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Exactly! I can't fathom that people don't seem to understand there's a comparable amount of new companies started every year in the space, automotive, and social network categories.

Are you claiming that it's similarly difficult to launch and run a satellite manufacturing / launching company vs. a social network? Wow.

Check out https://quizgecko.com/

the easiest way to understand processed is has it been changed at all since being harvested? peanut butter and tofu are both processed. raw peanuts and legumes are not. cooked legumes are also technically processed. does not mean that it's always bad per se but that is the definition.

not parent but i just do this during work

I second this. I find that the investment here is well worth it -- in general it takes me 15-30 minutes to read the job description, read up a bit on the company itself, and adjust the resume. I haven't personally tried the spray-and-pray approach.

It's also not something that requires a bunch of mental energy, so you can do it in the late evening when your brain is tired from the full day anyway.

I don't mean this to come off as insensitive but having a pipeline conversion of 10% on both steps of the process feels quite low to me. Both numbers are very different from my own experience: with a 'true FAANG' name on resume, the application to interview rate should be more around 50-90%. For interview->offer, if you grind out system design and LeetCode, you can get to 40-75%. These numbers are quite attainable for junior/mid-level/senior roles, though there is more variability / poorer predictability for staff-level roles.

Speaking from experience as well as the experience of former colleagues. Of course, you may find that you don't want to grind out prep to increase the latter conversion, which is also fine. Just wanted to provide another data point.

wow, possibly the worst airport to have to live in

this to me is a sign that i'm not working on the right thing. sometimes i'll go weeks without really doing anything at work because nothing feels engaging. other times a problem really grabs me and i think about trying to figure it out all the time. i don't fight these waves anymore. let them come and go.

note that this is the second round in the last few months, so Redfin is really at more like 30% down.

5-year? almost all schedules I'm familiar with in high tech are either 4-year or 1-year.

on the face, it should be pretty easily sustainable based on the profit per employee these companies make. i guess we just really hate anyone but shareholders actually getting a piece of the pie.

I mean, almost all of software does run on AWS / Google Cloud.

I read he was there for over 4 years, is that abnormally short? Seems like a pretty normal period of time to me.

Wages haven't kept up with housing costs for quite a while, not sure why they would start now.

I mean, Sweden was going free-for-all before any vaccines even existed and seemed to do OK.

>However SF likely has a huge waiting list of people who would like to move in, so it's not likely to take effect immediately.

Unlikely -- take a look at the average rent trends. It hasn't recovered to even pre-pandemic levels. https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/san-francisco-ca

you've got 90 days of paid time off to look forward to

source for breaking laws? I've only seen speculation over the past few weeks that he's not paying severance, however in actuality we now see he's paying them until beginning of Feb to not work.

There's a ton of websites that are up and running for millions of users. That should be table stakes for running an online service.

I think the willingness to meet in person has more to do with logistical issues of physical security rather than some underlying difference in desires to defer / accelerate IRL meet-ups. I think if you were able to assure both people that the other person wasn't going to go crazy on them, we'd see similar willingness to meet in-person.

I do agree with you that when in the app, there is an inherent lack of desire to really understand the other person. In my experience, however, that goes away when we are able to meet face-to-face and share our true selves more authentically. So, this desire is reasonable, I just think that trying to use technology again to try to solve it (google doc instead of hinge) really isn't very different, and we need to change modalities to actually get anywhere on this issue.

I could see that happening (whether on purpose or even inadvertently) but haven't seen any such literature myself. Do you have some references (asking earnestly)?

Agreed. I don't really see the current apps as flexing some sort of monopolistic power to give you shittier dates. Their solution to the classic problem of asymmetric supply/demand regarding hot/not hot people is for them to take a fee.

Struggling with what this would mean in practice -- do you mean like a screenshot / recording of the text / voice conversations you've had? I wonder if it might be tough to filter out things that are mostly just logistics, which personally tend to be a big percentage of my electronic-based interactions.

People like to rag on dating apps -- they're shallow, promote surface-level judgements / interactions. But I think this is simply mirroring how things works in the real world (in very early considerations of who to approach). Getting this person out of the app into an in-person conversation should be the goal.

A 'date me' profile feels like the opposite -- trying to get a bunch of data on someone before actually interacting with them in person. I think this is completely backwards and we need to lean in far more into IRL experiences.

I don't believe I claimed Twitter was not under active development. The point that I was making here is that if we were OK with Twitter as-is, it would be possible to maintain it with far fewer people than they employ now. Indeed, 'maintenance' will be defined differently for an indie hacker vs. a popular website with user-generated content. But all software has some split of "keeping the lights on" vs. innovating.

What is your estimate of Twitter's effort split between those two categories?

A business that does not turn a profit pretty explicitly does need people to give them money though right?

If your experience with services not under active development is that they are "breaking all the time," I'm sorry to say that you've worked only at places where the quality bar is very low.