jaxwerk

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by jaxwerk 3y ago
I'm 31, retired a couple years back. Instead of going into FAANG I went the high-risk route and worked for small start-ups from ages 15-28. I've had a ~25% success rate on those companies and now have enough to maintain my middl
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by jaxwerk 5y ago
Yep, this situation is pretty frustrating. I used to live in old town Superior which is entirely burned, and am good friends with some of my previous neighbors who have lost their places. Housing is in short supply here, and high number o
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by jaxwerk 5y ago
Wow, I can't imagine the struggle you must be going through in a masked-up world. That's got to be just incredibly frustrating and alienating. Do you think maybe your hostility might be misdirected a bit though? Do you think it&
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by jaxwerk 5y ago
Terse technical prose, for example, is useful for rapidly communicating concepts to readers with requisite comprehension skills. Nobody talks like that though because even if you could pick the right words quickly enough as a speaker, whoe
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by jaxwerk 5y ago
I bought my OP-1 at a steal for $600 two years back. I'd pay $1200 for it today, maybe $1600. There's a lot of more technically capable stand-alone gear that can be had for less of course. My MPC Live is what my finished (not goo
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by jaxwerk 5y ago
Even though the overall space is small, during the workday the logistics really boil down to us just sharing a table. If you're able to work at a desk with someone directly across from you it's not that much different. We'v
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by jaxwerk 5y ago
My partner and I have worked most of this year from a little 13 ft Scamp travel trailer all across the U.S. and we're currently building out a van to get a bit of extra mobility. I'm a staff engineer for a consultancy with lots o
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by jaxwerk 6y ago
> Here's my primary concern: what evidence do you have that this code actually works? This is a strange concern to try to address with code-review. I don't think most folks actually expect to catch a lot of bugs by staring at
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by jaxwerk 6y ago
I would love to see a good argument there, because while that argument is easy to accept at face value, when I dig deeper at the concept of what market manipulation is, I fail to find behavior that the majority of WSB is engaging in that fi
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by jaxwerk 6y ago
Margin calls are surely coming for large short positions, starting Friday and likely continuing in coming weeks. If the short positions need to cover, there's forced demand.
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by jaxwerk 6y ago
The thesis that many Bulls are approaching Gamestop stock with is that the company was fundamentally undervalued prior to the current short-squeeze event. Even after the current spike resolves, a return to a $30 or so share price (up from
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by jaxwerk 6y ago
WallStreetBet's consensus on buying Gamestop was born from an understanding of its share price being undervalued, based on basic profit and loss analysis, as well as a promising board member joining who has the background to grow the c
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by jaxwerk 6y ago
If the play here were a simple pump and dump, that would all be accurate. Your ability to sell at 10,000% relies on there being a greater fool and that greater fool that ends up holding the bag could often be just a regular person investin
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by jaxwerk 6y ago
As an engineer who has worked briefly with one of the start-ups focused on here on their core product, Robert's critique of the the technology driving the current generation of template-based commercial solutions is absolutely spot-on.
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by jaxwerk 7y ago
What benefit do folks get out of running their build scripts from a browser vs from a terminal? Isn't a terminal a much more efficient interface for this vs needing to click into a project, select the right script and hit a run button
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by jaxwerk 7y ago
Red is a property of a car totally unrelated to its performance characteristics. The language software is implemented in absolutely has an impact on the performance and behavior of the software. This is more like "Carbon is faster tha
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by jaxwerk 8y ago
> Sounds like you haven't ridden a motorcycle? Repeating this is so unnecessarily condescending. > In a hard right turn, you will need to keep constant pushing pressure on the right handle (steering left) in order to stay in the
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by jaxwerk 9y ago
> It is blog post and email, most likely scrutinized by PR experts. Written to sound convincing, because it is the goal and the job of people writing it. Nothing wrong with that. Everyone above is on the same page here. This is PR. Why