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by mindvirus 3y ago
Part of me wishes there was a law that companies had to implement checks that their customers read and understood the agreement. Timers, making sure people had each line of text on the screen for a sufficient amount of time, and line by lin
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Change Your Name (2015)(paulgraham.com)
5 points by mindvirus 3y ago|0 comments
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by mindvirus 3y ago
It's pretty remarkable that Firefox and Chrome were able to succeed over a web browser that came installed on everyone's devices. A person had to use IE to go and find another software that does the same thing. And for a browser,
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Totally agree going after organized crime is key, and didn't mean to imply otherwise.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
It's a tough situation from what I've read about it. Someone steals $500. What do you do? Charging someone alone costs thousands. Putting them in jail costs tens of thousands per year and has some serious negative externalities (w
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by mindvirus 3y ago
You can spend your whole life doubting yourself and worrying about what other people think. Life's too short for that. Go build.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
That sounds stressful. There's a short book I like called The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday that talks about dealing with adversity like this. The secret is to take full responsibility for your situation. Nobody will be more inve
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by mindvirus 3y ago
It depends on why. Some days you'll find yourself in meetings, reviewing code, and emailing/messaging others, but not writing code. You should recognize that this is work, and you should ask yourself whether this was the best use
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Those are rookie numbers. With a little Kubernetes, we can get them way up. So much of the incentive structure in software companies is to ship new features. Maintaining existing ones or fixing bugs is a career dead end for software enginee
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by mindvirus 3y ago
So then is the public debt in a large part just a complex accounting system the government uses to manage its business? At least in the case of the US where most of it is held by the US? Genuinely curious, every time I think about this it f
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Yes, but what makes it so weird is it's one pie. Like, imagine you made up "hacker dollars", which you can make more of whenever you want. They're sticky notes with a number written on them. Then you lent "hacker do
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by mindvirus 3y ago
US debt is such a tough thing to wrap my head around. About half of the debt is to... the US government. And all of it is in US dollars, that the US government can print. So the US could get out of debt tomorrow if they wanted, forgiving th
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by mindvirus 3y ago
No, but if you take something like affirmative action (a classic boogeyman of the right), it's possible for everyone to have reasonable but contradictory views: The right would say: discrimination on race/gender is wrong, and so a
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by mindvirus 3y ago
I wouldn't consider myself right wing, but a good faith definition of the way the right see it might be an overemphasis on issues related to race, gender and sexual orientation, at the expense of shared American values. A less good fai
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by mindvirus 3y ago
To make this fun: What's a strong belief that you used to have, that you don't have anymore? Especially ones that go counter to mainstream narrative. Two for me (might start some fights, but it's all in good fun): - I general
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Schema management!
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by mindvirus 3y ago
As more of an operator type, people in my crowd are more curious than anything. It's obvious that you could take a car company, fire everyone except for the sales, marketing and people working in the factories, and things would keep go
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Totally, but the bad compromise that I think many people find themselves in is regretting having pets because they can't travel, and regretting not traveling because they have pets. Whereas good compromise could be deciding not to have
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by mindvirus 3y ago
I don't think compromise itself is a reaffirmation of our values. Compromise often erodes values. Disagreement prioritizes values. I think generally we have the same values. Honesty, transparency, integrity, expediency, travel, etc. Ho
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by mindvirus 3y ago
I hear your stress, and that sounds awful to experience. Imagine experiencing the leap from assembly to Python, almost overnight. That would feel terrifying as an assembly engineer, but people would realize at least for certain types of pro
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by mindvirus 3y ago
That's a great insight. I hadn't considered how the bull run led to the current structure, as we switch from "keep this ship together while we grow" to driving operational efficiency.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Even in FAANG it's a promotion. If not immediately, the cap for ICs is much lower. Principal engineer at FAANG (L8): likely one of the best engineers in the world. Engineering director at FAANG (L8): manager who's been there for a
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Neat observation! My guess is that that is the prevailing wage required for H1b: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages
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by mindvirus 3y ago
A big chunk of FAANG compensation is stock, which isn't part of the H1b filing. Cross reference those salaries with levels.fyi to get a better picture.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Assuming that test is crisp and usable, and it's more of a Mac than an iPad, this looks very promising. If pass through works well, I could see this replacing a laptop for a bunch of use cases.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
You know, `previous` is probably worth exploring especially for game engines. Too many brilliant moments, but this is is my favorite: To run DreamBerd, first copy and paste this raw file into chat.openai.com. Then type something along the l
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Congrats on launching! This looks great; everywhere I've worked has had a bad version of this built up ad hoc, so I can see this being really useful. I could see it working well with Retool and other low code tools effectively giving t
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by mindvirus 3y ago
It's not, and I didn't say it was. However, having children is one of the most cited reasons people get married. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/11/06/why-peo...
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Marriage is a tough proposition in the west these days. The cost of childcare has never been higher, both in terms of dollars and opportunity cost, not to mention housing. Of course there are other benefits to getting married, but without t
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Look at Detroit. The city hollowed out, but the suburbs are still among the wealthiest in the country.

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