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by matthewowen 3y ago
True in the US, not true in the UK or EU.
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by matthewowen 3y ago
But Figma isn’t a vampiric company dumping free services for the purpose of a fast exit. It’s been around for over a decade and charges _more_ for its principal product than Adobe charges for comparable products. So by your own definition,
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by matthewowen 3y ago
Most people who are able to use a calculator could do their taxes using https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form... I think that TurboTax is a winner in the “TurboTax lobbies to make the tax code so
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by matthewowen 3y ago
i mean, yes, police do in principle try to roll up dealers to higher level distributors.
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by matthewowen 3y ago
Yeah, the reason I didn't include airports in my list is because I agree that the case that these should be government run is much weaker.
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by matthewowen 3y ago
I work at Figma. Mostly not in that part of the codebase, but close enough to say that it would be worse if we did what you are describing.
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by matthewowen 3y ago
Keep the parking, but make the entire street bus only. Good luck getting to that parking spot!
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by matthewowen 3y ago
Your argument here is essentially "if the government wants to lease out the operation of a public good to the private sector then it has to be a long lease because otherwise who will put up the capital to take that on". And it&#x2
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by matthewowen 3y ago
Figma is built using WASM, sees significant benefit from it, and is pretty popular. But absolutely there are a lot of of less demanding web applications out there that don’t need this. And in the case of Figma, it’s the core of the applicat
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by matthewowen 3y ago
It’s hard for me to see what the future is for this “commercially supported open source” business model, particularly for infrastructure components like this. I start with the assumption that most companies want to use managed services for
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by matthewowen 3y ago
It’s tempting to think that if you just look and think hard enough you can find perfect analogs between the past and the present. But when you do that, you don’t engage with the past on it’s own terms and your understanding of it is fundame
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by matthewowen 3y ago
I have to assume they’re gonna fork GIMP, make the UI look more like photoshop, and call it a day.
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by matthewowen 3y ago
You should look at Matthew Sweet's responses to that book, it's not pretty: https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/147912591249084826... It's also worth noting that Johann Hari has an extensive h
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by matthewowen 3y ago
As an employee, I love WFG/remote work, it's vastly increased my options (I've been working 100% remotely for ~5 years). And so as a company, there's huge upside because you can hire a bigger range of people. But in pers
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by matthewowen 3y ago
My degree is in Classics and this was something I found frustrating. It's clear that Imperial Rome under Augustus was a more egalitarian and meritocratic society than the oligarchical one which preceded it. But I honestly came away fro
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by matthewowen 3y ago
My wife is nearing the end of her postdoc (cell biology). I’ve known her since she was 18 years old. She never wanted to be an MD. Neither did the colleagues of hers I talked to.
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by matthewowen 3y ago
Are you sure you read the article closely enough? These are early career researchers: grad students and postdocs. These are generally roles someone holds for no more than 6 years, often less. They _are_ all new employees.
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by matthewowen 3y ago
This is poorly informed. There are many viable alternatives for these researchers. For starters, all the other academic institutions! Which have their own problems, but have been increasing salaries for graduate students and post docs in re
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by matthewowen 3y ago
I'm surprised by this perspective, I think in particular because it is hard to pick and choose availability. First, like many people, I work in a company that spans multiple time zones. At least 16 hours of the day are in someone on th
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by matthewowen 4y ago
Software engineer 2 is a reference to level, not when they were hired (doordash was big by then)
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by matthewowen 4y ago
You don't need to join an early-stage startup – as a mid-to-senior engineer, even if you only join places that are series-B or later you can still get equity packages that ultimately end up netting to >1MM/year with the kind of
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by matthewowen 4y ago
If you take a look at some of the examples in https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/equity-for-software-engin... you see that you really don't have to be at a "first 50 at google" level of success to see 8 digit
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by matthewowen 4y ago
I don’t really buy this, but that’s largely based on own fairly positive experience of stock compensation at private companies. I will say that I think these conversations tend to be a little distorted because people who have had positive e
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by matthewowen 4y ago
Personally, my primary reason to read longer articles in the New Yorker is not because I get utility out of the facts that they contain. Sure I get some, but a lot of it is the same appeal as I get in reading fiction - it is simply fun to r
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by matthewowen 4y ago
https://twitter.com/_mattowen/status/1409505309589217280 They also publish stuff like that. It doesn’t seem to be a very well proofed page. And generally seems to confirm that the whole thing is pretty automated s
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by matthewowen 4y ago
Yes, which is why you can’t buy ebooks in either the Amazon app or the Kindle app. It’s not great.
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by matthewowen 4y ago
And yet all those short good shooters jump. I know that sounds facetious, but like, there’s a reason no one jumps on a free throw. It’s easier if you don’t. But you have to jump to get your shot over a defender. If you are sufficiently tall
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by matthewowen 4y ago
I mean, for what it’s worth, I’m not being serious :).
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by matthewowen 4y ago
The 38th biggest high school in the US is Cypress Bay, with 3980 students (presumably over four years). 1000 kids / class year is quite unusual! https://highschoolguide.org/624/top-100-largest-high-schools...
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by matthewowen 4y ago
Gotta put your kids through the damage of school social dynamics so that as adults they'll be equipped to interact with other people who were also damaged by it.

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