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by kevstev 8y ago
You don't actually need a google fi compatible phone to switch, you just need it to join google fi. I was astonished when my coworker showed me his ipad pro (I think thats the name- the big one anyway) hooked up to fi a few weeks ago.
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by kevstev 8y ago
Agreed. I realized a few weeks ago that I really like Instagram because everything on there is original content- pictures/videos from my friends and a very few select people I don't actually know that I share interests with. And t
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by kevstev 8y ago
I don't think you understand. The mayor closed off a stretch of Newark Avenue, which leads right into the Grove St Path Station in late 2014. Prior to this, Newark Avenue was a strip of fairly grimy stores, a few restaurants, and some
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by kevstev 8y ago
Contrary to that anecdote, Jersey City (across the Hudson river from Manhattan), created a no-car zone near one of its busier subway stops and what was once a dead-zone after 8pm is now an extremely vibrant place filled with bars, restauran
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by kevstev 8y ago
2005 was still a period of massive hangover for tech startups after the .com collapse. To say that startups as a concept weren't a thing, is misunderstanding the situation. Like the rest of the tech industry, the startup scene has matu
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by kevstev 8y ago
You forgot 3- a search function that worked well and instantaneously. and you kind of covered it, but just to make it explicit- provided what was practically unlimited storage for the time- 2GB. Competitors were offering 5, maybe 10MB. I
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by kevstev 8y ago
When Citibike was first announced, there was all kinds of outrage. Comments predicting that it will be mayhem, there will be a bloodbath, it will snarl the streets, and all kinds of other doomsday scenarios were put forth in hearings and on
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by kevstev 8y ago
I worked at a very large e-commerce player, these numbers jive with my experience. Most people have their password saved in their browser, or get it right the first time. Maybe they screw up a few times, whatever. They may even have to rese
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by kevstev 8y ago
I have been a hiring manager for 5+ years now. While this isn't great, as long as you emphasize that your first two were while you were still in school and more or less all of them were at startups, this doesn't look terrible. You
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by kevstev 8y ago
"life’s too goddamn short to not give up a book the moment you stop giving any fucks about it." I read a lot, but have a lot less time for it since I started biking to work instead of taking the train. This is best viewed IMHO as
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by kevstev 8y ago
I feel you are actually supporting my point with your post. This is a handful of games released over a number of years. Space sims used to be its own genre with AAA titles. There would be hype, people would be excited for months about a rel
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by kevstev 8y ago
The entire genre of flight and space-sims has almost entirely gone away and to me its such a tremendous shame- with today's multi-monitor setups and wide screens they would be such a better experience. X-wing, descent, flight simulator
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by kevstev 8y ago
Why couldn't they pay union and non-union members differently? That would certainly allow free-market forces to entice people to join if it benefits them.
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by kevstev 8y ago
Yeah, but when the union head starts paying themselves 300k and despite good living wages and benefits still maintain a large/expensive organizational structure and offices, etc... you still have to be a part of that union- you have ve
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by kevstev 8y ago
This is true. With the emphasis that Agile puts on "blockers" though it becomes apparent that the typical model of having a simple person own a component with maybe a backup person or two is problematic. "Only Amy knows that
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by kevstev 8y ago
Its kind of astonishing to me how no one even seems to notice. Its not so popular now, but the /r/murica used to be a joke about overzealous patriotism, then it became something... else. pcmasterrace way back in the day did the sa
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by kevstev 8y ago
My quip on scrum/agile is that it "ensures mediocre results from mediocre teams." Its just a methodology in the end. It can help keep those that tend to have wandering minds focused, but for high performing teams the overhead
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by kevstev 8y ago
I would consider this a bad sign. My wife recently left a company that had few reviews. The management would actively try to remove bad reviews on any basis possible, and have been successful enough at it. If you look at her (small company&
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by kevstev 8y ago
Interesting. I bought a "real" netgear switch a few years back (geared to the small business market) and did some tests with jumbo frames enabled, and saw only a slightly under 10% difference in performance pushing 10GB files from
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by kevstev 8y ago
I was with you until the last sentence: "Processors would be able to evolve if they weren't hamstrung by having to support C." I don't think its fair or correct to say that C is the real issue. Recently there have been l
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by kevstev 8y ago
I personally refer to this as the "Marissa Mayer problem." To me the real mark of success and brilliance is not just succeeding once, its succeeding multiple times. Jumping on the Google or Amazon rocketship and doing well there,
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by kevstev 9y ago
In general, large companies have a lot more data around them, a lot more coverage from analysts and journalists and the like, and generally have a lot more eyes on them. These companies are a lot more efficiently priced. You can do the legw
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by kevstev 9y ago
This is for a specific type of corporate organization in a particular state. You can start a business without forming an LLC. If you really want to pretend you are for real, you would form a delaware corporation. Delaware is a tiny state th
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by kevstev 9y ago
As a huge civ fan, I couldn't agree more with this analysis. Civ2 is still my favorite, I wish we could fork it and just enhance/enrich that version. I know freeciv exists, it just isn't quite the same IMHO though In particul
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by kevstev 9y ago
My beef was more with google, but my isolated instance of this was pretty damning. I started watching Meet the Press after the election. It airs on Sunday mornings. One day though, it was pre-empted by a golf tournament, I forget which, may
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by kevstev 9y ago
Did I miss something big, or did this seem like a small changelog for a major release? Its been a few years since I have been a daily user of llvm, but all the changes seemed very small reading their description.
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by kevstev 9y ago
Citadel (Hedge Fund) | New York/Chicago/SF | Data Engineer | ONSITE (mostly) Fulltime Citadel is one of the most successful hedge funds in history, and operates as close to a technology company as I have seen in the financial fiel
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by kevstev 9y ago
Did you work in tech, or at a bank, or some other firm where tech was subservient to the business? I am not saying tech was never there- I worked in the 2000s in NYC as well- but now go around the flatiron area, you see all these people in
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by kevstev 9y ago
Oh no I didn't mean to imply that in a negative way at all. Its like NY, but way cheaper. My friend bought a nice 2BR condo in a building with a doorman and a pool and balcony on the 30th something floor for 300k. A different friend of
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by kevstev 9y ago
I mostly agree, though the whole Cambridge bit was a bit overdone IMHO. NYC seems to be slowly changing though, finance and money seem to be losing prestige a bit in favor of tech. Ten years ago there was "a" NY Tech Meetup. Now t

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