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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, private browsing / private session / incognito mode will stop you from storing cookies and session data.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I mean, by almost any measure, some of the most brilliant programmers of the past 20 years have worked in ads at Google and Facebook, yes.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I am also obsessed with the header image that does not even try to scale with width. It just stretches. Awesome
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by ketzo 4y ago
I think another, underrated benefit is having something to point at for new people. When an engineer joins the team 6 months into the project, it's important for them to have context on why you're doing what you're doing. Eve
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by ketzo 4y ago
Man, that subreddit reads like the most massive case of sour grapes imaginable. It's just people (presumably a lot of physicians / med students?) griping about how NPs and PAs are acting too good for their titles. All the actual s
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by ketzo 4y ago
wow, wait, this is awesome. I think I might drop this in instead. thank you!
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by ketzo 4y ago
haha you're not wrong but it's an async process that could take longer, so then you get into "well if it's <200ms we won't show a spinner, but if it takes longer we will..." it's a settings page where
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by ketzo 4y ago
y'know, I felt like a monster doing it, but it weirdly is way more satisfying to use it goes from "wtf just flickered on my screen" to "wow, that loaded really fast!
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by ketzo 4y ago
just this week, I put a minimum 200ms wait time on a loading spinner, because otherwise we thought it felt "buggy" because it was completing too quickly!
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by ketzo 4y ago
Social media isn't totally global, though -- I would be interested to see this youth mental health data correlated with smartphone uptake in a given country.
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by ketzo 4y ago
It's a good question. I mean, if there are lots of managers at Meta who only have 4-5 direct reports, you could see this scaling decently well -- turn two teams into one, and that's not so bad. But I don't think one person ca
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by ketzo 4y ago
To be slightly less cynical, I think they just mean that individual engineers at Meta are responsible for large chunks/vertical slices of work, so your work has a lot of individual impact on getting things out into the world.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Supporting your point further, one of the reasons Georgia gets so much film/TV work is because they are unfriendly to unions, so labor costs are much lower.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I don't think the discrepancy is the same in any other field of knowledge work, though. Even hospital CEOs and partners at law firms are making 3-15x what their doctors and attorneys are making. Not 100-200x. The magnitude of the gap i
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by ketzo 4y ago
It's a good question, honestly. My go-to answer is just "scale" -- the number of people required to go from "1,000 video calls that are pretty good" to "1,000,000 video calls that are close to perfect" is
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by ketzo 4y ago
For a company that focuses on enterprise sales as hard as Zoom does, I think a super rough ballpark is that all-in engineering staff are not more than 50% of headcount.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I’d have to find it, but on a recent “Who’s Hiring” thread, someone was looking for an e-commerce dev for a “cash4tungsten” site I think there was quite a rush in, and maybe a rush out, too… (… I’m currently staring at my own cube)
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by ketzo 4y ago
I agree. I’ve literally seen the word “mob,” like, 5 times in this thread already. I think… it’s just an overzealous application of a policy? I don’t really think there’s a woke gang on this one.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I don’t really see a mob on this one. Twitch has a platform policy that they enforced - probably a little too heavily here. Is there some sort of community outcry elsewhere? I think most people who understand the context of the clip (AI-gen
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, I think the title is a little provocative to get you to read, but I ended up agreeing with it. Maybe "don't try to be a teacher during code reviews" is slightly more precise?
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by ketzo 4y ago
This is a super-simplified summary, but I think it's generally accurate. The basic thesis of EA is "it is your duty to improve/save as many human lives as you can." At some point, a lot of EAs realized that there were ma
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by ketzo 4y ago
> but from the article, the impression that it is more like persuasion. Okay -- but if you showed up to a tech conference, and someone in the hallway was trying to "persuade" you to join a threesome, would you feel that was app
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by ketzo 4y ago
I see that essay linked every six months or so, and I swear every time I read it, a new element of it rings true to me. Really timeless, invaluable writing on the way groups of humans work.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Man, this thread is a great example for why I don't use regexes, lol
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by ketzo 4y ago
"Hi marketing department! You're losing 50% of staff and 80% of advertising budget!" bam, growth -> profitability!
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by ketzo 4y ago
I am super-duper not a lawyer, so I don't have a sense of what is true and legal. I'm mostly talking about what I think should be true and legal.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I don't think you should be blindly downvoted for this -- I think it is a totally valid question, and one that the YIMBY movement needs to find a way to answer consistently. Personally, I would say that lots of low-density communities
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by ketzo 4y ago
One of the things I love most about working in tech is that really talented, weird, multi-disciplinary people like Xe are often given the freedom to just go do weird shit and see if it works out for the company -- and that it often does ,
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by ketzo 4y ago
I think the author of this newsletter is actually younger than the law -- so maybe his perspective showing a little :D
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by ketzo 4y ago
The whole "heavy on promises" thing makes me nervous. But the HCD has been super intensely focused on San Francisco in particular -- the article mentions the special investigation they opened into the city's Board of Superv

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