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by neilk 5y ago
Well, good on you for getting so far so quickly. Did you accumulate 900K in wages, options, or through blockchain speculation? Not sure how you could get to 900K so quickly.
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by neilk 5y ago
Please indulge my curiosity. This might be wildly unrelated but... how attractive are you, physically? Are you thin? Are you taller than most people in your peer group? Do you more or less resemble the "dominant" demographic where
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by neilk 5y ago
This is a really interesting answer. Not a lot of people wish they had more debt. When new graduates are saddled with debt, a lot of them feel like they have to take the highest-paying job that's on offer, and that ends up greatly narr
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by neilk 5y ago
High school: More physical activity. I developed my mind only. I was a very fast runner and a good high jumper, without ever exercising, and I probably could have been some kind of track athlete. At high school age I had been bullied enough
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by neilk 5y ago
What are some non-speculative places where one can get into this?
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by neilk 5y ago
I'm not the OP, but I assume they're trying to address the problems that startups have when they grow headcount. I've heard a rule of thumb that if you grow by 50% in one year the culture will completely change. So you can ha
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by neilk 5y ago
Your speculations don't really apply to this company but perhaps I wasn't clear - I wasn't saying the "speed above all" company was bad, or even that they weren't thoughtful. They made conscious choices to have
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by neilk 5y ago
Yeah, I was worried that I'd painted the second company as the bad guys. They were not. They made different choices. And both have been extremely influential in terms of process, but... influential at different extremes. At the perfect
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by neilk 5y ago
I've run into issues of programming culture many times. I once joined a team that had tremendous amounts of copied code. I got a bit fed up with fixing the same issues across multiple files, so I created a tool to flag files with copie
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by neilk 5y ago
Remote worker and Vancouver resident here. Vancouver is the second most expensive city in the world, measured by cost of living to prevailing wage. Only Hong Kong scores higher. If, like me, you work in tech with American funding, it's
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by neilk 5y ago
Perhaps a tangent, but I found this exchange between Bradley Fitzgerald & Dewitt Clinton fascinating. Tailscale manages to not drop ssh connections even while the remote machine is being updated, with vanilla TCP. https://twi
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by neilk 5y ago
Octal 010 is 8. Dotted quads can apparently be in octal, so that’s just 8.8.8.8 . What are we looking at here that’s new?
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by neilk 5y ago
1. Why the orb? So they say it’s about UBI, but… what’s wrong with the ways we establish human-ness now? Usually it’s a combination of national ids, photo ids (also a kind of biometric) and respected persons like doctors or licensed enginee
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by neilk 5y ago
Every now and then you see anthropologists admitting that "ritual object" is just their way of saying they have no idea what it's for Some of the Moai of Rapa Nui (aka the giant stone heads on Easter Island) used to have eyes
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by neilk 5y ago
I talked to a non-techie friend and they had an interesting idea: that it was like going into a store and upsetting store displays. Creating a "mess" of disorganized matter (heated) that needed to be put back into order (cooled).
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by neilk 5y ago
High Availability Relational Data Store An example would be AWS' RDS
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by neilk 5y ago
Here are some irrelevant facts, now please fight among yourselves about emotional judgments
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by neilk 5y ago
This is nonsense. Patents are filed by large technology companies as part of the cost of doing business. Pretty much after you do any research or release any project, the legal department will ask you if anything you did could be patentable
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by neilk 5y ago
I'm quite good at puzzles now, but it doesn't seem to affect my ranking in actual play. I might be asking for the impossible here, but is there a way to get better without turning this into a part-time job, where I have to read a
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by neilk 5y ago
The Epoch Times is the house newspaper of the Falun Gong movement. Whatever legitimate disagreement they may have with the Chinese government, it is a frequent publisher of right-wing conspiracy theories.[1] Sanger has had disputes with Wik
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by neilk 5y ago
The focus of the article is how Instagram knows that their product is harmful. It's not saying that all products, or even all similar products, are harmful for everyone. I think this thread is at the very least offtopic; at the most, i
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by neilk 5y ago
I'm generally a blockchain skeptic but I would count this article as evidence _for_ web3 being important. Everything that matters goes through a phase of the idea being great and inspiring and powerful, but the tooling being utter garb
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by neilk 5y ago
For text search, this seems to be using trigrams or something? I tried “tired” and got a lot of “fired”, “required”, etc. not useful for me, since I usually want a meme to match a mood or theme
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by neilk 5y ago
Because this is a distraction from your business, and distracting you IS their business. Every hour spent on legal affairs, playing on their turf, weakens you and strengthens them. Patent trolls have no reputation to ruin, so you can’t sham
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The author seems to be suggesting that one can "finish" a project solely by limiting technical scope. But what really allows one to finish is limiting the set of users and use cases. Limiting technical scope is just an indirect wa
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by neilk 5y ago
Computer scientists are good at understanding computers. Sometimes. That's pretty much it. Even if you grant that computer scientists are more intelligent than the norm, I find that doesn't help very much. Often, I encounter some
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by neilk 5y ago
Given the wide range of styles, I would guess the artwork for these cards was lifted from various places around the internet. I see no artwork credits, and found the source for at least one image: the character "Feng Bai" is an im
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by neilk 5y ago
In the best case scenario for top-down Wikipedia, it would have been Google Knol. That was where they were going when it was nominally a startup founded by a guy whose previous venture had been an online men’s magazine. But then the communi
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by neilk 5y ago
The advice here seems practical but only if you have a very fixed mindset about who people are. That might be appropriate sometimes but I think it’s worth trying to heal relationships. On the theory that managers are also humans, try to ima
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Checklist: Should You Build a Mobile App?(shouldyoubuildamobile.app)
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