sockgrant

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by sockgrant 8y ago
Interesting. I suppose that's possible. It was a single light and it was changing colors. Its movement tended to stay within a specific range. Do you have any thoughts on the white flashes? They were the scary part. Everything was perf
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by sockgrant 8y ago
Got a good video of one? I watched one and it wasn't similar to what I saw.
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by sockgrant 8y ago
Had that same feeling years ago. Went out to a dark place to see the stars. Ended up seeing a light jumping around on the horizon. Then there was a bright white flash that lit up the whole field and forest, but not like lightning. No shadow
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by sockgrant 8y ago
Agree on first, disagree on second. There’s a lot of reasons to work a well paying corporate job. But here-here on the first point: never take stock at startups, kids. It’s never gonna work out well. Wanna work at a startup? Make one.
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by sockgrant 8y ago
I agree. Seems like he didn’t research things well and basically got scammed. There’s no way 1200/month to live in a 13 person 2 bedroom is anything but the most expensive roommate:cost ratio that he could’ve found.
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by sockgrant 8y ago
Can you explain why you don’t think a SWE can be passionate about coding? I don’t think I understand your point.
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by sockgrant 8y ago
Yep. I’ve seen this in a number of startups. Didn’t see it as much at big firms. Reading code is harder than writing code. So, IMO, lazy or slow engineers would rather complain that code should be rewritten than refactored. Or that differen
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by sockgrant 8y ago
What about Warcraft 2 or Red Alert? Those seemed like the precursors to modern rts
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by sockgrant 8y ago
That’s what you got out of the article? I think the point of the article is that we shouldn’t have predatory loan companies that are going after kids who are trying to get higher education.
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by sockgrant 8y ago
Yup. Decisions have to be made, people will always try to influence them. You’re either making the decisions, trying to influence the person that is, or you’re sitting out.
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by sockgrant 8y ago
I have been wfh for 5 years and I have similar recommendations to you (jarvis bamboo, natural lighting, good noise cancelling headphones... dual monitors all that stuff). The only thing I'd add is for ergonomics. Back support when sitt
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Do you support importing from gdax?
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Sure, but it doesn’t need to be in the title
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by sockgrant 9y ago
I’d rather have ads.
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Totally agree. But in some parts of society this is now a detriment that we’ve outgrown. But it’s really hard to fight our nature.
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Revenue would work, probably not profit.
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by sockgrant 9y ago
> they're like lottery tickets that are only mostly, but not completely, up to chance > if you know some quantitative finance [...] > a simpler approach is to do a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation [...] You're looki
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Yeah they always assign a dollar amount to options instead of a % amount which is what really matters. $100,000 in options sounds great but if it’s .01% of options then you’ll have to be part of a monster IPO or sale to get a windfall. Alwa
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by sockgrant 9y ago
How's the eng culture?
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Yet another reason why taking startup stock sucks. Oh? You managed to actually get stock in a startup that seems to be worth something? And you didn't get diluted to a pittance? And the board / founders didn't try to fire you
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Do you know anyone that works there? Is the engineering culture messed up or something?
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Same. I’ve done 10 or so apps in objc/swift and now 4 in RN and even though I know native like the back of my hand I much prefer RN. Jsx and the rendering model of react is 10x better than constraints in code or storyboards. Getting an
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Honest question: if I get paid in USD but then change all my money to British pounds, do I need to pay tax when British pounds increase in value and I trade back to USD? Is this different than BTC?
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Also, creating simplicity is usually much harder than creating complexity.
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by sockgrant 9y ago
I'm one of the absent-minded crowd. I think it's hard for the orderly types to relate to the absent-minded. For them, remembering things comes naturally. They project this onto absent minded types which leaves only one explanation
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Yeah. I’ve heard amazon is really unpopular up there I’m surprised he couldn’t find more to say on the issues.
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by sockgrant 9y ago
You make it sound like they're choosing to ignore the setting. It's software... I'm pretty sure what's happening is a new feature gets built, with animation, and the team responsible forgets that there's a "red
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by sockgrant 9y ago
150,000 views a month is 150000/30/24/60/60 = 0.0578 qps. If there's no heavy processing you shouldn't need to be doing any optimization for the machine's sake at that rate. Slow queries / frontend co
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by sockgrant 9y ago
Yeah. But if he's not the culprit he's the best person to help. Also, unless there's a personal vendetta, the biggest motive for someone doing this is someone that doesn't want to pay the expense of an employee on leave
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by sockgrant 9y ago
The grass is always greener. You're (theoretically) making more money than them and most likely have a more flexible schedule. They're also tied to location. You can get bored of Costa Rica and move tomorrow if you want. There&#x2

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