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by saryant 8y ago
This mirrors my experience. After some false starts with other therapists, I was lucky to stumble on to one who focuses on short-term intensive treatment for anxiety—he specifically avoids long-term talk therapy. His belief is that two-thi
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by saryant 8y ago
San Antonio has found that emergency rooms are ill-equipped for this. Nurses and ER doctors are not generally mental health professionals. The city, county and various other authorities have built a sprawling system of mental health care
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by saryant 8y ago
1) Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor Everything from the tulip craze to the dotcom boom. 2) If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face? by Alan Alda Alan Alda of MASH fame teach
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by saryant 8y ago
I work for Twitter in the US and I took 7 or 8 weeks last year, including taking off all of November. We also get 20 weeks paid parental leave (either mother or father) and it includes adoptions and same-sex couples.
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by saryant 8y ago
Amazon didn't make American Gods, that was produced by Starz.
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by saryant 8y ago
Yeah. I was first employee at a startup that would probably have been the subject of this article if it was still around. dons flame suit We used OAuth to gain access to users' email. We were exceptionally explicit about this—it
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by saryant 8y ago
Someone should read up on Long Term Capital Management.
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by saryant 8y ago
Taken with their "community adjusted EBITDA" and I really want to hear a good-faith explanation of how this situation doesn't end horribly. A valuation divorced from any reality and a company using fantasyland financial metr
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by saryant 8y ago
I never went to Google, I left the startup a year before that happened. That startup was pretty much my first job out of college and I was there for about two years. In that specific case, I believe the startup was worth the opportunity co
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by saryant 8y ago
I worked here during the years when the stock was in the toilet and managed to get some retention grants that have turned into a tidy sum. Plus I joined as a SWE1 so there are two promos in there.
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by saryant 8y ago
That's where I am. I'm pushing $300k total comp at Twitter as a senior SWE out in Colorado. Before this I was first employee of a startup that eventually sold to Google. Even if I'd stuck around for the acquisition I'd
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by saryant 8y ago
There is, mostly on the merchant side and generally only with cash-equivalent gift cards. Buy enough of those and your bank is likely to shut you down. FlyerTalk is full of threads about this. There used to be a number of easy ways to buy
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by saryant 8y ago
Cash-equivalent gift cards.
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by saryant 8y ago
> would not mesh well with a university job in some other way, such as, being enthusiastic about tattoos and vaping cannabis extracts all day. My experience from dating someone at Caltech is that this would not, in any possible way, be a
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by saryant 8y ago
This really is the sweet spot for software engineers right now IMO. I'm doing the same in Colorado and making about the same as you in both salary and equity comp. Quick bike ride to work, housing is expensive but still attainable ou
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by saryant 8y ago
Enron? Her father did work there after all...
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by saryant 8y ago
(I'm sure @mgirdley will show up here in a moment) I used to live and work in San Antonio. Five years ago it was beginning to show signs of a tech scene. Geekdom had been around for a couple of years and acted as the hub of the commu
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by saryant 8y ago
That's not quite true. Both Akka and Flink use Java serialization in many key aspects.
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by saryant 8y ago
Growing up in the western half of the US, I virtually never heard about Lyme growing up. (To be clear, I don't think it's a conspiracy, it's just not nearly as common in the west) Then some of my family moved east and it se
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by saryant 8y ago
Unless you actually maintain full payment account numbers, PCI compliance pretty much boils down to "I pinky-swear I'm not doing anything wrong" and the rules have virtually no teeth.
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by saryant 8y ago
I don't think it's obvious that 3 of 7 letters in "mangent" are silent (as in "ils mangent").
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by saryant 8y ago
I remember getting a call from Dane when we first got DSL from Sonic.net living in Benicia. He wanted to ask if the service was up and running to our satisfaction. Great company, miss having them as my ISP.
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by saryant 8y ago
I'm largely referring to RPC calls, not DB queries. Many of those calls won't even be to services you control and may well be HTTP calls to other companies.
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by saryant 8y ago
Doesn't do much good if you have to fail out of an entire data center.
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by saryant 8y ago
All comes down to uptime. One box can’t be distributed across multiple racks in the data center to guard against downtime if a switch crashes. Never mind that—one box can’t be deployed across multiple data centers. If you deploy to multiple
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by saryant 9y ago
Things have changed in recent years, but for decades retailers have sold goods without knowing if payment would clear—they accepted checks.
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by saryant 9y ago
40% of NYT's revenue comes from ads. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/new-york-times-c...
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by saryant 9y ago
New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe? Those are three publications that have sent shockwaves around the world with their privately-funded investigative journalism.
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This assumes that the regulations successfully achieve their goals. Otherwise we've fallen into the old trap "we need to do something, this is something, therefore we must do it". There is ample possibility that the unintend

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