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by nfw2 4y ago
I’ve got an interview coming up for a senior role on a UX engineering team (design system, component libraries, etc). The interview is just the standard set of backend system design and leetcode problems. It’s a pretty big red flag to me th
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Allergens, pathogens, radioactive material, lead — any more than trace amounts of these is dangerous.
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by nfw2 4y ago
It's ironic because you would think companies would want engineers who actually are eager to work there. When connecting to companies through recruiters, you're expected to still come up with some semi-BS about why you're so
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by nfw2 4y ago
I was laid off in June. This coincided with my mom being diagnosed with cancer, and because I had a fair amount of saving, I took some time to support family and work on some personal projects. I started looking again at the start of this y
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It's not a metaphor...it's a joke
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by nfw2 4y ago
I’m in the same boat with roughly the same experience. The job market for engineers is night-and-day worse than it was a couple years ago. Back then everyone was hiring; now most companies have frozen hiring or are laying people off. The mo
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by nfw2 4y ago
Obviously having a partner is more satisfying than self-stimulation. This conversation is just about frequency
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by nfw2 4y ago
I would actually expect most married men to have less frequent ejaculations. I'm not married myself, but my impression is that most couples don't keep up a daily sexual routine for several decades, and finding time and space to se
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by nfw2 4y ago
The inclusion of "Hispanic => Latinx" is staggering because: - The vast majority of Hispanic people don't like "Latinx" - "Latinx" was invented to avoid gendered words like "Latino", and &quot
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by nfw2 4y ago
If blockchain bulls were only claiming it to be the future of money, that would already be a huge improvement to the full claim implied by “web3” — which is that it will be the future of the entire internet
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by nfw2 4y ago
I can't imagine anyone accidentally naming their variables $tit and $ass and not realizing it. I expect the guy thought it was funny, and the domain gave him some plausible deniability.
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Ask HN: What tools do you use to understand your codebase?
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by nfw2 4y ago
Engineering types often prefer to think in hard rules…either an approach is absolutely better or absolutely worse. Saying medium-size services are best means that the engineer needs to use their judgment to determine where that threshold is
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And that’s why most people don’t own any crypto
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It seems a bad idea to me to fly to a country with sparse protections after losing a bunch of sketchy people's money. Prison > Murder
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by nfw2 4y ago
I think it likely started with a small mistake, not necessarily an innocent one but maybe one that was assumed to be low-risk. And like in the Fargo movie/show, Sam just kept digging the hole deeper trying to get out of it. This expla
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by nfw2 4y ago
Crypto is like the wild west by design. Chaos enables con men. They aren't unrelated
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by nfw2 4y ago
I agree, and IDK why it is so hard to talk clearly about finance. Here is how I understand what's been said (not an expert): When a bank pays a loan out to its lender, it must have capital (valuable assets actually owned by the bank)
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by nfw2 4y ago
This is the part of the thread that killed me: "FTX International currently has a total market value of assets/collateral higher than client deposits (moves with prices!)." He is counting the 10 billion he loaned to himself a
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by nfw2 4y ago
I can see how his assumptions seemed reasonable at the time given that google glass already existed
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by nfw2 4y ago
Another required quality that might be surprisingly tricky to get right is durability. Sunglasses are notoriously brittle, and I can't for the life of me keep sunglasses in good shape for more than a few months. I don't know if
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by nfw2 4y ago
In this case, where do the liabilities come from? Edit: nvm I guess this thread is about FTX's original business model
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Potentially dumb question here; I am no expert on crypto or finance. Isn't the collapse of FTX in some ways evidence in favor of decentralized currency rather than against it? As evidenced by 2008, firms gambling with other people&#x2
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by nfw2 4y ago
The article claims that aria-label is only intended to be used on interactive elements. This surprised me, so I looked into it. The ARIA spec says aria-label can used with any roles, with no mention of being reserved for interactive eleme
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by nfw2 4y ago
Decentralization isn't a feature that most users care about. One can argue that we should care about it, but the reality is that spending all our collective focus fighting web3 windmills actually INCREASES the dangers of centralization
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by nfw2 4y ago
The narrative here seems to be a David and Goliath story as Microsoft profits by stomping on the defenseless open-source communities. There's two problems with this story. First, the huge majority of open-source projects are at no rea
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by nfw2 4y ago
If Copilot makes a billion dollars, it is only because it is generating at least a billion dollars worth of value to the community of developers who want to use it. The people painting Microsoft as a big, greedy trust conveniently ignore th
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by nfw2 4y ago
Do you feel the same abuse when you download a desktop application, and it runs code? You are free to revoke your permission for any site to run javascript, but website owners are not obligated to go out of their way to provide their servic
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by nfw2 4y ago
Then, to clarify, I agree with you. My objection was to the argument used by OP, not with the conclusion.
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I did not call anything vapid nor a waste of time, nor would I, personally, make the same claim as the article author that any sort of literature is without value to society. My point is that the author of the article was a criticizing a sp

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