woolvalley

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by woolvalley 8y ago
This is a no go in large companies, because the large company wants to avoid 'cliques of incompetence' and personal fiefdoms developing, not to mention all of the other problems people have mentioned. In large organizations, there
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by woolvalley 8y ago
To the company, it's just an extension of customer support for the most part. Usually if you avoid mentioning their keyword they will leave you alone.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
That isn't the economic trap of living in a company town, that is like living in the more expensive area of town. So the company town effect doesn't happen. They can only raise their prices too much before the cost of goods outw
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I said amortized maintenance, so when you have to replace that $300 part and pay $100-$300 in labor to do it, that is part of the bill spread over a year. To me repairs are an inevitable part of car ownership, so I put in the maintenance c
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I thought the bad parts of company towns only work when the town is isolated and your paid in google points. If you can just drive 10 minutes to a non-company town store and paid in cash, where is the lock in?
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by woolvalley 8y ago
SWE salary is only a part of total comp, and I would be a bit concerned with their stock value compared to the much bigger business that is Uber. So I understand why the salary portion might be high, to compensate for some of that risk.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Cars cost more than that. If I had a choice between a second commuter car or $200/month of ubering, the ubering would be cheaper. Car ownership in the bay is something like this: * $100-500/month car payment or depreciation * +
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Are they actually buying or opening new leases? If you want to spread out your employee base from the bay area, that seems financially wise. If it's just buying buildings, that is a bit different.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
What denotes a luxury car for the most part is the cabin interior quality, and that will stick around in the EV era too. Toyota has a bunch of somewhat related experience with the Prius, so they might still come out on top in the end of the
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Well if your a doctor, %2/%10 is %20 of revenue for the doctor, which feels large. AFAIK it's doctors or their hospital that pays for malpractice insurance, so it come out of their pocket directly. They probably have stories of m
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by woolvalley 8y ago
What happens when you offer a contract that says that net90 is %150 of costs, net30 is %120, net14 is %100, etc and any late payment (typo bullshit or not) has a %20 compound APR billed per month, like a credit card? Basically a contract th
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by woolvalley 8y ago
This shows it's not an apocalypse story, but a story debating the details, with a positive upside that humanity has more capacity than in the past to relieve this poverty too.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
As a mobile app developer, looking at the architecture of PWAs is a bit obvious to me. It's to turn webpages into stand alone mobile / desktop apps, with all of the power & setup that implies. But without the size overhead o
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Most people shop at more than one shop, fly multiple airlines and buy more than one brand of clothing.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I think there is a difference in most people's minds between exploiting an upfront pricing/policy mistake and lying after you agreed to pay for something. One is legal, the other one is a crime for starters. Morally it feels fair
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by woolvalley 8y ago
At the very least use a language with static types, and maybe concurrency support without a GIL getting in the way when you're coding the non-web frontend portions.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
It's about saving time and work. Cast iron takes a lot of work compared to even plain old stainless steel plans in prep and cleaning. They are very heavy to handle and can't use such foods as tomatoes because they are too acidic
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I wonder if all the 'compostable' bio plastics you see in utentsils and some food packaging have the same problems or are safe.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I would personally try to move away from python at this point for greenfield projects. The GIL is so baked into the language, if you removed it a bunch of current python code will probably break in subtle ways. Modern languages need proper
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by woolvalley 8y ago
You might get a SF tenderloin situation, where when random homeless people attack you unprovoked and the police do shit all, same with brazen, obvious property theft and shitting on the street. The populace will get pissed off and demand so
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by woolvalley 8y ago
efficiency: Minimum time, distance & money enhance the experience: less stressful / research required / more convenient increase equity and accessibility: make it cheaper so more people can afford it
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Let us say you start at 20 and end at 50, you only have 6 'startup adventure' chances that can work their way through. If each have a %1 chance of success, it's very likely that the 6 adventure person wouldn't have much
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Over a city they definitely do. Such as rush hours. Move the cars to the residential hours in the morning, move the cars to the schools & commercial areas in the afternoon & evenings.
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I don't understand how power, internet and retail companies deal with peak demand ! /s You deal with peak demand by having a supply that is equal to the peak. Automatic Rideshare companies can self balance over a large area, watc
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Thats fairly funny, since I find Rx to be the very complicated thing if used extensively in a project and hard to reason about memory usage and other things when trying to dig into problems. On top of that it creates huge ass stack traces t
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by woolvalley 8y ago
Programming language tools help get rid of classes of bugs. GC languages help get rid of or reduce significantly classic security bugs such as buffer overflows, use after free and so on. Static types get rid of other kinds of bugs and unit
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I don't have a lot of golang experience, but from what I can see here, golang doesn't really either: https://tour.golang.org/concurrency/1 Channels seem like a simple thread safe stream for the most part, whi
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by woolvalley 8y ago
I think they mean supported maybe? I can definitely see a typical economist giving arguments why women going into the workforce and away from the family 'workforce' is a good thing, this being encouraged by the fed which leads to
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by woolvalley 8y ago
It's more of a watch what they do vs what they say thing: > since 1979, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates whenever it looked like wages were going to rise faster than inflation. The Federal Reserve, in other words, has c
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by woolvalley 8y ago
To add to the ancedata pile, cancelling spotify was refreshingly easy and nice. A+ would resubscribe again, once they have homepod support.

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