rsweeney21

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by rsweeney21 4mo ago
I'm guessing you have 0 insight into how monopolies work.
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by rsweeney21 4mo ago
I work in integrity (keeping bad stuff off the platform). My job is to reduce the harm Meta causes. So I'm at peace with myself. I don't think I could work in any other area of Meta though.
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by rsweeney21 4mo ago
I also work at Meta. The chaos and instability is awful. But I think they could fire pretty much everyone and the ads business would still continue to grow at nearly the same rate. I think it will take a very long time for leadership to fee
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by rsweeney21 4mo ago
I work at Meta. 1) Work with top minds in ML 2) Money But I have enough money now and no amount of more money (that Meta could reasonably offer for my role) would make it worth staying. This place sucks now.
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by rsweeney21 1y ago
A lot of money is moving into treasuries, which is causing the 10 yr yield to quickly drop below 4%. https://www.barrons.com/articles/10-year-treasury-yield-junk...
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by rsweeney21 2y ago
If building an app on a platform does not increase the networks effects of that platform, this will always be the outcome. Good platforms get more valuable with more apps: iOS, Windows, etc Bad platforms don't get better with more apps
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by rsweeney21 2y ago
I put them in ziploc sandwich or snack bags. Keeps them from getting tangled, easy to see what each one is, and easy to rummage through.
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by rsweeney21 2y ago
I work for Meta. Do you have any examples of this on Meta platforms? (Facebook/Instagram?)
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by rsweeney21 2y ago
I owned zip folders for a while during the windows Vista days. I could have sworn the code was originally purchased, not written by someone at Microsoft. Honestly, it looked like it had been run through an obfuscator. I assumed that the ori
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
I'm currently self employed, but I just accepted a role in big tech. After 4 years I was able to set up my recruiting company to run without me, so I can earn about $300K-$500K per year from that, plus my full-time salary. I'm als
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
It's still strange to me to work in a field of computer science where we say things like "we're not exactly sure how these numbers (hyper parameters) affect the result, so just try a bunch of different values and see which on
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
You should answer the question...
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
In 2007 I worked in Office Labs at Microsoft. We explored the idea of creating presentations on an infinite canvas. It was pretty cool. It took inspiration from Seadragon. It was called Plex or PowerPoint Plex. Unfortunately, all the demo v
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
Love the section "Valetudo is a garden" "But, at the end of the day, you must understand that it is still privately-owned. You’re on someone else’s property over which you have no power at all. You will have to show the neces
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
Google is a data scraper. OpenAI is a data scraper. Pretty much every major company uses data obtained from a data scraper.
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
This is huge! I've had so many business ideas that I've killed at the idea stage because giving 30% of revenue to Apple or Google made it not viable. Might be time to revisit them...
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
I didn't know there was such a thing. :) Might need to get him one for christmas.
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
Yes! Only happens on archive.is for me.
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
I've been introducing my 10yr old to Godot. He's been building games in Scratch for the past 6 months. He loves Scratch, but is also frustrated by it's limitations. I thought he'd be happier with a real scripting languag
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
That sounds like exactly what I was looking for. Impressive!
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
Let's say I'm building a CRM and I want to have an "industry" or "cities" table that is the same across all tenants. I want a copy of cities in each tenant for referential integrity, but I also need to update i
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
Is there a mechanism for replicating shared/system data across tenants? Can I deploy into a specific AWS or GCP region?
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
Would your service work for this scenario? We charge $20K-$50K for our services after they are completed. (We do contingent recruiting.) Some customers ask if they can pay over time. We don't want to offer that because we're alrea
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
It is not that expensive to set up a team of engineers to keep a product working for 10+ years. Microsoft had/has this. They called it "sustained engineering". They don't do any new feature work, just bug fixes and secur
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
This is one of the better corporate communications on a price increase I've seen. Clear reasoning that makes sense and seems reasonable.
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
I made another programmer. My daughter just finished her first year of her CS degree. I hired her as an intern at my company and gave her a project that I thought would take several weeks. She proceeded to finish it in just a few days. Watc
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
One overlooked cause of the return to office trend is local tax breaks. Big companies negotiate large tax breaks from city and state governments in exchange for bringing a certain number of jobs to the area. But big companies haven't b
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
Came here to make the exact same comment. I can't help but feel like some day we will forget how we were able to make such amazing machines.
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
It should make it so you don't need to do that.
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
Cool! We should chat.

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