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by madrox 5y ago
I did something similar 10 years ago during my move to SF. I needed to find an apartment within two weeks, so I built a crawler to do complex filtering and notify me immediately. In my case, the tool was ultimately useless because I discove
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by madrox 5y ago
This story is a really great argument for "trust your gut." You don't always need an eloquent articulation of why something is off for it to be real. Also, no experience gets better than the initial meet. If something feels o
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by madrox 5y ago
A really great question. In my experience, there is no single set of interview questions that get at that trait. However, you gain some sense of their capacity for kindness in how they answer interpersonal questions, conflict resolution, an
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by madrox 5y ago
What you're describing is basically NextDoor, and in my experience the challenges involved in operating such a thing are beyond simply operating a mastodon instance. Imagine Twitter, except for local politics and less community moderat
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by madrox 5y ago
I wonder how much of this relates to public perception of hacking and internet security as well. Many methods and procedures are written about with a romantic air.
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by madrox 5y ago
In the beginning of my career, I worked at a company that offered categorized internet filtering for workplaces. At its most reductive, it kept people from browsing porn at work. However, the behavior of the filtering engine was wholly cust
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by madrox 5y ago
Applying this to engineering orgs, one of my hiring principles has been “hire kind people.” My thought was that you can teach people lots of things, but you can’t teach people to be kind. I’m probably wrong on that, but it’s seemed true in
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by madrox 5y ago
This was true of my life in SF as well post college. I suspect it’s universal of life for young single people in cities. Looking back, if I had to diagnose it, I’d say it had to do with a compulsion to stay busy coupled with overcommitting
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by madrox 5y ago
Outer Wilds is probably in my top 5 games of all time, but I feel like it’s a category of its own. It has more in common with Myst or Lucasarts adventure games than Skyrim and other open world games. Or maybe it’s a distinction without a di
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by madrox 5y ago
“That which can run Doom should run Doom” - Litany of Carmack
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand how providing a means to run your own server solves all these issues. Foremost in my mind is how you ensure competitive integrity when you can no longer trust all the servers. However, that's a bit beside
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by madrox 5y ago
Arguably Rocket League does need to be a viable live service game. Without a sufficient player base, there's not enough for consistent match making...or you get matched to players far outside your skill level. Neither experience is g
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by madrox 5y ago
I read this when it was originally written. I have since founded and failed at a startup. Throughout that experience, I thought about this article. I don't even think "have a business plan" is the takeaway, because no plan su
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by madrox 5y ago
I think a lot of people naively think of moves like this as pure money grabs and don’t appreciate that a lot of these moves are out of survival…especially for games like Rocket League that require a sufficient player base to even be a viabl
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by madrox 5y ago
I realize there are toxic side effects to "our team is like family," but it's been important to me to find ways to express any sentiment that recognizes the shared humanity of people coming together to work on common goals. I
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm not quite sure where you get those ideas. I've only ever said that Amazon absolutely has a comp structure designed to kick people out within four years, and that I thought their stated pip failure rate of ~30% was low based on
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by madrox 5y ago
This is going to be my last word on the topic, because as you say my original comment is being painted into going to bat for MS, which hasn't been my intention. I've read the Verge article, the whistleblower's original words,
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by madrox 5y ago
I get that's the insinuation, but there's a leap the reader is expected to make between "this middleman made a lot of money" and "bribes were clearly happening" without further investigation. If a car salesman
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by madrox 5y ago
If that is happening, then you're absolutely correct. However, there's no evidence that's happening...either in the Verge article or in the whistleblower's own words. All the whistleblower has presented is Microsoft&#x27
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by madrox 5y ago
You'll need to draw that line a little clearer, because it's not starkly clear to me. I'm aware of the definition of bribery. I don't think anything mentioned here describes graft as much as it describes the reseller bus
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by madrox 5y ago
I was prepared to get my pitchfork out, but after reading I'm struggling to connect the dots. This article is scant on details of what illegal or favorable behavior Microsoft is expecting in exchange for money. The only concrete mentio
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by madrox 5y ago
This maps to my experience as well. Think many senior engineers forget what it's like to learn programming. It is, in fact, incredibly hard.
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm the proud owner of a six digit ICQ number. What a time that was. It's funny. Having a similar trajectory of chat clients, I'd say my migration in my teens was dictated by "which service were the girls I wanted to tal
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by madrox 5y ago
It's not that far off today from how junior engineers treat stack overflow. There's just fewer intermediate steps.
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by madrox 5y ago
If we're arguing semantics there probably isn't much point in continuing. You can certainly tell that story, but I'm not sure a person's wake is the place to do it...if for no better reason than out of kindness for the g
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by madrox 5y ago
Like it or not, the story has already been told once the person has died. All that's left is how you feel about that story. History will be judging us all for a long time and there's no rush. Dunk all you like on someone when they
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm not sure those ambivalent about the deceased will suddenly not be. I'm also not sure what you mean by choices. Who to vote for? If this were a startup I'd say you're making way too many assumptions about your audienc
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by madrox 5y ago
In my experience, if you didn't like the deceased in life, you'll probably want to criticize them at their death, and vice versa. If you ask me, there's no point to tearing someone down in their obituary. The deceased certain
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by madrox 5y ago
First, obligatory link to the sunscreen speech: https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/chi-schmich-sunscreen... Second, I'll throw some things out there, though, apart from what's already been said (like heal
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by madrox 5y ago
I refreshed once and saw it. By the odds, you should see it by now, so something else may be at play like a cache engine somewhere.

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