rtlfe

18 ms·

211.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> I wonder why they aren’t paid in vesting stock. Most people would far prefer cash
212.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> They certainly don't need to understand how it works They must need to know something about it in order to verify that it does the malicious thing correctly. It's hard enough to get code right when there's a whole team o
213.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> Another off the top of my head - competitors. Car manufacturers do plenty of shady things, but this would be ridiculously over the top. I don't think that would be a serious concern at all.
214.
by rtlfe 6y ago
What kind of position was that for? Must not have been a generalist software engineer if there was only one slot available.
215.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> Either you're good enough to maintain at least that level of comp, and you stay, or you're out within a year or two. Tech companies have explicit up-or-out policies for lower-level engineers. I don't think the top tradin
216.
by rtlfe 6y ago
Looks like not much has changed yet, but I'm still really interested to see how things are different 5-10 years from now. If big tech companies like Facebook actually follow through with shifting large numbers of tech workers to fully
217.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> That said, the city does not have visible homeless or crime problems of most large US cities. Why not? Are there support systems to give people shelter and reduce the need for crimes of desperation?
218.
by rtlfe 6y ago
I agree, but it seems like "poor area" means something different in SF. Most cities don't have any areas where the sidewalks are littered with needles and human feces.
219.
by rtlfe 6y ago
According to this, Seattle rents doubled from 2010 to 2016 and have been fairly flat since then. SF seems to follow basically the same curve: up 1.5x from 2010 to 2016 then flat-ish. https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-i
220.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> People are leaving because quality of life has fallen dramatically and the only thing keeping people in SF was their offices. What are these quality of life issues, and how have other cities avoided them?
221.
by rtlfe 6y ago
Well that's super creepy. Looks like an episode of SVU.
222.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> I think you're a little confused... FWIW starting a conversation that way is going to put people in a defensive mindset and make them less likely to properly consider what you have to say.
223.
by rtlfe 6y ago
Since this is an Illinois state law, would the number be limited to people who have used Instagram while in Illinois?
224.
by rtlfe 6y ago
Are there meaningful differences between this and the Rutgers saliva test that received emergency use authorization in April? https://www.rutgers.edu/news/new-rutgers-saliva-test-coronav...
225.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> treating it as another optional video to sit through That is obviously not what happened here
226.
by rtlfe 6y ago
That's true. A large proportion of people who are extraordinarily good at anything will never acknowledge how good they are but instead will talk about how much there is left to learn.
227.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> if I saw a developer who I knew to be very competent fail to quickly ramp up on a very different language in a professional setting, I probably wouldn't revise my assessment of them being "good." For me, it would depend
228.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> But by their own admission, they were crap at C++. They didn't really know memory management at all, and they didn't really get the whole "ethos" of C++. That seems normal and expected. Why would these people know m
229.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> If it is a spectrum, why keep insisting to put arbitrary labels on parts of it. Yeah the title of the article is "spectrum" but the contents are about a dichotomy.
230.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> The really lean startups want to get places quickly and blending together a dependency soup is usually the most efficient way to get there. More established companies sometimes have the resources to allow more R&D and home-grown li
231.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> If your goal is to ship a product, there is no reason to reinvent anything that is not your core business. It's certainly not that clear cut because most of the largest tech companies primarily ship products but also have invented
232.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> "$language developer" is only slightly more useful I would argue that this is not a useful distinction at all. Any good developer should be able to pick up any language quickly. At the companies where I've worked, even t
233.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> Changing between these fields can be like starting your first job out of college I don't think that's true unless you've done a bad job at learning in your previous job. There are lots of thing you should be learning tha
234.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> if I take the APK and install it on my non Google Play Android phone is it considered piracy? Indeed. And meanwhile, the same apps are completely free on iOS.
235.
by rtlfe 6y ago
It's still better for FB to take a cut than for both FB and Apple to take cuts.
236.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> or do vendors have to pay for Google Apps which I doubt would be the case. They do: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/17999366/google-eu-andro...
237.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> The 300 lb combat robot in the trunk Please explain?
238.
by rtlfe 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! I had no idea that people were so reasonable about cars back then.
239.
by rtlfe 6y ago
> There is no where in manhattan you can park for free for any duration greater than a day or two: Most blocks in NYC have street sweeping twice a week. Some people move their cars to another block the night before. Some sit in their car
240.
by rtlfe 6y ago
There are so few cars parked on the streets!

More ›