rstephenson2

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by rstephenson2 11mo ago
It was hard to tell if he means he doesn’t do meetings at all, though it’s kind of implied. There are lots of high leverage activities around advocating for engineering’s perspectives among the other executives and bringing the business con
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by rstephenson2 2y ago
Google has already given Chrome an unfair advantage by leveraging their other services. I suspect the browser market is an unstable system where absent outside intervention Chrome’s 65% market share naturally becomes 100%. Chrome is such a
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by rstephenson2 2y ago
If it goes through, your customers can switch, once, to Chrome. After that, Google leverages its other service monopolies, Chrome goes to 95%+ market share, standards fall by the wayside, and nobody has any choice. I guess the answer to tha
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by rstephenson2 3y ago
Boot camps take the “seems to be passionate about coding in their free time” signals and help their students try to fit those signals by encouraging them to build personal projects on GitHub etc. This somewhat dilutes the ability of recruit
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by rstephenson2 3y ago
The most plausible theory to me: this is all FCC licensing related, where the owner is operating an FM station that is licensed as an AM station + repeater, but _nobody_ listens to the AM station or cares. Other comments say they haven’t be
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by rstephenson2 3y ago
If you were doing it today it’d probably be much easier from the enterprise procurement side. They often give out single-use virtual card numbers per service now.
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by rstephenson2 3y ago
In the mid naughts ruby/rails was catching on and rubyconf was getting bigger, but the events were on the _weekends_ because most of these were people doing it for fun and not able to expense it to their employer or get time off. There
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by rstephenson2 3y ago
Totally agree. AI empowers people with existing software expertise, and empowers people with domain knowledge. Both of which have historically been bottlenecked by things AI is now getting good at.
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by rstephenson2 3y ago
This sounds in line with Google creating go: restrict the language features so you can hire mass quantities of programmers and be reasonably sure they won’t go off the rails. It’s fine for what it’s for but doesn’t seem like that should be
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by rstephenson2 3y ago
Has anyone verified this (the Mail.app) part themselves, or is the blog post just going off of Apple's press release? The press release: > Link Tracking Protection in Messages, Mail, and Safari Private Browsing > "Some websi
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by rstephenson2 4y ago
It seems like the $200/mo plan and below are subsidized by their marketing budget, and the various ToS terms are there to give them discretion over whether those users are worth it or not: either low-cost users who are using too many r
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by rstephenson2 4y ago
Assuming that whether or not the lawyer is working on their case is the deciding factor, the venue (actually the conglomerate that owns them) are the ones who chose to come up with this retaliatory scheme so the onus is on them.
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by rstephenson2 4y ago
What she's alleging seems to be: the MSG conglomerate is using their large footprint to punish law firm employees unrelated to their dispute using venues also unrelated to their dispute. Doing it out of spite sounds possibly legal, if
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by rstephenson2 4y ago
They might also be banking on this giving Microsoft cover to not take it down. With the original takedown, Microsoft would be worried that the relative nobodies disappear with Microsoft left holding the bag. If Microsoft instead knows that
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by rstephenson2 4y ago
It seems like lots of companies start in the cloud due to low commitments, and then later when they have more stability and demand and want to save costs, making bigger cloud commitments (RIs, enterprise agreements etc) are a turnkey way to
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by rstephenson2 4y ago
Is there some nuance as to how this is set up? The company buying back the stock when you leave seems particularly interesting: if the valuation has changed in between when you start and when you leave, the company either buys the stock bac
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by rstephenson2 5y ago
I'd be most interested to hear about situations one step up from there, where Hetzner's per-TB-per-month pricing doesn't work out favorably and you want to serve content reasonably quickly anywhere in the world. It seems like
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by rstephenson2 5y ago
$0.035/GB sounds about an order of magnitude too high once you get to a large scale, were these clients doing small amounts of bandwidth? On the other hand, $0.0021/GB is far on the cheaper end of the spectrum, who is it that offe
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by rstephenson2 5y ago
I wonder how analogous this is to “don’t talk to VC associates” advice. Corp dev is interested in buying a company, any company, at a low price but even once corp dev is sold they’ll have to sell the deal to someone who matters. People conf
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by rstephenson2 8y ago
Can you explain what turned you off about his negotiation, if he wasn't being a jerk? Just the fact that someone would have the audacity to do it, when you didn't feel he had the necessary leverage to pull it off? Every company yo
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by rstephenson2 9y ago
If you work with data security departments at large companies, you get these types of questionnaires all the time already. And every single question has been answered a dozen times before, but each new request's questions have subtle n
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by rstephenson2 9y ago
One interesting part about this is that it's a letter, and the author never explicitly mentions that it was sent in an email. Assuming this letter arrives in the post one day, what do you do? Ask them to email you for verification? Sen
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by rstephenson2 9y ago
How about we create client-side plugins for each of the major platforms that people can use to detect the AMP mime-type and automatically mark as spam? Email reputation is a huge concern for senders and if there were enough people using the
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by rstephenson2 9y ago
You can do that, and often times debt providers will attach those sorts of provisions: "we'll lend you X and you can keep it as long as you achieve Y or maintain Z". One of the challenges with that is that you can set up domi
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by rstephenson2 9y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but don't contracts require consideration for both parties? Usually when employers require an employee to sign something, there is an implicit consideration "and you get to keep your job." But in this c
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by rstephenson2 10y ago
Not quite a device manufacturer, but a technology company: Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio was convicted of insider trading after allegedly refusing to help the NSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio It may be a co
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by rstephenson2 11y ago
My understanding is that you pay taxes not on the current value, but on the difference between the value of the stock and the price you paid for it. It's essentially treated as income.
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by rstephenson2 12y ago
Does anyone know of anything a bit larger? There are a lot of great little devices for running WRT for your home, but are there any open distributions for, say, a 50-person startup? At that level, things like maximum connection count and