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by ketzo 4y ago
I think the easy rule of thumb is “do you ever actually do the thing you read about?”
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by ketzo 4y ago
Only if you don’t follow its advice!
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by ketzo 4y ago
Eh, even if it’s an anecdote, it comes off as actionable advice: “make sure you apply to Google/Amazon/Facebook as your safety jobs, since you’ve got a 50% chance of getting in there anyway.” Which feels… optimistic.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Easiest example is my iPhone. 5x is an understatement. Frankly, 500x probably is too. And there is exactly zero chance that I and everyone I know would have bought them (back in the day) without Apple’s marketing.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Wait — you don’t see any problem not knowing about valuable stuff? If your product offered a 5x better way to do something, but nobody knew about it, wouldn’t you be a little frustrated for both yourself and them?
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by ketzo 4y ago
In specifically public transit, though — buses, streetcars, metros — there’s no option to “pay for the better one.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Well, the streets aren't free, because you need to buy a car to use them. That's a little pedantic, but I think it's super relevant. The problem is that as a passenger/consumer, with a car, it's very easy to decide
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by ketzo 4y ago
serious question: in what way is that not a “problem?”
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by ketzo 4y ago
One very basic one that I see is "how much employee time am I saving you?" If a company pays its engineers $75/hour, saving 10 hours of engineer time is worth $750/month! That's a high number -- plus, it's on y
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by ketzo 4y ago
> if someone gets into multiple, they probably won't pick based on position in some list Not trying to be contrarian, but I had two friends literally pick between Ivies based on this very list (in 2015). It’s generally accepted as “
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by ketzo 4y ago
But it’s a prisoner’s dilemma situation, right? If none of the Ivy’s are on US News, well, it’s probably a shitty ranking. But if e.g. just Penn falls off the list… most people are just gonna assume that Penn got worse.
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by ketzo 4y ago
This is assuming that software quality is purely a function of the software engineer’s mind and creative ability, almost like art or writing. Many - most? - software devs know multiple ways they could make their apps higher quality, but the
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by ketzo 4y ago
I would argue that, in most social contexts, “receiving a message” does put some amount of pressure on a person. Unless you have a really explicit understanding with the person you’re texting, they’re gonna assume you expect a response, or
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by ketzo 4y ago
I mean, for one thing, Hooks are more than three years old at this point. And for another, you can use React without writing a single useEffect(). Class components are still very much a thing!
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by ketzo 4y ago
Well, the article makes the point that Starlink is definitely not under anything close to what it’s expected “peak load” will be, and even so, it’s not currently meeting speed requirements. But mostly, I agree — the article seems a little o
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by ketzo 4y ago
It’s an incredibly high bar that SpaceX explicitly said it would meet in order to receive more government funds . It’s not an arbitrary threshold.
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by ketzo 4y ago
That’s not the same point, actually. That quoted sentence says that hot water loses volume compared to cold water. The person you’re replying to is saying that hot water simply takes up more space as well.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I dunno. I have learned that I truly have no sense for the amount of e-mail some people get. When I started working at a big company, I felt like a big kid because I was getting 20ish emails a day, many of them automated. Then I learned tha
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by ketzo 4y ago
I think that particular metric (or one very like it) was originally about… Amazon.com. So, y’know, maybe a slightly different ballgame.
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by ketzo 4y ago
I had been working from home for a year and a half already in a very comfortable WFH setup, and knew I would have one going forward. That, obviously, makes a huge difference: I didn't need an office to work in, I just wanted one.
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by ketzo 4y ago
But there's gotta be a balance. It's totally conceivable for a new/junior employee to spend hours or days solving a problem that's already been solved in your codebase, and someone with experience could fix the issue in
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by ketzo 4y ago
This doesn't quite answer your trend, but personal anecdote: I recently switched jobs, and as part of my job interview process, I was pretty firm about only looking for companies that were working at least part of the week in the offic
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, how much of this is just a matter of perspective? I’ve never touched a computer running my company’s production software, and I never will. 20 years ago, that would have been literally inconceivable with someone who was called a “Soft
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by ketzo 4y ago
This was also my experience. I used to work in an org with about 200 engineers, supported by a DevOps team of ~6 devops engineers. They spent (very roughly) half of their time doing operations, and half of their time writing software to ma
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by ketzo 4y ago
Woah! That seems like a big deal! Cool find, thank you.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Where did you learn the material for your PMP cert? There are so, so many courses out there advertising PM training; not sure how to filter.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Yeah, it seems much more likely to me that Goldman is just stocking up on a bunch of crypto while it’s stupid cheap.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Wow, that’s… kind of insane. Cool. I’m gonna have to check it out.
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by ketzo 4y ago
Could you explain this comment a little more? What does "handling reconciliation rather than delegating" mean here?
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by ketzo 4y ago
Dang. Makes sense, since it's such a defining characteristic. But dang, I would love to read that :D Guess I'll just have to get a job at Notion some day and dig it up...

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