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mikeklaas

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Co-founder and (former) CTO of Zite. Now at Flipboard.

mike.klaas at gmail.com

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mikeklaas··on The hard part of the economics of Covid-19
It's too late for that. If you exposed yourself now, you'd be direly sick just as the first unhandleable wave is going to hit the health care system.
mikeklaas··on Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain
Ego Depletion is junk science which hasn't reproduced in serious experiments.
mikeklaas··on Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75
For multiplicative values, 1 is effectively the zero axis.
mikeklaas··on Slack have blocked using the website on mobile
The reason they did that is to see if something in the local state of your client was causing the problem, not to get you to QA the bug.
mikeklaas··on Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10k jobs per second (2013)
You're allowed to use more than one PostgreSQL instance for your queue if RDMS resources are precious <g>
mikeklaas··on Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging [pdf]
That's an insane macro ratio for most people, though. You don't need that much protein unless you're doing some intense weight training.
mikeklaas··on No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
That's horrifying.
mikeklaas··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2019)
Location: SF Remote: ok Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Any kind of data stack Email: <username>@gmail

Experienced backend dev, former founder, looking for a variety of roles

mikeklaas··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019)
Data Architect/former founder/CTO expert in data, analytics, pipelines, ML

Location: SF Remote: perhaps Willing to relocate: no Technologies: anything Email: mike.klaas at gmail

mikeklaas··on Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag
Jevon's paradox, somewhat.
mikeklaas··on Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
It's Moloch.
mikeklaas··on Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out
Your insurance numbers sound more like yearly numbers than monthly... Or are you really paying $25k per year for insurance?
mikeklaas··on Amazon is buying Eero
Sigh, now amazon owns my home wifi system. That's super reassuring...
mikeklaas··on Table Saw Accidents
Perhaps also learn the lesson to not wear gloves when using a table saw?
mikeklaas··on Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
Around two years ago. I applied for a data scientist role with the city of SF and never got a response.
mikeklaas··on What the f*** is the edge?
I was used it in math undergrad 18 years ago, so it isn't an invention of hacker news
mikeklaas··on A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos
I think doing a master's is a great way to find out if you are cut out for/want to do research. I did a master's, was very happy I did, and very happily didn't pursue a PhD afterward.
mikeklaas··on Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefits of Fasting
How does that work? Doesn't broth generally have calories?
mikeklaas··on Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR
The law doesn't make it illegal to have collected the data in the past. However, it introduces new rights for people for which you have collected data. I don't think this is unfair
mikeklaas··on Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
UberPool is hardly a luxury experience
mikeklaas··on Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
You'd do an oil change after 1000 miles?
mikeklaas··on How to Quit a Top Tier Tech Job
> 7. "I stagnate easily." is my standard response to "Why so many jobs?"

Why would someone hire you for a non-short-term project in that case?

mikeklaas··on Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation
It is really hard to believe that instacart wants to be clear and transparent as possible (although I'm sure you do, personally).

If "service fee" was renamed "instacart fee", people would no longer assume it is the driver's tip. But instacart would never do that, would they?

mikeklaas··on Regarding the Em Dash
You might consider using two hyphens if you can't bear to use the unicode character.
mikeklaas··on A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
Huh? By that logic, the car performs 40% worse _seconds_ after it leaves the lot.
mikeklaas··on “I thought I could ship at least 700 units to stay in business”
Not jblow, but the video game industry is extremely dependent on big splash releases. Something like 50% of sales occur in a game's release week.

A few games have managed to become huge hits growing only organically in early access (factorio and rimworld come to mind), but they are extremely special games. That's not something you can replicate with a relatively generic title.

To be fair, I'm not sure there is any path to success for a solid albeit generic game these days. There are just too many releases.

mikeklaas··on As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Why do you feel that the graduates will be ready to a junior dev if you haven't even finished the program?
mikeklaas··on Uber rolls out in-app tipping
Usually these systems are set up so the driver rates before they find out what the tip is
mikeklaas··on New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter
Why not just store that solar energy as electricity, and use the electricity to power heat pumps when needed?
mikeklaas··on What has happened down here is the winds have changed
Yes, some of the studies haven't been reproducible. I don't have references right now, unfortunately.
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