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by spyspy 7y ago
Made a special point to request an Air instead of a Pro when I started my new job recently. Office manager was confused and insisted everyone else was using Pros but I stayed strong. No regrets.
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by spyspy 7y ago
Was this fairing caught by their recovery ship or did they restore one that splashed down?
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by spyspy 7y ago
Implementing a simple load balancer in Go was actually a take home interview problem for me once and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed making it.
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by spyspy 7y ago
I've had multiple calls where the interviewer obviously didn't look at my resume beforehand and rejected me for not having enough years of work history or previous experience of a specific technology. Both are fair reasons but it&
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by spyspy 7y ago
Apple and Microsoft have basically proven that you can jump major version numbers and no one will really care.
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by spyspy 7y ago
HBO does the same thing, for every single episode you watch.
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by spyspy 7y ago
If I ever start my own company I will outright ban ping pong, but a pool table would be a must in my office. It's an amazing game to take a break with, I find the noise relaxing, and people can have a full conversation while playing.
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by spyspy 7y ago
You're not a fan of dual voting classes? Then I assume you're not investing in We when they IPO. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-11/wework-gov...
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by spyspy 7y ago
Needs a 2011 tag. The article in question is from 2009. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.htm...
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by spyspy 7y ago
Man if I could just work there a month and then quit with 18 months of guaranteed paid severance...
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by spyspy 7y ago
They're a $17 billion company. They'll be just fine.
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by spyspy 7y ago
Letting one engineer obtain so much domain knowledge that they become a single point of failure in an organization strikes me as strictly a management failure. His manager ignored the bus factor and then when he/she realized it was an
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by spyspy 7y ago
When I worked for a research department of the government years back, I was told that IBM contracts were banned in an officially unofficial manner from too many botched projects in the past.
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by spyspy 7y ago
I appreciate Schwab's other retail banking services, and like having my traditional checking/savings accounts under one roof. Makes moving money in and out of my brokerage account fast and simple. They have free checks and ATM fee
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by spyspy 7y ago
Because we’ve railed on “programmers” for so long everyone wants to be a “software engineer” which more often than not leads to equally insane architectures. No you don’t need multi-region availability. No you don’t need to rewrite this in
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by spyspy 7y ago
I’ll take the other side and say some of the newer (literal) bells and whistles are more a distraction than a life saver. Properly adjusted mirrors should have no blind spots - I don’t need lights on the mirrors constantly flashing on the h
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by spyspy 7y ago
here’s an article on the economics. it doesn’t assert 2 weeks but it might not be wildly far off https://qz.com/1325064/scooters-might-actually-have-good-uni...
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by spyspy 7y ago
I’d expect to see more consolidation in the market in the next few years as Bird/Lime/Uber/Lyft gobble up the smaller players.
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by spyspy 7y ago
That’s what I first thought as well. They’ve literally bought their way back into the SF market after being snubbed.
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by spyspy 7y ago
Sorry it wasn't meant to be inflammatory, brevity is hard. But has any fitness fad ever threatened the cable industry? I don't see anyone cancelling their netflix subscription in order to afford this thing. But based on all the re
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by spyspy 7y ago
I see your point that, for you, there's an appeal. But with so many comments disagreeing with me and saying there's "tons" of market I'm inclined to maintain my point. I think the market (and evidenced by the way it
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by spyspy 7y ago
> seems to appeal to the spin class crowd This is the reason I don't see this as a good long term investment. The market seems to be people who are already really into spin classes and pay the premiums they demand. To them, having t
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by spyspy 7y ago
I didn't say there was zero market. Obviously people are buying the things. But this is an IPO we're talking about. I'm questioning the long term growth of what I see as an expensive niche product.
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by spyspy 7y ago
My sides. I have friends working there that have tried getting me to apply. Glassdoor reviews indicated their backend interview is unnecessarily difficult and I have little faith in their business model. How many people are willing to spend
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by spyspy 7y ago
We were told that for tax purposes, employees are only allowed to work in states/countries that already have an established office. My company has offices all over the place so it's not particularly restrictive but still a strict
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by spyspy 7y ago
> So, your code isn’t working, what do you do? Stare blankly at the monitor? This always gets me. When the interviewer asks a question, the correct answer is literally never, “let me think about it quietly for a moment”. This is one of t
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by spyspy 7y ago
likely just due to the age of appengine vs. all other gcp products
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by spyspy 7y ago
The newest generation of AppEngine runs on this as well. In fact Cloud run and 2nd Gen GAE are exactly the same under the hood afaik. It allowed Google to ditch the custom APIs and toolchains they forced apps to use in order to keep their i
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by spyspy 7y ago
I’ve often wondered this myself. Google has literally thousands of engineers working on search alone. I can’t even fathom what they’re all doing. And then what is everyone filling their time with?
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by spyspy 7y ago
This seems way better than the other proposals. pkg/errors solved every complaint I had about errors years ago.

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