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by twright0 8y ago
This isn't the nomenclature I'd use. What you describe as a "Technical EM" is what I'd call a "Tech Lead", who doesn't have people management responsibilities (things like 1:1s, recruiting, growth and
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by twright0 8y ago
NYC is about an order of magnitude larger than SF in many different ways - for example, total population (8.6m vs 880k people) and area (302 vs 46 square miles). So comparing absolute number of homeless people between the two cities is not
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by twright0 8y ago
Out of curiosity, which writers would you put above Tolkien for world-building (in the Western canon)?
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by twright0 8y ago
Netflix already runs (skippable but autoplaying) ads for its own original content between episodes of other things on its service.
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by twright0 8y ago
If your go-to example of "mods on power trips" is requiring basic respect for other peoples' personhood and right to their own identity, I'm inclined to agree it's not a particularly large problem.
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by twright0 8y ago
(I'm a former kinda-good amateur climber who capped out at 5.12 on a (very) good day in my high school years, and who's related to a former national champion climber) (EDIT: 5.12 in a gym, not outdoors) I won't speak for anyo
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by twright0 9y ago
> Both parties win with it As far as I can tell from Wikipedia, only five elections have ever been won by someone lacking a plurality of the popular vote. Three of those cases happened before 1900. If we look only at the more modern exam
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by twright0 9y ago
You only read the stories written by pilots who are good story tellers; nobody shares the rest.
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by twright0 9y ago
How to Train Your Dragon was released in 2010. They haven't made anything as good since then, but it feels unfair to blame that on a 2016 acquisition.
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by twright0 9y ago
> you won't get stabbed anywhere in SF (so live in the sketchy area it'll get nicer each year) This is flatly untrue and bad advice - there are absolutely areas of San Francisco where you run the risk of being the victim of phy
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by twright0 9y ago
I believe that sign-in-with-X implementations require actually authenticating with X in that context. So in order to sign in with Google to a website, I need to sign into Google itself in the same browser. So in that sense, you are enabling
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by twright0 9y ago
He was 19 at the time he wrote that. He is 33 now. I'm not sure it's natural or fair to judge someone predominantly on an off-the-cuff comment they made almost half their lives ago. I certainly said things at 19 that I wouldn&#x27
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by twright0 9y ago
Both of those articles are discussing the use of Adderall as a study aid, not a party drug. I think folks in this thread are objecting to its depiction as the latter specifically, not the fact that it is heavily used on college campuses in
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by twright0 9y ago
There may be something to that idea, but the Wikipedia article mentions several studies that cannot be explained that way. For example, the study discussed in "Origins" looked at companies who were adding new board members, and di
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by twright0 9y ago
Indeed - this is actually a phenomenon with a name: the "glass cliff". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff
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by twright0 10y ago
This is an interesting approach to request rate limiting - the simplicity and lack of tuning is definitely appealing. Did you do anything to mitigate the scenario where multiple users are behind the same IP address? With this approach I wou
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by twright0 10y ago
free() doesn't know what portion of the memory you allocated actually got written to. So for the model where a large, page-spanning buffer is allocated and only a small portion used, this approach causes many unnecessary page faults at
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by twright0 10y ago
As long as we're sharing anecdotes, I've been watching Pixar movies since I was quite young - Toy Story was the first movie I saw in the theaters, at the age of four - and I have consistently loved them. Toy Story was my favorite
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by twright0 10y ago
You can be on call without ever getting paged. As long as the expectation exists that you're available, it doesn't matter whether you actually get paged or not - you're already shifting your plans so you stay within reach of
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by twright0 10y ago
I'll also point out that Trump lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes (2%), which makes it really stretch the imagination to even call it a "near-landslide".
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by twright0 10y ago
Can you explain what each of those types are and how they map to the three machines discussed in this post? It's pretty non-obvious to me.
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by twright0 10y ago
I can definitely believe that you, as an individual, have driven tens of thousands of dollars in sales Apple's way over the last decade. But even if we assume that there are tens of thousands of people doing the same thing as you (as e
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by twright0 10y ago
> But here’s the problem: sitting in this niche of excluded users are some of Apple’s strongest supporters, the influencers that create word of mouth... I see this point made a lot, especially on Hacker News whenever this general topic c
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by twright0 10y ago
In principle, that's definitely an issue. In practice, we don't have that problem at all (certainly not since Facebook fired their "trending" editorial department). Maybe we should try to optimize for solving the problem
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by twright0 10y ago
In general, any process that allows an individual to verify their vote after the fact will enable coercion over voting. For example, in your proposal, an unscrupulous boss could make a demand before the election: "You must tell me the
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by twright0 10y ago
It might be a good idea with comments like this to disclose that you're professionally involved with ESOFund - most people won't click through to your profile to discover that.
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by twright0 10y ago
Except no matter what, no engineer functions in a vacuum. In your compression hypothetical, how do you measure the contribution of the engineers who did the code reviews? Who maintain the build environment and test suite that let the "
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by twright0 10y ago
The American team made it to the semi-finals. They had one bad loss to Argentina but it's pretty inaccurate to characterize their performance as "getting crushed".
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by twright0 10y ago
They might be aware of the dangers of radiation in the abstract, but they might not be able to read our current marking systems to learn that there is a specific threat from radiation at that specific location. 10,000 years is a very long t
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by twright0 11y ago
But you said "everything else being equal", so I'm confused why you're highlighting the extreme negative examples. If you interview a math major and a CS major and they both do equally well on those simple analytical pro

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