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by johnrob 8y ago
Seattle isn't too far behind SF with regards to housing (according to recent press at least). I've been wondering for years: could the larger employers in SF do more to coordinate which cities are expanded to? I'd be willin
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by johnrob 8y ago
The underwater capability could be huge. Given the timing here (mid spring in northern hemisphere), I suspect Snapchat is fully aware of this killer feature. Influencers could have fun with it while enticing the masses to buy a pair.
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by johnrob 8y ago
Given how the state of California has ruled, is there any practical obligation for local authorities to prevent people from using the road? Would a federal ruling change that? This reminds me of the marijuana situation where states are ma
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by johnrob 8y ago
My guess is the sent folder is just a label where from-address matches one of your emails. Spoofing the inbox in the manner mentioned here will naturally also fool the sent folder.
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by johnrob 9y ago
The best thing an employer can do for an employee is assign explicit value to that employee’s work. Otherwise, the burden lies on the employee regardless of the fact that a manager may declare solid performance. If the value of your work
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by johnrob 9y ago
While often convenient, adding “extra credit” to an otherwise focused commit can create a lot of confusion later on. It also makes the commit harder to understand (what does that line have to do with this fix?).
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by johnrob 9y ago
Not always - the other way to mitigate billing inflation is to increase premiums (which would explain the last 20 years).
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by johnrob 9y ago
Anecdotally, most if not all of the times I’ve been burned has been when I ignored my gut feeling.
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by johnrob 9y ago
http://www.replayray.com/ A fun way to follow sports on your phone, when you can't watch the actual game. The game tracker always starts at the beginning and never 'spoils' the result. I've put more wor
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by johnrob 9y ago
It's rare in nature when the optimal placement of a 'dial' is at an endpoint (0 or 100). In everyday life, when I see people making such a choice, it's usually because they focused on a single attribute at the expense o
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by johnrob 9y ago
I found a typo: "copy written" should be "copyrighted".
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by johnrob 9y ago
Very cool! You should add some sort of 'loading...' message when you submit the demo - I initially thought I was back on the home page. Also - it's probably a bit more work and/or more processing intensive, but it would
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Show HN: A fun way to follow football games
6 points by johnrob 9y ago|1 comments
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by johnrob 9y ago
Small batches. What can I do today, that will demonstrably put us in a better position at the start of tomorrow. Ideally should result in deployed code to production, but not always (e.g. research). Ironically, you could argue this is agi
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by johnrob 9y ago
You should have a specific idea and not just the desire to start a company. I'd recommend waiting until you have that idea.
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by johnrob 9y ago
Would knowing the fair market price be a proxy for percent ownership (assuming you know the current valuation of the company)?
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by johnrob 9y ago
Build more inventory. None of these tricks will solve the problem of fitting X families into Y homes, where X > Y. The unspoken constraint in every housing debate is to avoid adding new supply and risk devaluing the existing investments
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by johnrob 9y ago
I'm curious if the people giving the interviews have an incentive to be conservative with scoring. Maybe it looks bad when your score is the highest? As if you're lowering the bar? If true, I could see that contributing to how t
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by johnrob 10y ago
Yes. In the ride business, speed = money. Bad incentive.
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by johnrob 10y ago
At some point, making food/housing/healthcare cheaper seems like a more achievable goal than finding work for people (who are in theory competing with AI).
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by johnrob 10y ago
If they priced the stock accurately, there would be a 50% chance the stock would go down on the first day. They want it to go up and thus under price it.
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by johnrob 10y ago
The value of the labor managed by those leaders was over 100X greater than $415 million. Unprofitable is not the right term here (something ethical instead?).
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by johnrob 10y ago
If you want to create a big company, there are only two options: 1) grow fast, 2) grow slowly for multiple decades. The latter is riskier because of constant landscape changes and the fact that you only have a 100 years (optimistic) of lif
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by johnrob 10y ago
The real downside of over-engineering is that time expenditure is non-refundable. If you build a lightweight v1, you still have the option to invest additional time into something more "robust". If you choose the opposite, you d
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Ask HN: Most excited during a work crisis?
4 points by johnrob 10y ago|4 comments
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by johnrob 10y ago
I used to mimimc the power off scenario using a wired connection and a router. The client machine ethernet connects to an up-linked router, and to mimic the server's poweroff, we just pull the uplink cable out from the router. As far
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by johnrob 10y ago
Yes. Double yes. Came here to leave that exact comment. Here is a pretty bad war story: https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
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by johnrob 10y ago
If you're currently paid well (relative to other companies), it's good idea to disclose your salary.
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by johnrob 10y ago
I think we're all taking this too far: > Boston is one of the most expensive cities in the US to live in right now That's the real problem, and should be the focus. Short term renting is just a detail. Inventory is the soluti
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by johnrob 10y ago
In the 'new system', the government gives basic income to labor, which pays taxes back to the government. It's probably likely that more goes out via basic income than comes in via income taxes, so one has to wonder: do inco

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