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by type-r 4y ago
Do we consider it reasonable that a mature service of 16 years is exposed to 'spectacular' failures when there's a traffic surge?
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by type-r 4y ago
Sounds like a success to me vs. the existing trajectory of a cumulative 16 years of being unprofitable.
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by type-r 4y ago
We can be compassionate about the folks getting laid off while still realizing that the company was grossly inefficient and needed to restructure -- these are not contradictory feelings. For me personally, I have no idea what "technolo
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by type-r 4y ago
> I believe
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by type-r 4y ago
16 years isn't enough time to figure out a profitable business strategy? How much longer would you have given them?
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by type-r 4y ago
Didn't realize the Saudis were such big shareholders -- apparently now second only to Musk in total percentage of ownership https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/tech/murphy-saudi-musk-twitte... )
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by type-r 4y ago
Is it? In general at every place I've worked the vast majority of the work has come from launching & supporting new products. Existing infra does not really break that often, so if we just want Twitter as it is, that should be doab
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by type-r 4y ago
Source for getting severance?
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by type-r 4y ago
What makes you think they're going to pay?
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by type-r 4y ago
If we elide "like that" from your first sentence I agree. I promote people always assume that firing could happen anytime. Taking this approach makes you less susceptible to agree to unreasonable requests.
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by type-r 4y ago
Depends on the current ratio of A/B/C/lower. If Musk thinks that As are currently rare at Twitter, then having a company full of Bs left could be a big improvement. I have no idea if this is true, but Twitter's profits a
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by type-r 4y ago
Indeed that is an approach that would work but would people trust Twitter with that data just to give you a checkmark? Or even bother trying to find their ID / passport? Feels super high-friction and questionable from a privacy perspec
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by type-r 4y ago
www.donefirst.com will give you a script within a 20 minute phone call. Careful with the medication approach, it has serious side effects and can be really difficult to get off of. Speaking from my own as well as friends' experiences.
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by type-r 4y ago
> people who make more than average amounts of money have a hard time retaining meaningful amounts of it Do you have a source for this? This conflicts with the data that I've seen: https://www.financialsamurai.com/th
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by type-r 4y ago
interesting approach to have it be PPP adjusted. i wonder how they'll prevent people from high income countries faking they're in a lower income one.
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by type-r 4y ago
Google Contributor
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by type-r 4y ago
not that i think this is some brilliant revenue strategy but it does not strike me as a good take to automatically assume that the current blue check mark base is a strict superset of who will pay $8/month
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by type-r 4y ago
SponsorBlock is key for YouTube
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by type-r 4y ago
You have a very diverse group of friends!
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by type-r 4y ago
He did Office Space too, pretty cool set of projects to work on
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by type-r 4y ago
I think in general because companies find it very difficult to actually be able to tell who is lazy vs. effective. This is especially true if you want to do it at scale and quickly.
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by type-r 4y ago
I mean, he did send out that classic "funding secured" unambiguous statement right? Which was insane and people doubted immediately. He had to settle with the SEC barely a month afterwards.
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by type-r 4y ago
I've had to provide them for all job searches I've done (Silicon Valley).
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by type-r 4y ago
interesting framing to use "historical accident" to describe the directed US gov funding that turned into today's tech sector.
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by type-r 4y ago
Twitter verification was introduced over 13 years ago, a little over 3 years after Twitter was founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_verification
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by type-r 4y ago
pe ratios tend to be closer to 15 over the long term. some good data here https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
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by type-r 4y ago
and in exchange all they ask is that you don't expect FDIC insurance
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by type-r 4y ago
> This is extremely frustrating, because it feels like I'm wasting my time by learning something, only to forget it within a few months. I really identify with this feeling. For a time, this meant that I put the minimum effort into
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by type-r 4y ago
FWIW at my own workplace the focus on cloud spending and cutting that bill has gone through the roof. The incentivization has been so good that teams are now constantly trumpeting their cost-saving measures. I've even seen cases where
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by type-r 4y ago
Interesting list but I'd considering being less prescriptive in the future. Hard for me to really buy in when the opinions shared are so explicitly hardline: "ideally, every day"; "never" (3x!); "always",

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