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by pyb 4y ago
> At any company past Series C, you should know this before talking to anyone. In a logical world, this would be the case. But currently, I am looking at a Series B company and having serious doubts that they have PMF.
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by pyb 4y ago
Perhaps because people are starting to draw their own conclusions after working remotely for 24 months?
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by pyb 4y ago
Agree that it was poor form of lettergram to non-sequitur your post, as an opportunity to bash their own colleagues. This kind of interaction is normally more prevalent on Twitter than it is here.
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by pyb 4y ago
That's why people should not be forced to pair program. (and I personally favor pairing)
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by pyb 4y ago
I don't know if this stuff is genuinely indispensable and novel, or if they're preparing to create a patent thicket around VR ? What would industry insiders think ?
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Tinypilot Month 23 – Oh Boy, the Redesign(mtlynch.io)
1 points by pyb 4y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 4y ago
Plenty of great developers with a prominent public profile appear to be under-employed.
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by pyb 4y ago
The Leetcode system is incredibly self-perpetuating for some reason.
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by pyb 4y ago
Have you heard of Amazon's "LP" interviews? It seems to be a little bit like that. The challenge there is to tell a number of well-rehearsed stories.
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by pyb 4y ago
The premise of this discussion is that those 1000 experiments would likely to be very scientifically vaaluable.
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by pyb 4y ago
True, but sadly, if you defund Big Physics, it doesn't mean the money will go to 1000 experiments. It's more likely that nothing will be funded. Same reason why nobody was able to effectively compete with YC: it's a lot less
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by pyb 4y ago
What you say is 100% true. It's a bit sad nonetheless, companies often hire specialists when what they really need is a great generalist. Few orgs understand their own needs very well. It's also a difficult exercise to the general
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by pyb 4y ago
Concur. I've seen more than one company self-destruct, because they weren't able to address crucial people problems. This was caused by their management prioritizing their own comfort at all times... Said people problems were ther
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by pyb 4y ago
What do you mean? Can you no longer find candidates who learned to code by building things at home?
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by pyb 4y ago
Always annoying to hear machine learning people speak of "tensors"...
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by pyb 4y ago
The teachers I had were never activists in the classroom ! But this was a different era.
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by pyb 4y ago
What's interesting is that today, when I look up the few teachers who seemed to really care, they had significant activities besides teaching, for instance as activists.
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by pyb 4y ago
Primary school was good. However, in middle and high school, most teachers didn't seem to have much interest in teaching. Too many teachers have picked the wrong profession, and are in denial about it.
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by pyb 4y ago
Is there a general cryptography text that also covers zero-knowledge proofs, etc?
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Deep Tech Deficit: Why more aren't starting technically ambitious companies(notes.michaeldempsey.me)
2 points by pyb 4y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 4y ago
On top of all this, let's not forget the lipsync issues.
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by pyb 4y ago
The stock market is down and inflation is up, but are we really in an economic crisis just yet, or just predicting one in the future ?
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by pyb 4y ago
This ongoing debate on productivity at small startups vs large companies will never be resolved by argumentation. But as we can see from this thread, corporate engineers overwhelmingly outnumber early-stage startup engineers. Therefore, the
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by pyb 4y ago
Such a license is a big clue, but not quite what I was enquiring about...
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by pyb 4y ago
I haven't followed the announcements CPU side - do Apple clearly claim that they designed their own CPU (with an ARM instruction set)?
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by pyb 4y ago
Apple's claim is that they designed it themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Apple_M1#[dubious_%E2%80%...
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by pyb 4y ago
As Benedict Evans said, Elon breaks our mental model of productive people because he is a bullshitter who delivers.
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by pyb 4y ago
It sounds like this should be the case in theory, but the reality is the other way around!
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by pyb 4y ago
What makes you think he didn't try to change jobs? It's not like tech interviews are designed to detect this kind of talent.
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by pyb 4y ago
Some say, in this thread and elsewhere, that this is representative of how many teams at MS work.

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