akavi

> OOP is a great fit for UI frameworks.

The biggest UI framework of the past decade is decisively anti-OOP in its philosophy

Sounds like getting rid of some hygiene theater is another benefit of self-driving cars then.

Covid transmission via surfaces is basically non-existent, as far as we can tell.

"Explicit deductive reasoning" is pretty darn rare.

(and "meticulous attention to detail" is not strictly necessary, as my own career attests.)

Offered lower comp than my competing offers and their growth metrics didn't look too hot.

"Schadenfreude"'s English translation is "schadenfreude".

Why do you want to avoid investing in stocks?

(Also, a 401k is an investment vehicle, not an investment in and of itself)

Depends on the private university. At the very top (HYPMS), that's true (unless your family is very wealthy). It was cheaper for me to attend Yale than my sister to attend UT Austin, despite my parents being fairly affluent (dual-income engineers).

But the generosity of grants falls off sharply as you leave that tier. Financial assistance at schools like NYU are almost 100% in the form of loans.

My friends who spent their 20s at FAANG would disagree with you.

Nope. Instead of roast turkey, my (Indian-American) family makes a turkey meatball curry. Cultural fusion at its most delicious, and guaranteed never dry.

FAANG started as a stock ticker acronym. Facebook's stock ticker's now $mtvs, Google's is still $goog/$googl.

That's a justification at least.

> It's gained widespread adoption, a whole economy, thousands of businesses.

What percent of those business denominate their prices in bitcoin?

What percent of those businesses do anything but immediately convert the bitcoin back into fiat the moment they take possession?

To add another data point, _every_ teacher I know (I know three) use less than a month of their three month break on lesson planning/continuing education/staff obligations.

Oh man, as the engineer who was more or less responsible for PD scheduling between 2013 - 2015, it really hurts to hear they still haven't solved this :/

I think most people here would agree that working on a side project in your free time using your own resources (Ie, not using your employer’s) is perfectly reasonable and hardly comparable to fraud.

(Disclaimer: happy PD employee from 2011-2015)

PagerDuty’s front end was 100% coffeescript until at least 2016

He knows (Matt Levine always knows), and addresses that very fact in a footnote:

> To be clear, market makers are not required to do what the model tells them, and the “common sense” answer is perhaps ambiguous. Arguably the fact that someone bought thousands of these options means that the probability of them paying off is a bit higher than the model suggests. If you are selling way-way-way-out-of-the-money options, you probably should not be blindly following your model. Here is a story I likefrom Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

> This morning Robinhood conspired with Citadel to halt trading

Do you have evidence that happened, or are you arguing from pure cui bono circumstantiality?

Are these users trading on margin?

Non-FAANG companies that I personally know pay senior engineers more than 400 k$/yr in TC: AirBnB, Slack, Square, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Twitter, Pinterest, Spotify.

(This isn't to name the even longer list of private companies that have comparable comp with reasonable assessment of their equity)

> A simple solution is to not include stock options in how you value your comp package when going to work at a small company.

At face value, that's saying a senior engineer in bay area should be willing to take a ~150 - 200 k$/yr pay cut to work at a start up. And in my experience, people who say that never take me up on my offer to buy their equity from that at valuations significantly higher than 0 $.

Having spent a decent chunk of my career at startups, I think a better mindset is:

1) Never value your options as if they were worth the preferred price, but at a significant discount (exact discount size depends on company and stage)

2) Approach working at a startup like the financial investment it is. Ask for all the data on growth and revenue you can get (Last fundraising round's pitch deck is good, if it was fairly recent).

I'm not sure I agree with the author of this book that that counts as an example of "The Strategy Pattern" (vs. simply "passing a function as a parameter").

Is having parameters at all "The Parameter Pattern"? Should we call passing a boolean flag "The Flag Pattern"?

To me, "Design Pattern" implies at least some higher order structure than that (and which is not natively abstractable over in the language in question).

It's a bit incoherent to offer subsidies to encourage the creation of new tech and then get mad at people for taking you up on the offer.

My reading of Tanden's tweet is that she's rebutting Trump's first sentence, not the second. Ie, Asserting that Russian hacking (in the form of releasing sensitive emails) was plainly sufficient to flip 70 kVotes (Donald Trumps cumulative margin in the states over the tipping point) and ignoring the question of whether "voting machines [were] touched".

Coinbase arguably is just a casino in another form.

Reddit's incentives are aligned towards a similar addictive loop as Facebook.

Stripe, Cruise, Dropbox, Gusto, and Gitlab are pretty unassaible IMO, though.

I'm reminded of a 6 ft tall, blonde roommate I once had who advised me to "make sure your photos have you doing something in them, so the women you match with have a hook to start the conversation with.".

(If you don't see what's hilarious about that advice, you are either not a man, are extremely attractive, or haven't ever used a dating app)

So are we going to see this chip in MBPs at some point, or is there a reason that's a bad idea?

Furthermore, is there any reason to think there's a less throttle-happy version that might be available for the Pros?

Chiming in as someone else who started experiencing severe muscle aches after starting statins and which resolved a couple weeks after I ceased taking them. Prior to experiencing them I hadn't known it was a possible side effect of the drug at all.

I need to go back on them (familial hypercholesterolemia, total cholesterol > 300), but I'm dreading it.

Life expectancy of affluent Indians is considerably higher. Further life expectancy of affluent Indians who make it to 85 is probably a good 5 years more at minimum.

Interesting that they keep showing shots of the empty auditorium. You'd think they'd try to gloss over the lack of audience.

Is this list still being updated?

PagerDuty isn't listed as exited, despite IPO-ing last year.

Edit: And Flexport isn't listed at all (Should be W14, IIRC)