clavalle

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by clavalle 3y ago
Slightly lower than one of MIT's alumni doing the same. It's telling that Jane Street stayed away from the whole mess despite the connection.
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by clavalle 3y ago
Counter proposal: I'll learn to relax
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by clavalle 3y ago
'Cannot' being the operative word. 'Did not' does not necessarily mean 'cannot'.
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by clavalle 3y ago
Writing simply helps me to think clearly. So journaling is just a way for me to crystalize my thoughts. And it works great for that. It also helps me see patterns I might not be aware of over time. Mine tends to be stream of consciousness
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by clavalle 4y ago
Not only that, software is a unique sector in which a lot of the capital is in the talent. These companies aren't laying off labor that have few choices. They're budding off knowlegible competetors. If these folks can't find
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by clavalle 4y ago
Nothing is more expensive than cheap talent. Besides, the market is still super tight and shows very few signs of loosening. What we're seeing is that the old-guard companies have hit their autumn years. But companies being companies
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by clavalle 4y ago
I have personally been approached by internal recruiters for a position just after the company very publicly laid off people with my title and are going after 'middle management'. I declined. I'm a software architect but I st
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by clavalle 4y ago
Are there any journalism democratization efforts we should be aware of? An organization who has incentives aligned with providing journalism for the people?
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by clavalle 4y ago
>"Don't get me started on having to fill out sections in a form that are just resume sections" I haven't been laid off but I've been dipping my toe in the past few months because I'm a bit bored in my curren
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by clavalle 4y ago
If they weren't here, we wouldn't be able to talk about it. I'd be interested to know if we're in an element rich vein of the wider universe or if all the good stuff is more or less evenly distributed?
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by clavalle 4y ago
Right. And the tech unemployment rate still went down despite layoffs up to November's doorstep. There's no data on November, yet. Will be interesting if November arrests that downward trend at all.
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by clavalle 4y ago
- First thing in the morning, standups followed by coaching sessions (basically pair programming or code review) for sticky problems Then it varies. - 1:1s - project or program (in the sense of both code type programs and long term directio
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by clavalle 4y ago
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke and How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard Really changed the way I approach decision makin
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by clavalle 4y ago
With all of the options these days, I'd wonder about the characterization of 'intrensic'.
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by clavalle 4y ago
Just like when you step out of the ocean in wet trunks you reduce ocean levels.
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by clavalle 4y ago
The only shocking things about this layoff at Cisco, which happen about once a year, is that it didn't happen during their normal time in the summer and that the numbers are so modest.
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by clavalle 4y ago
Truly intelligent machines. Got it.
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by clavalle 4y ago
Purpose is made, not found. The meaning of life is to create meaning. Now let's get to the real question; How do you live with mindful intention? How do you create the meaning you want? This is the hard part: First, you have to know wh
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by clavalle 4y ago
Considering the severance, Meta might have just realeased the biggest pre-seed funded class ever.
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by clavalle 4y ago
Perhaps. And perhaps some will go and create their own companies and create more demand.
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by clavalle 4y ago
No matter how the deaths were counted in the moment, excess death counts after the fact saw an increase of 12.8% during Covid in Ontario. So, unless there was another mysterious cause of death taking out around 75,000 people a year there,
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by clavalle 4y ago
It happens in the US, too. Primarily due to badly managed privately held, for-profit care where supply and demand aren't joined up. (because it's a hospital and avoiding death is inelastic).
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by clavalle 4y ago
Can words and word structure capture all ideas? (I'm using 'words' in a very broad sense as packets of information that can be communicated sequentially). It's a broader and easier to answer question that covers this spe
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by clavalle 4y ago
AI will enhance middle management and make things easier, but people problems are complex in a way that AI is a loooooong way off from understanding. Once they figure that out, it's time for us to kickback, relax, and enjoy the ensuing
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by clavalle 4y ago
They have one lever, and it isn't innovation.
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by clavalle 4y ago
Not finishing my degree. I started a business which was successful and dropped out a year before I finished my ChE degree. I had decided that I didn't want to go into oil (which was the most likely career path) and that I really enjoye
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by clavalle 4y ago
They're also smart enough to understand that this means this is a phase change into maintenance mode.
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by clavalle 4y ago
>If the replacement takes 6 months to get up to speed the replacement is certainly not a very good developer I think you're mistaking 'becoming a contributing member of the team' for 'contributes at the level of the d
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by clavalle 4y ago
That's the trouble with playing a game with changable rules, isn't it? Ignoring advantages because of the rules you wish were in place seems like a great way to consistently lose. Then how do the rules get changed?
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by clavalle 4y ago
You don't intend on ever becoming an aged meat bag?

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