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by mason55 4y ago
If these questions interest you, I’d recommend the book “The End of Everything” by Katie Mack. Ostensibly it’s about the end of the universe but to explain the various possibilities she has to first explain the kind of things you’re talkin
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> China is also destroying the movie industry as well. China may be changing the "Summer Blockbuster" segment of the industry but it's quite the stretch to say they are destroying the whole thing. Plenty of great movies
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AFAIK, stand “on” line is pretty much an NYC thing
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American hegemony.
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> the sort of person who is comfortable with choosing an investor's bank account over an employee's family is also the sort of person who is likely to be chosen to be CEO. A hard part about being a leader is doing what's
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> Therefore, as the company sees it, they deserve the bulk of the rewards since they are (magnanimously) giving the opportunity to the 10x engineer. I think it's really two things. 1. The company provides the structure in which t
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> That might be true but unless you're the owner of the company or have a significant stake I don't see why you wouldn't do the same as an individual contributor? And here you hit on one of the core tenets of a good mana
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Everyone is talking about how to get the style guide integrated into your CI. But it sounds to me like your concern is that other reviewers frequently point out your style guide violations. You could set up some local lint rules just for y
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Another vote for doing it like this. I chose to learn Haskell by working through this book and they were a perfect match. One thing that really helped was trying to build things using a few different language constructs and seeing which o
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> infering why To me, this is where the most valuable comments are. The more that your code is a representation of business logic, the more you have weird "whys" to fill in. Any kind of plan that involves everyone on the tea
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The update lag has nothing to do with technical abilities. It's about things like marketing and contractual SLAs. If acknowledging downtime causes you to violate an SLA and pay a bunch of penalties then you don't want some automa
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> Asking to change teams is being complacent and making it someone else's problem. Sort of, but the person whose problem it becomes is the person who can and should deal with it. A manager’s manager should notice if the manager’s
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Sounds like Queens NY
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> Good operations can substitute for station size, and it’s always cheaper to get the system to be more reliable than to build more tracks in city center. The main problem here is one of politics and human attention span. It’s easier t
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Depends on the type of data you're processing, your business goals and the existing consumers that you need to support. At a minimum I'd suggest planning to load the data from the data lake into an RDBMS (OLAP/columnar prefer
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Wow. PDI is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever used. Possibly only second to Pentaho Report Designer. From looking at the Apache HOP docs, it doesn't look like they have changed the UI much (if at all). I wonder if t
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That's an answer but not a reason. Surely it didn't take Apple 12 years to figure out how to make an iPad-native weather app. Either they explicitly didn't want to make one for some reason or they just didn't care. If
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One person’s “centrally planned economy” is another person’s “managing negative externalities” A lot of the “electric is better” posts have an implied “gas stoves are bad for people and the environment so we should get rid of them but it’s
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Are you thinking of electric coil? Induction heats up super fast (way faster than gas or electric coil) because the stove itself doesn’t get warm - it transfers energy directly into the pan.
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> It may seem frivolous, but it is a key to successful projects, whether as a consulting org or internal enterprise development. Sorry, but neither of those things usually require a product manager because neither of them involve build
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> engineering has to get involved in some level of detail to understand what has to be built anyway Of course, that's a big part of the role for a senior engineer. But if you're building a real product, and not just a collect
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That's how companies used to work. You get some people & capital together to accomplish something and once you've accomplished it you shut down and distribute the company assets.
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Exact same story here. Previously we had a few remote employees because the option was to let them go remote or lose them. ~3 months into the pandemic, when it became impossible to hire engineers, we said "fuck it" and accepted
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A good hint will be what the company did during the pandemic. Did they tell people they were free to move outside of the area? Did they open hiring up to everyone (as opposed to hiring locally even during WFH)? How flexible were they on
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It's the difference between being a feature factory and having a real product strategy. If you actually have some kind of customer in mind, and you have ideas of problems that you're solving for them, then this can be valuable fee
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This is one of the main things a good leader should be doing. Not just execs, but up and down the chain, one of the most valuable things a leader can do is get everyone pointed in the right direction. Make decisions about priorities, comm
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So then offer improved job conditions. Shorter hours, better safety, extra pay for shitty weather days, etc. The problem is that it takes awhile to train for the job so the labor market won’t be able to react very quickly. By the time we’
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> I mean, if you can actually execute with 70% less, why did they hire in the first place? Hiring and onboarding takes awhile. VC-funded companies are intended to grow quickly. Those two things put together means you need to hire for
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Home Assistant as your main controller. Then just make sure it get devices that work over local standards like Zigbee or Zwave and not proprietary protocols.
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It's true but you might not need that many. Our house was built in 2000 and every room is wired with coax but no ethernet. With some strategic placement I was able to get a hardwired switch in my office + two hardwired wifi APs with

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