psyklic

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   by psyklic 4y ago

   1. Momentum. If they say they've been working on it for six months, do they have a lot to show for it (ideally that derisks the company)? If not, you might be disappointed by their future progress as well. At the least, you might be do
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   by psyklic 4y ago

   IMO A major mistake books make is immediately attempting to visualize the call stack. This is important to be able to do. However, practitioners will simply imagine the code working on an arbitrary element and somewhat ignore the call stack
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   by psyklic 4y ago

   I strongly advise having a lawyer review the contract even though you already signed it - there will still be many opportunities for you to negotiate in the future. It's infinitely better to know now than to be blindsided later! In my
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   by psyklic 4y ago

   Paul Graham commented on a related Tweet a few hours ago: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1534617377912111112 . He wrote: " All professional investors know [that qualities like determination and intelligence
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   by psyklic 4y ago

   From my experience, many in-person students also don't know many professors and ask for recs based on their classroom interactions/scores/projects. Obviously this won't be the strongest recommendation, but it's prob
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   by psyklic 4y ago

   It seems strange to cap the number of shares, which makes me wonder if this is the number of shares in an option pool. If so, nothing can be inferred about percentage ownership, except that your friend would likely own a very insignicant nu
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   by psyklic 4y ago

   In addition to this, it wasn't typical to test your code every ten seconds. A good programmer can write a significant piece of functionality and have it work reasonably well right away (and even start on the next item while it's c
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   by psyklic 4y ago

   In practice, there is no problem if a teacher shows video incidentally including a straight couple. If it contains a gay couple, however, suddenly that could count as "classroom instruction" of sexual orientation. The teachers are
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   by psyklic 4y ago

   I recently got (and recommend) the Gigabyte M32U, a 32" 4K 144Hz monitor w/ adaptive refresh. With the 2021 Mac Pro it's plug-and-play, super smooth @144Hz. You connect your Mac via a single USB-C cable, and the monitor has a
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    Assassins Creed has a standalone series called Discovery Tour. It is extremely similar yet has freemode, way more historical points of interest, and has people walking around. https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/ass
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    I'm glad that a warning was given about graphs of "potential [equity] compensation value." I've seen this abused where co-founders were only paid in equity. Instead of being told their percentage ownership, they were s
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    I enjoyed the NOLO book "Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements": https://www.amazon.com/Consultant-Independent-Contractor-Agr... (look up the prior editions for reviews) The majority of the book is ag
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    10^10000 is a large number, but it is surpassed only by the 47,852th Fibonacci number -- a small number of iterations for a computer. I often suppose as a rule of thumb that a C program can perform ~10 million for-loop additions per second
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    The game itself doesn't matter, it's all about how you play. You can mindlessly play chess/bejeweled/doom/etc, or you can actively try to find strategies and improve. I see kids publishing detailed wikis and mathema
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    Perhaps it's "An Infinitely Large Napkin" by Evan Chen? https://web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    This reminds me when McDonalds cycled through fullscreen ads obscuring their digital menus. They also slowly cycled through menu items and deals, leading to awkward delays at the cash registers waiting to see the full menu.
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    Having a deep (proof-based) understanding leads to more "real world" insights. So, there may not be a clear distinction.
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    Nowadays I personally define a problem as "hard" if respected colleagues tried and failed to solve it. Earlier I would be reluctant to say a problem is "hard," because many of the best problems are not so much difficult
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    It seems the company is not "derisked" in any way for you or potential investors. So, there would be little justification for the lower equity stake. If the rationale is they've been working on it for many months prior, then
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    I would consider defining MLOps more broadly than the article (which only discusses production). For example, it can be as simple as wondering how to organize, collaborate on, and versionize lots of Jupyter notebooks! Or how to keep track o
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    I suspect you could easily find a summer position in a research lab if you ask some professors and show enthusiasm! In fact, I did this my freshman and sophomore summers, while most of my classmates went back to their hometowns. (It is only
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    I reported a similar issue to Zoom on April 9, 2020 and did not receive a reply. I did not test to see if it has been fixed since. The issue: While watching Zoom webinars on Mac, clicking on Audio Settings auto-activated the mic for testin
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    I never understood distrust, because scientists base their work on research that is extensively cited. Making conclusions that are not supported by evidence, e.g. "desperately cloaking" policy preferences, could jeopardize one&#x2
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    I also left my startup due to ethical concerns. First, keep in mind that if they are this disorganized and vengeful, people probably already know and will sympathize with you. Second, if you're not a founder and didn't work there
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    You should get out now -- you got some experience building a project and got paid some for it. From personal experience, it's likely your "co-founders" will continue similarly as before, causing you additional stress. Until
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    Without any explicit IP transfer agreement, you likely own the code you produced (even if they paid you) and could use that as leverage to resolve the dispute. Nonpayment sometimes happens with freelance work -- it may not be worth the stre
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    Security isn't only about getting hacked. According to the security firm UpGuard, a startup made a database backup publicly available on S3 -- which contained plaintext user passwords. Basic security practices could have prevented this
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    Here is a more concise Pandas version (though Pandas may be overkill for this task): import pandas as pd pd.DataFrame(mylist).groupby('thing', as_index=False).sum().to_dict('records')
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    Here is a one-liner standard library version: from itertools import groupby keyfunc = lambda x: x['thing'] [{'thing': name, 'count': sum(t['count'] for t in things)} for name,things in
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    by psyklic 5y ago

    Sure, and this solution requires an entire browser instance merely to display "Hello world". The 20GB of IDE dependencies are optional. However, the IDE certainly makes development uncomplicated (the subject of the OP).