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by myblake 10y ago
I think Sam's point about strength in numbers is really critical. The tech community sometimes has a little fear of being first that can rapidly shift into fear of being last, so I wonder what will cause a critical mass of tech leaders
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by myblake 10y ago
Impeachment is done by the congress. We currently have a republican congress as we did in '98 when Clinton was impeached. However, this time there's a republican president, so it's much less likely.
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by myblake 10y ago
I'm pretty sure there's research to back this up.
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by myblake 10y ago
I once worked at a place that basically just used perl server side. In this decade (2010s). The codebase was just one tangled mess. They told a story of a guy who failed the cultural interview because he told a VP "you can't write
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by myblake 10y ago
I think it's probably much truer that big tech companies are optimizing for false negatives because they do have a really deep, talented applicant pool. Some start ups do but it's definitely more of a risk. I completely agree with
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by myblake 10y ago
It's hard to read this and not get the impression that firms used to lucrative government contracts are simply not keen at new competition and are lobbying to protect their privledged position. Despite the fact increased competition be
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by myblake 10y ago
I think we're talking about alpha decay gaining a few electrons here, not fusion.
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by myblake 10y ago
The article does mention advances in supercapaciter design as one of the enabling technologies, but I suspect just charging the things requires a ton of power. Let's do some back of the envelope physics with what we know (and reasonabl
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by myblake 10y ago
It's been a while since I took chemistry and physics so I could be wrong, but I think you may be incorrect due to quantum effects. Specifically, the quantum in quantum mechanics refers to various phenomena which are quantized, a very c
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by myblake 10y ago
> It's still the densest area of the US outside of Manhattan Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities... ) seems to suggest the incorporated city is
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by myblake 10y ago
Very true about this being a regional problem. San Francisco is doing a poor job building more housing but the suburbs are actually far worse, such as mountain view allowing more office space to be built but no new housing.
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by myblake 10y ago
This really hits the nail on the head. The problem with onsites is really the "quick prove to me you're smart" type of tests that both are time intensive and also very frustrating to a lot of people in that they're often
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by myblake 10y ago
I think the suggestion is that they'd merely own part it, but nonetheless it's not surprising the irs would prefer liquidity.
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by myblake 10y ago
True but it's at least mentioned. Would be worth emphasizing the effect it would have though, that engineer is not really sitting on 300 million.
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by myblake 10y ago
> Large number of top tier universities within 3 hours I know in Texas driving 3 hours is a moderate commute, but UT is literally in another metro area. If you read the article, PG mentions Stanford and Berkeley not being downtown as a l
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by myblake 11y ago
Invest it or save it and avoid debt. You will thank yourself later. If it makes sense to, consider buying a primary residence, but don't spend too much on a car, or eating out, or anything like that. Make sure you have some nice toys a
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by myblake 11y ago
!00% agree that a lot of the suburban communities are worse than SF, but SF still has a shocking amount of unwillingness to build given that it's a large city.
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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah this is the one that I don't understand, his argument about wet css being more readable doesn't even make sense in the case of "#ec3f5d" vs "$red", let alone the fact that in a big project not having one p
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by myblake 11y ago
I suspect also many of the homeless in San Francisco, especially the ones being complained about here, have pretty bad mental health problems going on treated. Government probably needs to step in and help on that front as well.
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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah it does, which is not surprising and while pretty fine in this case can be pretty horrible in others.
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by myblake 11y ago
We're still a long way off from drought relief, but more concerning is how long away we are from decent public schools or relief in insane housing prices in the Bay Area. Until the whole region builds a lot more housing it's only
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by myblake 11y ago
I do too but I wonder if Lafeyette is as much to blame as say Mountain View. While they're almost certainly not building new housing as fast as the area population grows, it's not clear that they're building office space inst
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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah having lived (and worked in tech) in both Austin and SF, there's really no comparison as far as the number of opportunities here as well as the breadth. It's absolutely not irrational that people want to live in the Bay Area,
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by myblake 11y ago
I'm with you that the tactics used here seem a little bit scummy (though I've seen plenty of bullshit from the other side of the table more consistently), but the author does at least claim to also be working hard to improve their
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by myblake 11y ago
Seriously, read this post, listen to this post. I am a terrible negotiator (as in I have taken pay cuts because jobs seemed interesting and paid sticker price for cars) and hate it like 95% of the rest of software engineers but it's ho
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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah I suspect google sheets is not obviously vulnerable to sql injection at this point in the game.
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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah I was starting to design some visualization for it in my head!
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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah, the dentist analogy was really interesting because there's no way in hell you'd have the receptionist and hygienist and dentist just throwing things over a wall to each other and not coordinating carefully on patient care, y
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by myblake 11y ago
I think there's a difference between a moderate downturn and a cataclysmic crash, and since 2000 was especially bad for tech and 2009 especially bad for everyone we're not used to mild to moderate downturns around here. A downtown
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by myblake 11y ago
It's got to be the position in the market at this point (though probably started out as human capital to get to that point). They're seeing most of the good deals for early stage companies because they're so far ahead anyone

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