eshyong

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by eshyong 3y ago
https://archive.is/3fzmW
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by eshyong 4y ago
I think they meant the scooters have firmware which can limit the top speed of the rider.
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by eshyong 5y ago
This recently happened to me as well - Venmo tried to invalidate my payment method and pushed me to go through their "instant verification" process. Note that "manual verification" (i.e. the deposit method) is still an o
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by eshyong 5y ago
I see, thanks for the detailed reply. Yeah it's sad that companies have no incentive nowadays to support open protocols (besides the ones that already exist). I wonder if regulation could solve this problem or at least encourage health
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by eshyong 5y ago
I see this argument made often on HN, but it's not clear to me how an internet protocol would make social networks more accountable towards their users. Do you mind explaining your reasoning here? Specifically, how would a protocol pre
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by eshyong 6y ago
I think the issue isn't that they're spending money on an order in the moment, it's an auto-renewing subscription that users may not even remember about.
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by eshyong 6y ago
From the last paragraph: > Strict modules are still experimental. We have a working prototype and are in the early stages of rolling it out in production. Sounds like it's in-house to me.
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by eshyong 6y ago
What language was the team counting in nanoseconds using?
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by eshyong 6y ago
It's satire written by a disgruntled engineer :P
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by eshyong 6y ago
It seems like payment/e-commerce companies in general are shifting towards offering "express checkout" experiences nowadays - Shopify, Paypal, Amazon Pay, are a couple prominent examples. My former employer Affirm was also ve
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by eshyong 6y ago
I wonder if they're referring to this? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/16/peter-thiel-palantir-nhs-dea...
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by eshyong 6y ago
My impression is there are a segment of technically-minded backend engineers who look down on frontend work - who cares what the damn thing looks like as long as it works? I think the truth is, most engineers just aren't comfortable wi
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by eshyong 6y ago
Except that in Go, you always return the error alongside the value, like this: return 0, errors.New("unable to get price") It's less elegant than Options but still, very common practice. GP's company clearly h
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by eshyong 6y ago
Sounds like your company is just using a unidiomatic library. It's poor practice to return a zero value as an error instead of, well, returning the error. As someone else said, it's standard practice in the vast majority of all go
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by eshyong 6y ago
My read on it is the author is saying that seemingly small changes can have big impacts. I agree it could have been worded better, though I doubt he's trying to promote himself as a genius (as other people are saying) because he clearl
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by eshyong 6y ago
Not saying this applies to every company, but I've worked at two different companies that have done something similar: * Healthcare startup that basically outsourced its entire infra/security team from a consulting company. The co
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by eshyong 6y ago
Probably cost of training. You'd have to hire consultants to teach best practices and that could cost significantly more than hiring a new engineer. Plus there are other risks to maintaining two codebases in different languages.
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by eshyong 6y ago
True, there are definitely edge cases to account for. Maybe the problem is these AI assistants are trying to make everything location-aware when that may not always be the desired behavior. If there are ambiguities the assistant could ask y
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by eshyong 6y ago
But you'd still be in the same time zone, no? For different queries, like the one you mentioned, that might be reasonable, but asking for the time in London means the assistant should infer England's time zone, if you're in O
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by eshyong 6y ago
As someone who works with Python a lot, Coffeescript always looked more like Ruby to me, especially with all the syntactic sugar (lack of parens, keywords like `unless` or `isnt`, #{} for string interpolation, etc)
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by eshyong 6y ago
Why do you think it's a huge disadvantage? Your advice seems defeatist, and at best, is highly discouraging. Do you really think it's a good idea to tell a young high schooler to game the system to get into college?
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by eshyong 6y ago
Yeah... I wouldn't listen to GP, because being Asian-American is not a disadvantage, and gaming the system is bad advice . As someone who is Asian and went to a predominantly Asian high school, I saw tons of my schoolmates succeed in
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by eshyong 6y ago
While I agree with some of your points re: online companies doing well, I don't see how you can take anecdata about local grocery stores and extrapolate it to the rest of the economy. Also, don't forget that 16 million (that&#x2
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by eshyong 6y ago
I'm guessing a lot of this is location dependent, and based on warehouse-proximity.
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by eshyong 6y ago
Or underestimating the bureaucracy of the system. I did some work for a startup that interfaced with the government, and basically the government insists on doing everything in triplicate, getting approval from multiple layers of hierarchy,
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by eshyong 6y ago
The two games have totally different vibes, which is fine. AC is more for relaxing and unwinding, while SV is more of a story-driven/objectives-based game.
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by eshyong 6y ago
I've played ~20 hours of Stardew Valley and ~10 hours of Animal Crossing so far, and the vibe is totally different. Animal Crossing is slower paced and very relaxing, whereas Stardew Valley is much more story/character driven. IMO
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by eshyong 6y ago
IMO the real reason open floor plans persist is because it's cheaper for the company than the alternatives (cubicles, offices). The more people you can pack into work "pods" the better.
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by eshyong 6y ago
Don't think so. GP acknowledges that it'll still let the virus in, but at a lower rate than someone without a mask at all.
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by eshyong 7y ago
From what I heard, they only put the number of shares and an estimated value in the offer letter, so that amount is only accurate at the time they give the offer - since Lyft's shares have dropped in value it's probably worth sign

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