spoonjim

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by spoonjim 4y ago
I’ve come around on Stephen Wolfram. His puffery essentially hurts nobody besides perhaps those close to him, it’s easy to tune out, while his ambition has produced this really wonderful piece of software.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is the funniest data science article I have seen possibly ever.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is the funniest data science article I have seen possibly ever.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I think the fact that this doesn't evaluate your prose is a major plus. Grammarly is OK if you don't speak English very well and need someone to tell you what to do. But these are exercises for fluent writers to get better, and th
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Certainly, today, an on-shore American developer has more ability to generate business impact than an offshore Southeast Asian developer. But I think that's more because of the bias-laden and chummy way that companies are managed, whic
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Either your wife is a massive outlier in skills, or the company just isn’t working her hard as they could be. As remote work opens jobs to the broader world, Americans are quickly going to find out that if they can’t generate the business i
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don't know where you're at that the compensation is the only lever that matters to you. I have a job where my compensation is perhaps average+, but the flexibility is insane, I can take as much time off as I need when I need for
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by spoonjim 4y ago
then they can just switch jobs again. It's like a mortgage, keep refinancing until you hit bottom.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It’s the company’s fault for not working their employees to the bone. If they did, this would be impossible.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is more about situations where one person would benefit from the relationship and the other person couldn’t care less. You think Travis Kalanick cares if someone pitching him says “he’s not worth my time?” But that person benefits a lo
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Sure, but the richer you are the less it happens, because you have staff to take care of kids, etc. Although I have noticed that kids appear on camera at the most senior and junior levels of the company. If I am working with an low-level as
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by spoonjim 4y ago
"Get better people" is not a talent strategy at scale unless you are also going to "pay them a lot more" which means that your corporate strategy also needs to include "make a ton of fucking money." Nice if you
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It shouldn't be, but it is. So the lesson when a company ghosts you shouldn't be one of personal insult (although it's hard to avoid that feeling), it should be "that company is poorly led and/or managed."
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The marker of low socioeconomic status in a remote environment is disruptions to your video call. Kids crying, people walking through your background, people yelling, neighborhood dogs barking, etc. is something that doesn't get into y
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I find it funny to think of the old school Atlantic reader who doesn’t have an email account and is a member the Princeton Class of 1958 seeing “so smol” and wondering what it means.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The point of a Type A is that it can fit an SD card, so if you need a card in a remote location you can get it conveniently.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The idea that hyphenation is “better” is pure opinion. I hate hyphenation and much prefer ragged text or justified with big whitespaces.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The traction has to be able to be turned into money -- a consumer "rate the celebrity" app could have millions of users but not really be investable. But I haven't seen any cases where an investor says, "They have real t
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I'm not sure why this was written and I didn't enjoy reading it. But I'm glad to live in a world that sustains the creation of experimental pieces like this made freely available to all.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
> nothing to do with your actual business or business model or innovative technology or hand-wavy "disruption" or large addressable market size or traction I would take out "traction" from this. If a company has stron
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by spoonjim 4y ago
... and? A car lasts a hell of a lot longer than 68,300 miles.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Are there any high functioning large companies that use Linux/LibreOffice/Zimbra? I suppose governments rarely aspire to be high functioning.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I can tell you that most people do not believe that trans X are “ACTUALLY X” or that transgender women should be in competitive womens sports. It’s like, OK, you want to be a woman, you do you but don’t get into my women-only spaces. But mo
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by spoonjim 4y ago
No idea what this company is trying to be anymore.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Every interaction with everyone has the potential for death. Police officers are not any more dangerous than many other things that are not widely reviled.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I guess I just wonder, why give any extra trust to a device just because it’s in your company network? Why not have specific authorizations for specific operations? A device on your company network could be pwned by anyone.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
They could permanently lose every customer who has ever sent them a Feedback and the CFO wouldn’t even notice
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The people who use NextDoor deserve the worst experience on the Internet
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You can get a misdemeanor for a lot of things. Public urination, drunk and disorderly conduct, soliciting a prostitute, etc.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There are three levels of anonymity: anonymity to the general public, to Apple, and to a state-level actor. Anonymity to the general public is very easy, incorporate a company behind some of the shell corporation mumbo jumbo that any corpor

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