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by oakfr 5y ago
Follow-up question on your comment "my #1 recommendation is to get engineers regularly talking to people who could be your customers". Do you maintain this direct connection between customers and engineers today, and if so, how? H
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by oakfr 5y ago
Thank you for your reply. Makes sense. By the way, thank you for running this AMA and answering all the questions with so much clarity and transparency. What an example!
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by oakfr 5y ago
While I am happy for your company and for your first 10 employees (congrats, really), I am not sure that looking at their return teaches us much. Joining a fresh startup as employee #10 (or less) is somewhat of a gamble (even at YC). The f
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by oakfr 5y ago
As mentioned above by @marketingtech, the websites assume the responsibility of managing user consent and therefore are GDPR compliant. This is why browsing the internet feels like filing for a mortgage now. But it's compliant.
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by oakfr 5y ago
Thank you for sharing. What a beautiful talk.
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by oakfr 5y ago
You most likely ran into a bad lead. His/her role was to coach & mentor you to help you become a better engineer, not just to draw diagrams on a white board. "everyone knew how to make software" -> if that was the case
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by oakfr 5y ago
I am with you here. That being said, I believe the author refers to « weaker » libraries (higher-level, more recent etc. )
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by oakfr 5y ago
I evaluate the liveness of a github project based on the responses to questions (latest post, time to reply). Not by when the last change was made.
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by oakfr 5y ago
MacBook folks: we’re in 2021. These laptops turn on and off very quickly. Forget about sleep, hibernation etc. Just shut it down.
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by oakfr 5y ago
There are domains where the use of ML is not only valid but the best viable option (e.g. recommendation systems, computer vision, etc.) A few thoughts on how to maximize your chances of winning in this case: https://medium.com&#x
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by oakfr 5y ago
The aerospace industry has been using CV successfully for decades, well before ML appeared. So I would temper your last statement a bit. That being said, you are right to say that ML changed the game entirely for CV in industry at large.
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by oakfr 5y ago
@tracyhenry: how does the system work exactly? I cannot find any documentation on your website.
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by oakfr 5y ago
This is really cool stuff. Would be really nice to do the same for movies :)
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by oakfr 5y ago
Onfido | Engineers and leads | Remote (US/EU) | Full time Onfido is a technology company that helps businesses verify people's identities using a photo-based identity document, a selfie and artificial intelligence algorithms. Our
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by oakfr 5y ago
You’ll never get rich unless you start a business. Oh by the way, lucky you, I happen to be selling tips for making millions off a blog (just click this sponsored link. I made $6M with mine, I swear). Seriously, since when did HN decide to
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by oakfr 5y ago
A bunch of robo taxi startups are going after this market which, while being quite real, is minuscule compared to Waymo’s ambition.
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by oakfr 5y ago
Level 2 is becoming a commodity. Its commercial value will fall to zero very quickly.
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by oakfr 5y ago
Clients lying should not be a good motivation for a landlord to break the law. I'm not saying this landlord did, but am challenging your reasoning here.
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by oakfr 5y ago
I can relate, as a neighbor frustrated by rogue airbnb guests next door. That being said, as an airbnb customer, I could not imagine a split second renting a place with cameras checking on me. I haven't seen any so far. I may be too
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by oakfr 5y ago
Nice feature, although I wish firefox could fix the other side of the cookie nightmare: auto-fill the (now humongous) forms we need to fill in for our cookie settings, for each website. I feel like I am applying for a mortgage a few time
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by oakfr 5y ago
Am surprise by the census data for Lake Tahoe and the 25% drop in salary that goes with it. Isn’t this a super wealthy area? This is going to hurt the Googlers who where going to trade their primary home for their secondary one.
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by oakfr 5y ago
« the company will not change an employee's salary based on them going from office work to being fully remote in the city where the office is located" -> that’s a huge saving for the company right there when you consider the pr
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by oakfr 5y ago
"it's only +0.65% clicks but zero is outside the confidence interval! let's ship it! ten more like these and we've reached our quarterly target!!"
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by oakfr 5y ago
I don't share your vision. Things are always obvious in the hindsight, but in reality, at least in Western Europe we did quite well. The challenges that governments faced were huge and numerous (if you account for social, economical,
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by oakfr 5y ago
Interestingly, covid seems to have taught me the opposite. When covid hit, the time-to-market of a new vaccine was 10-15 years. The collective action of governments divided this number literally by ten. Despite all the bad words we've
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by oakfr 5y ago
What do you mean by « Spotify is designed to lose money »? Also, a decrease in number of users will definitely worry Spotify and draw negative investors’ attention.
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by oakfr 5y ago
I agree. And sadly we, as end users, are subject to the frog-in-the-hot-water effect. We don’t even realize how good the app used to be.
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by oakfr 5y ago
Correct. But I would argue that they probably measure the right thing. It’s probably better for an airline to have .1% of super-angry customers than 3% of frustrated customers. At least that’s the directions that they all have taken.
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by oakfr 5y ago
Engagement metrics apply well beyond ad companies. Basically any product used by many users interacting with a UI is eligible.
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by oakfr 5y ago
Fait point. I would also add: blame the AB test culture that has creeped in everywhere. I am pretty confident that the current layout of the Spotify UI is not the result of a design team but the outcome of hundreds of back-to-back AB tests

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