lostdog

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by lostdog 7y ago
It's simple! Get a big enough team and you'll have to stop! ... I found it useful to reframe my goals as a manager. Now my primary goal is to set up systems and people so that if I went away for a month, the team would keep functi
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by lostdog 7y ago
I looked for "HIPAA" and didn't find it anywhere. Nor the ability to request that data be deleted. I wish they would take privacy for this more seriously than Google's baseline level of privacy.
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by lostdog 7y ago
Very interesting breakdown. Do you think that Rust could instead help outsourcing? Similar to how Java's GC keeps teams away from segfaults, could Rust's safety guarantees give companies more confidence that an outsourced team&
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by lostdog 7y ago
How about "It just took me a while to find the next thing I wanted to do." Then your explanation make sense whether they think you took a break or find out that you left a job quickly.
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by lostdog 7y ago
- "Looking at me" detection, so your device can tell when you are looking at it. - pole vault trainer: detect and track the pole in pole vaulting competitions. Either pick out interesting measures (like the curvature of the pole,
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by lostdog 7y ago
Yes, this is the best I've seen too. Unfortunately, "quickly" is a matter of perspective. Usually you train a neural net that's as large as possible with a runtime that's within your latency and GPU budget. Runnin
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by lostdog 7y ago
> As far as I can tell, deep learning folks don't give two shits about uncertainty intervals, much less marginalization. Maybe folks making snapchat filters don't care, but this is absolutely vital if you're doing somethin
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by lostdog 7y ago
Props to the author--landing your first deep learning position is very difficult. There are many many engineers who want to do deep learning but don't know how, and a few employers that badly need deep learning experts. The employers
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by lostdog 7y ago
> I would not recommend trying to interview as a manager...without having first been a manager in another role. This is my experience too. Companies don't like hiring managers without at least a little experience, and often are resi
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by lostdog 7y ago
I heard a funny story about a set of grad students at Stanford. They all committed to pooling some percent of any startups they created. One version of this legend included Google as one of the companies.
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by lostdog 7y ago
If someone is dying, go ahead and page me! Otherwise, companies need to hire night shifts if they want someone covering while the devs are asleep. If you want full uptime, then hire for it! Your employees shouldn't give up their slee
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by lostdog 7y ago
This previous thread suggests that Jabra's are pretty terrible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095576 Do you know if the product line has improved since then?
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by lostdog 7y ago
It is pretty common. People are afraid to talk about it, so they generally won't bring it up.
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by lostdog 7y ago
A couple of funny tidbits from the paper: > Of the 677, we were unable to find 27 males and 15 females in our Internet searches (we could not confirm their identities in our contact-information database). Given our method and criteria (T
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by lostdog 7y ago
Some of these are lower status, and often lower paying, jobs. Others, such as special forces, DO have people pushing for women to be included. Those fighting for equality are focused on getting equality in great careers, and that's wh
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by lostdog 7y ago
"What was your reason for not using sshd?" That's my go-to phrase. It implies that I am looking to be educated, and not that I think they messed up.
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by lostdog 7y ago
You are giving the CEO credit for everything positive that the company does. Shouldn't some of the credit go to the workers? Not to mention, many companies are a net negative to society.
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by lostdog 7y ago
This is not very good advice. Being loud and blustery won't make anyone happy with you, and playing politics well is all about having powerful allies. The lead has probably been slandering you to the founders for the last several mont
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by lostdog 7y ago
Would you share what neck exercises worked for you?
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by lostdog 7y ago
Where you're located might make a big difference in what advice is applicable. I suspect that something about your resume is throwing people off. Definitely have someone technical review it. From your interviews, do you have some sens
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by lostdog 7y ago
Values are levers for a group of concepts. You can hook that lever up to teamwork or frugality or toe-stepping, and suddenly it's easier to inject these concepts into any discussion throughout the company. Of course, who gets to pull t
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by lostdog 7y ago
It also totally ignores that a dollar saved by skipping on short-term care can be a thousand dollars lots five years later. Not sure how it's possible to show much of anything in a 2 year study.
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by lostdog 7y ago
The worst thing about AirBnB is that they make no effort to fix the problem. When on a vacation, and we found our AirBnB had fewer beds than advertised, we complained, and then were told that the owner wanted us "out immediately."
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by lostdog 7y ago
I keep a hand written notebook, and I just write down high-level points or my own TODO items from meetings... ...but I have found that how I take notes is less important than whether I review my notes. When I set aside a half-hour at the e
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by lostdog 7y ago
Coming up with better terms for "tech debt" seems like a good exercise. Here are some: Improving the flexibility of our code base. Investing in future execution speed. Performing final cleanup tasks on the previous round of featu
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by lostdog 7y ago
Why should investors expect their full investment back when they did a bad job choosing who to invest in? I don't think it's reasonable to pretend that the current system exists because it's the fairest. Investors exert more
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by lostdog 7y ago
It is pretty quiet and very impressive. I wonder how many flyovers I would be ok with. 4 per hour sounds ok, but what if they route a highway above my house?
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by lostdog 7y ago
As an employee, giving a startup a discount on your compensation is pretty similar to a VC giving the startup cash.
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by lostdog 7y ago
A founder's situation is very different from an employee's situation. The founder will immediately purchase their stock for peanuts, where employees usually face all the hazards of the 90-day exercise window. The founder starts
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by lostdog 7y ago
Got it. Sounds like you did pretty well then! Congrats! It is still rare to be given such good terms on equity, and also rare to be knowledgeable enough to take advantage of the opportunity.

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