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by tompark 4y ago
Great example. Another one is Oculus -- acq by FB in 2014, first consumer release in 2016. (Although you could argue that the 2012 kickstarter was a launch.) Also, wasn't Vine prelaunch when it was acquired by Twitter? A recent example
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by tompark 4y ago
He clarified later: https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1537151707141918720 My point was not that engineers are overpaid. That's not for me to judge. Only that many business models won't support th
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How bad is Big Tech’s hiring freeze?(ft.com)
3 points by tompark 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How much negative testing is done by Tesla and other self-driving teams?
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by tompark 4y ago
I love that you use the EBC trek as an example for breaking out of a rut. I completely agree with your point about "work to live and not the opposite". However, I did Salkantay, Laugavegur, and EBC, and all these treks simply made
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by tompark 4y ago
I know exactly what you are talking about. Before I say any further, how about if you listen to a story from Ian Cheng, a successful artist, who talks about how he got out of this same situation. It's the 2 min 15 sec starting at 8m30s
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by tompark 4y ago
Since life extending technologies may or may not yield ways to repair serious body damage, you should make sure to maintain parts that may not be fully repairable, like gums/teeth, knees/joints, neck/posture (vertebrae fusing
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by tompark 4y ago
Oh BTW, if you do this, there is one nasty Safari bug I ran into which needed a simple workaround. If you have many copies of a particular component on a page, and that web component uses SVG, then the elements within the SVG need to have u
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by tompark 4y ago
YES! I liked React components too but wanted something simpler so on my current project I've been using native browser Web Components/Custom Elements without any framework -- in fact, my project has zero dependencies on the client
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by tompark 4y ago
It's normal to feel fear of rejection and failure. I'm interviewing again now for the first time in several years, and I can totally empathize. Your lack of a degree is not as much as an issue as the coding screen test. If you can
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by tompark 4y ago
Chiming in late, in case you're still monitoring this thread. Once someone tried to convince me that "The Procrastination Equation" described the problem exactly, but to me it seemed to ignore key factors, although I admit th
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by tompark 4y ago
Agreed. I'm wondering if there's some missing context in the original post, e.g. his intention is to work on-site w/ high-CoL at FAANG/MAMAA only. (I've been looking around at SWE manager jobs, and it seems fewer th
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by tompark 5y ago
Over the last several years I've been switching languages a lot and tend google very basic coding syntax, so I often see questions on Stack Overflow asking for the idiomatic way to do a task in a language. I think it's a pretty ty
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by tompark 5y ago
You have a better filter than I do. :) I went through a phase where I gobbled up anything productivity related, and eventually had to stop myself because it was too distracting. I still want to believe someone can tell me a valuable trick t
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by tompark 5y ago
Articles like this are nice for picking out ideas to incorporate into your own system. I try to avoid reading much "productivity porn" because it gets repetitive and what captures your attention is the novelty of an idea rather th
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by tompark 5y ago
Let me pose an alternative universe where you got a job in the games industry early in your career. You'd be on a team so you'd work only on some piece of the game. Until you got a lot more experience, you'd be working on &qu
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by tompark 5y ago
Nice. I ordered prints of a pair of my favorite covers back in 1984. Unfortunately I left one of them in a large manilla envelope for decades, and it got stained and yellowed. The other was under glass and it fared better, but still got a f
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by tompark 5y ago
It's possible to work through Bob Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters[1] using any language you want. On GitHub just search for "crafting interpreters"[2] and add a filter for the programming language you're interested
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by tompark 5y ago
Lots of questions :) Were you working in the space at the time? > Was your Treo also a Windows Mobile device or the PalmOS version? I'd given up on Palm long before they switched to WinMo. But it that was computing history repeating
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by tompark 5y ago
> What were Motorola, Samsung, HTC, and LG using as an OS at the time? Was it also some Java variant or did they use own OSs? Non-smartphones had a proprietary OS (to handle the phone functionality, SMS, contacts, call history), but lice
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by tompark 5y ago
The iPhone was highly, highly anticipated. For years, people were conjecturing about it. In 2006, Dan Lyons, under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs", joked coincidentally that the iPhone would have only one button: "Our designe
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by tompark 5y ago
> This leads to the deeply weird situation where "⩵" ≠ "==" and absolutely no programming language that I know of will let you use the correct Unicode characters! What about Agda? I was impressed how Agda allows you t
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by tompark 6y ago
I just read this book last month on a friend's recommendation. I don't want to pile on whatever anyone else said, but I had noticed a contradiction in Chapter 6 that I found to be very distracting, and I'd love to hear from
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Coding Constructs I Now Avoid(danielbmarkham.com)
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by tompark 6y ago
I like your explanation for this. I didn't think it was funny , but didn't see it as offensive either. After reading your post, now I can see how it was funny. It's bewildering to me that anyone can get offended (to vehement
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by tompark 6y ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-... > Ben Fountain did not make the decision to quit law and become a writer all by himself. He is married and has a fam
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by tompark 6y ago
TFA has some good points. I'd go even further on the situation where you quit your job to work on an indie game -- if you ever find yourself doing this, and you've never built a game by yourself before, you'd better have seve
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by tompark 6y ago
In the US that's fine but it's helpful to be able to drive a stick when you're traveling. The times I rented/hired a campervan in New Zealand and in Iceland, they were manual transmission. I heard recently the ones in Ne
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by tompark 6y ago
Same here, panhandle area. I walk the dog 1-1.5 hrs during the day, half hr at night. For years it was just the Cruise cars, but since last summer the Waymo vans/suvs started showing up and now it feels like they're constantly pas
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by tompark 6y ago
It's very fun to read your annual reviews. This one was especially interesting now you've got a hardware product. It sounds like you already have figured out a lot about dealing with inventory, but if you haven't already, you

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