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by sulam 8y ago
I’d like you to try doing a mental exercise and see if you feel okay with what you’ve written here. s/pregnant/cancer/ and then ask yourself if you would feel comfortable inquiring about medical history during the hiring proc
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by sulam 8y ago
It started as a trade secrets case that was dismissed and Jawbone tacked on patents and that was settled. Full disclosure, I work at Fitbit. Since we are not a party to this new case I can at least talk about the public info with the old on
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by sulam 8y ago
Jawbone has already sued Fitbit over this case I believe. That case was settled: https://www.wareable.com/fitbit/jawbone-fitbit-legal-dispute...
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by sulam 8y ago
> For a publicly-traded company all that matters is stock price. Really? You don't want to qualify that at all, maybe? If not, please explain the first 10 years of AMZN.
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by sulam 8y ago
It was widely used before it was the default.
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by sulam 8y ago
So instead of pandering to one small set of states you’d rather they pander to a different small set of states? Perhaps the problem is federalism.
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by sulam 8y ago
Voyager-class.
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by sulam 8y ago
My point is, at large companies with lots of very competent developers (I've worked at two of these: Salesforce and Twitter), 10X developers are not a thing on any useful metric I can think of. The places I _have_ seen someone be 10X b
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by sulam 8y ago
Arguably, though, the ability to create straddles (and other multi-legged options) enables "recreational" traders to _lower_ their risk trading options. So while I agree with you in general, this particular change is specifically
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by sulam 8y ago
>Maybe more advanced technology enables interstellar travel (maybe not, maybe is not practical at all) We have practical interstellar travel today if you don't artificially constrain your thinking to sending blobs of mostly water wi
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by sulam 8y ago
> 10x developer is absolutely a thing Sorry, but the only places I've seen 10X developers is when there are lots of 1/10th developers around to compare them to.
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by sulam 8y ago
Get a time machine and a job at Bourbon.
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by sulam 8y ago
In America a person can eat two pieces of pizza and maybe a side salad plus a drink and that's plenty. Pizzas have eight slices in their "default" configuration, so one pizza feeds 4 developers. Note: I hate 90% of pizza.
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by sulam 8y ago
I’ve done that. It took 25 years of work and some good luck along the way. Easy!
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by sulam 8y ago
Did you read closely enough? She’s saying that you can improve the team by 10X by helping your teammates. I’ll take a 10X team over a 10X developer any day, by the way. And last I checked no one has a recipe to be a 10X developer and that’s
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by sulam 8y ago
There's definitely cases where removing a person from a project speeds it up. Just to name a few: * the person removed is a distraction to the team in some way, possibly outside of their control * the team is over the two-pizza limit,
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by sulam 8y ago
You can trivially get a 30 minute commute just within SF. I imagine other expensive cities are similar. Living within a few minutes of work is a real luxury for all but remote workers.
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by sulam 8y ago
My pupils are very large. I held off on LASIK for a long time because it seemed like it wasn't well understood. Then I considered getting it about 10 years ago and there was ample evidence that large pupils were associated with negativ
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by sulam 8y ago
I don’t know if they’re still being built, but parent didn’t make that statement. You can be paying for something even if there aren’t more of them coming off a factory line.
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by sulam 8y ago
I'm kind of sad that we have enough imagery of nuclear missiles being fired to train the model and verify it. :/
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by sulam 8y ago
Can't edit now, but yes, it's hundreds, not thousands. I misremembered the stat. However, this is still a dumb marketing stunt. :/
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by sulam 8y ago
> Gitlab is now pretty well positioned to succeed where Github struggled. Gitlab is also VC funded. In fact it seems like you should be _happy_ that Github is no longer owned by the VCs.
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by sulam 8y ago
Thousands of people summit Everest every year. This is not 'bold', it is a dumb marketing stunt. I guess I'm aware of their ICO now, and my likelihood of buying their coins can't go below zero, so they didn't hurt t
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by sulam 8y ago
VSCode is absolutely OSS.
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by sulam 8y ago
FWIW this is a very wide practice in the industry.
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by sulam 8y ago
I wouldn’t call it the least materialistic but capitalist culture is dominant in most of the world now. Honestly I think the lack of materialism in most cultures is largely mythologized. If African tribes measure your wealth by how many ani
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by sulam 8y ago
GDPR only applies to EU citizens. This would apply to California residents. It also is covering a different behavior.
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by sulam 8y ago
If you read the article you would know that this is perfectly legal under the proposition. It's selling your data to third parties without user consent that it makes illegal.
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by sulam 8y ago
These are totally different problems, though. Dropbox is a trivial scaling exercise compared to Twitter. (Some Dropbox engineers are going to be all up on me now, but it's simpler by far to shard than Twitter was -- and yes some functi
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by sulam 8y ago
Well, that's true to a degree, but only to a degree. If I wrote my database in Ruby, it would be slow compared to the same database written in C++ (assuming equivalent competency in the developers and equivalent architecture). Even a d

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