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by mabbo 5y ago
I was asking developers, not hiring managers and recruiters. The developers have no reason to bullshit me. And they didn't.
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by mabbo 5y ago
I think you and I have worked at very different companies. In large organizations, typically, promotions come from proving you are working at a given level. It's not a competition at all. Promotion also doesn't mean "becoming
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by mabbo 5y ago
Almost inevitably the interviewer saves a few minutes at the end for "do you have any questions about <company>?" And yes, yes I do.
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by mabbo 5y ago
I recently did a round of interviews with a few companies, and I came up with a list of fun questions for the interviewer, mostly based on my own gripes with my then-employer or things other companies were doing that I didn't like. I c
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by mabbo 5y ago
Sure, but who has capacity to take on any serious number of launches? And who can do it at a competitive price to make Kuiper anything but a financial disaster? The answer is: nobody. What made Starlink financially possible was SpaceX'
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by mabbo 5y ago
2000 satellites, each a few hundred kg? What's the typical daily production of cars in the USA? And how much materials do they use?
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by mabbo 5y ago
Launching on what, exactly? Right now they have 9 launches planned using Atlas 5. That's not going to get them a usable fleet of satellites. If they want to launch anything beyond that, Blue Origin must finish the BE-4: a rocket engine
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by mabbo 5y ago
We didn't hand them anything. SpaceX took the risk of being a first mover in a very difficult field and looks to have had their bet pay off. There's room for more satellites. Space is pretty big, and with some careful automated co
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by mabbo 5y ago
> “I’d bet a beer that you can square the circle, provably, with less than 20 pieces,” he said. “But I wouldn’t bet $1,000.” This is the kind of math that I love because when the results get better they get more appealing to the less-m
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by mabbo 5y ago
> Aren’t you doing exactly what everyone else wants to do? Mansion in the Sticks for me, but City Shacks for thee? I'm hoping to be one of these people one day, but I'm also hoping to be taxed appropriately for it. Make people
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by mabbo 5y ago
Before watching this: "Why can't cryptographers just figure out some tricks to crack these hash algorithms?" After watching this: "How can any cryptographer EVER figured out any trick to crack these hash algorithms?!&quo
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by mabbo 5y ago
I was trying desperately to remember where I had seen this aesthetic before and you nailed it.
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by mabbo 5y ago
IRSF is a fascinating topic. As it was explained to me (anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), a shady/criminal organization takes control of a piece of the phone network. They pick a range a phone numbers for a country tha
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by mabbo 5y ago
To give a good example of why something like this matters... I spent a bit more than a year as the most senior dev on the team that owned the sign up page for a cloud computing company. We faced bot attacks constantly. They had a variety of
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by mabbo 5y ago
The system presumes that leaders are lying or too weak. That in an org of 200 people, there must be some bad ones, and by culling them the average skill level goes up. Nevermind the concept of growing your people. We'll just hope they
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by mabbo 5y ago
This is precisely what saved my father's life last year. 16 years ago he had some kind of brain cyst. Totally benign. But as a follow up, the doctor ordered yearly MRIs, much to his annoyance. Last year those yearly routine MRIs spotte
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by mabbo 5y ago
I spent almost a decade at Amazon. Their system for removing low performers has two key flaws. First, the mandatory minimums. If an org is full of superstars, the org still has to ensure it has at least X% turnover per year, so a superstar
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by mabbo 5y ago
What annoys me about this isn't that it's Bezos building a ridiculous yacht. Eat the rich and all that aside, let's talk about the arrogance of Oceanco. They knew the height of the bridge. They knew the planned height of the
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by mabbo 5y ago
A simpler approach: just be nice to recruiters. Even the cold-calling, working-for-an-agency, just-wants-10%-of-your-salary recruiters. Most of them are simply nice people who are trying to make a living in a difficult and incredibly compet
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by mabbo 5y ago
I feel there are design patterns that smart appliances could use that would make them usable, sane, understandable, perhaps even beloved by their owners. I don't think any major appliance manufacturer has done any serious amount of wor
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by mabbo 5y ago
I would be downright excited to go out and by a Tesla if I was allowed to pay a bit extra and have physical buttons to control things. I get that Tesla wants to save money, both in assembly costs and "lower cost = more potential buyers
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by mabbo 5y ago
The point of learning C as a python developer isn't to learn C nearly as much as it is to better understand what's going on in the levels of abstraction below. Many years ago, as a student, a friend let me borrow their copy of &qu
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by mabbo 5y ago
> The object was discovered by Curtin University Honours student Tyrone O’Doherty using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in outback Western Australia and a new technique he developed. > “It’s exciting that the source I id
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by mabbo 5y ago
There are two numbers that matter: days until the product is ready, profitable; days until the money runs out. Startups make decisions to improve the relationship between those two numbers. Using Cloud services that are obviously more expen
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by mabbo 5y ago
Mirror alignment was done in the days leading up to insertion, wasn't it? Afaik, all that's left is testing and cooling- the cold side is still around 63K and needs to get down to 50K (-223C).
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by mabbo 5y ago
It's the same story every day, the same pattern. And it's the same because it works. Startup: use <aws|azure|gcp> because it's quick to get started. It's easy to scale it up 100X in 5 minutes for when you make it b
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by mabbo 5y ago
The part of this post that I find most wonderful/strange: > EDIT: I think that Edward Kmett and Paul Crowley might have figured out how to solve this problem in the comments on my Facebook post; see here. I’ll investigate further an
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by mabbo 5y ago
This is HN. You'll get more downvotes for complaining about downvotes than you will for saying something people disagree with.
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by mabbo 5y ago
It's not causing as many hospitalizations per infection . But it's causing far more overall hospitalizations because the increase in infections vastly outweighs the decrease in seriousness. The problem is and always has been &quo
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by mabbo 5y ago
Thanks, and best to you too. People keep saying "Isn't it exciting?". I say "Yeah, like when you're being slowly pulled up to the top of the roller coaster hill. Exciting. Very exciting."

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