ptudan

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by ptudan 4y ago
Yeah, the idea that employees can't criticize a CEO is patently ridiculous. There are plenty of companies with compelling products and talent, but poor leadership. Those companies would be lucky to have employees willing to speak up.
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by ptudan 4y ago
Not a big fan of a site that's basically an ad for one product. I mean, if the site is for the product sure, but that's not what this is.
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by ptudan 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertibility_plan#Abandonmen... Entire countries have had access to a currency completely pulled. Not just the US wants to use USD. Plenty of people can lose access to their money, not
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by ptudan 4y ago
I'm not making a legal argument here. I would never claim that I could verifiably prove these statements. However, I believe them to be true, and have personally heard from people who would know. What I would tell you that is verif
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by ptudan 4y ago
I worked there for a bit over 2 years, pretty recently. I heard this from other engineers and from managers not directly in my chain. The iterations per MR metric is one I know for a fact is used in PIP docs. Heard this directly from a fr
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by ptudan 4y ago
Lol duh, I totally knew this. Thanks for the correction
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by ptudan 4y ago
Oh for sure. There were tacit agreements between engineers. Splitting MRs into 3 for "readability", adding nits that explicitly "could be fixed without another iteration", having your personal testing repo be public so
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by ptudan 4y ago
Weeding out bad engineers is necessary. But these metrics are usually used to justify firings on the face than actually using them as an evaluator. Then the directors can pat themselves on the back that they fired someone justly.
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by ptudan 4y ago
Amazon promos and firings are based a lot around the amount of lines of code you write, the number of code reviews you do (and the percentage of the time you review when asked), the number of merge requests you have, and the number of itera
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by ptudan 4y ago
Unweathered protocols on eth failing shouldn't affect bitcoin. They're only related insofar as they are both crypto. The $3B in bitcoin sold could have been anything.
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by ptudan 4y ago
Very true, but unlike backend languages you can generally get away without knowing much about the internals. Unless you're making dev tools of course.
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by ptudan 4y ago
Three object oriented languages prove how there's sentiment against OOP? Or are you saying that Rust/Golang/React are simplistic in a world of over complexity. React I would generally agree with, the other two not really.
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by ptudan 5y ago
Seems like they have a bunch of highly expensive sports sponsorships. This seems to happen often when you have a bro-y CEO who wants to rub elbows with that kind of crowd. I can't imagine that moved the needle much for them - but it
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by ptudan 5y ago
Staten Island is in a pretty central location. You can go straight to brooklyn / queens / long island without having to go through the city like you would from NJ.
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by ptudan 5y ago
Lol that's all the big tech companies in a nutshell, except generally they built them for their own moneymakers and them made them a SaaS after
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by ptudan 5y ago
I knew a guy in college who was super straight laced, but went to Amsterdam and got convinced to try weed, in the form of a giant pastry, for the first time. I have no idea how much was in it but he got so freaked out that he had serious t
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by ptudan 5y ago
Not completely accurate, you can harvest and use the wood too, but true you cannot burn it. https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/carbon-benefits-wood-bas... .
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by ptudan 5y ago
Wow, you're using compilers someone else designed? Watch out for them changing the assembly, code monkey
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by ptudan 5y ago
That's just one way to use the Roomba, I don't think it's "supposed" to be anything. Most have an app that lets you press a button to start it, presumably that app and the base station all connect through AWS
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by ptudan 5y ago
I made this myself a long time ago for just a few specific websites. Thank you for this, a generalized version is amazing.
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by ptudan 5y ago
I would be shocked if google didn't get a cut, or at least a pay per click. Just doesn't seem like them not to
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by ptudan 5y ago
Could you give a simplified example of why a landowner partner with you? Let's say I just bought 30 acres of recently cut timberland, and I want to repopulate the forest just for my own enjoyment of nature alongside the cabin I'd
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by ptudan 5y ago
This seems like the worst of both worlds. If you're going to use the /* */ I don't see why you'd bother with // unless it's about recognizing a comment in a single line.
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by ptudan 5y ago
As others have said, it's more of a crediting thing than the actuality. Brandon Sanderson, a modern fantasy author, is famous for having an entire corporation of editors, storyboarders, and researchers. But only his name goes on the b
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by ptudan 5y ago
I'd say literature come to mind the most. A Tale of Two Cities, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Beowulf, Pride and Prejudice were the first ones that come to mind, though there are of course many more. Wish I knew more of the non-western
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by ptudan 5y ago
I think you're missing that the punishments he got were extremely light, likely due to his connections. He never had remorse nor reform. He and maxwell continued to do what they're so infamously known for throughout the 2010s. T
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by ptudan 5y ago
The collective internet "underground" knew he was a massive sex trafficker, and that he consistently engaged with the world's elite, for years. Then he got arrested and promptly died. It's unlikely he wasn't commi
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by ptudan 5y ago
You're acting as if getting that blue collar training is something people are rejecting. The people who are truly broke don't have the option of choosing between a history degree and plumber training. They grow up in broken homes
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by ptudan 5y ago
People would move as long as there are similar quality free services. I don't think they could get away with it. Maybe they can charge for archival storage if you break a big threshold that implies you're a power user with $$.
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by ptudan 5y ago
I'd guess that in Europe there are a lot less long-haul drives than in the USA. Those are the ones that can pay big bucks and make O/O efficient. If you're going on a 6 hour round trip there's no reason you can't d

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