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If this guy is as influential as he claims to be, why would he talk to Vice?

This needs some more context. A 10-k is just a public company’s annual report to shareholders. From perusal of the financial press, there doesn’t appear to be any startling news in it?

So many of these pages displayed tables that included a column for SSNs.

Once they lock down the authorization permissions they ought to reconsider whether they really need to be displaying that data all over the place.

I think I just have poor intuitions about when to share and when I’m over sharing. Not about personal stuff. Just tech and work stuff.

Have you ever had someone join your team and immediately start lecturing you about this best practice and that design pattern and how the current codebase falls so far short of them? I don’t want to be that guy.

But that makes me hesitant to talk about whatever cool new thing(TM) I’ve just stumbled upon. If I mention pyo3 offhandedly (I.e. “I thought this was cool what do you think?”) will people think that _I think_ that we should rewrite everything in rust (and then port it back to Python…)? That’s a sort of paranoid thought pattern but - unfortunately- it is one that I observe myself falling into.

Paywalled but $36m doesn’t seem all that newsworthy?

Their Twitter [1] seems like a generic crypto outfit.

Wonder if Bloomberg just loved the irony of the name? I did.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/orthotrading

This sounds interesting! What are your thoughts on (for lack of a better term) the marketing of each single page? Is the idea that each page should live on an island, that writers will promote through their own separate channels, or is the idea to eventually have a sort of front page/recommended links? I jumped to this question because it seems like the urge to promote tends to undermine the privacy impetus. It’s not a black and white thing, though.

For me, the hardest part of pomodoro is convincing myself that, “yes, you really do need to step away for a minute.”

If the only function of this is that I feel socially pressured to _not_ be on a group chat or programming, then this does the trick.

Disclaimer: will try during the work day tomorrow. Have not tried the site itself.

I used to lecture with lyx. Think about trying to express how you’re solving an algebra problem. Set up a keyboard shortcut for “duplicate previous line” and you’re off to the races.

I think that some of these questions are quite important. However, I think that all of them could be interpreted as “missing the forest for the trees” sort of questions. Therefore, I don’t tend to ask them in interviews.

If you do ask these questions, at what point in the interview process (or within a given interview) do you ask them?

T-Mobile just started advertising that they can be used on any flight. I think this is just a second signal that the market is moving towards Free(ish) WiFi on planes, boats, etc.

Parent is referring to a non-UT, liberal arts school [1].

[1] https://www.uaustin.org/

The New York Times article [1] largely adds support to the author’s claims.

It also provided some interesting background on how this level of nepotism might have come about:

> Ms. Jones, Mr. Lloyd’s [The author] lawyer, argued that Google’s relationship with ASG [contracting agency] allowed members of the Fellowship to join the company without being properly vetted. “This is one of the methods the Fellowship used in the Kelly case,” she said. “They can get through the door without the normal scrutiny.”

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/technology/google-fellows...

As a self-taught programmer, I tend to be pretty self-conscious about my code quality for precisely this reason. As such, I’ve never had issues on this front.

I don’t understand what step #1 (use their service) has to do with steps 2-3 (make an unrelated api request). Also, what is the “challenge” component of this?

I understand that this is a marketing gimmick. It just didn’t quite land for me.

> Have a very lightweight note taking mechanism and use it as much as possible... Don't try to make these notes good enough to share as that adds too much overhead.

Second this. I use sublime text almost exclusively for this purpose. I have one file called daily_notes.md that has everything from meeting notes to formal writing to pasted error messages and code.

Each day gets an h1 but that is the extent of formal organization. I’m actually decently organized (at work, at least) but the simplicity is all about lowering the overhead of jotting stuff down. Keeping everything in one doc makes for very easy search.

Otherwise, I try to write reminders right away with whatever is handy. Mainly: Post-its, slack reminders, and Gmail scheduled sends to myself.

Neat concept! Sounds like a great way to explore a place beyond tourist spots.

> Another issue is when the core product itself is faulty in a way the customer will notice.

Products with (really) rough edges is part of working at a startup. You may be dissatisfied with what you’re shipping but it is all about how much it is solving your customers’ problems.

> Unethical practices.

This should definitely inform whether you stay or go as well as how much trust you can place in mgmt/co-workers.

Unethical practices by no means imply that a firm will fail. For that matter, dysfunctional firms don’t always fail either.

> I've been having to redo work in the last month - even after getting it reviewed and checking in on if this is how the work is supposed to be done.

This sounds rather annoying but I don’t think that it is a sign of a failing startup. I’m extrapolating a bit here but: Your manager and PR reviewers may understand the technical aspects of the code but may not understand the big picture “why” of it. If you’re working on something, then someone within the firm - a product/project manager, a salesperson, the CEO - must be advocating for it to be done. Seek them out and build up a direct line of communication. You aren’t usurping your manager by doing this, you’re understanding pain points better and helping to build team cohesion. (That sounds like word salad but I mean it.)

> there were also laws passed that seem to be our current business model.

This is concerning. But - then again - maybe you’re misreading the law. If you don’t have the means to bring this up comfortably in an all-hands or 1:1 context, then this is yet another reason to build relationships with other employees outside of your direct chain of command. Sales and product people should definitely be knowledgeable of this sort of thing. Find a way to bring it up in conversation on a call (“I saw this article in the paper the other day...”).

On my iPhone 6 with safari I’m just seeing an error message:

> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred.

But from the other comments I get the impression that “button syndrome” has something to do with UX/accessibility. Tad ironic.

Thanks for your comment. I have updated mine to include a reference. In short, I'm thinking about how fingerprints are stored.

Thanks for your comment. I have updated my comment to try to be more precise.

[edit for clarity]

As someone who doesn’t specialize in security, one claim that has stood out to me for not using fingerprints is that you can't run bcrypt (or some other salting algorithm) on fingerprints [1].

I don’t see any discussion of that here thus far. Is that still the case? I feel like I would have heard about developments in this area if something had changed. But perhaps I've always misunderstood the criticism?

[1] https://www.rsaweb.co.za/fingerprint-security-fingerprints-a...

> (who probably receive 25% of that themselves)

This tidbit suggests to me that it might be useful to delineate between the two archetypal tech contractors:

1. Less experienced workers who are having trouble breaking into FTE world. They have to work through agencies (who take the other 75%, which is perhaps high but not by much).

2. Experienced engineers who maybe have niche expertise or just a strong track record.

When you talk about FAANG comparisons, I think you’re mostly talking about the latter group.

There are gains for the employers potentially. But these folks also tend to have more bargaining power. At a certain point, working for a “cool company” may not be all that exciting. Instead, they just want to consult.

(Also, I think other have made good comments re:benefits.)

100s of DL groups with little previous experience in this area set out to train similar models at the outset of the pandemic. Many rushed out models. I’m not surprised that they ran into similar pitfalls.

The title prompted me to look into the history of matlab a bit [1]. My main takeaways:

- It was given away for free for years. During that time people wrote _reliable_ numerical packages that other people glommed onto.

- matlab users aren’t programmers, they are [engineers/mathematicians/etc.] who need to write some code to do their job. One aspect of this fact is that they generally aren’t on the hunt for a new “framework” to do this stuff. They also aren’t thinking much about long-term maintainability: they ran it once and got the answers they needed.

- Academics (and students who can use university licenses) are price insensitive.

- Engineering disciplines where errors can’t happen (civil, aerospace, etc.) come to rely on aforementioned reliable numerical packages, which eventually required proprietary licenses.

[1] http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/MolerBio.pdf

This is a good question. As much as I find them hard to stand, there are cases where having an ideologue in the back of your mind (or one on each shoulder) makes it easier to play out a situation in one’s mind.

In other words: I don’t need a rule per se, just an argument. I’ll work out the contingencies on my own.

Probable explanation:

> The Amazon webpage linked above says Sidewalk "is currently only available in the US."

> Imagine walking into the office of someone who spent the last ~10 years at school and then potentially 20 years practicing their craft as a successful psychologist and then you waltz in and tell them what they prescribe is wrong and your automated treatment plan is better.

As I understand it, this is exactly what new pharmaceutical sales reps are asked to do?

One of several. But I agree with the general sentiment.

I hope this article takes off so that my company will have to change its initial code screen. We make no use of xor in our rather large codebase (I’ve checked) yet pin a lot on whether an interviewee is aware of this trivia.