mepiethree

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by mepiethree 3y ago
> generally regarded Source? The current Chinese dictator does many unethical things, but ascribing the actions of a ruler to an entire race of people is fallacious. Akin to saying that Trump’s philandery applies to all Americans globall
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by mepiethree 3y ago
I think he means "if I start going off" in the slang sense like "if I start angrily venting in a tell-all about all the ways they are stupid and wrong". But who knows really.
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by mepiethree 3y ago
I agree with your general point but will note that Google has been working on smarter traffic lights (albeit with much less funding than Waymo) https://sites.research.google/greenlight/
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by mepiethree 4y ago
There are any number of counter examples to most of these metrics, but I think the extreme counter examples are often in bad faith. You can’t convince me that a JavaScript engineer who consistently authors 1 commit a month is productive. At
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by mepiethree 4y ago
If you have to do it for 8 hours a day anyway, might as well enjoy it
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by mepiethree 4y ago
> Who are these businesses? Gas stations, parking meters, and ticket dispensers at most train/bus stations. They should replace them but I figure the problem is that they are built in to giant kiosks
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by mepiethree 4y ago
They extended the option exercise period to 5 years
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Late November is a crazy timeline. I have my personal website, wedding website, and tons of other projects on Heroku free stuff. So now it’s $7-$16/mo per app… thousands of dollars per year. Which is a reasonable price, I guess. It was
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by mepiethree 4y ago
For small startups: check out Elemental Excelerator (I work for a great company funded through that) For large startups: climate unicorns https://climatetechvc.substack.com/p/-climate-unicorns-take-... Big tech: Google
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by mepiethree 4y ago
If all we are doing is guessing, I would also guess that people being stuck at home with nothing to do but mess around with Robinhood played a big factor
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Totally, as I said in my comment, I would have done that in retrospect. The trouble was that we didn’t see that as a risk, since everyone was telling us that there wouldn’t be any issues
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by mepiethree 4y ago
I really like this, the Dropbox career framework, and the Monzo career framework. I synthesized all three recently into one that I keep for our company, and the work pays such dividends. We do quarterly performance reviews and not only does
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by mepiethree 4y ago
I’m sorry that things are the way they are :( One time I tried telling someone that I wanted to interview them but also point out that they had a typo in their resume and they responded something like “I’m a bad ass mother fucker with exper
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by mepiethree 4y ago
We lost several weeks for about 10 new devs at my company who started in May/June because Apple only sells M1 now, so that’s what the new devs got, but all the old devs have x86. Poetry+geospatial libs+other stuff didn’t work at all an
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Form Energy is a unicorn company that exists specifically to solve this problem with their multi-day iron air battery. I’m sure there are other companies working on this as well..
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Do you work in clean energy tech by any chance? Software people who know these things are like unicorns
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Yes? Many stocks are down >50% and companies are announcing hiring freezes
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Maybe we just work at completely different kinds of places, but I’ve worked with a ton of people who don’t know what patterns are and very few who over-apply them
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Meh. 16 people from work came to my wedding (including my best man). You can be social at work without it ruining your life
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by mepiethree 4y ago
11 days ago they said "While we confirmed that the threat actor had access to encrypted Heroku customer secrets stored in config var, the secrets are encrypted at rest and the threat actor did not access the encryption key necessary to
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by mepiethree 4y ago
The article is titled The “Other Kind” of Staff SWE. Presumably the “first kind” is the definition to which you are referring
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Woah… this would be an amazing thing to open source
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Do you know people who work or have worked for him? I work in the clean tech industry and know several people who work(ed) for solar city or Tesla. Musk is, I hear, a great recruiter, but then overworks his talent and eventually they burn o
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by mepiethree 4y ago
A home, yeah, not a home in downtown metros. My uncle is a teacher and owns two houses in rural Ohio with his wife, kid, and two dogs. Living the American dream.
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by mepiethree 4y ago
Ughh here I was at 1:30AM after a hard week, checking the news one last time before going to bed, and see this. I hate this dang industry and regret ever becoming a tech lead. I know the Heroku engineers have it worse and all, but just vent
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by mepiethree 5y ago
For electric power it’s an especially tricky physics problem; you can’t overproduce power, or things will just blow up. Grid operators must perfectly balance supply and demand at every moment of every day and electricity moves at the speed
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by mepiethree 5y ago
Sounds to me like you just have a bad manager.
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by mepiethree 5y ago
In my experience the idea that you will catch all bugs by just reading the code is just wishful thinking - I saw plenty of bugs merged into the development branch on codebase I worked on at Google despite somewhat strict PR review process.
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by mepiethree 5y ago
> unintentionally building a universe where it was the "internal team" who developed it 0% chance it was unintentional given that he said “no ad agency would have done this ad” Her tweet gets her firm attention from people who
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by mepiethree 5y ago
I’ve worked with plenty of people with “bad experience”. People who don’t learn from their mistakes, and consistently repeat the same errors, even things as basic as not testing their code before creating PRs. I guess this model works if yo

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