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by yafbum 4y ago
Why cut 16% of a thing? Either it's no longer a priority and then you should cut 100% / terminate the product. Or you can't afford the cash, but that doesn't check out here. Or it's still a priority but then you jus
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There has been a deplorable profusion of dark patterns in restaurant checkout UIs, such as offering preselected tip amounts set along a 18-20-25% scale (standard used to be 15%), making it quite difficult to leave a custom tip, etc. Add to
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Why the :/ ? Spending time with young children and renovating a house sounds like a smart choice. The time with children you will never be able to make up for later. Renovating a house is full of interesting challenges and rewards that
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You can't necessarily survive #2 if it causes the talent you actually need the most to bail in high times. You can play this game at the margin by starting to freeze hiring before everyone else does, so that you can be there earlier to
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Poster said they threw parties but aren't invited in return.
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Thanks for sharing insights from data! If you guys publish more stats somewhere, I'd be very interested in reading more. Sounds like you're sitting on a gold mine of firsthand social science data (sizes of events, rsvp latencies,
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A friend had been an actress for a decade, then became a SWE. How? Enrolled in a CS masters program, got a degree, got a job. Entry level but much better than mildly successful acting, where you have to audition (interview for your job) man
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One Argentinian I knew really wanted to BBQ a whole cow. Does need the ability to throw a big party!
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I guess a cook can be hired for parties.
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I think it preloads a shitload of stuff ahead, before you deciding to watch it. Predictive caching. Engineering talent is historically mostly China based, and over there they can get Silicon Valley quality people for half the price and twic
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For an entrepreneur who set out to fix a problem in the world, it can feel very wrong not to give customers the solution that you know you can give them, for mere capital reasons.
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Sometimes you're kind of forced into it: if your growth starts taking off faster than you thought, you may be in need of more capital just to stay in business. At that point you have a choice: slam the brakes (turn down customers), bor
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Great rundown. "Factoring" sounds a bit like a euphemism for payday loans!
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? You can totally have independent release cycles between multiple targets within a monorepo.
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That's a great test and I think an argument for monorepo for most companies. Unless you work on products that are hermetically sealed from each other, there's very likely going to be tight dependencies between them. Your various f
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> things that are deployed together should go in the same repo, things that deploy on different cycles should go in different repos What do you do with libraries shared between different deployment targets?
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The sentence starting with "if only" doesn't sound like it's being made as a good faith argument. Within its form factor, the iPad is still, in spite of its limitations, an obvious leader.
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In addition to the recording limits on a DSLR, you might need to rest it for a good while if you're filming for a long time with too much light on a hot day. It shuts off when the sensor's too hot.
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The big problem with macro approaches is that when you get to nontrivial sizes, they get impossible to troubleshoot. You get an error from the SQL engine but that's an on expanded macro. If you've availed yourself of "composa
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Is this even a meaningfully dissuasive amount?
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When you're in late twenties, you can start over in pretty much any field of work aside from maybe professional sports and military commandos. So my advice would be to not think about what you leave behind as much of a loss, but you do
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It's not just network effects that saved GitHub. It's also that Microsoft didn't handle it like an insecure bully and visibly continued a commitment to its community. Had they not done that, certainly alternatives would'
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by yafbum 4y ago
Yeah but will they charter planes with cameras and build software to process all that imagery? Drive cars around to take street level pictures, detect and blur faces? Somehow get indoor and underground mall maps? Pay armies of data cleanup
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I feel like in my tests, reasoning is currently clearly weaker than knowledge. When asked to provide demonstrations of simple mathematical theorems, I've observed ChatGPT repeatedly confuse assumptions and conclusions, and even get it
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Musk is now to Twitter as Murdoch to Fox News. A billionaire owner in favor of "fair and balanced" media.
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When eating outdoor in the summer requires you to swat away the same wasps from your plate over and over again, it's definitely annoying. I was stung as a kid for no reason, it was a pain for me and my parents to deal with. My wife and
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The technology lifecycles haven't lined up. 10-15 years ago there were phenomenal DSLRs coming out, and honestly there weren't any good enough smartphones worth connecting them to. The iPhone App Store was in its infancy (it'
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IOW I wouldn't see it as a judgement of value of your work. If you're the roofer that's been cut off, it's not because it's bad to fix leaks, or because you don't do a good job at it. It's only because you
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What are they going to do... make poorer decisions? How much poorer? Will it matter? When a company undertakes cost cutting as a strategic priority, it is usually that they have made overeager long-term bets that turn out to be unsustainabl
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> We foolishly thought that we would naturally be protected from any layoffs, being a team that reduced costs of any team we partnered with. In retrospect, that was a little naive. A team that reduces costs of other teams is not on anyon

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