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by prlambert 11mo ago
Also sorry I missed this, not only are we in Canada, we just signed our first partner on Vancouver Island – in Victoria, Pacific Heat Pumps: https://www.pacificheatpumps.ca/ We'll have a partner in Nanaimo very soon as
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by prlambert 11mo ago
Thank you! Yes, that is the hope. And what a blast from the past :) Hope you are well
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by prlambert 11mo ago
Yes this is actually the worst – when open minded people get a heat pump for "the right reasons" and then have buyer's remorse. Completely backfires the transition. Do you have a ducted or ductless heat pump? Sounds like duct
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by prlambert 11mo ago
That seems really weird, the only real difference is a reversing valve that costs a couple bucks. A heat pump is an AC, it just can be run backwards to produce heating as well. In cooling it's literally the same thing.
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by prlambert 11mo ago
Cool to see a Heat Pump article near the top of HN! I'm the founder/CEO of Quilt ( https://www.quilt.com/ ), which is mentioned in the article, and a decade+ daily reader of this fine site. At Quilt we've run t
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by prlambert 1y ago
Yes, it's not about the menstruation, it's about pregnancy. Having a kid, especially the 1st, is the single largest shift in consumer spending in most people's lives (if they have kids). Aside from all the obvious spending on
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by prlambert 3y ago
Not sure why you think that? The nomadic population is between 25%-30%, two sources: 1) World bank gives 25% "around one quarter of households live nomadic life in Mongolia" https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata&#x2
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by prlambert 3y ago
This is true in mid and late career, but not early. Lots of mathematically and engineering minded college students consider both CS and mech/aerospace as majors. Of course career prospects are a major influence. Also fwiw my wife left
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by prlambert 3y ago
Nice work! The most surprising part for me was that your websites says you are 20 years old – so I gotta ask, what was the motivation? I'm 39, born in 1983, so I have serious nostalgia around Windows 95. I was 12 when it came out, my p
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by prlambert 4y ago
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes." https://news.ycombinat
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by prlambert 4y ago
The anti-Google frothing here has gotten so extreme it's crossed into comedy. Maybe instead of assuming incompetence and malevolence you should consider how hard it is to do this perfectly. You don't have to like them, but the fac
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by prlambert 4y ago
You're at the wrong company. I've worked at a startup, at Twitter, and at Google and each time there was notable "raising of the bar" in the talent I was around. I know there's a lot of Google hate on HN, and it&#x2
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by prlambert 4y ago
I don't think that's totally right. The idea is to give Canadians a leg up vs. foreign buyers (once the immediate 2 year foreign buyer ban expires, I assume). If your operating model is that foreign bidders are driving up the pric
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by prlambert 5y ago
Yes, since 2017 no Gmail data is used for any Ad targeting, across any part of Google. Here's a NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html Unfortunately this goes agai
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by prlambert 5y ago
My dad is a competitive runner and ultramarathoner (now well into his 60s). One of his favorite sayings is ‘how do you know if you’re a runner? If you don’t think about running while doing it.’ I finally got into it too, and for me/us
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by prlambert 6y ago
"If I worked remotely for Facebook and wanted to move somewhere central where rents are three times higher, would Zuck give me a raise? Somehow I doubt it." I can't speak for Zuck, but Sundar does. I work for Google. We also
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by prlambert 6y ago
No, you get a thick skin pretty quickly as a Google PM (and come to think of it as a Twitter PM too, my former job). Constructive comments are helpful and even the raw frustration I know is coming from a genuine place. Having your tools dis
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by prlambert 6y ago
Just to confirm, the Area 120 labelling is meant to do exactly that. Area 120 projects do not have long-term commitments, explicitly. But the goal is for the successful ones to graduate to be a fully supported Google product and gain those
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by prlambert 6y ago
[Disclosure I work at Google Area 120 and would be partly responsible for this type of decision] This is a really helpful comment and I like the nod to transparency. Thank you! Not sure we could get quite so concrete publicly (there are lot
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by prlambert 6y ago
Distribution. Getting an app installed is super tough.
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by prlambert 7y ago
The headline number is annual total compensation. So yes, ~$200K of shares will vest every year. The normal deal is 4-year grant with even vesting (sometimes after a 1 year cliff), so in this case it would be an $800K equity grant over 4 ye
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by prlambert 7y ago
"If you’re Google, it makes little sense to hire a generalist, I think." I'm a Googler and a generalist. This is of course just my opinion. In the two roles I've had, being a generalist is far better than being specializ
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by prlambert 7y ago
But they get two different X chromosomes with (hopefully) no correlation between them. Mutation interactions are complex.
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by prlambert 7y ago
My wife is a UofT grad, so spent 4 years in Toronto. That's where her snow feelings come from – she still tells stories of marching to class in -20C and snow. It may not be Calgary, but it's not California either. Maybe we'r
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by prlambert 7y ago
Yes there still would be: weather. There's literally no place in Canada that doesn't have a generally unpleasant outdoor experience for at least half the year. I say that as a proud Canadian. It's honestly the main thing hold
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by prlambert 7y ago
Also Haus ( https://haus.com/ ) founded by Garrett Camp (Uber co-founder, StumbleUpon founder)
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by prlambert 7y ago
This article is from 2017
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by prlambert 7y ago
I agree and good point on the broader meaning of editorial judgement. If we had seen any negative impact such as the FB/YouTube examples we would absolutely take that into account. I haven't seen anything remotely like yet with re
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by prlambert 7y ago
It's global
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by prlambert 7y ago
We also take qualitative metrics pretty seriously and found that this experience was well received on a more subjective level, high csat in particular. It surpassed the success criteria we set out for the feature and I'm happy about wh

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