myblake

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by myblake 1y ago
> There's no pride, no joy, just productivity. This is exactly what bothers me about the present moment. Not that the pride of craftsmanship is everything, but dialing it down to zero with extreme pressure to stay that way is a bit
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by myblake 2y ago
Solar still works on Mars as does fission. Plenty of stuff about this online if you look.
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by myblake 2y ago
On the one hand, totally reasonable to ask “what does speaking English have to do with building airplanes”. On the other, the vast majority of technical and scientific literature worldwide is English language based. As is all air traffic co
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by myblake 4y ago
Does commercial aviation carry an oxidizer though? I thought jets were air breathing.
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by myblake 5y ago
There’s some real mistakes on the part of your direct manager here. It sounds like they have not been properly managing expectations between you and their boss. Out of curiosity how many direct reports do they have and how long have they be
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by myblake 5y ago
It was really poorly worded and confused me too until I saw the dates on the articles linked out.
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by myblake 6y ago
Have done so personally.
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by myblake 6y ago
No one can require you to stay on though, you’ll either have sufficient equity or bonus potential to make up for the lower salary, a salary adjustment, or you’ll just walk for a market salary.
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by myblake 6y ago
So yeah people totally lose their health care when they lose their job. Typically it runs through the month and then you’re on your own. You can by law keep buying the same plan at full price (employers typically pay between 50-80 and somet
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by myblake 7y ago
Yeah, I was confused too, there’s plenty of molecules made up of two atoms. Sounds like the guess from other commenters about conservation of energy and momentum are most likely to be correct!
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by myblake 7y ago
iPhone’s not using USB-C is kind of a pain and I’m still not sure I love government intervention in this area. Lightning is weird in that it works quite well but as everything else has moved to USB-C it’s become more of a weird outlier. Def
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by myblake 7y ago
Isn’t that kind of his conclusion too though? It matters in as much as we’re less likely to see new general purpose public clouds come into play, but he didn’t seem to predict there was no more room for change in the industry, just that wer
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by myblake 7y ago
It was like 40 or 50, but yeah the points stands, it was still like two orders of magnitude smaller than any other 10+ billion dollar exit we’ve ever seen.
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by myblake 7y ago
It’s proof they can actually make money on the thing, which matters because it sounds it’s soemthing people like enough to pay for so as they grow the user base, they’ll grow revenue. However, keep in mind they still didn’t get in to YC af
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by myblake 8y ago
Fairly straightforward in some languages (Ruby for instance).
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by myblake 9y ago
LA also has a pretty massive affordability crisis. Rent and housing costs aren’t as bad as SF in absolute terms, but incomes are lower. https://www.nahb.org/en/news-and-publications/press-releases...
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by myblake 9y ago
Lucy ( https://startwithlucy.com ) | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite | Hiring for mobile and web We're hiring engineers at our headquarters in San Francisco to help build out our product to helping women and men have
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by myblake 9y ago
Yeah it definitely does sometimes. I use "echo" as the wake up word and it certainly has woken up on entirely unrelated words.
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by myblake 9y ago
Hell, its about time.
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by myblake 10y ago
While I think now is probably the time for lyft to strike while the iron is hot, I appreciate nytimes' candor in acknowledging neither Lyft nor Uber has demonstrated a "financially viable business". The road ahead is undoubte
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by myblake 10y ago
Your reading of Travis strikes me as wildly optimistic.
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by myblake 10y ago
That happens to be one of the quotes in one of the related articles Medium suggests at the bottom that's worth the read: https://medium.com/@dhh/deleting-uber-is-the-least-you-can-d...
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by myblake 10y ago
Yeah Harvard doesn't use the same numbering systems as most other universities. It's up to the department if I recall and for the case department anything in the sub 100s were intro, 100-200 was for undergrad classes but could be
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by myblake 10y ago
That means 52% of Republicans don't strongly support it, and Trump was elected by a mix of Republicans, independents and even Some Democrats.
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by myblake 10y ago
Let's not give up so quickly: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/28/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-f...
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by myblake 10y ago
Absolutely! There's some folks who aren't going to be persuaded and love what Trumps doing, but there's a large group of people who tried to convince themselves this was just campaign rhetoric, or who just disposed Hillary, o
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by myblake 10y ago
I think those are the people he wants to ultimately affect, but it's important to remember that attracting and retaining the best talent is one of the main things on the mind of the CEOs of top tech companies. Hearing from employees of
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by myblake 10y ago
Yeah it's interesting how it can go the other way if you're in a solidly conservative district too (I used to live in austin ehich thanks to some ridiculous gerrymandering has very conservative congressional representation). Thank
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by myblake 10y ago
Fair enough, I do think the quantification argument is sound. I certainly don't mean to discourage anyone from contacting their elected officials, I just want to highlight the fact a lot of us live in areas that are both solidly more p
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by myblake 10y ago
How effective is calling local congress members if you live in an area with a strong progressive majority such as the Bay Area. Not that we shouldn't voice our option to our represented officials but I suspect in some ways it's re

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