moises_silva

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by moises_silva 5y ago
The 'you are doing it wrong' argument cuts both ways. Having an office does not magically make you more productive. You also need to cultivate an adequate environment to allow makers enough focus time and not randomly interrupted
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by moises_silva 5y ago
I suppose I can only speak from my experience. I can see definitely how many corp onsite environments are awful. There are productivity killers both onsite and remote and there are no absolutes. If we assume a 'good' remote vs &#x
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by moises_silva 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Endless meaningless meetings is an orthogonal problem. Regardless of remote vs on-site, I try to avoid meetings without a clear agenda, purpose and inviting only relevant parties. Not inviting people just to &#x2
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by moises_silva 5y ago
Yes I did not parse that correctly. Thanks.
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by moises_silva 5y ago
> People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true. How is it obviously not true? I mean. I love remote work. I started working remotely way before it was mainstream and I'm advocate for it. I've managed remote
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by moises_silva 5y ago
> This is true. As a customer, depending on the good-will of leadership to counterbalance the influence of capital is depending on humans, and even really good ones are fallible and temporal. Well, I dunno, you always are depending on th
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by moises_silva 5y ago
Yeah I get this, I'm a paying customer. Not overly worried, as long as I can export and move on to another service. I used to be a LastPass user until 2yrs ago. I was replying to the comment about LastPass starting to monetize users (e
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by moises_silva 5y ago
Make the ids free? I've been out of Mexico for >10yrs but when I became 18 I easily got my voting id in Mexico, free of charge.
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by moises_silva 5y ago
> For an adjacent example, LastPass never took a dime of VC money (afaict), but their structure as a for-profit company pushed them to lock down their product and charge rents, where they had not previously. If they had taken VC money or
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by moises_silva 5y ago
Same here, all relevant results.
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by moises_silva 5y ago
> At a meeting with Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla asked if our whole team was the meeting. Around the table was myself, our COO, our CTO, the very famous head of the studio, our CFO, our head of cloud and a couple of engineers. Our COO p
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by moises_silva 5y ago
> Moving to an another country isn't for everyone. If you move to a richer country, foreigners are usually automatically treated differently. I'm sorry this was your experience. It sounds however like a very broad generalizatio
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Puppy-killing scientist smuggles rainforest babies in body cavity (2015)(thesmallermajority.com)
4 points by moises_silva 5y ago|6 comments
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by moises_silva 5y ago
They’re storytelling.
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by moises_silva 5y ago
That's a good point. However, it's arguably only hard to use to do modern software development which is a complex use case for a low level language. At least in all my time doing C (>10yrs) I can reduce most of my gdb usage to
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by moises_silva 5y ago
> I can wrap my head around how memory works, but gdb just feels... hard to use I really like it. I find it simple in the same way I find C a simple language. There isn't that many commands that you use frequently and the names are
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by moises_silva 5y ago
> No new code should be using select(). Using it assumes the execution environment keeps all file descriptor values within FD_SETSIZE. I'm with you here. I'm also guilty of using it still for some CLI tools or other small progr
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by moises_silva 5y ago
> The fact that select doesn't work on more than 1024 fds is terrible. Pedantic clarification, but it's worse than that. It doesn't work on any fd with a value higher than FD_SETSIZE (default is 1024) - 1. You could be wor
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Postmortems Gone Meta(thoughts.travelperk.com)
1 points by moises_silva 5y ago|0 comments
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by moises_silva 6y ago
I agree. I think you made the right call. We live in Canada (Ontario). We wanted to move to SF to be closer to family (Mexico) but in the end, even with a FAANG job offer, it was too risky and the current political climate doesn't seem
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by moises_silva 6y ago
As an immigrant in another country (thankfully more immigration-friendly), I completely understand the frustration. I think however we must see beyond the incompetence of some front-line workers and turn the frustration and complaints towar
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by moises_silva 6y ago
>>> Content hosting platforms I want them to merely do what's legal. Well, one could argue that's what they're doing. Unless we make it illegal for them to make moral choices over content, they're merely doing w
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by moises_silva 6y ago
>>> Nazism is the easy target. The precedence is removal of something legal by a moral/social decision by a corporate entity. This is dangerous. Do we want companies to do just what's legal or what's moral? in the en
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by moises_silva 6y ago
I'm not sure why there's this insistence that 'giving up' time spent on hobbies makes you less interesting or less fun. You can have some hobbies, learn new things, etc; while being a parent. Sure you don't have as
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by moises_silva 6y ago
I used to think along the same lines, but morality and economic success are different things. Sometimes a few 'things' they do, moral or not, are the deciding factor to reach such high valuations, and then we fixate over things li
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by moises_silva 6y ago
I'm from Mexico. I lived in Guadalajara for ~8yrs while in University and the first years of my career before moving to Canada. I go back frequently, sometimes working remotely (a few times even in WeWork spaces, hah!). I love to go ba
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by moises_silva 6y ago
Brazil is a big country, not everyone lives in São Paulo. Why would they close Palo Alto in any case? they want to add to the talent pool, not exchange it. Also, not everywhere you see offices they have engineering teams. The same narrow-
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by moises_silva 6y ago
Not sure if we're talking about the same thing. I do look (more than once a month probably) to cc statements for unexpected charges. I do not keep track however of how much I spent on categories such as subscriptions, clothing, groceri
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by moises_silva 6y ago
I have mixed feelings about this and overall I still want to engage in better financial tracking. However, the obvious flip side of the coin is that if I need several hours a month to keep proper track of the budget to save a few hundred mo
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by moises_silva 6y ago
> but acting like it is the determining factor in one's life is too much I did not read that at all. This is the key message IMHO: > If you are the "wrong kind of person" for some reason, misfortune comes at a much high

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