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by kevstev 2y ago
This is a scapegoat- I see this thrown around in dev forums on reddit all the time. I asked my CFO if this had any impact (small fintech startup of <200 employees globally), and he said it has no impact on our planning or any real materi
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by kevstev 2y ago
I spent about 12 years doing C++ at the very peak of its OOP hype and did the same... then finally left, certain that I would hate doing "real" work in any other language, and a funny thing happened... I realized I was suffering f
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by kevstev 2y ago
Yeah- maybe my intent wasn't clear- I would love to use something like Mint/Plaid where all the credentials stay local on my box rather than on some companies box who now essentially have the keys to my financial kingdom. Mint but
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by kevstev 2y ago
Agreed- but an app on my own desktop I would be happy to give to, at least instead of a website where they are stored in a database on someone else's box.
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by kevstev 2y ago
This reminds me of how shocked I was when memes using image macros started becoming a thing around 2008 or so. I still remembered the bad old days of dial up and waiting tens of seconds for images to load and thought it was so horridly inef
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by kevstev 2y ago
Yeah- I am personally struggling to understand how a website could be successful in 1997 run out of an apartment, but now that the PC and tech industry is many times bigger these sites can't make a go of it. And the headwinds Anand and
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by kevstev 2y ago
FWIW... I was pretty taken aback by this statement as well- and also the "brag" that they moved onto K8s in less than a year. At a very well established firm ~30 years old and with the baggage that came with it, we moved to K8s in
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by kevstev 2y ago
Intelligence on what other firms are doing, even if you are just getting a very high level view. Around 2009, I was working at an algo trading startup, and long story short, after having a previous company call me up after their non-compete
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by kevstev 2y ago
In this case I think the times have changed but old advice has stuck. From my understanding, cars until the 80s or so did need their oil changed this often, but newer cars with EFI and especially if you use synthetic, its no longer necessar
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by kevstev 2y ago
I have never rooted for a flap so hard, and likely never will. I am ready to buy flap merch. The energy of the SpaceX employees gave me goosebumps, this was great, it was hard not to get caught up in it- you know this is the culmination of
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by kevstev 2y ago
I agree here. Bought some well over a decade ago because of their dominance in gpus. Bought some more around 2017 after my company wanted to get access to some gpus on AWS and we couldnt because AWS couldn't get their hands on enough-
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by kevstev 2y ago
| Neither my dad nor I knew how writable media like that worked at the time, and I think we both assumed that, assuming they didn't get scratched, they would last forever. Obviously we were wrong. I am surprised at this, as the CD age
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by kevstev 2y ago
I do too and it feels to some extent that its about sending a message. I worked at Citadel, and they had these posters about Integrity, Winning and being a meritocracy and all that but their ever more constraining non-competes completely fl
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by kevstev 2y ago
I was subject to one as well, but it was just on my base, not total comp, which was not the majority of my compensation. And while my base was fine, it was more or less explicitly stated that this was meant to make it painful for employees
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by kevstev 2y ago
oh bud I worked in e-commerce for Walmart Labs and we did the cheer at every large meeting (think townhall, not every stand up). Give me a squiggly!
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by kevstev 3y ago
Ha thanks for jogging my memory. I knew pidgin wasn't the first or even the primary one I used but I couldn't recall what else I had used.
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by kevstev 3y ago
This idea has existed and been implemented for a very long time- Pidgin was the first client I can remember that would try to bridge across various chat networks. You likely are on 14 different chat "networks" already- you might n
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by kevstev 3y ago
Complete anecdote here, but I live on a park that is about two acres big. Its filled with large old (~100 years) trees and lawns, though it does also cram in a basketball court and two tennis courts. In the summer heat, when we walk around
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by kevstev 3y ago
Last year I had to replace my HVAC. I was set on getting a heat pump, being a huge fan of efficiency. I was averaging a $1.05/therm delivered for gas, and about 17.5 cents/kwh for electricity delivered. A therm is about 29 kwh, so
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by kevstev 3y ago
A few factors come into play: Ten or so years ago, when Google was still mostly a darling, I never thought they would ever try to pull anything like that. Yet here we are, and my dropcam is just going to brick itself in April. No update for
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by kevstev 3y ago
True. Ten or more like 15 years ago I would have been excited about this title from Google. Now I am just like "oh great what am I losing now?!" Its a shame, its been a LONG time since Google surprised and delighted me like they d
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by kevstev 3y ago
Not really sure what you mean by it taking years for the Iphone to catch on... It was highly coveted from its release in 2007. The 3G was a massive step forward, but by 2009 and the 3GS release, it was completely mainstream- at least to tho
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by kevstev 3y ago
My wife worked there for a bit in the mid 2000s and I did and still do read just about anything I can get my hands on, but I found it really hard to get through an issue of pop sci. It was mostly optimistic fluff with the lightest of techni
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by kevstev 3y ago
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/teals I have volunteered with them for ten years now. I teach in the mornings with minimal interference with my job.
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by kevstev 3y ago
Not sure what you mean? The basics of programming- variables, loops, logic, decomposition of problems into smaller ones, data structures, etc... has not changed in the 20 years I have been doing this. High school level should be providing a
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by kevstev 3y ago
If you are interested in helping solve this kind of problem I highly recommend you take a look at https://tealsk12.org It's sponsored by Microsoft and I have been doing this for 10 years now. Teaching in schools was often
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by kevstev 3y ago
I hear you- but buying a coffee or magazine I wanted anyway isn't such a big price to pay to help ensure I'm not in an annoying situation where my card is declined somewhere and I have to call internationally to get it sorted.
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by kevstev 3y ago
One thing I try to do to avoid this is to always make a purchase at the airport before I go overseas. This seems to calm down the algos a bit. I used to go through this a bunch too.
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by kevstev 3y ago
Heh, when I got a Nexus 4, it was my first glass backed phone. It arrived two days before the case did. I was meeting my wife for dinner and got there a bit early, and had the phone on the restaurant table. When my wife came and sat down th
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by kevstev 3y ago
Is that confirmed? Do you have any further sources on that? I am not questioning, just interested in learning more. I had kinda assumed that the new chips had new instructions that supported these features. Kinda lame if they are literally

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