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by robbrit 7y ago
I use Python extensively at work for one main reason: Tensorflow. We're an ML shop, and Python has the most well-developed tools for ML. Ruby doesn't have anything that even compares to numpy in quality, let alone all the things b
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by robbrit 8y ago
> I'll be voting for what seems to be the losing party this election. You might be surprised. Last election we saw spots of orange and red appear in what was once always blue. Demographic change appears to be moving against the Cons
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by robbrit 8y ago
You're right that YouTube is not obligated by law to recommend videos. They do however follow their internal guidelines, which try to keep the platform open to ideas. Some of those ideas are distasteful to the majority of the employees
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by robbrit 8y ago
They are expanding outside SF. Amazon's HQ seems to have deliberately avoided SF; Google has expanded significantly in Austin, Boulder, NYC. Uber has expanded significantly in Pittsburgh. The challenge is that remote offices are diffic
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by robbrit 8y ago
The first few paragraphs remind me of a book called "Your Money or Your Life", which provides a simple way of expense tracking that can help build up savings. I recommend it for anybody who likes money.
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by robbrit 8y ago
Not to mention that for some people, noise-cancelling headphones are nausea-inducing. I had this after a single day of using Bose's headphones, despite not getting nauseous from other common things (reading in a car, roller coasters, e
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by robbrit 8y ago
Seems like you either need to build off an existing platform, or have a company bankroll it. Rust also falls into this category.
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by robbrit 8y ago
They should have tried different songs. Stairway to Heaven might not be upbeat enough for cheese, maybe Immigrant Song or Black Dog would be better.
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by robbrit 8y ago
Value-added actually does depend on where you are: in-person interactions are significantly more valuable than remote ones. Network effects from who you know (which generally depends on where you are) matter. Interactions with creative peop
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by robbrit 8y ago
It's been so long since I've heard about faxing that reading the headline I thought "Faxing" was some fancy new tech that all the kids are playing with.
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by robbrit 8y ago
> perhaps it's possible for them to get enough A shares to outvote the super-vote B shares Nope. The company has control over how many class A and B shares exist, and currently between Sergey, Larry, and Eric they control over 50% o
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by robbrit 8y ago
Yep I definitely would not consider going from Silicon Valley to SF an "exodus". Here I was expecting them to be fleeing to actual different places like Seattle, Austin, Boulder, etc.
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by robbrit 8y ago
> each of those Google (former) employees have shares They have class C shares, which do not have any voting rights. Shareholders without voting rights have absolutely no power to influence policy. > If they lose more employees it can
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by robbrit 8y ago
I think what will end up happening is Google employees will just self-sort until there aren't enough people left in the company to oppose projects like this. People who are strongly opposed on moral grounds will leave, further strength
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by robbrit 8y ago
I'm in the same boat as refurb, however these are just anecdotal experiences. It's possible that we're in rich areas (I know I am) and so the quality of the care reflects the clientele. In Canada it's more of a one-size-
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by robbrit 8y ago
Goes to show that health care is not the only factor that people consider when starting a business. It's possible that other factors are significantly more important, enough so that people will start businesses in the US despite the po
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by robbrit 8y ago
They're not all-consuming, but they provide enough distraction that it's difficult to have long periods of focus to make things.
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by robbrit 8y ago
If you can afford a garage in the Bay Area, you can't afford to run a startup because you're too busy paying your mortgage ;)
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by robbrit 8y ago
Sounds like Toptal has some good employment agreements. One restriction keeping people from making, side hustles, etc. are the onerous rules that larger tech companies place on their employees. There are agreements around non-competition, i
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by robbrit 8y ago
OSSU has a good curriculum based on free MOOCs: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science Required courses in the curriculum require MOOCs, but they include a lot of the same book resources as further reading topics. Th
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by robbrit 8y ago
You're right, a lot of these metrics aren't as useful for startups and small companies as they are for bigcos. > Having an "objective" process is near impossible You're completely right here, however there are pl
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by robbrit 8y ago
A take from someone who asks these types of questions in interviews on a regular basis: 1) Don't just memorize this list. The fact that this list is publicly available means that we know not to ask these specific questions. 2) This is
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by robbrit 8y ago
It's easy to argue this perspective when talking about iPhones, significantly more difficult when talking about appliances like fridges or stoves. People aren't going to say, "oh, fridges are not very repairable, so I'm
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by robbrit 8y ago
You're assuming a false dichotomy between amazing-but-unrepairable vs. crappy-but-repairable products. It's possible to have amazing-but-repairable products, they just don't do it because it's less profitable to do so. &
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by robbrit 8y ago
It's great that they highlight the effects of targeted advertising on eating behaviour: https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/healthy-eating-recommendatio... Definitely good to see a government organization being aware
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by robbrit 8y ago
You'd be surprised at how much of automotive development is just regular software engineering. Sure, the 5% of their skills that are automotive-specific aren't much use, but the rest of their skills are certainly useful - especial
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by robbrit 8y ago
> HTTP/2 has header compression because of the RAM limitations of networking devices in the late 1970s. And this is why engineering is interesting. Your design choices can have lots of unintended side effects.
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by robbrit 8y ago
I'm often skeptical of these claims. In the SF Bay Area I can understand why this might be the case, since there are a lot more big tech companies shelling out huge salaries, but the Seattle area only really has two big ones: Amazon an
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by robbrit 8y ago
This is precisely why when dealing with bugs I advise juniors to avoid asking the question, "what changed?" Gettier cases are just one problem that you can face when asking that question. Instead I usually tell them to do it the p
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by robbrit 8y ago
To be fair if I was in their shoes and had the cash cow that is Steam, I probably wouldn't care too much about maintaining franchises either. Games are expensive to build and profit isn't guaranteed; a distribution platform that i

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