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by kenhwang 8y ago
I have a friend that I consider borderline incompetent. He works for an unicorn. He claims he makes up for it in spirit in charisma. Point is, compensation and skill don't correlate as strongly as people think.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
There's only a narrow window in your life where many of the cons of working for a startup don't ruin you. That window happens to overlap with the beginning of your career. If you have the skill to make it into a big corp at the be
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Agreed. It definitely depends on your tolerance to risk. Not everyone wants to be part of frat party that takes up half your days and weekends that could potentially disappear tomorrow without notice.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
These positions do exist. The VC maintains an engineering team that gets lent out to the businesses they're invested in.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Some of my most mediocre acquaintances have jobs at FAANG/Big N. You don't have to be exceptional to land a high comp job there, you just have to be exceptionally tolerant to BS and mindnumbingly boring work and be willing to grin
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Less than a year. More shares than non-essential employees, but far far far less shares than founders/executives.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I echo the comp aspect. I pretty much had a best case non-unicorn startup exit; wonderful benefits pre-acquisition, actual unlimited PTO, and normal ~40hr/workweek, acquired almost immediately after receiving my shares, golden handcuff
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Recently, when I use npm, it mostly just works. There's still the occasional node/npm version mix and match to get certain libraries to work and accidental sudo; the former might just be the poor quality of the ecosystem, and the
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by kenhwang 8y ago
All the Google search sub-feature in their products that's not the Google search product have pretty mediocre results. Gmail is no exception.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Just to add, for computer cases, you want it to be a high pressure zone because intake fans generally have filters in front to catch the dust before it gets into the case. Negative pressure means dust gets sucked in from the cracks.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Fortune 500 in the Oscars/Emmys winning business. We have European partners and distributors for our stuff that Europeans are supposed to be using anyway. "This content is not available in your region" will probably become a
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by kenhwang 8y ago
We just blocked European traffic. They're not profitable enough to be worth the headache.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
You hit my wishlist almost exactly. A strongly typed, not java, ETL framework would be my dream. Plus, works at scale and easy to scale almost becomes a non-issue because we wouldn't be choked by the slowness and bloat of python.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Fun was probably getting in Go's way in becoming the next Java.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Well this certainly looks very corporate and professional now. I suppose that fits their targeted audience better.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
The platform sharing definitely went several generations back, but the sedan platforms were almost always developed more by Mazda than Ford. My understanding of the Ford V6 from the 1990s is that it's some Mazda/Porsche design. Bu
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Ford used to own ~30% of Mazda before selling the shares back to Japanese entities. Because of that, they were able to share engines and platforms. For example, the Mazda 3 and Ford Focus shared the Ford C1 platform and Mazda MZR engine. Th
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I suppose not having Mazda around anymore for sedan platform/engine sharing really hurt Ford.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
And they always fit perfectly in outdoors activity vehicles with "cupholders", like kayaks!
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I like looking for passion for problem solving . The problems just usually require using programming as a tool. I'd like to believe the product is also solving a real problem. The metaphor I like to use is, I'm looking for a carp
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by kenhwang 9y ago
In my college bike town, when bikes or scooters are improperly parked, they broke the lock and impounded your bike and you had the option to pay a fee for it back, otherwise it'll be auctioned off after some time. It's even easier
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Can't wait for the great KuberMesosTitus merge together monstrosity!
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Ah, thank you.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Maybe the announcement was a bit too early? I don't actually see source code anywhere.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
That's really nifty! Not quite was I was thinking of though, but it gave me a starting point for some research before I came across https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1911 which describes why unimp
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I love Rust when it's refactoring time, the compiler essentially spits out a checklist that you just need to work through. And once it's done complaining it feels pretty confidence inspiring. But I'll agree that Rust is unple
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by kenhwang 9y ago
This is honestly the reason I do use Nightly. I'm volunteering to provide information that I understand could be very intimate in hopes it's useful to Mozilla in making Firefox better. Data drives better decisions, and I'd ra
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Arizona is picked as a testbed for self driving cars precisely because regulations are so lax. Regulations are written with blood.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
30 minutes is definitely doable as long as you don't cross the 405. Most young people I know on developer salary in LA live practically walking distance to work.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
It depends on the scale, really. When you only account for a small % of traffic, your impact to subscription revenue is also small, to the point where they can just bucket any cost or revenue loss under the marketing budget. We still integr

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