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by mguerville 4y ago
Interested as well, there's a bit of a derth of good sources for these but wellfound (formerly angellist jobs) and builtin are my go-tos
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by mguerville 4y ago
Interesting timing, wouldn't think it's optimal given macro conditions, but perhaps they don't want to wait however long it'll take to get back to the frothy markets
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by mguerville 4y ago
And not doing so could affect their IR (investor relations) negatively, which is a higher concern than PR to most companies
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by mguerville 4y ago
Isn't this also how old school games (I've seen it as late as the NES I think) did allow you to save progress, you'd get a short string as your "save" and could just enter it to restart the game in the same state la
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by mguerville 4y ago
The influencers you see are the 1% who made it, and given luck plays a role it's indeed possible they made it "easily" and therefore candidly but erroneously preach that story. I've failed a half dozen times too, but onl
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by mguerville 4y ago
In fairness the MAGA hat is generally understood to stand for hateful positions (screw your feelings, screw immigrants, remove rights to minorities and women), which is a bit antagonistic. I assume a different republican piece of apparel (l
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by mguerville 4y ago
CS50x made computer science click for me after dabbling on and off for years with various bootcamp-like programs on topics like data science, python, APIs, etc.
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by mguerville 4y ago
I’m a few months pre 40 and currently going through CS50x, it does feel like finally things are clicking after years of dabbling into various attempts like the author, and more recently having done a ton with no code and low code tools.
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by mguerville 4y ago
And they are usually the second most expensive « thing » one owns (first for non homeowners)
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by mguerville 4y ago
The books by Emily Oster are great, they’re purely based on data and she’s a PhD in Econ at Brown so she knows to not misinterpret. She’s also a mother and blends in just enough personal experience into these books to make pleasant to read
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by mguerville 4y ago
I don't think it'll bring down "the whole system" like the poster is saying but certainly it will alienate some users from the software of the abusers. Unfortunately if it drives engagement of 2 people at the expense of
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by mguerville 4y ago
You have $100m in operating income, but you shutter a business unit and take a writeoff for $100m, you now have $0 profit and therefore 0 tax liability (you saved ~$37m assuming that’s the effective tax rate). If you sold the business for
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by mguerville 4y ago
My former CEO invested significantly in training (I personally received well over $250k worth, including leadership lessons from 2 weeks reliving D Day with military men, rowing with National champion coaches at Yale, etc.) and used to say
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by mguerville 4y ago
I was employee #1 at a startup, the founder was actually a friend (not a close friend but a friend nonetheless) and was pretty transparent. That said over time I uncovered a few half-truths and one thing that was somewhat hidden from me. I
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by mguerville 4y ago
As others have pointed out it's mostly noticeable on mobile, I only consider looking something up on mobile if I know I can append my search with a domain that I trust to be ad-free or ad-light. Recipe... too risky to go on a random si
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by mguerville 4y ago
I tried various solutions before but I think some sync'ing is broken (including how google contacts does it), and now with the fragmentation of messengers (signal, telegram, whatsapp, linkedin) I just figured as long as I know the name
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by mguerville 4y ago
Corpspeak is the worse for strategy and product because there's a lot of meaning in the precise wording of something but inveitably every slide gets wordsmithed to death and ends up a vague buzzword bingo sheet. Simple (if not particul
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by mguerville 4y ago
I most settings there are people upstream and downstream of us, if you let something "slide" it's worth consider the knock-on effects on others, or at least give them a heads up
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by mguerville 4y ago
With one single child I barely notice, but thinking about it it does probably take 2-3 minutes so your 5-10 minutes estimates is probably spot on for multiple kids. Living in a midwestern city and relying on street parking I do dread the lo
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by mguerville 4y ago
Glare, very high or very low temperatures, and humidity have all been known to mess with displays of various types (and touch itself as a way to interact with the screen), so while i understand that car dashboards have likely been spec&#x27
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by mguerville 4y ago
Great article by a company that's honestly been great to work with, I think it's interesting that they write such an entry level piece when their solution is enterprise grade but it shows their dedication to educating not just the
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by mguerville 4y ago
As someone who lives in Excel, has done quite a bit of BI as well, and is learning programming I love that Excel gives you the ability to build complex algorithms but also to sometimes bypass it and just hardcode some stuff that would requi
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by mguerville 4y ago
It’s Inc.com as serious a business publication as People is an investigative poltical news outlet.
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by mguerville 4y ago
Baserow user here, it's been impressive to see the roadmap come to life. I wish I could use it for work but our IT policies are from the stone age so I can't self host, and I don't want to risk putting sensitive information i
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by mguerville 4y ago
I'd love to know the difference between seasoning on cast iron vs carbon steel, it seems harder to do carbon steel well, but I do think it gets to be more "non stick" than cast iron ever does.
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by mguerville 4y ago
Cool, good luck with the project!
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by mguerville 4y ago
Harvard CS50, I was coding a bit as a kid in the late 90's in BASIC, and have been in tech most of the past decade, but never went beyond HTML, CSS and grabbing a basic script off Stack Overflow since then, so now I'm trying to le
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by mguerville 4y ago
It's also that there's no first mover advantage, unless other nations act in unison there could be a penalty (in GDP growth) for being the first to act. Note that it's not true of every recommended action, but of enough of th
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by mguerville 4y ago
I'm a relatively serious at home cook and here's my feedback: usually it helps to read a recipe from top to bottom and get a rough idea for all the steps, rather than reading linearly sequentially, so I didn't love having to
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by mguerville 4y ago
Online: Google alerts saved as RSS feeds that I subscribe to in my reader (Inoreader), and then niche twitter accounts or subreddits that can exist and contain good intel and opinions. In person: network with people in the industry and hav

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