David

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by David 1mo ago
That sentence confused me, too, but it's clarified in the next paragraph: > Children who grow up with high economic connectedness earn 20 percent more as adults on average than otherwise similar children who do not, a gap equal to g
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by David 9mo ago
This bothered me at first but I think it's about ease of implementation. If you've built a good harness with access to lots of tools, it's very easy to plug in a request like "if the linked PR is approved, please react
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by David 9mo ago
> We still start all workflows using the LLM, which works for many cases. When we do rewrite, Claude Code can almost always rewrite the prompt into the code workflow in one-shot. Why always start with an LLM to solve problems? Using an L
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by David 9mo ago
No, they've been doing "managing stacks of dependent pull requests" for a lot longer than AI code review. I've mostly been a happy user, they simplify a lot of the git pain of continually rebasing and the UI makes stacks
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by David 3y ago
Bandwidth is the limiting factor in a lot of circumstances, and networks are very challenging to manage. Especially with an increasing number of users on mobile connections, reducing network usage can be the right call. But performance matt
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by David 3y ago
Video encoding and decoding is expensive! Especially as cameras improve and users' expectations of quality increase.
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by David 3y ago
On the other hand, tls/443 is pretty undesirable for media delivery in videoconferencing because a) it's tcp-based and the required ACKs mean a big reduction in throughput and increase in latency, especially in the presence of pac
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by David 4y ago
I read the article as saying you can't solve everything yourself. That's different than saying you should ignore problems. Instead you need to communicate when you see a problem that you're not positioned to solve, because yo
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by David 4y ago
That's way more computationally expensive and only available if the camera is on (and the user's mouth is visible).
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by David 4y ago
Very much this, it takes time to recapture the microphone and it's really annoying to lose the first part of what you say every time you unmute. I lead the video team at a videoconferencing app (gather.town) and we keep the microphone
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by David 5y ago
As an alternative to a daily chat message, a teammate and I have been meeting for ~15 minutes at the end of the day to talk about what we did and how productive we were. It's been pretty helpful a few different ways. First, it forces m
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by David 6y ago
Or: Focus on finding impactful early customers that increase your visibility (and then make them happy). Finding such a great customer may require luck, but that doesn't mean the odds are fixed.
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by David 6y ago
A friend and former boss of mine founded CleanRobotics which makes the TrashBot, a trash can that sorts trash from recyclables: https://cleanrobotics.com/trashbot/ I haven't seen the output so I can't comment
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by David 7y ago
Can you cite some sources for your responses to 1 and 4? Re: 5, there's clearly a distinction between typical mutations, which have no particular effect on the virus' behavior but do allow us to trace infections, and behavioral mu
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by David 7y ago
Can you point to a source here? I work on Google Cloud and I don't think I've heard anything like that.
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by David 7y ago
To me that actually sounds more condescending. The statement form suggests not only that I thought of the right way to solve your long-term problem in 5 minutes, but also that I'm confident you didn't know about it. The question
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by David 8y ago
Petuum | Pittsburgh, PA & Sunnyvale, CA | Full-Time, ONSITE, VISA | petuum.com We build Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms and solutions to industrialize AI and enable enterprises to create and operationalize AI more quickly and che
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by David 8y ago
Petuum | Pittsburgh, PA & Sunnyvale, CA | Full-Time, ONSITE, VISA | petuum.com We build Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms and solutions to industrialize AI and enable enterprises to create and operationalize AI more quickly and che
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by David 8y ago
Yes, but they do it because they can. Local talent in those places accepts lower salaries, so they're still getting good people. There are significant barriers to moving (for the employee) and hiring remotely (for employers) which mean
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by David 8y ago
Netflix pays exceptionally well and is very selective, and I understand they are quicker to fire underperformers than most. So it is fairly prestigious and ranks at the top in compensation.
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by David 9y ago
Petuum | Software Engineer, Data Scientist | Pittsburgh, PA | ONSITE, INTERNS, VISA | http://www.petuum.com/careers.html Petuum is building a platform for easily running distributed machine learning. The company was spun ou
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by David 9y ago
Really? I didn't see that in the slides. I saw "trade classes or grades for other stuff (but still work to or past your limit)" specifically with the references to not sleeping. As a CMU alum that both hit home and depressed
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by David 9y ago
Agreed, it seems like a lot of people think about devops as a way to make dev's lives better without actively harming ops. The article does have a section on getting Ops on board with devops, but it's much weaker than the previous
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by David 10y ago
The mic drop feature did exist; I had the pleasure of actively not clicking it on an email I sent last night.
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by David 11y ago
Absolutely, if you have the budget to build, maintain, and support a custom ERP, it may be the way to go. But I think it's a tiny fraction of businesses where the benefits of that outweigh the extra costs involved. You have to be very
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by David 11y ago
Excellent point. A fear we see a lot in clients is that if the system's not built from scratch with them in mind, it can't do what they need. But the TCO of a system you build yourself is usually way higher than anticipated, due t
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by David 11y ago
Working on an ERP startup^, this was a very interesting read for me. Our situation is a little different, because our goal is a customizable platform rather than a single instance built for a single company. Some points that resonated with
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by David 11y ago
In chemistry class in middle and high school, I thought all the safety precautions we took were stupid, given that we were using harmless chemicals to do harmless experiments. I wish this had been around, and it had been required reading--I
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by David 11y ago
It's easier to expand than contract. When the same decision is faced multiple times, it will be made multiple ways, and it's very difficult to remove one of those options once it's in use. On the other hand, if you remove the
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by David 12y ago
For me it seemed to happen whenever I scrolled up. It was challenging to read through to the end.

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