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New comment by betadreamer in "Ask HN: How to make my macOS less distracting?"

betadreamer — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 07:46:31 +0000

A lot of solutions here involves diving deeper into tech. I don’t think this is a good idea since you will start going down a similar rabbit hole.

This is a focus problem. Everyone have a different way of solving this. For me, the best way is to write what I want to achieve on paper and start doing it right away. I don’t do anything else until I cross out all of them.

New comment by betadreamer in "How I survived being a $220k/year intern"

betadreamer — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 21:13:33 +0000

No interns make that high of a salary. That means they value his work/skill. It’s clearly a management problem but this is a hard problem. In fact it’s different for everyone. Some people like well structured management and others don’t. On top of that he was remote, which makes it even harder.

His rants are mostly in sales. Engineer ranting about sales is like Sales people saying Engineers are pointless. (Btw both are very common perception). Now that I’ve done both ends I can share that sales people are doing that for a reason. At the end of the day, high end sales are all politics and you need to be good at the game.

This type of rant is what interns do.

Google plans to offer checking account next year

betadreamer — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:40:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20962745/google-checking-account-citigroup-stanford-pay-banking-financial-services-cache

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21526071

Points: 5

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New comment by betadreamer in "Is Gmail Down?"

betadreamer — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 07:32:50 +0000

Yeah, it's back. Thanks!

Is Gmail Down?

betadreamer — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 07:21:24 +0000

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status Says it's up but it doesn't load.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20712876

Points: 1

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Learning Material on Recycling?

betadreamer — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:19:54 +0000

I want to learn about the methods of recycling and Amazon / Google search didn't give me good results. Amazon gives me "how to" recycle which is not what I want. I want to learn in detail "how it is" recycled. Google gave me some high level article but I want to go deeper...

Any recommendation?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20553338

Points: 2

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Cosmic Latte

betadreamer — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 13:23:56 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19652867

Points: 1

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Mobile game devs face new challenges – but with new tools

betadreamer — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 22:04:51 +0000

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/02/mobile-game-devs-face-new-challenges-but-with-new-tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567638

Points: 2

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New comment by betadreamer in "California Has the Jobs but Not Enough Homes"

betadreamer — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:58:23 +0000

Law prohibits a lot of places to built it. I remember Palo Alto had some condition. In SF, I think it doesn't have a good foundation to build tall building. It's either that or the architect here is not great.

The slanting, sinking high-end building terrifies me. https://www.businessinsider.com/is-millennium-tower-safe-sti...

DoorDash customers say their accounts have been hacked

betadreamer — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 04:09:50 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/doordash-customers-say-their-accounts-have-been-hacked/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18072705

Points: 2

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New comment by betadreamer in "Ask HN: Which startup offer would you take?"

betadreamer — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 07:31:34 +0000

If you are asking this, that means you need more data. DO NOT judge startup solely based on the compensation package. Some tips to ask:

- Work environment. This involves who you will be working with and how they work together? Do they use Scrum? Have you talked to anyone that you will be working closely with?

- Growth Potential. Which one is more challenging? Which environment is more suitable for you to grow?

- Go deep in where the company stand. Competitors, market fit/advantage, etc.

- Ignore the number of stock options. Ask for outstanding shares or get the percentage.

- How's the founder?

All being said, don't be afraid to negotiate! Company take so much time to write an offer. No company will decline you just by negotiating. Least thing they will do is to tell you straight up that this is their best offer. If you like B more than A, tell them you will sign if they match the base with the other.

Ask HN: Pattern in new iPhone's UDID format

betadreamer — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 21:03:07 +0000

Previously iPhone UDID was 40 characters. Now for iPhone Xs, Xr, Xs Max, they change to 20 characters with hyphen. It looks like it is following some sort of pattern. Does anyone know anything about it?

We have several Xs and they all start with 00008020-

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042633

Points: 1

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Robinhood is targeting an IPO

betadreamer — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:25:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/baiju-bhatt-robinhood-plans-ipo-2018-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17957167

Points: 2

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New comment by betadreamer in "Robinhood Making Millions Selling Out Their Millennial Customers to HFTs"

betadreamer — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:53:10 +0000

More info on HFTs.

Charlie Munger: HFT is Legalized Front-Running https://www.barrons.com/articles/BL-SWB-27750

New comment by betadreamer in "Robinhood Making Millions Selling Out Their Millennial Customers to HFTs"

betadreamer — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:45:39 +0000

I see the issue after digging in more. The problem is that Robinhood claims they make money by investing in fund with extra savings, however they failed to address how they are "really" making the money. I always doubted how they make money and now I know.

What's even more surprising is that other company like E-Trade costs money AND they sell it to HFTs.

New comment by betadreamer in "Robinhood Making Millions Selling Out Their Millennial Customers to HFTs"

betadreamer — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:09:43 +0000

What's so bad about this? Other trading firms are also using HFTs. I assume Robinhood is making more because they have more trading than other companies. It sounds like a good strategy. I don't see a red flag in this.

The Unity Game Studio Report 2018

betadreamer — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:28:20 +0000

Article URL: https://create.unity3d.com/game-studio-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17870054

Points: 3

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New comment by betadreamer in "Not all bugs are worth fixing and that's okay"

betadreamer — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 07:00:45 +0000

yeah being agile is good. I meant by incorporating Agile frameworks like Scrum.

New comment by betadreamer in "How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours"

betadreamer — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 06:57:12 +0000

A lot of people here talks about lack of load testing and other "do it the right way" type of advice, but remember this is a startup. In my opinion, solid testing foundation will be such an overkill and the time is better spent on implementing more features.

Also I bet they did some manual testing. They didn't catch it because this latency can only be seen by the account with a lot of followers.

I agree that their first solution to upgrade is a bad idea... You should understand what caused the bug before trying to fix it.

I highly encourage you to monitor the load/pay/request graph on a daily basis. Even better if you hang a screen on the office that displays these. The graphs are already provided by Firebase. That way you can catch these type of anomaly on day one. Also Firebase supports "Progressively roll out new features" https://firebase.google.com/use-cases/#new-features

New comment by betadreamer in "Not all bugs are worth fixing and that's okay"

betadreamer — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:35:42 +0000

100%. They think they are doing agile as long as they have Sprints.

Startup I'm working at right now told me "Agile" is overkill for us. But ironically it's more iterative then any company I worked before that did sprints.