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by sbilstein 7y ago
Huh? I lived through hurricane Andrew. Building codes were updated. People were significantly more ready for the string of hurricanes that came through 1999-2005. Miami is still gonna be underwater due to climate change but the response to
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by sbilstein 7y ago
I was wrong. Been in isolation now for 9 days.
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by sbilstein 7y ago
Yea. Trump even pardoned a special forces killer against the wishes of fellow vets, the military, etc. our respect for veterans is flimsy.
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by sbilstein 7y ago
RLS is one of the shittiest things about Postgraphile and why I decided against for one project and am doing my best to root it out of a current project. RLS is difficult to unit test, to configure with flags, not portable to secondary stor
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by sbilstein 7y ago
I suppose but as an existentialist/atheist there are dice rolls that govern my entire life and most are not under my control. Using that belief as a tool to cleave apart guilt, shame, and blame is handy. The same “dice roller” in the s
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by sbilstein 7y ago
I didn’t do AA but did AlAnon for children of alcoholics recovering from trauma. Despite what people think, the 12 step program is super light on the spirituality stuff and very atheist friendly. As a recovery group AlAnon was super useful
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by sbilstein 7y ago
Real talk: is the comma in “hello, world!” necessary?
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by sbilstein 7y ago
Honestly the defaults are really nice. I rolled my own for several projects and then just used create react app for this startup and forgot about my build pipeline. Once I ejected it took a little hacking to get the index.html to work with
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by sbilstein 7y ago
It’s not a bad service at all and the staff are lovely and have fantastic events! However, if you incorporate with them have a lawyer review your docs and ensure you hit all timelines around filing correctly: buying your equity, submitting
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by sbilstein 7y ago
Cookie cutter legal advice is a landmine/footgun for a business. Even Stripe Atlas will lead you down a dangerous path if you don't check with a lawyer when incorporating. Don't fuck around with business legalities, it ain&#x
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by sbilstein 7y ago
omg finally a positive post on moving to San Francisco! Sure it has it's problems but the Bay Area is truly lovely in so many ways.
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by sbilstein 7y ago
As always, the best time to join a startup is when it’s raised several rounds and you are at least a staff engineer. You’ll get a million or more over a four year vest and much higher chances of IPO which if it’s good, it may 2-10x your sto
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by sbilstein 7y ago
for topics that are well established, I highly recommend using a textbook! Since a college or grad level course is intended to give someone a lot of background, historical and otherwise, they tend to cover a wide range of information and ca
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by sbilstein 7y ago
lol literally the opposite of his twitter feed in which he revels in telling people what to think and do. that's the opposite of noob mentality. pg jumped the shark.
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by sbilstein 7y ago
there is this latent assumption here that men are reliable breadwinners and/or that they generally do not use their economic power in this arrangement to abuse their partners and families. Women working is a way of evening out the po
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by sbilstein 7y ago
Quit your job and start something and holy shit you will come to realize the lotus is even more extreme than you thought. The worst is finding out how many, or probably most, raise their pre-seed entirely on connections, the ones you don&#x
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by sbilstein 7y ago
In tech we talk about automation like it’s an inevitable thing but for as long as the cost of developing robots to do all of these jobs is much more than hiring humans it’s not happening. Even that stupid pizza oven Zune is all about won’t
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by sbilstein 7y ago
Found a write-up from 2017 in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/echo-... > In the intervening decades, Echo has never changed its primitive interface. To navigate wi
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by sbilstein 7y ago
The safest risk reward ratio in terms of career development, networking, and financial gain is to work at a startup that is in their explosive growth stage. You will likely get shares valued at some multiple of 100k. Make sure you understan
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by sbilstein 7y ago
100% Companies may have really good reasons to break old APIs. I’ve done this before...retiring an old framework and set of APIs that was inherently much less secure than what the bulk of customers needed.
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by sbilstein 7y ago
Thank you for understanding where I'm coming from and sharing this point. I've def had friends who corroborate this experience as well.
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by sbilstein 7y ago
False dichotomy. Some people may feel the weight of group membership more than others. Just cause group membership is the cause does not imply there is no personal solution. It’s both. I’m not gonna solve this for everyone but I can solve i
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by sbilstein 7y ago
lol I just moved to NYC and you bet I’m not gonna say LatinX in a fucking bodega. When in Rome.
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by sbilstein 7y ago
The best athletes in the world still get nervous before games. Same with musicians. I don’t feel meta bad about getting nervous. It just sucks to feel nervous!
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by sbilstein 7y ago
For real, I've looked into this and in LatAm some people prefer Latines as the neutral collective noun. I like that myself cause I'm down with gender neutrality but everyone thinks it's a fucking typo so I give up. Outside of
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by sbilstein 7y ago
Huh? I'm not sure where you are reading that. I'm saying that any internalized biases, anxieties, etc are deeply personal whether you are of an in group or an out group. It's totally a mental thing for me to get psyched out i
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by sbilstein 7y ago
In my experience, making an interview less biased is not about color of skin. It's about comfort and acknowledging how these anxieties creep up. At big companies I've worked at, we coached interviewers to do at least 5 minutes of
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by sbilstein 7y ago
We do a shared code editor and VoIP. It really helps to not be able to see any facial expressions IMO. I've done like a hundred or so of these interviews.
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by sbilstein 7y ago
That's not at all what I said. I related a very personal set of anxieties (largely irrational) that I feel as a minority. Plenty of white people are uncomfortable around minorities. Do they all love that feeling? I'm confident mos
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by sbilstein 7y ago
I too hate the term LatinX but it's become the preferred term around so many I know that I'd rather just conform than argue about it. Just cause I used it doesn't mean I endorse it.

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