drchopchop

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by drchopchop 6mo ago
The difference is that Roblox has a thousand "attention stealers" which have enough gameplay and multiplayer fun to keep an eight year old entertained for a long time. Fortnite is just the same recycled concept over and over, with
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by drchopchop 1y ago
" This group tended to agree with dark pronouncements, such as “I need chaos around me” and “When I think about our political and social institutions, I cannot help thinking ‘just let them all burn.’ ” Petersen and his colleagues came
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by drchopchop 1y ago
The article references a study which claims that university students have difficulty reading Dickens or Jane Austen. Here's an excerpt of the Dickens from the study: "LONDON. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor s
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by drchopchop 2y ago
Not advertising it is key. I'm also coming up on 50, and people constantly are surprised when they inevitably find out how old I am. Ageism can unconsciously creep in when you have more than 15 years of experience visible on your resum
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by drchopchop 2y ago
Rails may indeed be good enough, but comparing a full-stack platform (Rails) to a frontend UX framework (React) is fundamentally unfair.
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by drchopchop 3y ago
This. They're great for small/mid-sized developers, but they price themselves out once you're doing billions of messages a month. At that point companies start looking at aggregators one level down (i.e. closer to the carrier
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Firing IC's at large corporations usually involves some sort of a individual coaching/PIP plan. This takes time for managers and HR to write and implement, takes N weeks of observation, and creates nervousness in coworkers who thi
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Sure, but Google at least presents itself as being a search engine, composed of potentially unreliable information scraped from the web. GPT looks/feels like an infallible oracle.
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by drchopchop 4y ago
It's great, until people realize GPT-3 will generate answers that are demonstrably wrong. (And to make matters worse, can't show/link the source of the incorrect information!)
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by drchopchop 4y ago
That would make more sense if 1) he had a coherent plan 2) he could motivate the good 20% to stick around 3) he had some way to differentiate high vs low performers. Instead, he now gets an effectively random layoff, with potentially whole&
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Lawyers and bankers a) don't fly on their own dime, b) have huge potential financial upside in getting those deals done.
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by drchopchop 4y ago
A blockchain that can barely manage seven transactions per second is the "best monetary system we could have invented"?
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by drchopchop 4y ago
These tools aren't interchangeable. Photoshop is for editing images. Illustrator is for editing vector graphics. Figma is a multiplayer layout tool, which can be used for web, print, or anything else. The main use cases for enterprise
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by drchopchop 4y ago
My company gave managers Clifton Strengths tests, and it was fairly interesting (and tracked with my own self-introspection). Wasn't used for hiring or performance, but more as a tool to people recognize their traits and how others may
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Not to mention the technical issues involved in having a truly cross-platform asset. What's the poly and texture count? How is scale represented? Collision volumes? How does it render properly? What file formats do we standardize on? T
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Extremely easy. You just have to navigate a maze of foreign visa requirements, have a large amount of money, no need to work, learn a foreign language, get your partner/dependents to agree, and be separated from all your existing frien
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by drchopchop 4y ago
I'd disagree re: Figma and Notion. These are very sticky, best-in-class tools which have a lot of use outside of "VC-land". Figma is becoming the de-facto way to share designs across the internet. Notion has a good shot at be
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Ableton does allow you to easily export sessions, and freeze tracks that have custom plugins. Their stock plugins are now good enough that they can rival commercial ones for many use cases (which is often good enough to the track to the fin
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by drchopchop 4y ago
I know this is a hobby project, but who is the target user for something like this? What's the benefit of doing this in a browser? Desktop DAW's have many benefits: - ASIO drivers for low latency - Better CPU utilization -
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by drchopchop 4y ago
The problem with JIRA is that yes, everyone uses it, but most people hate it. In my experience, the only people that advocate for it are PM/PMO/TPM type people who need very specific and customizable workflows and reports. And eve
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Same, lived there in the early 2000's, and coming back recently it's almost unrecognizable. The music scene is largely gone, tech bros everywhere, the traffic is even worse than it was before, housing is ridiculous. The "Keep
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by drchopchop 4y ago
It's much easier to save money than it is to make it, and that's why revenue is valued more. You can hire any number of consulting firms or smart engineers that can tell you how to lower your AWS bill, or get rid of unproductive e
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Mensa is catnip for narcissists who are great at pattern recognition.
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Agreed. Finding product/market fit is the only thing that matters in a new company. If you think that's the "boring stuff", then you're not going to love the amount of iteration/thrash/constraints that it
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by drchopchop 4y ago
Side note, from a usability perspective: G major is arguably the easiest key to play on a guitar, which is used heavily by both popular music and songwriters. The I/IV/V maps to G, C, D, which are all easy open chords to finger, p
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by drchopchop 5y ago
This is exactly what happened on his last big space project (Freelancer) - way over time/budget, too much random micromanaging of meaningless things, etc. Microsoft had to swoop in at the end and save the project, removing him in the p
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by drchopchop 5y ago
You can solve that with occasional, in-person team meetups (a few times per year). Meeting people in person, at least once, is valuable. It improves communication, helps people feel assimilated to the company and team, and creates a mental
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by drchopchop 5y ago
High-powered engineers often assume that building a startup's technology is the same as building a startup. In this world, product/market fit is the ONLY thing that matters. A bad, but functional implementation of a great idea is
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by drchopchop 5y ago
Not really. C to E is a major third (4 semitones), E to G is a minor third (3 semitones), and C to G is a fifth (7 semitones). 4 + 3 = 7
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Not much. From the article: "And secondly, working with Bitcoin wallets to allow the Bitcoin to be translated into a fiat currency and therefore immediately be able to be used at any of the 70 million places around the world where Visa

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