mdcds

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by mdcds 4y ago
> I worked for company A, company A got merged with company B since they were both owned by the same mega corp. Company A and Company B were in the same industry but served different needs. I thought at first that you were talking about
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by mdcds 4y ago
oh, that's interesting. I'm not from Twilio, but Dr. Kendi has spoken at our company as well.
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by mdcds 4y ago
See what Dr. Kendi is advocating for and his "anti-racist" ideas. I think it will make sense to you why some people write things like "People have lost their damn minds. This is actual institutionalized racism."
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by mdcds 4y ago
OP here I think you are right, but only under assumptions that the market for talent is liquid (ei it's relatively easy to hire). Counter example: What if you are running an AI company that is trying to solve self-driving and top 3-4 r
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by mdcds 4y ago
OP here def interesting to learn about industries that I'm not in. thanks for sharing
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by mdcds 4y ago
OP here. I assumed that many people needed to quit for a company to implode. turns out I was wrong!
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Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?
336 points by mdcds 4y ago|486 comments
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by mdcds 4y ago
you can do patent law! at least in the US you need an undergrad in a technical discipline + law degree
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by mdcds 4y ago
> I’ve had little luck of going for roles that do not directly correlate with my current experience. It seems that recruiters have very little interest in talking about any roles other than ones that fit my current stack exactly (node&#x
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by mdcds 4y ago
can you share your logic? claims that housing being valuable leads to "bad incentives", bigger inequality, and overall poorer society aren't obviously true to me.
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by mdcds 4y ago
don't bluff if your hand is complete crap
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Ask HN: Do your services have readiness checks in addition to health checks?
1 points by mdcds 4y ago|0 comments
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by mdcds 4y ago
I'm not well-versed in political... philosophy!? but for the sake of the argument: perhaps SF didn't fully embrace libertarian ideals? "you can do what you want, but you must not impose on others" sounds fair. you can ta
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by mdcds 4y ago
I can share personal experiences. My MB letters tentatively are INTJ. I say tentatively because I took a couple of free online tests. Those might not be very accurate. Knowing those letters never aided me in anything. The only interesting t
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by mdcds 4y ago
Myers-Briggs and Big 5 aren't the same thing. Knowing my MB category was amusing but not useful. Knowing my Big 5 percentiles - very useful. Understanding where I land on disagreeableness and openness to ideas made my life a lot easier
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by mdcds 4y ago
mad lad I'm so glad geohot is back to streaming. I was afraid he had left for good because of trolls. George, if you reading this: 1) we cannot let trolls win; 2) I'm still waiting for the Cherry computer
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by mdcds 4y ago
not really. all detail is different: shape of body, shape of ears, position of eyes, shape of legs, proportions
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by mdcds 4y ago
+1. this as well. actually, just yesterday I learned about a website for exploring eviction data: https://evictionlab.org/
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by mdcds 4y ago
Elephant in the room: monetary component of inflation. US printed and gave away a load of money in the past 2 years. How much money people have on hand in aggregate and how much of it they ready to pay for rent matters! People on the supp
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by mdcds 4y ago
> you can fully expect your asshole friends to grab a dozen photos of you from Facebook and then make a hyperrealistic pornographic image of you with a gorilla my prediction is that, as a result, people will start assuming pics online ar
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by mdcds 4y ago
what kind of company are you at? BigTech, non-tech BigCo, mid-sized non-tech? I cannot see how a manager/director at a BigCo would be able approve something like this since everything is standardized (like base pay at each level)
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by mdcds 4y ago
off topic: how did you negotiate 4x10 work schedule?
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by mdcds 4y ago
similar recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32403275
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by mdcds 4y ago
Memes I care about only the biggest most influential events and try to filter as much noise as possible. Just think about what news you can remember and if they had effect on you from 4-5 months ago. My guess is about zero. Stories about vo
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by mdcds 4y ago
> but I still find myself reinstalling them to check something Sounds like you are more interested in your work than whatever you do on your vacations. That's fine. It happens. I mute company chat app when I go on PTO and tell team
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by mdcds 4y ago
I program in Scala and didn't know what IntelliJ debugger could do until someone taught me how to use it (including the nifty trick of setting break points inside 3rd party libs). Sometimes you don't know what you don't know.
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by mdcds 4y ago
Is there a way to create account / login without Google account?
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by mdcds 4y ago
But you haven't left and there is reason for that. A better opportunity might not turn up for you until we start getting out of the recession. Otherwise, if you are comfortable with quitting before securing the next thing for yourself,
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by mdcds 4y ago
In 2015-2016 SF Haskell meetup used to be hosted by an ed-tech company that used Haskell as the main language, so maybe viable.
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by mdcds 4y ago
where at? I'm something of an FPer myself

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