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by ketzo 4y ago
I'm the same way. Not to over-generalize, but in my experience that feeling is a big 1) guy thing 2) engineering-type thing 3) type-A-personality thing and god help you if you're all three! All three of those groups are overrepres
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by ketzo 4y ago
I think you've unintentionally explained why your advice-giving worked in that moment, too -- Bob knew you were coming from a place of good faith! You weren't "just"-ing him -- you knew the intricacies of his situation
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by ketzo 4y ago
Oh man, in my experience, migraines in particular are the worst for this because a ton of the common "justs" are actively conflicting "Just cut out caffeine/just try some caffeine when you feel one coming on!" &quot
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by ketzo 4y ago
Operating a massive, distributed, real-time ad platform requires lots of engineers.
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by ketzo 4y ago
This is a really good take, and I wanna expand it further: when interest rates are lower and planning horizons are longer, valuations get bigger . If you think of a company’s market capitalization as a rough measure of its future cash flow
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, I don’t think it’s doom and gloom. But I also don’t think it’s prudent to say “don’t worry about that layoff, you’ll get a new BigTech job tomorrow!” Times are weird.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Amazon announced a corporate-level hiring freeze just today, FYI.
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by ketzo 4y ago
You’re talking way too hyperbolically to take seriously. Yes, GMail does, in fact, “have a clue.” They do pretty well. They’re not perfect, and I have specific complaints, but to pretend they’re totally clueless and inept discredits anythin
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by ketzo 4y ago
Anecdotally: outright flame / chat hate is a bit better than it used to be, but not much.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Nah, not on iPhones they don’t. Barrier to entry (and risk of breaking their phone) of jail breaking is too high for ~99% of iPhone users. Android might be a different story. But not THAT different. People REALLY rely on app stores.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Damn, that sounds like an extremely cool career. Have you written about it in more detail before? Would love to hear more specifics (as allowable) about your path.
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by ketzo 4y ago
or, yknow… searched something on the internet using Google search? that tiny little thing that literally revolutionized the human experience of recorded information?
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by ketzo 4y ago
Well, this is a weird argument. There are lots of things that are posted on the internet that are illegal to re-post elsewhere without attribution/payment. That's, like... all of internet copyright law.
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by ketzo 4y ago
> It's not as if the business walks away because their AE isn't there anymore. I mean, not all of the business -- but businesses can and will sever contracts because they lose their favorite point-of-contact. > They'r
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by ketzo 4y ago
> 1 hour of real work, couple hours of meetings showing your biases a little too much there, aren't you?
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by ketzo 4y ago
I did work at a company that implemented SAFe, and it was miserable. I am interested to read commentary from someone who has had a good experience, because those seem to be so rare.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I don’t know about much more. The last time I saw the top ends of Google’s IC pay scale, it was ~$1.5 million TC, and that was for, like, two people. I’m being nit picky. But big tech isn’t THAT insane. 7 figure TC is incredibly, incredib
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by ketzo 4y ago
Wow, this is the kind of comment I come to HN for. Thanks for this. There are a lot of vocal SAFe detractors, so it’s nice to hear about why it could actually be good.
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by ketzo 4y ago
If it’s more engaging, how could it not be more addictive?
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by ketzo 4y ago
Google Drive is the first stop for media piracy all across the internet. I don’t think I’m going too far to assume they have some pretty significant automatic enforcement mechanisms, especially when it comes to trademarked/copyrighted
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by ketzo 4y ago
Why devoid of AI? Not being combative here, genuinely curious Perhaps devoid of machine learning, given the year, but even that seems unlikely if the anecdote is true. If predicting and planning outcomes and with previous data is not some f
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by ketzo 4y ago
> a) it’s being released in 2 weeks b) do you think clients will like it Oh god, that gives me the sweats. Godspeed.
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by ketzo 4y ago
How do Engineering Managers work alongside those two roles?
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by ketzo 4y ago
Two thoughts: 1. Wow, that looks like an extremely useful app if you're a flight attendant! 2. How is their employer not providing this functionality? I guess maybe they are, but only parts, or it's a shittier version. But still
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by ketzo 4y ago
I think it’s pretty clear from context that “climate change” in this case is shorthand for “human-caused warming and carbonization of oceans,” even if that’s not explicit. “Climate change” is an overly broad term, true, but it’s also very e
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by ketzo 4y ago
meh, the way you're talking about the things that women do more comes off as pretty condescending "I feel" / "maybe we should" are not weasel words, they are phrases to start a conversation with an acknowledgem
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by ketzo 4y ago
I mean -- I've had multiple medium-to-long term, fulfilling relationships that started on dating apps. They do work sometimes. Yeah, it's a shitty environment, and it's very much a numbers game (especially for hetero guys), b
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by ketzo 4y ago
I’ve seen this argument before, but how much bigger would the regulated market have to be before we call it a net neutral? Because if there were $1 billion in illegal bets, and $20 billion in legal bets, which of those would be worse for so
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by ketzo 4y ago
But this would be like putting an official “sanctioned by Twitter” badge on that harassment.
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by ketzo 4y ago
The opposite, actually — people NEED Russia’s oil. They don’t have the option to stop buying it without a lot of pain. So Russia’s biggest money-fountain has stayed on despite sanctions. Meanwhile, China exports a lot of things that peopl

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