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by ketzo 4y ago
I mean, I don't think the YIMBY movement always speaks with a single voice, but I do think there's an understanding that infrastructure will have to keep up. The thing is that in order to expand infrastructure, you need - public p
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, it's a hamfisted solution, but only because it has to be. And as the state government has said -- cities can still plan their own growth! They just have to plan some growth rather than none, which, obviously, is the sticking
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by ketzo 4y ago
Is the author really speaking with “authority,” though? If anything, they go out of their way to remind the reader that “your taste may differ from mine.” It just reads to me like someone sharing an interesting idea they discovered. I feel
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by ketzo 4y ago
It seems like you know more of the things that the author is missing in their explanation. I think your comment would bring more value to the world if you actually talked about some of those design facets, instead of taking so much time to
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by ketzo 4y ago
Since you used the phrase “my regular life is being interrupted,” it really does sound like a bit of a compulsion. I’m sorry to hear that. Have you tried talking to a psychologist or a psychiatrist? OCD and similar disorders are hard to “cu
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by ketzo 4y ago
Treating hobby scenes as pure dating opportunities is definitely looked down on. If you show up to Introductory Spanish and start dropping pick-up lines on strangers, yeah, people are gonna show you the door. But hobbies are an opportunit
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by ketzo 4y ago
Biggest expenses are food and rent. Those aren’t cheaper in India? Your point is taken, but like, I don’t have a monthly line-item for Mercedes.
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by ketzo 4y ago
We have no way of knowing if they would have given a shit, because they literally didn't even try before planning a late-night stakeout. Yeah, cops can be really shitty about domestic violence and harassment. But, uh, as opening statem
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, but like... they didn't even "let the police handle it." They just went straight to "late-night stakeout." > Cops can’t do much if you’re worried someone will harm you or a loved one. You're right, and
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by ketzo 4y ago
I understand that. But you cannot assume they won't help. These guys didn't even try contacting the police before hatching a late-night scheme. For what it's worth, in my (regrettably several) experiences with stalkers&#x2F
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by ketzo 4y ago
Maybe obvious, but uh: don’t fucking do this! I get it, I'm an older brother, I would wanna go ballistic too. But the fact that these guys skipped over "notify the police" and went straight to "seek out in-person confron
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by ketzo 4y ago
Wow, that's a lot lower than I would have thought. I wonder if my memory is wrong? The "30% of volume" stat stands out in my head, though.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, but that's looking at them today , as the definitive #1 fab in the world. The path they took to get here was all about doubling down on Apple.
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by ketzo 4y ago
To expand on this great example a little: TSMC is a really smart case, because the chip business is all about extraordinarily high up-front development costs and near-zero marginal costs. TSMC uses Apple as their first-and-best customer for
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by ketzo 4y ago
I wasn't high-up enough to have that kind of number, sadly :D It's an interesting question, though -- I'm sure Amazon had a very favorable contract, so to your point, probably less than 30%.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I worked briefly at FedEx corporate, and they made a big deal about their policy that a customer could never account for more than 30% of total volume. Leadership often made it clear that Amazon was right at that limit, and wanted to send a
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by ketzo 4y ago
One of the most basic is “do your managers write code?” My first company out of college actually banned it as a practice - EMs were not allowed to be active contributors. I know at some companies, it’s actually a requirement , or at least
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by ketzo 4y ago
The “just done” thing can be kinda dangerous too - I did the same thing, and at the end of my hell week, I was getting close to accepting an offer I knew was subpar, just to be done interviewing. Hard to find the right balance.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I think this is a good and optimistic take, but you have to imagine AI art will only get better from here — how long until it closes the loop?
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by ketzo 4y ago
"State management is complex, so we used a framework to make things easier." "Why use a widely popular, well-documented, battle-tested framework? Just have one of your senior devs build something over the weekend. This will d
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by ketzo 4y ago
I dunno. Lots of users seem to wake up and say “Gimme a UI with rich interactions, super low latency, offline support, and real-time sync.” Even for B2B “back-of-office” software, the standards for software usability are really high, espe
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by ketzo 4y ago
In a large JavaScript codebase that's partway to being a TypeScript codebase, I find myself constantly having to insert `console.log` statements to find out what attributes some object actually has. Plus, our number one source of cra
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by ketzo 4y ago
B&N is less of a place to get books than it was previously. Inventories are smaller. But it's more of a place to discover books. That's what the CEO did.
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by ketzo 4y ago
It seems like the key insight is that bookstores are no longer places to get books . If I want a specific book, I already know where to go: the internet. No physical store is ever going to compete on inventory ever again. Amazon will eat y
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, and all of this is relevant, and the kind of stuff you would wanna talk about with a new potential employer. Maybe you did really amazing work with a killer team, but that team got cut as the founders tried to reduce scope. But... it&
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yes, when lots of companies are cutting back to their most essential employees, it helps provide a little cover. But, y'know, regardless of the environment, what does it say about your abilities that your employer didn't consider
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by ketzo 4y ago
Congrats. Hopefully a better situation for you in the new year.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Wow, I can’t believe I’ve never read that. That’s all-time stuff right there.
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by ketzo 4y ago
As someone who always wanted to try Vim out, I thought the Vim keybindings plug-in was a total game changer. I only use it for moving around in and manipulating the text - because that’s all it can do - and it’s awesome. Genuine life chan
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by ketzo 4y ago
I enjoy that the commercialization of American Christmas has, a little bit, freed it from religion. Now it’s just the default Western end-of-year holiday! And we can all enjoy that :)

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