steadicat

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OpenAI. Previously led Developer Experience at Coinbase. Before that: Facebook, Storehouse, Bevel (YC F3), WorkFlowy (YC S10), Cloudant (YC S08).
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Comment · 11 months ago
What?!? The tower was slightly straightened for safety reasons. It was never intentionally made to lean more.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Almost all? I just checked and Act, Crest, CloSYS and many others are all SLS-free and alcohol-free. The only one with SLS I could find is Listerine Cool Mint.

Maybe you’re thinking toothpastes? SLS in toothpaste is indeed hard to avoid.

Comment · 1 year ago
One time I led a project and ran daily standups by screen-sharing our Asana board so the team could review in-progress tasks. Every day, right in the middle of the meeting, Asana logged me out. I’d rush to log back in to finish the review, thus ensuring we’d repeat the cycle exactly 24 hours later. This silly dance lasted the whole project.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think we just have a different idea of what it means to be closed to cars. I live right by the stretch of Broadway you mention, so I’m very familiar. This is what it looks like: https://flatironnomad.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/4.2-Pla...

There is no restriction of through traffic. Effectively pedestrians are still confined to tiny and overcrowded sidewalks.

By comparison, here’s what a pedestrian street looks like in the non-US city I grew up in: https://sana.ae/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Corso-Italia-Stre...

Keep in mind that cars are still allowed for emergency services and (night time) deliveries. But the difference is night and day.

This is exactly what “the US can't imagine itself without cars” means to me.

Comment · 1 year ago
You’re kind of proving the point here. NYC has fewer car owners and yet NYC doesn’t have a single pedestrian street or street closed to through traffic. Sounds like a city that can’t imagine itself without cars even though it’s completely realistic.
Comment · 2 years ago
I tried this but cats, being (almost) liquid, can very easily wrap around the soft collars and reach pretty much any part of their body.
Comment · 4 years ago
White tea is actually closer to black tea than the name implies. Because – unlike green tea – it is not steamed to stop the oxidation process, it oxides naturally as it dries. This puts it somewhere between green tea and black tea in terms of oxidation (which is also where oolong is BTW[1]). Some oolongs and white teas – if brewed similarly – are very very close to black tea in terms of flavor.

[1] The technical difference between oolong and white is simply that white is processed naturally, whereas oolong has more “steps” (oxidation, drying, steaming, etc.). The steps can be manipulated to give the tea a different character. Oolongs are often roasted, for example.

Comment · 4 years ago
When talking about discrete things, 0 has a specific meaning: it is the absence of things. It does not make sense to count the 'first' element as the 0th. When you encounter the 'first' element, how many elements do you have? 1.

This is of course different for continuous quantities. When counting seconds, for example, we should absolutely start from 0.

Comment · 5 years ago
The team actually became part of a company-wide effort called Client Foundations! And no, we haven't changed our mind on this. (BTW we're hiring. :))
Comment · 5 years ago
I just signed up for Brex. The application process was fast and smooth. A couple things to note:

- It looks like they use Radius Bank under the hood

- There is no Plaid support (this is almost a dealbreaker for me, as I want to use accounting tools like YNAB)

Comment · 5 years ago

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