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by snapetom 5y ago
English is my second language. I took German throughout middle school and high school. I did alright with it. When I went to college, I decided to switch it up and take French. I could not get it. At all. Part of it was an extremely ea
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by snapetom 5y ago
As with Reddit's Aimee Challenor controversy, I can't see why the hiring company did not do a simple google search of the candidate before moving forward in the hiring process. In both cases, the hiring process is either broken if
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by snapetom 5y ago
True, I am unfairly singling Elon out, but he's put himself at the front of this hype train. There are plenty of other "visionaries" that are in the engine with him.
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by snapetom 5y ago
This reminds me of the first bubble. Everyone on the inside were looking at each other as stock and salaries skyrocketed thinking this was crazy and unsustainable. But we all just shrugged because there was no stopping the hype train. Her
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by snapetom 5y ago
Interesting this is paid software. Given automakers sad security practices, I wonder how hard it is for some hacker to make a kit using off the shelf products and release the software open source.
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by snapetom 5y ago
You've made up some convenient numbers here to create a strawman. If the liquidity is 500k, that's a $17.5k tax. I'm not going to stay at a job for 10 years for 30k less than market. That's a terrible decision. Most p
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by snapetom 5y ago
If I have a liquidity event at my startup, I'm going to be hit with this, right? Like many startup engineers, I've been taking less pay for shares for several years now. Funny, I don't feel like one of the richest 7000 indi
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by snapetom 5y ago
You don’t even check your own math when you make that claim about student fees and stadiums. Stadiums costs nearly a billion to even renovate these days. Assuming a athletic fee of $2k per year at even the largest universities of 40k stud
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by snapetom 6y ago
The NIL question is basically answered at this point - the student athletes do. There's a lot of state legislation making its way through that are allowing its student athletes to profit off their name and likeliness. Legislatures ba
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by snapetom 6y ago
Yes, let's rip out the one major contributor to school spirit. As a non-athlete, sporting events contributed greatly to my college experience and love for my alma mater. I am lucky to have that experience rather than say in Europe wh
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by snapetom 6y ago
Evert P5 school is very profitable with their TV deals. Lesser conferences should also fair very well with TV deals. In terms of sheer numbers of schools, I guess your definition of "few exceptions" hold true. Should the majorit
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by snapetom 6y ago
The definition and notions of "profitable" in college athletics is intentionally elusive and varies wildly. Both sides abuse this obfuscation to their advantage, and the articles you link to, besides being archaic, are some of th
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by snapetom 6y ago
"Literally everything" Love the brutal honesty.
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by snapetom 6y ago
> wonder if you have delusions of grandeur around your abilities which is creating a miss-match of expectation leading you to quit jobs you need to tough it out in. Not a doctor either, but I would agree with this. OP seems to have a d
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by snapetom 6y ago
Speaking as a Day 1 Apple Watch owner, not as a watchOS developer. I think the first generation of Apple Watches were woefully underpowered for what they pitched as a development platform. The resources were very limited. Developers had to
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by snapetom 6y ago
It would have been interesting to discuss the giant leaps of racket materials though. Wood to steel/aluminum in the 70's, and then graphite in the 80s. That would have been a more appropriate discussion. It would be interesting
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by snapetom 6y ago
Op is saying implementing that is a minor inconvenience for Uber. If they wanted you to be able to tell the driver, it would take them a couple of weeks.
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by snapetom 6y ago
"the population adjusted mortality." I don't know why this is so hard to understand, and I'd expect a HN audience to understand how proportions work instead of just parroting hyperbole.
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by snapetom 6y ago
I had a coworker do this all over a Cold Fusion codebase. He also claimed he used to be a dentist in Mexico, so anywhere he had his name, email sigs, code comments, etc., he would sign add "DDS" after his name. Dude was a trip.
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by snapetom 6y ago
I feel like whiteboarding has only gotten popular in the last 10 years, maybe less. I've been at six companies in that span, interviewing at probably 12-14 total. Out of the six, four have been tech startups including the one I am in
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by snapetom 6y ago
This. I myself flat out told recruiters I don't do whiteboard coding. If the interview requires that, don't bother putting me up. I'm more than happy to answer architecture questions, deep dive on what I've done, look
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by snapetom 6y ago
My takeaway from this is at the end of the article where there are links to multiple other drone swarm incidents. This includes an incident at Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant and an anti-ballistic missile battery in Guam. Yikes, this isn&#
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by snapetom 6y ago
I'm shocked, I tell you. /s This is common with any company with a social media strategy, and pretty essential for certain companies in the B2C sector to get off the ground.
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by snapetom 6y ago
Let's be honest. Safety and liability issue is a convenient excuse and in reality, a small part of the reason. The developmental aspect is the real reason. When you're talking about the 7/8/9 grades, the point of Littl
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by snapetom 6y ago
Ah, good to know. Our admins set up Zookeeper with Cassandra, so I had always assumed it was part of the deal.
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by snapetom 6y ago
Dumb statements all around, but clearly you've never been in a Cassandra environment vs Scylla. Scylla is far, far more reliable, easier to get up and running, and required a bit less supervision than Cassandra.
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by snapetom 6y ago
We initially looked at Cassandra. We liked its use case, we liked its scalability. However we also ran into maintenance and setup pains. We ended up going with ScyllaDB, which is a drop in replacement for Cassandra. It’s written in C. M
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by snapetom 6y ago
Meh. About 80% of that article discusses known limitations of Cassandra, which isn't specific to a use case of object store metadata storage. In the little that it actually does specifically talk about that use case, if your object s
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by snapetom 6y ago
Yep, but at some point, the Fry's in Palo Alto did become solely a Fry's Electronics.
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by snapetom 6y ago
I lived near the Palo Alto Fry's around the same time when I was a kid, and I always remembered it as a supermarket with some electronics. It wasn't until college that I got interested in computers and electronics and started to

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