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by kdamica 2y ago
One reason is to have a public URL that your employees can share to their network to pull referrals. Also the success rate is not zero. I've hired great people from cold applications, it's just very rare.
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by kdamica 2y ago
I also think people don't appreciate the sheer volume of online applications that a desirable startup gets. There have been times were I would literally get hundreds of applications per week, with none of them standing out in any way.
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by kdamica 2y ago
The reality is that the vast majority of startup hires are referrals. For hiring managers, having someone you trust tell you that they've worked with a candidate and vouch for them is invaluable, especially when the company is at a sta
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by kdamica 2y ago
What do you use now?
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by kdamica 2y ago
I’ve read most of the SF on this list so I’ll throw out my other recommendations: I like Chambers’ Wayfarers series but IMO Closed and Common Orbit is the best one. Another recent book that stuck with me is Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race, which i
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The Ultimate Guide to Error Handling in Python(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
96 points by kdamica 2y ago|28 comments
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by kdamica 2y ago
I still use Optional[T] so definitely not just the LLM :)
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by kdamica 2y ago
I was just talking with my wife that that we wish there was a streaming service that made the choices more intentional and limited. Like for each show there should only be one episode available a day. This is definitely in the same spirit.
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by kdamica 2y ago
Reminds me of the Packard Bell Navigator UI from the 90s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Bell_Navigator
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by kdamica 2y ago
Definitely bad for the individual but if this is reserved for homicides, which are fairly rare, and helps solve the crimes, I’d say this is overall a good thing. There’s the potential for a slippery slope here but nothing about this seems a
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by kdamica 2y ago
I wonder what % of the time all the interns have names starting with an A.
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by kdamica 2y ago
Once you go Lebesgue, you never go back
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by kdamica 2y ago
Same. Such an incredible book.
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How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
215 points by kdamica 2y ago|91 comments
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by kdamica 2y ago
I worked on the 4th and 5th floor of this building for a few years, and there’s no reason why would want this building at a time when there is plenty of space on the market. The bottom floors were designed to be a 1970s data center, and so
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by kdamica 3y ago
My advice is to marry someone with much higher emotional intelligence than you have. This is what I did and I’ve learned a lot.
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by kdamica 3y ago
Very cool! I’ll be super interested to see how this develops.
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by kdamica 3y ago
Yeah I agree with you wouldn't want to point a dashboard directly at BigQuery. There are two cases here: - You don't need realtime data, but you want to serve the data quickly. If you wanted to use Bigquery in this case, you'
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by kdamica 3y ago
I totally agree that there are great solutions out there to use Postgres for specific analytics tasks, especially realtime ones, but if you want something that can handle arbitrary aggregations and do ad hoc analytics, nothing comes close t
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by kdamica 3y ago
I can qualify "Postgres doesn't scale for analytics" a bit: You cannot run large scale aggregations in a row-based database like Postgres the way you can in a columnular data warehouse. If all you need is daily aggregations o
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by kdamica 3y ago
I would not recommend this approach to anyone, for these reasons: - If your data is small enough that Postgres works as an analytics warehouse, then the cost of running a warehouse like BigQuery are going to be small too, and without the co
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by kdamica 3y ago
I don’t play it! I refunded Jedi Fallen Order for this reason. The plot was so boring but the game seemed not to know it. At this point I just don’t play too many AAA games so it’s not a big problem for me.
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by kdamica 3y ago
I’m one of those people who skips all the cutscenes. Very few games have stories interesting enough to pay attention to outside of what they show you through gameplay. If I want a good story I’ll watch a movie or read a book. To me games ar
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by kdamica 3y ago
$2 Trillion to reduce emissions by at most 3% feels like a bad exchange to me. Would be curious to see the cost of proposals in other sectors.
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by kdamica 3y ago
Soft deletion is important if you want to do analytics on your data. Hard deletes mean that you can never reconstruct an accurate history. Also, if you’re not careful, hard deletes can lead to primary keys getting reused, which can cause al
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by kdamica 3y ago
Don’t most private companies require board approval for secondaries? I wonder what you’d actually be buying here.
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by kdamica 3y ago
I remember reading that the introduction of wolves into Yellowstone had a much bigger positive impact than expected. I’m sure this is an oversimplification of a complex ecosystem-wide impact, but my understanding is that the effect is mostl
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by kdamica 3y ago
This is a less interactive site than those mentioned in the article, but i found www.chesstactics.org incredibly helpful when i was starting out. I eventually realized that i enjoy chess puzzles much more than playing actual games of chess
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by kdamica 3y ago
An asset store might be the fastest way to build a platform that makes money for them.
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by kdamica 3y ago
Classic innovator’s dilemma!

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