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by mikeryan 3y ago
That comes at about a 25% premium over salaried employees. For shorter term work and trying out a market it makes sense but if you want to build a long term presence salaried employees with excess cash for severance is more economical.
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by mikeryan 3y ago
Let me clarify the point. I don’t have an issue with the severance for staff I’ve had to let go for as layoffs due to economic conditions of the company. I’ve made those severance payments without issue. My issue is more with letting go of
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by mikeryan 3y ago
The contractor vs fill-time employee line is pretty hazy in most countries. Mexico has actually closed that loophole. IIRC after six months of contracting an employee is considered full time regardless of the mechanism of hiring.
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by mikeryan 3y ago
Mexico is going to need to change their labor laws if they want a big piece of this pie. I’ve had a nearshore team in Mexico for four years the people are great for all the reasons mentioned. The gap, however is costs. We’re used to “at-wil
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by mikeryan 3y ago
DHTML was basically just a buzzword for the first SPA interactions. The first, real uses cases for XMLHttpRequests was sending chunks of HTML over the wire and updating the DOM via JavaScript - so “Dynamic HTML”
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by mikeryan 3y ago
Shit. Your own source disproves that if you use the most recent data https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-dang... Take off the minimum population requirement of 100k residents and the most dangerous
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by mikeryan 3y ago
I know it’s not as easy as it looks to convert office space into residential but I wonder if there’s an opportunity for better schools. The UC system is at its limits for admissions and UCSF doesn’t have an undergraduate program. I wonder w
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by mikeryan 3y ago
Serious question. The issue of public block lists comes up quite a bit. I’m not sure why this is a problem? This could be me. I’ve always used social networks with an assumption that everything I did was public.
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by mikeryan 3y ago
Bluesky was started within Twitter as a federated social protocol in 2019. Spun out in 2021 as a standalone company and it was also being used in the Crypto group at Twitter until Elon came in. I'm sure just because of its age and prin
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by mikeryan 3y ago
Im ready for the after market EV control systems too…
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by mikeryan 3y ago
This looks worse out of context. The next sentence is pretty clear on what's going on. There are a number of consequences to this, and I don’t want to bury the lede: after today Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will b
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by mikeryan 3y ago
I’m all for farm to table but both NY and LA don’t need farms within city limits. All you’re saving by forcing that is a few hours of driving in a truck. If there’s an emissions concern then most farming regions are also good places for ren
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by mikeryan 3y ago
Respectfully if you don’t know what a vector is, you probably don’t need a vector DB. I wasn't looking for one ;-) I was looking for a recommendation engine, similarly most often I'm looking for various ways to use ML and AI to
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by mikeryan 3y ago
I honestly hope they use it to improve their documentation. I consider myself and pretty adept developer but without much background in AI and was looking for a solution for building out a recommendation engine and ended up at Pinecone. May
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by mikeryan 3y ago
I’ve not seen the most recent John Wick but I’m just going to point out that “gun-fu” is a long standing film trope and not a “new martial art” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_fu
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by mikeryan 3y ago
Quibi was interesting - the more I think about it (I work in this space) the more I think they actually might have had something. The reason they failed is mostly because they went too big too fast. They spent almost a billion dollars in co
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by mikeryan 3y ago
When Reed Hasting left and Ted Sarandos took over he had a bit of power shakeup and handed over the content reins to Bela Bajaria - who was brought in to head up international over Cindy Holland who was in charge of US content. Holland had
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by mikeryan 4y ago
I'm actually interested to see if this is accepted. Common words are fine for Trademarks but in this case "GPT" could be considered a "generic" form however in a very niche field. My understanding is that "Appl
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by mikeryan 4y ago
can't scale further before we have microservices. Scale what? Load (Seems not) Scale the team? This is often an overlooked aspect of microservices you're able to isolate the domain knowledge to smaller services and hire more s
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Building a system from the ground up to use saltwater is a whole different ballgame then trying to retrofit an existing legacy network though. It would probably be cheaper to just convert to another heat source all together.
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Is this a guess? I’d think there would be some sort of safety system for venting pressure. Or even condensation around the hot pipes (which seems to be why the same thing happens in New York which also has a steam network) All of the above
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by mikeryan 4y ago
That’s literally one of the main jobs of lawyers because there’s a shit ton of law that’s not clearly defined and based on obscure precedents or never been tried in a court. Heck half of the court system from Appellate to the Supreme court
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Yes?
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by mikeryan 4y ago
They went public in March 2019 so they basically only had a year as a public company before COVID hit and dropped revenues off a cliff. They were probably assuming that by now they’d be back to a pre-COVID level of ridership by now. The lan
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by mikeryan 4y ago
True, that being said though, he had only gotten the plane the day before and practiced a few touch and go landings with it when he got it. This was his first "real" flight in this plane.
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by mikeryan 4y ago
I probably answered that in my second bit. There’s little (perceived) downside risk in “bad” UI. So not enough people do it. I don’t think it’s a fluke that a lot of site optimization tools are focused at e-commerce apps and sites where the
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by mikeryan 4y ago
The testing bit is kind of huge. With most computer UI usability is fairly easy to test and, obviously, failures far less consequential. I also wonder if the builder also made a faulty assumption that the plane would be flown mostly by exp
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by mikeryan 4y ago
I’d assume both. Leak to provide the fuel and a spark to ignite it.
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Not from the Bay Area to LA. It’s a 45 minute to one hour flight. You can fly in, get your meetings in and get back all in a day. I’ve done the Oakland to Burbank or LAX round trip that way a ton.
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by mikeryan 4y ago
From my experience there’s a pretty wide range of abilities going into Kindergarten. I’d say that your kids knowing how to read would put them into a minority but a decent sized one, may 25-30%? Also a ton of variation there based on what k

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