wgerard

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by wgerard 2y ago
I think it includes transfers and express lines. I noticed if I click on a local stop that meets an express line somewhere, the express line stops are still quite a bit darker than other stops. That's likely why 18th and 14th street ar
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by wgerard 2y ago
For me, the nice part about Obsidian is that they're just markdown files. So even if something happens to Obsidian, the notes still exist and are still easily transferrable to something else.
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by wgerard 3y ago
I was part of Techstars Seattle in 2019, though we were mentored by Chris's counterpart at Founders' Co-op (Aviel). It was also a partnership with Amazon, and I really don't have enough good things to say about that experienc
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by wgerard 3y ago
Side note: If anyone is interested in this space, highly recommend you check out https://www.woventeams.com/
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by wgerard 3y ago
Hah, this is something close to my heart. A friend and I tried to start a company around this, basically resolving three big issues we saw with take-homes: 1) No feedback. If you spend a couple hours on something you should get meaningful f
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by wgerard 3y ago
Hah, that’s funny because the German netflix series are some of my favorites! Dark, Babylon, How to sell drugs online, and 1899 (RIP) are all fantastic series.
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by wgerard 3y ago
Heh I vaguely recall at Etsy, predating my time, that a significant amount of business logic was done using stored procedures and triggers. They migrated away from it at some point, but some of the people who handled that migration were sti
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by wgerard 4y ago
> Does it matter that they don't? For an e-commerce platform that allows returns: Yeah that's kind of an important sticking point and was a big part of the problem. The other problem was that spells were effectively a service a
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by wgerard 4y ago
I mean sure, I think that's why it flew under the radar for so long. The dark underbelly of it was people buying love spells and the like, which starts to feel a lot like preying on peoples' desperation.
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by wgerard 4y ago
This was a constant complaint about Etsy 10 years ago when I worked there. This was a complaint that predated my time working there, even. At one point we even had to ban people selling spells (yes, as in the seller would offer to do a magi
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by wgerard 4y ago
My personal addition: Code isolation I've "prematurely" split up code across multiple/classes functions so many times before these huge god functions became set-in-stone and unwieldy. I had a co-worker once who was extre
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by wgerard 4y ago
This whole story is wild to me, having worked previously at a different company which was also a frequent target of criticism on the blog run by the victims. Sure, we definitely used to eye-roll at some articles. But my ass would've be
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by wgerard 5y ago
My guess, though it carries a bunch of other problems that people below listed: Population density means zip codes are extremely concentrated in NYC, especially in Manhattan. Traveling down the length of Manhattan might have you cover ~25 z
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by wgerard 5y ago
Yeah, it was quite a trip to read this article as a former Etsian (for context to unaware readers: Etsy was a somewhat frequent target of the blog in question here, along with obviously eBay). I'm not going to pretend we didn't ro
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by wgerard 5y ago
Interesting! TIL.
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by wgerard 5y ago
I think the reason for the speculation it’s wash trading is that unlike the 1952 Mickey Mantle card, there are presumably a lot more Mario 64 cartridges in circulation and thus the auction price seems out of line for the supply available. D
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by wgerard 5y ago
I read an interesting explanation on reddit somewhere that posited this is the result of a small group of devoted enthusiasts basically wash trading: They sell the games to each other back and forth for extremely high prices to make it seem
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by wgerard 5y ago
> red flags are n=1000 It's been awhile since I've taken stats, but people semi-frequently overestimate the necessary sample size needed for even a 99% confidence level. Depends on the standard deviation for sure, but some quic
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by wgerard 6y ago
> The competitors to RTSes, games like League of Legends, Fortnite, Rocket League, and Hearthstone... are enjoyable to play across the full spectrum of skill levels. <citation needed> I'm mostly kidding, but I do think it&#x27
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by wgerard 6y ago
It's interesting you say that. I don't know if it's still the case, but Hearthstone used to have a decent amount of random effects (other than just basic card draw RNG). A big complaint at the time was that the randomness fel
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by wgerard 6y ago
Eh, I'd say the campaign of WC3 was a pretty big focus, or at least Blizzard clearly considered it one since it formed the basis for a lot of WoW's storyline.
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by wgerard 6y ago
Yeah, I mean of course that’s a possibility. I looked it up, and apparently Steve Carrell wrote the episode in question. It’s not too wild to imagine that he used the opportunity to present his own character as more than just a bumbling oaf
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by wgerard 6y ago
> That shows he's learned from a few mistakes Honestly, that’s pretty out of character for Michael Scott. For a character who otherwise repeatedly makes the same mistakes over and over again, to show even that tiny bit of insight is
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by wgerard 6y ago
Hmm, I think the idea is a bit reductionist but given that his definitions stem from those characters I don't think you've chosen great examples. Ryan, Jan, and later Kelly are definitely "sociopaths" by the article&#x27
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by wgerard 6y ago
I'm not sure if there are other episodes, but there's a big hint in an episode in season 4 that Michael is much more astute than he lets on: During the episode where Michael goes out to do a "survival show" in the woods
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by wgerard 6y ago
This is going off on a tangent obviously compared to the OP's point (that the legal system doesn't try to control for subjective behavior, which is incorrect), but sure, I'll indulge. > That doesn't mean it's a g
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by wgerard 6y ago
For exactly the reason this article is being discussed: Without a code of conduct you're left with an arbitrary line about what "being a jerk" is. Codifying rules is meant to prevent that from happening, even though as we see
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by wgerard 6y ago
> should CoCs even try to transcend the law Yes? Companies do this all the time with codes of conduct and nobody really thinks twice about it. Nobody would think it's bizarre that (hypothetically, I don't know what their actual
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by wgerard 6y ago
> All of which require time and dedication to the craft to get good at. I don't mean to be cynical about it, but I think you're looking at this through rose-tinted nostalgia glasses. There are plenty of examples of famous enter
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by wgerard 6y ago
Yes, I think this is the other side of being a kid :). There'd certainly be a lot more paleontologists and crane operators if we followed our passions as children to fruition.

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