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Comment · 1 year ago
The pay and working hours are extremely well known to incoming jr investment bankers
Comment · 1 year ago
The uber/taxi fee is charged per ride, whereas private passenger cars pay once per day. Seems like a reasonable tradeoff.
Comment · 1 year ago
Municipality spending is part of GDP
Comment · 2 years ago
I remember this article was extremely eye opening for me as a recent grad in 2013 Boston.

I think it's hard for people to understand today how much less the ideas like lean startups, Paul Graham essays, customer validation, etc had penetrated software engineering mindset in early 2010's, at least outside of SFBA.

Comment · 2 years ago
Last 110 years really.
Comment · 2 years ago
Nice try FBI agent
Comment · 2 years ago
If they show a car driving I believe it's capable of self-propulsion and not just rolling downhill.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sure but thats a feature of all large trucks he's just marketing more aggressively.
Comment · 3 years ago
This. Thinking hard is tiring.
Comment · 3 years ago
Too late to edit, all supposed to be T’s. Quick math even quicker keyboard.
Comment · 3 years ago
Quick math $33T US national debt times 5% is $1.65B. Federal revenue around $5B in 2022 so not quite there but very substantial.
Comment · 3 years ago
Leadership and management are crafts just like engineering. Goals and KPIs are tools. Most of the time when I've experienced bad Goals or KPIs, the root problem was one of the following.

1)Lack of clear mission/direction at the top level of the organization. This is a 100% necessary condition for good goals & kpis throughout the rest of the org. Otherwise it feels like political battles and favoritism between different people or departments with conflicting goals.

2) Goals & KPIs that are not well mapped from the org's mission or roadmap down to the individuals. Now all the individuals can hit their goals but org fails, or vice versa. This feels like "doing what's right for the company is bad for my performance review."

3) Confusing health KPIs with outcomes or goals. Something like commits per day/month is a great health check, but bad goal, and the benchmark for healthy is totally context dependent. This feels like "She solves the hardest problems but the solutions are very few LOC." Or "he has the most commits because his code is so buggy".

Comment · 3 years ago
It is intended as a cultural and literary reference. As an american english speaker I would say it's a play on the phrase "That dog don't hunt" meaning something will not work. I would consider this to be a 'country' saying not AAVE but I'm not a linguist. More broadly the title mirrors a southern american dialect structure of "[This|that] X don't Y". The article calls it a "Huck Finn style adventure" Huck Finn being the protagonist of famous Mark Twain novels that are famously written with dialogue in AAVE and other southern American dialect.
Comment · 3 years ago
Hopefully that’s not the optimization function we pass the AGI!

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