noodle

21 ms·

151.
by noodle 6y ago
> Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which makes it a dead end for anything non trivial. That isn't exactly true, for a few reasons. First is, the top tier public sticker price is roughly $35/GB. Second
152.
by noodle 6y ago
Without getting into specifics, I've had two higher up referrals at FAANG companies, for people asking me to join their specific teams. Both companies are ones who tout the ability to move laterally very easily. Both times, I went th
153.
by noodle 6y ago
Yeah and that is what I mean when I say that the company is pushed forward not the work. You're buying in to the idea that you'll be paid well and that you'll probably find something you're interested in. My personal
154.
by noodle 6y ago
Sure. I mean, I get the reasoning/justification behind it. But I'm generally not interested in jumping through all of the toxic tech interview process hoops without first knowing what's at the other side; I've learned t
155.
by noodle 6y ago
> I've turned down numerous offers because when I asked what the specifics of my day to day job were going to be, the answers weren't clear. Same, from FAANG companies. The feel that I get is more like, FAANG companies don&#x2
156.
by noodle 6y ago
> This is the problem with much of the spectrum of political rhetoric in America, they're almost all somehow unrealistic in their basic, shared presumption of a world without some over-determining Other I mean, you can essentially f
157.
by noodle 6y ago
> when there isn't those built hierarchies bad/selfish people don't amass power so everyone else can actually handle them on equal terms. This doesn't really ring true to me. In a society where hierarchy is removed,
158.
by noodle 6y ago
Well, both things can be true, making the situation more complex and therefore the article a bit misrepresentative in both directions. It sounds like the Zoe is outselling Tesla in Europe. It also sounds like Tesla sells every car they sh
159.
by noodle 6y ago
There are a few more coming, too. My armchair guess would be, this is a win win market. Its booming, so you can ride it as it goes up. And if you don't do well, you can blame COVID. A lot of companies were on the cusp and this proba
160.
by noodle 6y ago
This is a pretty broad brush. It puts a lot of installable desktop or mobile apps into that bucket due to things like code push. And of course every web app falls in this territory.
161.
by noodle 6y ago
I've read somewhere else that its in the territory of $250. But that was reporting from a while ago, and things might be different now.
162.
by noodle 6y ago
> This feels like bit of a knee-jerk reaction to the sudden shift towards remote only work. This isn't a super new thing, though. There have been a number of companies in the past 5-10 years that offered similar functionality witho
163.
by noodle 6y ago
They have some better and different features; but also lacking in some features people considered essential. For me as a viewer, an easy example is that taking clips of streams is relatively new to Mixer, and you can't even sort/f
164.
by noodle 6y ago
Well, lots of streamers really don't like Twitch. But Mixer was a downgrade for most people in terms of features and functionality. Same situation with YouTube - a lot of content creators aren't happy with it, but everything els
165.
by noodle 6y ago
> Finding qualified engineers who have the skills you're looking for who aren't happily employed and making above-market rate already is often a real challenge. As a happily employed engineer who has FAANG recruiter friends and
166.
by noodle 6y ago
This is true but its not linear. Even remote jobs are coalescing around a median salary. If you go from SF to Chang Mai, you probably aren't going to take a 85% pay cut, it will probably hit a local minimum for your role/experie
167.
by noodle 6y ago
I feel like there's an implied "and keep their comp". There are a decent number of remote jobs out there right now. They pay well, but certainly not SF TC.
168.
by noodle 7y ago
I dunno, I feel like this could swing either way. I'm a remote worker and I work out of a coworking space. If more people go remote, demand for coworking space could also increase.
169.
by noodle 7y ago
> I don't know if I could say I "liked" my insurance company, but I can say with a great deal of certainty that my interactions with my insurance company are orders of magnitude more frustration free (enjoyable seemed lik
170.
by noodle 7y ago
> I've never heard that - I don't know anyone who likes their insurance company. I've never heard any normal citizen say that. I was mostly commenting on current politicians saying that to justify their stances. For examp
171.
by noodle 7y ago
> Not sure what other arguments there are. The one I've heard the most lately is that "people like their existing insurance companies", which I think is an almost absurd thing to say on its face. But its probably just a w
172.
by noodle 7y ago
I mean, that's a fair point, but its also not the question you asked. To try and answer that question, I think its because this one is fairly easy to read, understand, they're very open with their data, they show their work on how
173.
by noodle 7y ago
The point is the process. The MRR that sustains a full time job doesn't suddenly appear from nowhere, and there aren't a lot of people talking about the "pre-success" data points. I myself am much more interested in the
174.
by noodle 7y ago
Agreed. It's good to have the skillset required to develop a mobile app in its entirety, including the API layer if one is necessary.
175.
by noodle 7y ago
Oh agreed, it's a lesson to learn, just like the rest of their engineering practices were learned. You don't usually absorb stuff like that fully by having someone tell you once. > Why it works in our case is because I acknowl
176.
by noodle 7y ago
> We can have the most technically sound product but if the money runs out the game is over. I think most engineers are just not used to ever thinking about time and money as a constraint - they're just things abstracted away from t
177.
by noodle 7y ago
IIRC there are still many large companies using Ruby/Rails still, they've just also diversified their tech stacks (as larger companies tend to do). AFAIK the list includes: GitHub (MS has a few Rails-based acquisitions now), Airb
178.
by noodle 7y ago
To answer both questions, IIRC it's more of a symbolic (and probably marketing related) thing, not really reflective of market prices.
179.
by noodle 7y ago
Depends a lot on your definition of "successful" and "business". Most very successful one person businesses I know of are specialty consulting businesses.
180.
by noodle 7y ago
Other smaller stuff too: - Porche's Taycan EV is supposed to be the closest direct competition for Tesla cars, but its having production issues. - Tesla just pushed a new software update that includes a lot of useful features (vo

More ›