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by smattiso 6y ago
Namely something after yourself is tacky. But what should buildings be named after? Famous scientists? Planets? Feeney seems like an awesome guy but sadly in 100 years nobody will know his name!
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by smattiso 6y ago
This guy is my hero. I do hope he was able to enjoy spending some of his money on himself and his family though. I have no problem with billionaires who contribute a lot to society living well as long as they aren't hording resources (
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Ask HN: Why are WYSIWYG editors not de facto?
2 points by smattiso 6y ago|0 comments
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by smattiso 6y ago
I'm buying long dated puts on Apple personally. Here is my investment thesis: In a nutshell my belief is that Apple will have a few quarters of declining revenue and that is going to torpedo their market cap. * Apple is 100% reliant on
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by smattiso 6y ago
No problem with that. The problem I have is with selling people bullshit golden promises of wealth when that is mathematically impossible given the cap table. Just don't even offer equity at all at that point so employees aren't d
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by smattiso 6y ago
The problem is that some people need money and can't say no. That's why anybody works for minimum wage... The executives and investors and FAANG engineers have all made good money and seen decent RSU terms, you can't pull the
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by smattiso 6y ago
I've been there. My personal take is that the day in and day out life of a coder sucks, big time. Humans weren't designed for it. If you are inventing something novel and new and actually 'engineering' then that's d
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Ask HN: How to disconnect emotions from hiring decisions?
2 points by smattiso 6y ago|4 comments
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by smattiso 6y ago
Why did you set this goal? Could you have picked any random 30 year goal and been as happy or was this something that naturally spoke to you? Are you still excited by it?
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by smattiso 6y ago
I mostly agree with what you have to you say. Clearly you have been through this and have gained a lot of wisdom along the way. We are all products of our environments and our goals arise from this. People who grow up in the Bay Area, or wh
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by smattiso 6y ago
I think 'crap job' can be multifaceted. For instance take someone making a million a year at a hedge fund with a strategy of frontrunning public pension fund trades. To some that is a dream job, to others that is a waste of life.
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by smattiso 6y ago
I agree with what you are saying. The "tough-love" message is usually to "suck it up" and stay where you are. "Life sucks, get over it." My point is if you are smart enough to be in a FAANG you are smart enough
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by smattiso 6y ago
Don't listen to this guy. You don't have to change your own identity and your own personal compass to fit your company. You also don't have to succumb to the "starving Ethiopians" fallacy and take whatever crap job
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by smattiso 6y ago
Source: Worked at 3 different FAANGs for nearly 10 years. What you are describing exists in almost every big company. I assume that you are working on a mature product with a big code base. In these projects the pace of development is slow
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by smattiso 6y ago
For me it's about stopping me from myself. Willpower is nice but not giving yourself the chance is even better. A drug addict with willpower can keep some coke and not use it, but it's better to not have it in the first place. To
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by smattiso 6y ago
I disagree. Humans are creatures of habit and environment definitely plays into that. Change the environment and you change the habits. Take someone from the Midwest suburbs where they have to drive everywhere and move them to NYC. Instantl
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by smattiso 6y ago
I don't think I'm getting security updates but frankly I haven't checked. I'm not able to open web pages with my version so I think my risk is pretty minimal aside from some exploitable silent SMS or Gmail bug. The phone
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by smattiso 6y ago
Don't be, you run it through a debloat script and it kills 99% of all that junk. I posted in a top level comment.
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by smattiso 6y ago
"- Like most (all?) Android phones, you cannot uninstall a bunch of the useless shovelware it comes with, like Google Play Movies." I thought this as well, but you are wrong. adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 $PACKAGE_NAME
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by smattiso 6y ago
Except you can't call an uber or listen to spotify with this.
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by smattiso 6y ago
I have been using this as my daily minimalist phone for over 4 months. I love it, with some caveats. I bought it for a few reasons: * Tired of lugging around a monsterous phone. * Not allowing my Internet/web addiction to follow me eve
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by smattiso 6y ago
How long until Seattle drops?
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by smattiso 6y ago
Dude, (Dudette?) your thoughts are very similar to mine. The world is a big place with a lot of possibilities and this is totally possible. DM me.
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Ask HN: How to get free AWS, Azure, GCP credits?
4 points by smattiso 7y ago|5 comments
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by smattiso 7y ago
So what if it was Ebola? Should we still allow air travel? Cruise ships? etc. People will self regulate to a certain extent but the idea that we kill a bunch of people so we can engage in more or less meaningful activities is pretty dumb.
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by smattiso 7y ago
What lives are being ruined exactly? Some accountant for GrubHub who misses his paycheck? People still have food lodging etc, it just sucks that our "economy" is dependent on 100% of the working age people working 100% of the time
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by smattiso 7y ago
Why don't you believe that to be true? There are a myriad of ways for a combustion powered helicopter to fail. Just look at how many billionaires have been killed in helicopter flights. Electric motors do not fail as often as combustio
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by smattiso 7y ago
The likelihood of failure is much lower with an eVTOL than a conventional helicopter. Additionally a BRS chute could work with eVTOLs in a way it couldn't with a normal heli.
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by smattiso 7y ago
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by smattiso 7y ago
Exactly my point. Curing cancer is a more noble pursuit and a hell of a lot harder work and higher skilled than javascript programming. Somehow we programmers think knowing how to reverse a linkedlist and get hired by a FAANG automatically

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