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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Yes - he is referring to me.
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Hi! The G.O. here who you refer to. To reply to some of the factually incorrect parts of this comment: On why I don’t cover other companies’ RTO? But I do! You asked about Apple: wrote about them and RTO last month [1]. Other companies doin
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Take Adyen, a B2B payment processor - valued at $45B, and a company that we can no longer ignore when talking about Stripe. Founded a few years before Stripe, IPO’d in 2018, processing a similar volume and growing faster in 2022 than Stripe
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
In what is interesting, TikTok / ByteDance was on an absolute hiring spree for devs October to January for sure, while most other tech companies took the back seat or did cuts. Here’s data I got my hands on, comparing the number of “so
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Developer blogs, ranked by Twitter mentions(bloggingfordevs.com)
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
The plagiarised article in question was on the front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287747 Interesting enough, it’s author claimed on the HN that they used ChatGPT because they are not a native
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A Writer Used AI to Plagiarize Me. Now What?(bigtechnology.com)
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Gayle confirmed this site is an impersonation of her and she did not author this. Seems like the post is made up. https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1611748759553150985
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
So why delete my comment on the publication instead of addressing it? Then why delete my second comment? And why not make it clear the article is generated by ChatGPT, at least partially? Also, this is a good example on why anonymous accoun
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
The whole article feels to me like it’s generated by GPT-3 based on a few prompts. There’s a reference to Forbes article not linked, but otherwise zero things backing up this 1% claim. The thing that makes this very suspicious is the contin
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Some insider details as someone who knew some of the Revue team - based mostly in the Netherlands. The majority of the team was cut in the first wave of Twitter layoffs on 4 November (wrote about this [1]) - when 50% of people were let go.
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George Hotz Resigns from Twitter(twitter.com)
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
@treme most of my former team no longer works at Uber so I don't have direct contacts. Both of us can keep using the app, sharing an account. I am also not a fan of using my network when it's the system that is broken. I might b
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
If it makes you feel any better: the same thing happened to my wife's account. Ironic that I used to work at Uber for ~4 years. Still, there's no way for me to resolve this for me unless I would escalate to someone working at Uber
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Interesting enough, it was in August that I received a reachout for them, where they offered to pay me to write for Future.com and also keep my rights and re-publish later. I declined off the bat [1], because as I checked the site, the a16z
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Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall(platformer.news)
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Ah, got it. I still find it just weird practice to not link to the source, making it harder for people reading articles to find them.
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Update: duplicate, the original WSJ article discussed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33497012 The original article is from The Washington Post [1]. In this article, it is not linked, but mentioned. This dw.com
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Keep in mind that inviting strangers to the site carries risks. After being an active member on the site for about a year - and liking it - I sent out my first ever invite for someone I didn’t know personally, but who seemed to be alright b
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
I was having the same question. Original situation: tickets are priced too low, and sell out almost immediately, with scrapers buying much of the tickets, then reselling them. Fans are furious! Plus: the band+seller is leaving money on the
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Taking a step back, it's worth understanding why there's so much clickbait. Turns out that if the business model of a publication is selling ads, they're interested in reach. Generating reach is easier by having large quant
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Is joining late-stage startups for the financial upside a dead end?(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
The original Business Insider article - referenced by the article linked on this post - writes [1] "Executives told directors across the company that they should select at least 15% of their teams to be labeled as 'needs support&#
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
When I did a deepdive on Facebook ~5 months ago ("Inside the Facebook Engineering Culture"), I confirmed with people inside the company the company having ~75,000 global employees, ~32,000 working in tech. While I can't answe
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
I cover what's happening inside Facebook for software engineers, and I have confirmed that the 15% needs improvement target was not set as guideline for engineering teams, based on talking with several engineering managers within the c
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Netflix’s historic introduction of levels for software engineering(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Updated with how shutting down Zenly means firing the whole team. The Zenly engineers always worked on Zenly, and not on Snap. If the goal was to acquihire, they are letting their whole acquisition go. It smells like a complete change in di
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
Buried in the announcement is how Snap is shutting down Zenly and firing everyone who worked on it in Paris, France. Zenly is a location-based social application (think: you can see & connect with your friends on a map). Snap bought the
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
A few interesting pieces of information on the publishing industry, as shared in this trial and article: On profits: > PRH’s Dohle said that the top 4 per cent of his books produce 60 per cent of his profit. The best books, he says, are
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by gregdoesit 4y ago
(Disclaimer: I both self-published books and also write a paid newsletter on Substack) The author of this article makes the point that Substack pays ~90% in revenue, versus traditional publishers which do ~10%. While this is true, I do thin

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