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by rongenre 3y ago
I'll tip for an espresso beverage, because there's skill involved in making a nice cappuccino - at a minimum you need to be sure to foam the milk without boiling it. There was a place (in Berkeley of course) where I was pretty sur
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by rongenre 3y ago
Mine was with Wells Fargo - trying to get automated withdrawals from Apple Savings to Wells. I decided to try again today, we'll see.
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by rongenre 3y ago
It's a very strange account - I tried to set up my auto loan to withdraw from Apple Savings, but it just didn't work. When I deposit money from my bank, it takes a full week for it to be available for withdrawal. Oddly, I have my
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by rongenre 4y ago
https://archive.ph/hSVKU
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by rongenre 4y ago
If price drops in your local market, then you can do pretty well by buying in a high interest rate environment and then refinancing when rates fall. That's a bet that high interest rates aren't the new normal for very long.
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by rongenre 4y ago
There were a ton of people here really into Ivermectin in the late 2020's.
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by rongenre 4y ago
Everytime someone discusses microservices, Conway's law comes up
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by rongenre 4y ago
Churn greater than about 10% is a death sentence for a SaaS business. And it's a metric every investor will ask about and every potential employee ought to.
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by rongenre 4y ago
A perspective: I've had two jobs which started with take-home tests. Honestly, I found them fun - they were maybe on the level of a 2nd or 3rd year undergrad CS homework assignment. The jobs also were the ones I stayed around for the
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by rongenre 4y ago
Best comment: "Think of it as a guerrilla progressive tax system."
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by rongenre 4y ago
PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
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by rongenre 4y ago
This is the kind of place I hope to work at after I hit my retirement "number".
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by rongenre 4y ago
I've been wondering what would be involved in converting my Prius Prime to full EV. In theory it's just a massive battery upgrade, I guess.
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by rongenre 4y ago
I like the taste of meat. I choose not to eat it. So if I want a burger, I'll use a meat alternative.
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by rongenre 4y ago
Microservices for their own sake seems to be a mistake. The big win of microservices seems to be when your dev team is big enough that coordinating everything within a monolith becomes cumbersome. It's more about organizational struct
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by rongenre 4y ago
I tend to think the opposite - companies buying potential competition (like the way FB bought Whatsapp or Instagram) serves the public a lot less than letting these companies grow on their own.
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by rongenre 4y ago
They've been on radar forever, but I used to work in finance and like Ocaml.
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by rongenre 4y ago
CRDT stands for Conflict Free Replicated Datatypes
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by rongenre 4y ago
They've been wanting to legalize slavery for a while /s
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by rongenre 4y ago
I've been having a ton of success using sqlite to analyze structured textfiles. CSV data, etc. Beforehand, I would have either used some hacked up unix tools (grep, cut, awk, uniq, sort), or if things are super complex loaded them int
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by rongenre 4y ago
We're more than 20 years into marijuana being legal with no reefer madness.
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by rongenre 4y ago
I take lessons through verbling.com
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by rongenre 4y ago
Paying your employees on time is the most important thing a business does. If the employer can't do that, they shouldn't be in business at all. In California there are severe penalties for being late and effectively taking an in
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by rongenre 4y ago
This isn't about passing a faang interview as much as joining a startup which gets acquired, and you hang out while your shares vest (bad idea, unless you've got retirement money) That's a matter of luck rather than timing, a
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by rongenre 4y ago
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/NGZb5
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by rongenre 4y ago
When the dotcom crash happened, I was working as a software contractor - I was able to keep finding contracts but: 1) My rate went down to half what it was before the crash, and I was pretty sure the employees who stayed were doing better
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by rongenre 4y ago
I'm an over 50 gen-x er. The protocol is to text first to see if I'm available to chat, and then do the call. Unscheduled phone calls, if you're not my kids, go straight to voicemail.
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by rongenre 4y ago
And I think that's why Meta is getting nailed - it didn't cost $15B to build Roblox, and what does Meta have to show for how they deployed capital? My sense of this is that it requires more imagination than Meta leadership is capa
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by rongenre 4y ago
One of my retirement goals is to redo my math degree - turns out it's really easy to get hooked up with online tutors, and I figure it's totally worth paying $20-$40 an hour to work through a textbook.
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by rongenre 4y ago
That´s my hope as well, however in 2001, I was getting flooded with recruiter messages at the same time that layoffs were going on. For a few months people were having pink-slip parties because they just assumed it was always 1999. It was

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