MattLaroche

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by MattLaroche 8y ago
Sorry for missing this, I don't check HN every day! Both medical systems that we had children with (in SF) do not do in-home followups, at least not for us. We had to go back the day after discharge for both of our children (for biliru
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by MattLaroche 8y ago
I hear it. For our first child, for the first 24 hours or so postpartum, my wife and child both needed something checked every couple hours. Our overnight nurse said something like "I'll be doing your wife's checks at midnigh
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by MattLaroche 8y ago
Thanks! I didn't check them out because I wasn't interested in leaving the city (and only included FB because I'd heard theirs was good).
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by MattLaroche 8y ago
What do you mean by "extra" on "extra CA PFL"? Companies I am familiar with continue vesting through the full length of their paid parental leave.
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by MattLaroche 8y ago
90% of moms not coming back is an exaggeration for the bay area. Part of what we're not talking about here (in this whole thread) is the cost of child care. Child care in SF is over $1700 a month, and hard to find for 3 month olds, whi
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by MattLaroche 8y ago
What they should do is say "These are our parental leave policies" (which will be at least legal minimum) and go from there. (Ideally, these should be reasonable leave time government policies and paid by the government, but let&#
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by MattLaroche 8y ago
I just switched jobs in San Francisco, and part of my search was parental leave. I did not see any companies in the 6-12 month paid parental leave range. 6-20 weeks is the range I saw. Twitter at 20, Square (and I think Facebook) at 16, Goo
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by MattLaroche 8y ago
A good argument for parental leave not being tied to employer, and instead being tied paid by the state. I've heard of moms before who would rather tell the truth that they're not coming back after leave, but there's little u
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by MattLaroche 8y ago
I'm glad CA's PFL program exists, and by American standards, it's very good. But it only pays 60% of income, for 6 weeks, and up to a level under the salary of most in product-engineering-design in tech. Most tech companies t
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by MattLaroche 9y ago
Howdy, author here! When someone is getting ready to come onsite, we give the more detailed information about what the onsite will look like, as this varies team by team. Our iOS and Android interviews both do 90 minutes of pair programming
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by MattLaroche 10y ago
Palantir has allowed for current employees to cash out options during some rounds of funding in the past, if I remember correctly.
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by MattLaroche 10y ago
Bunch of reasons: * Making hedge funds richer didn't actually feel like changing the world. * I never really clicked on the codebase, didn't understand what was going on in the code, and didn't contribute much. (I don't
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by MattLaroche 10y ago
I quit Palantir after 6 months in 2011; I am a CMU CS grad and I worked at Google for 5 years before Palantir. Their pitches of "We only hire the best and brightest" and "Our work truly changes the world" sold me on them
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by MattLaroche 11y ago
Your final paragraph is interesting, given the author's point here: > Finally, this list is written for those who, like me, try to err on the side of being maximally-inclusive. Many of these things are common in our culture, and whi
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by MattLaroche 11y ago
I'm the person whose tweet is at the top of the linked article. My original curiosity was from that of someone who wants to promote "cooperation, equality and respect" - and, to me, part of doing that is asking for, and being
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by MattLaroche 12y ago
More discussion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813138
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by MattLaroche 12y ago
Thanks for updating it. Wasn't sure if TC had changed it, or if the poster was editorializing.
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by MattLaroche 12y ago
The actual headline is "Curated Food Delivery Startup Caviar In Talks To Be Acquired By Square For $100 Million" - this isn't a done deal.
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by MattLaroche 12y ago
"What I would love to see is: Given two points on the map - what is the most common path between them based on multi-path tracks of others..." Check out strava.com/routes, as others have said in the thread. It doesn't ha
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
Except in California it's nominally medicinal, and in Colorado it's recreational.
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
The audience is heterogenous though. The poster wasn't hand-wringing and complaining "There shouldn't be Bitcoin articles on HN", but instead took initiative and created his or her own filter to have a HN article list cl
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
As a cyclist, I'm sure you already know this. Properly geared, bikes aren't hard to get up hills - they're just slow.
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
Put on some fenders, rain pants, a rain coat, and ride! Or take transit. Living closer together is great, but cycling infrastructure matters too to get people onto bikes.
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
So the AP follows sentence case for titles, but this one follows title case for titles. And in title case, which is another rule, would endorse capitalizing "Go" here.
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
Which grammar guidelines suggest not capitalizing a verb in a title?
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
Co-founding a company doesn't hurt in becoming CTO. (Disclosure - I know Ian, the author of the article, and a few Artillery employees)
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
The article is a very thin wrapping over the first answer on http://www.quora.com/Why-would-someone-choose-Carnegie-Mello... .
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
Instacart is a neat concept, but knowing that they charge more on items than the store charges irritates me enough that I don't use it. I'd rather pay a clear delivery fee and not feel that I'm paying extra for every item tha
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
Depending on what your routes and usage, higher speed is better than more frequent service. For example, let's say your options are a 2 hour train that runs hourly, and an hour long ride that departs every other hour. * Fast train: bes
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by MattLaroche 13y ago
Rent control is only on buildings over 35 years old, and not when one rents a condo directly from its owner. There's other rules, but it's very much not "no more than 1% for existing tenants." Many, many people are rent controlled, but it i

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