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by nilkn 7y ago
“Ye” used to be plural and “thou” singular. At some point, it became common to refer to royalty in the plural, even if you were addressing a single person (e.g., the king). As time went on, this practice was generalized so that you would re
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by nilkn 7y ago
I think you really are missing the point, though. You may have found the comment entitled, but I don’t think there was anything fundamentally offensive about it, and your reaction reflects more about your discomfort with the existence of th
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by nilkn 7y ago
Counter-point: my anecdotal observations suggest that folks are so intent on competing for housing that in the decades since dual incomes became commonplace the main effect has been to simply dramatically inflate the price of housing. In ot
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by nilkn 7y ago
That's why you still have a traditional management organization. Moreover, you avoid putting those people to whom you refer into decision-making roles. Strong narratives and storytelling help to guide those who are in decision-making r
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by nilkn 7y ago
I just want to emphasize that getting instrument-rated is not a trivial endeavor and it's not likely something to be achieved by someone whose interest is entirely in getting to their meetings more efficiently. And without the instrume
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by nilkn 7y ago
For what it's worth, I thought your meaning was clear. Your third paragraph opens with "however," indicating a contrast to the previous one (in which your love for FB is stated). So I interpreted "emotionally impactful&q
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by nilkn 7y ago
There's a lot of interesting trivia related to this. For instance, the sequence of perfect squares {1,4,9,...} contains 3-term subsequences that are in arithmetic progression (e.g., {1,25,49}). However, it does not contain any 4-term s
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by nilkn 7y ago
I don't need to apply it to all my queries, maybe only 5-10% of them. It's a big win if I can easily complete 90-95% of my online queries without needing to worry about Google. Plus I'm used to all the other bang patterns at
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by nilkn 7y ago
The biggest problem I see with this right now is that Stadia appears to be sub-console quality and really nowhere close to PC gaming. The Pro service that is supposed to be 4K@60 is not at all 4K. I do agree that if it reaches the point whe
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by nilkn 7y ago
If I could play high-end complex modern AAA games like RDR2 on my iPad Pro while traveling, I think there's a valuable proposition there. But ironically that's exactly the area where Stadia falls flat: internet connections are wea
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by nilkn 7y ago
I wonder if this could be a case of mismatch between what the recommendations system was designed to do and what the business actually needed it to do. Your team evaluated the models based on live KPIs in an A/B testing environment, bu
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by nilkn 7y ago
> It will be the most enjoyable option too I think it depends on the standards you judge it by. If lack of installation is the standard, then sure. If image quality is the standard, at least with this iteration of Stadia, it seems so far
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by nilkn 7y ago
I've been using invidio.us for months. It brings me back to a simpler time on the web. The interface is straightforward, does just what I need it to and not more, it doesn't relentlessly spy on me, and I can have a separate non-Go
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by nilkn 7y ago
Option 0 is no longer an option because ads are no longer just ads. They are malicious trackers that collect as much data about you as possible and sell it all over the place. It's unethical for a site to even host such "ads"
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by nilkn 7y ago
Right, you and other developers were more productive and were able to make quicker updates. But was the company as strategically aligned at a high level? Was the engineering team as a whole able to react quickly and efficiently to strategic
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by nilkn 7y ago
Is it possible that your personal productivity soared but the trial was still a net negative for the company?
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by nilkn 7y ago
Pro-tip: create a dedicated email for newsletters so you don't feel like they're spamming you or clogging your inbox. Ever since I did this I really enjoy finding the occasional unique newsletter.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I don't even agree that this is a defining quality of a principal engineer. This is part of our standards for a senior developer, and it's something we coach people on from the get-go.
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by nilkn 7y ago
A hypothetical example would be one person spending a week or two setting up an extensive in-house Spark cluster to solve a problem that a second person in one day realizes can be solved on one machine using some clever shell scripting tric
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by nilkn 7y ago
I'm not sure if you're actually disagreeing with me. Of course a team needs a technical lead who is likely a senior engineer. I think that much is obvious. However, that person is predominantly concerned with their own team's
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by nilkn 7y ago
That's just a solid senior engineer, though. You don't need a Senior Distinguished Technical Fellow to come to your house for some electrical work. That's the person you have designing the electrical grid for a city of 5 mill
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by nilkn 7y ago
> Isn't what you're describing precisely what senior ICs should be doing more of? Yes, and I think the point I'm driving towards is that if this is the stuff you want to do, you're really not an IC at all -- you'
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by nilkn 7y ago
The fact that folks can't even agree on what constitutes a very senior IC is definitely part of the problem. I would consider what you describe here -- reducing complexity as opposed to increasing it -- a requirement of any senior engi
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by nilkn 7y ago
I think that being involved in the technical side and "babysitting developers" are two very different ideas that have little to nothing to do with each other. > The best managers I've worked with have always made it their
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by nilkn 7y ago
It's questionable to me whether an engineering manager can stay out of the technical side completely and actually be competent at their job. I think many non-managers underestimate how technical engineering management actually is. You
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by nilkn 7y ago
In my experience, many companies legitimately don't really know what to do with very senior engineering staff. And how many distinguished engineers or principal engineers or technical fellows do you really need for your relatively stra
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by nilkn 7y ago
I noticed a month or two ago that certain sites seem to be excluded even from internet archives like the Wayback Machine. The first example I stumbled on was Snopes. I only noticed because I saw a Snopes link on Reddit where the thumbnail w
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by nilkn 7y ago
30 direct reports is an astonishing number, and it makes me feel like you're either onto something brilliant or are crazy and this structure is going to crash and burn once things get really complicated and fast-paced. I suppose it dep
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by nilkn 7y ago
This is the organization of the company I work at. Overall I've learned through experience that this decoupled structure is nice in theory and it's useful to have as an option, but it should actually be avoided in practice if at a
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by nilkn 7y ago
There's always a ramp-up period for new employees. While it's hard to learn Haskell completely on your own, it's not that hard to learn Haskell if you join a team of experienced Haskell developers. Once they build up a compet

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