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by jlizzle30 4y ago
There could be a great discussion about whether male parenting and reproduction comes from the bio/psycho/social drives. For this context, I think trying to make these distinctions is a distraction. By way of common sense, reprodu
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by jlizzle30 4y ago
New(ish) parent here. Two things: First, the bad news: lots of comments saying stuff like "Don't have kids to fill a perceived hole in your life". In general, the advice "Don't do ____ to fill a hole in your life&qu
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by jlizzle30 4y ago
Is this satire?
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by jlizzle30 4y ago
In the same way dropping foreign aid on a country to ‘solve’ hunger can make the problem worse, EA money could distort market forces if it became big enough. I suspect it’s very difficult to find investments that return more net good than s
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by jlizzle30 4y ago
> 30 software developers - iOS rider app - android rider app - iOS driver app - android driver app - ride/driver matching - routing/supply - security/compliance - fraud detection/prevention - backend rides services -
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
> there's a natural "limit" on the happiness I can enjoy at any given moment This is roughly my experience, although, you can choose between peaks & valleys vs emotional stability. Highs are generally followed by lows
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
> Here are the dragons: ... Buying a house or an apartment will disproportionately affect other areas of your life I agree with the general caution about buying a property and the baggage it comes with. Unfortunately with kids there be d
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
Any rules of thumb for how much cash compensation a founder can expect to draw in the first ~5 years of a successful startup? The stock compensation numbers make is sound like these founders are rich but it isn't liquid and could go to
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
Most founders never draw a salary Is this true? Do they live off savings for > 5 years?
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Ask HN: How should aspiring founders plan financially?
15 points by jlizzle30 5y ago|6 comments
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
Why does this article not have the temperature change of the water?
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
I've been wondering the same. Are you referring to a 'company of record'?
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
I was inspired to go into psychology after reading Malcom Gladwell, Freakonomics, et al. Net-net the degree was disapointing. In some ways an intuitive sense of people is superior to what the field's been able to discover. 'Noise&
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
We need to store these files forever publicly. Isn't this the exact value-prop of Filecoin? And if not Filecoin, some blockchain solution?
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
Not with proof of work.
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by jlizzle30 5y ago
It's an issue if the data's public.
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by jlizzle30 6y ago
> if you want to know if someone knows CS fundamentals, you don’t want to give them a problem they can trick their way through Right. But this is a critique overused questions the candidates may have already seen rather than linked list
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by jlizzle30 6y ago
The natural conclusion of the black/whitelist argument is renaming the colors.
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by jlizzle30 6y ago
Former college hockey goalie here (now a SWE). Dryden is correct. Hockey goaltending has become incredibly technical and an essence of the game has been lost as goalies have gained mastery. This is less about equipment being 'too big&#
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by jlizzle30 6y ago
Someone close to me was recently hired as a new grad at Amazon. He only had one 30 minute conversation with a human to verify he was real before they extended the offer! The rest of the process was automated (virtually proctored coding sess
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by jlizzle30 6y ago
As an anecdote, I'm close to someone who had issues w/ their microbiome causing havoc for a year after taking antibiotics. They tried all kinds of diet and probiotic treatments to no avail. In desperation, a doctor prescribed an
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Comic: Location-Based Compensation(bonkersworld.net)
2 points by jlizzle30 6y ago|0 comments
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by jlizzle30 6y ago
Ping me: galapera@altmails.com
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by jlizzle30 6y ago
This is much better than chatting face-to-face on Zoom, but team meetings mostly consist of someone sharing their screen while going through JIRA, a doc, deck, or spreadsheet. I'm not convinced screen sharing is as effective in 3D, whi
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by jlizzle30 6y ago
Suitro: Asana style project management tool for recruiters. https://suitro.com/
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by jlizzle30 6y ago
Getting rid of HR is a killer feature of WFH.

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