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by pyb 3y ago
Wouldn't performance per watt be the correct measurement for this class of device ?
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by pyb 3y ago
West Elm has a bit of a reputation in that regard
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by pyb 3y ago
Correct. According to this 1975 catalog https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/ikea-catalogue/1975-ikea-c... , Ikea sofas could be bought for the equivalent of $1000 today. Higher-end sofas would have logically cos
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by pyb 3y ago
My Acer Aspire S5 laptop fan failed, and its replacement fan also failed within days. After that I ran it fanless for ~3 years without problems. Actually, the machine crumbled apart mechanically, but it was probably not caused by the extra
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by pyb 3y ago
When it comes to AI, Apple have been far behind for last 10 years. Not sure what their strategy was. It seems like they've decided not to compete
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by pyb 3y ago
Surrealism had continued to evolve and exists to this day, but it's not labelled as such. For instance David Lynch, and Francis Bacon are to some extent, are some surrealists of recent times.
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by pyb 3y ago
I get new bots trying to follow my account nearly every single day. They all follow the same pattern : young asian lady posting platitudes and holiday pics.
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by pyb 3y ago
Maybe X management actually find value the illusion of activity that bots provide. It's probably not fooling anyone, but...
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by pyb 3y ago
This. Night shift is probably fewer than 5 staff, but even then, 24 hour care is not cheap.
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by pyb 3y ago
Serious suggestion: If interviewers want thoughtful answers, they should try sending the questions in advance.
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by pyb 3y ago
It's the kind of joke that could cause a little spike in heart attacks...
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by pyb 3y ago
> Where is the skill, though? 100's of competing accelerators popped up but none could match these results : https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/
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by pyb 3y ago
For context, here is the misstep Google is hoping never to repeat (2015): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/01/google-so... But now, clearly they've gone too far in the opposite direct
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by pyb 3y ago
A bit extreme, but it's true that too many entrepreneurs seem more interested in finding funding than finding customers...
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by pyb 3y ago
Why not ? Boostrapping + Kickstarter for instance is a well trodden path at this point.
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by pyb 3y ago
They always say that finding great investments is much more important than avoiding bad investments. This is because the upside is unlimited, whereas you cannot lose more than 1X what you put in. However, Techstars always had an adverse sel
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by pyb 3y ago
I would assume that the worldwide yearly cost of data corruption is orders of magnitude larger than the cost of mandating ECC everywhere.
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by pyb 3y ago
I'm not sure why it did, but it's not his fault that this has made the top spot on HN.
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by pyb 3y ago
If picking investors is a bit like a marriage, it's a bit scary. Who'd want to commit to having Garry in their cap table for the next 10 years? I say this as a potential applicant.
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by pyb 3y ago
It's very wide, most US HW startups could probably apply under this RFS
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by pyb 3y ago
But Danny will have a $80k gaping hole in his cash flow for half a year. Some businesses would not survive this
172.
by pyb 3y ago
Savage : "Unable to muster up even a mite of marketing insight, they chose to compete on only one axis: salary..."
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by pyb 3y ago
The author has 30+ years of experience and was applying to jobs paying less than 6 figures a year (USD). His expectation were modest, compared to the average US developer.
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by pyb 3y ago
Move if you have to. Be ready to work 100% onsite.
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by pyb 3y ago
Look up "permission marketing"
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by pyb 3y ago
Geoff Ralston was doing fine? Bring him back?
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by pyb 3y ago
YC shouldn't become a no-go zone for anyone who leans "progressive".
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by pyb 3y ago
Not sure, it's something I heard on Twitter.
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by pyb 3y ago
It's easier to learn from history if we look beyond our own short lives.
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by pyb 3y ago
Agree with the first part. Mark Zuckerberg is not laying people off because "higher interest rates => no one wants to invest in Meta any more". He's laying people off because he has found the excuses he needed. Rightly or

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