iamstupidsimple

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by iamstupidsimple 1y ago
> £4800/yr is a shit ton of money? Things must be pretty rough over there! For the average person in the UK, it definitely is.
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by iamstupidsimple 2y ago
In the north of the UK, dinner=lunch and tea=dinner.
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by iamstupidsimple 3y ago
> However, tools, you can make a killing selling simple tools with sexy UX on Mac. I've been thinking about doing something like this recently but I'm not a heavy mac user these days. Any tips on what people are looking for in
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by iamstupidsimple 3y ago
Somewhat relevant: Chet Faliszek (ex-Valve) is currently posting videos about how the flat hierarchy works: https://www.tiktok.com/@chetfaliszek/video/72814172402960335... https://www.tiktok.com/@c
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
These missing TotW's are usually about internal tools that aren't open source.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
And having execs who design the organizational structure around those goals is part of what makes good engineering :)
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Crab bucket mentality. Those salaries are fine, what went wrong is Meta overhired. FAANG companies don't have enough work to go around as it is.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
> 1) How can you write this whole article without saying "Kythe"? Well, it does discuss Grok (the closed source predecessor) extensively.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
@dang doesn't work, you're best off emailing hn@ycombinator.com
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Just personal opinion, but if this product is as valuable as you're suggesting, then definitely try selling at a higher price point! - Your target market can afford it.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Valve is also a games developer, and they never pulled any of their old or failed games. You can still play Artifact or Ricochet multiplayer (if you really want).
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Those are 'third places'. The workplace was always the second place.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Sibling comment has a good point, this number includes everyone from software engineers to kitchen staff. Very few of my direct peers have left and the Google is growing still.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
I joined Google ~6 months before COVID. More than 60% the company was hired after my start date, so that 1/3 stat is probably higher.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
A more generalised approach: structure emails in importance order, top down. So, actionable stuff at top, rationales further down, in descending importance etc... This becomes more critical when talking to execs.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Shackling accountability is no way to run a team. That being said, there's value in ICs contributing to a roadmap, if they're trusted. Being a 'leaf node' and closer to customers can make people more in touch with prob
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Ask HN: What 'deeper technical skills' make up a strong engineer?
47 points by iamstupidsimple 4y ago|21 comments
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
I think it's a generational thing. As a young person, work is basically the default way to meet people after moving to a large city. I have real friends outside work now but they all started as colleagues or friends of colleagues. I&#x
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Unfortunately that problem space is so large (every new line of fibre has how many stakeholders?) that a single individual or organisation might not be able to have any impact here. Which I think is the root of this question.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Even with high ping, application layer is probably the wrong place to solve this problem. We'll likely get email working as one of the first problems and be back to correspondence chess and the like. Even Civilization 5/6 works ov
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
> It's gonna simultaneously trigger and require the economic destruction of a huge amount of office real estate investments to enable the change to remote work to become the majority. Baring in mind this could be worse than 2008. It
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
I believe it's part of (or at least funded by) Twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Wow, I was just thinking about this scene as well! It really is timeless. Especially the bit about measuring success by activity and not results.
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Software engineering is one of the few middle class jobs available these days. Understandably it's now packed with people desperately trying to live a specific lifestyle, buy a house, etc... rather than a passion for tech for tech&#x27
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
Figure out the core data structures and do this at different level of abstraction. I'm currently reading through bits of the TensorFlow codebase, and starting with TF's GraphDef[0] was a good place to start. This is great because
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by iamstupidsimple 4y ago
The vast majority of computer science lectures from 20 years ago are still relevant. A ton has changed in terms of frameworks but the fundamentals are mostly the same.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> Can you give me an example of a successful long-term nuclear storage facility that exists today? Sure. The earth is full of radioactive material (also known as rocks) that have been 'stored' successfully for millions of years
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Advertisers measure outcomes, not raw impressions. Because everything is auction based there's a natural market correction based on this, so impressions could e.g. be worth 1/3 less come bidding time.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
It's called a "house ad" and is generally free for the publisher. They appear when there's no other inventory (like insurance ads). Usually double-click stuff is all negotiated by publishers and has little to do with AdS
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> Telling the govt "too bad, you can't stop math" will backfire. The law can be used to force tech companies to literally stop doing math at scale. There is no practical scenario where those who want to use e2e will not ha

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