motivated_gear

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by motivated_gear 7y ago
It blows my mind that there are still projects managed without git. I've seen entire production projects in a shared network drive with appname_april_3_2014 appname_april_4_2014 appname_april_4_2014_new_order_schema
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by motivated_gear 7y ago
Amazing! :D
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by motivated_gear 7y ago
I completely agree, Hackernews has really helped me personally. Tons of interesting articles over the years on LLVM or the inner machinations of garbage collections. Picking the brains of clever CS friends also helps a lot too!
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by motivated_gear 7y ago
I really appreciate this as a self taught dev with a full time full stack job. I worked my ass off for 3 years, taking online courses, building product after product for people to actually use and ultimately landing a well paying and satisf
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by motivated_gear 7y ago
No! Think of their families! The stem guys have it good anyways, lets just cut that!
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by motivated_gear 7y ago
Lets say it takes 2 engineers 3 months to build an another payment processor + failover, at $120k salary + 40k in benefits and taxes a year a piece. stipes SLA was 99.980% uptime for the last 90 days 0.02% * revLoss > 160k * 2 * .25&#x2F
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by motivated_gear 7y ago
Don't give them any ideas
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by motivated_gear 7y ago
This has been tried before in a number of different flavors. Most leave people worse off. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-18/yup-re...
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by motivated_gear 7y ago
Backend seems down for me. Also the second filter date picker is positioned so its off my screen (23" standard monitor). Cool concept though and it seemed to work for others judging from the other HN comments
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by motivated_gear 7y ago
I would argue that a font is a part of an organization's brand. I think publishers like Airbnb and google have built around Cereal and roboto respectively.
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
"Theres a lot of people that spend years telling themselves that they're going to work on rockets. These same people build ad tech platforms and never leave. If you want to build rockets, just go build rockets." -- a very par
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
Understood. Would like to hear your thoughts on why VC does not have a healthy investment philosophy.
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
Why though? I would like my government to be open to at least listening to lots of different ideas and applying an investment mindset to them. You're right, there is little operational experience that comes with being a VC. But you don
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
You mentioned the Durbin act which limit debit card fees. Since you're exempt from it, I assume you'll be jacking up fees for merchants in order to pay for your rewards program which is basically just a credit card. This might not
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
Completely agree, most technical concepts require you to play with it. I've never heard of anyone learning spark from a podcast
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
I use them as white noise with the potential of an interesting tidbit here and there. I like having something playing in my headphones while working and podcasts have become something I turn to. Most of the time I'm focused on what&#x2
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
I like the painting analogy and have used it frequently. Let's say you were commissioned to create a landscape painting. It'll be a big payday if you get it right and its due in 30 days. Because you know you can make mistakes, you
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
A car consumes exponentially more fuel than a horse
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
The R&D that went into your phone can be derived from wall street types buying cell phones in the 90s. As technology gets better, the probability that it will become affordable to the masses increases greatly. It's not guaranteed,
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
How a company begins to how it gets to sell products for $100m is fascinating. Boeing built their first plane soley because they had bought another plane, subsequently crashed it and then posited that it would be faster to build a brand new
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
As someone behind a corporate firewall on a Friday, thank you
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
If the blue apron team doesn't read threads like these and actually build things people want, they're finished. They spent so much on advertising and promotions without improving their product offering.
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
There is a strong difference between Yield to Maturity and effective yield. Yes, If they hold bonds until they mature, specifically government bonds, there will be no loss in principle. What people seem to be misunderstanding is that a yiel
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by motivated_gear 8y ago
It's amazing how many times I've seen people post losses in excess of $20,000 on r/wallstreetbets.