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by nwsm 5y ago
Google has you sign an NDA to interview. I wonder if I've just broken it.
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by nwsm 5y ago
This was my only complaint about this great article. The CEO was innately "data-driven" which opened a lot of doors. OTOH, if the execs don't have this priority, no one gets hired to lead and scale a data team and the story n
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Similar situation in Boston. The value add is that the brokers are regulated and in theory this means no one gets scammed. For context, over the past few years of crazy rental market, many people have gotten scammed by finding a fake listin
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by nwsm 5y ago
I'd guess the paraphrase of Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... https:/&#x2
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by nwsm 5y ago
More likely is that it's easier to monetize. Or both of course
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What do you mean how was he on the run? He (likely) killed himself to avoid extradition
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by nwsm 5y ago
> By connecting you with video from top Bible teachers, Spark Bible enables you to find answers and to become a smarter, more confident Bible reader. > Solid Bible education is now just a tap away for every chapter of the Bible. It se
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by nwsm 5y ago
Agreed! Just giving my experience with them for the HN record.
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I've interviewed there twice and both times the first step was an automated coding assessment. Not leetcode but very similar. You're given a prompt and the expected function signature, and your code must pass a dozen or so test ca
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by nwsm 5y ago
Open source software dramatically increases the value a for-profit developer can create. If key OSS did not exist, it would not be recreated at every company, that would be too expensive. Instead the job would be deemed impossible. Maybe th
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by nwsm 5y ago
I was expecting something Theranos-esque
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by nwsm 5y ago
I wonder how many insights your circles have missed because they are too sensitive to language.
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Box ticker. That is, if you indeed think Head of Diversity is a bullshit job. I don't have an educated opinion.
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by nwsm 5y ago
> they are only there because other companies have one This is not Graeber's description of "goon"
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https://quotes.vistimo.com/how-it-works
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by nwsm 5y ago
The idea is interesting, but it appears to involve using Vistimo's UI to break down projects and tasks. It feels incredibly waterfally, and also will involve re-entering mass amounts of project management data. I hope it integrates wit
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by nwsm 5y ago
The HN Algoila page also doesn't link back to HN: https://hn.algolia.com/
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by nwsm 5y ago
This is what I was referencing. Though I think the other poster may know and was making a joke.
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by nwsm 5y ago
This is how I feel. I unfollow or block users I don't want to see. I know which kinds of tweets from which kinds of authors are likely to have interesting discussion in the replies, and I only look at the replies for those. And general
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by nwsm 5y ago
I suspect you have 1 other example. How many can you come up with that have nothing to do with religion?
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by nwsm 5y ago
> I didn't have to worry about compelled speech like that 10 years ago. Imagine that- society has changed in 10 years. I'm sorry you can't be arsed
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by nwsm 5y ago
These systems look great, and I'm casually in the market. Wireless aux speakers + bluetooth connection for phones is basically what I'm looking for (on top of great sound obviously). Right now I have an older Vizio set which has s
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by nwsm 5y ago
Something something demo gods
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I agree. The implication is the opposite of reality, and I can't help but feel it's intentional.
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AirPod Pro and Max will not support it. https://www.imore.com/airpods-max-dont-support-apple-musics-...
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by nwsm 5y ago
Knative is the obvious first answer.
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by nwsm 5y ago
JavaScript has Node and Deno? Not sure the point you're making about serverside.
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The JSON decision has served us well. We knew we wanted to support multiple languages from the start, so it was pretty essential.
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I don't think a counterexample (an ill-advised one at that) makes "Often, ..." false.
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by nwsm 5y ago
If you're referring to their comment "the major losses in this crash were Bitcoin, Doge and Shiba", they are most likely picking that list by market cap (though I did not try to crosscheck).

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