jross225

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by jross225 3y ago
heh, I used to work on the data team at Shopify. I built something similar to search internal dbs for secret santa gifts based on some weird criteria. Scraping might have a large margin of error because a lot of products tend to be ephemera
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by jross225 3y ago
> Because of this, there’s more deviation from what was planned and designed to what was shipped and there’s less alignment across teams, so it’s harder to coordinate feature development. Asking as an outsider, won't shipping a lot
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by jross225 3y ago
I mean, imagine what housing in Toronto would cost if they didn't build those 100K+ condos? Pricing is composed of supply and demand, and the article is saying that holding demand constant, increasing supply lowers prices. Adding a mar
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by jross225 3y ago
I've never heard of that before. > find the best possible match and skip all of the technical interviewing theatrics I assume that you mean best person within your network... wouldn't that be limiting for a remote company? >
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by jross225 3y ago
poe.com has a pretty broad collection of LLMs, and for the most part is free.
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by jross225 3y ago
Lol, no. 1. That is a very deterministic statement 2. This is a part of the process, not the entire process. There are still technical elements tested during the interview. 3. The signal that they are looking for, but do not tell candidate
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by jross225 3y ago
Haven't read the report, but accounting tricks like deferring revenue to the next period and writing down receivables would affect revenue/earnings.
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by jross225 4y ago
Most people (on this website) likely have lived in dorms at school, which are not too different than a boarding house.
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by jross225 4y ago
In addition to being a highly volatile source of revenue to the government, you would have to give tax breaks for unrealized capital losses out of fairness; which would introduce a ton of complexity.
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by jross225 4y ago
I'm on a data team of 10, and after about 6 months of onboarding we have permissions to push directly to main pending passing tests. We generally do this for small changes, or changes where we are the context owner. With the caveat tha
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by jross225 4y ago
I can't think of any potential downsides to this /s
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by jross225 4y ago
Maybe not prospective employees, but competing recruiters would definitely remind candidates with multiple offers about the incident.
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by jross225 4y ago
Looking at their past 10-k, cost of revenue is ~$1.8B which includes infra costs. As these are self hosted, infra costs are largely going to be fixed; with a smaller component scaling with usage (things like electricity and maintenance). Us
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by jross225 4y ago
For non-accredited investors, getting a job at Twitter would likely be the best way to get a meaningful position.
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by jross225 4y ago
Lol, best of luck.
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by jross225 4y ago
But then this has the impact of reenforcing model predictions (unless controlled for). This lead won't convert based on the model, so I won't spend time with them or give them any preferential pricing, so the lead doesn't clo
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by jross225 4y ago
Fast didn't make it to market. I would see two ways that Bolt would be a success: 1. Grow with Big Commerce 2. We see a hard push to headless commerce, and Bolt becomes the "Shopify of Checkout" or something similar specifica