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Hi Matt, Asking for a take-home challenge is a big ask without any form of human interaction first. Are you open to me asking a few questions over email or a video chat so I can ga…

How long have you been in your current role? You can talk with your boss, and let them know you'd like to go down to part time. No guarantees that they'll say yes, but if you don't…

"junction" is pulling the heavy weight here. The station is right before the tracks branch, so the purpose of the station is probably to let riders transfer from service on the one…

One important thing to know is that the venues/artists often get a kickback of part of the Ticketmaster fees. In other words, the artists, venues, producers, and Ticketmaster are i…

> Almost all innovation comes from this type of vertical integration. Really? That's a bold claim. Having a large number of companies that are able to offer competing products and …

I would be curious how this compares to a more-or-less off-the-shelf text compression algorithm like gzip. My guess is that over the entire database, this would be more efficient t…

Serious question: The article points out that: `C is far removed from modern computer architectures: there have been 50 years of innovation since it was created in the 1970’s.` Is …

I have not personally used it, but Flexispot has a 4-leg adjustable base: https://www.flexispot.com/flexispot-4-leg-standing-desk-e7pl...

Even if this is not a foolproof way to avoid flying on a 737 max, using it will provide a very _visible_ signal to the airlines. If they're losing ticket sales because people don't…

I wonder how this compares with just 3D printing in concrete, like Icon. It seems a little bit like putting a round peg into a square hole to have a robot fastidiously recreate a b…

So, there is a defensible reason for this carve-out. For generations now, video game consoles have had very aggressive cryptographic pairing of parts, done in the name of securing …

I agree that owning the DSLR niche is a good strategy for Pentax. Ricoh hasn't given them the budget to make digital autofocus systems that are competitive with the other big brand…

>I understand that the failure rate is high just like startups and movies. I'd suggest that startups and movies have a much higher probability of 'success' than minting a hit song …

> What year will I see the legacy automakers utilize their advantages to sell more electric vehicles than Tesla? Ford is selling thousands of F150 EVs a month. How many Cybertrucks…

Yes. Go has a culture that avoids using libraries (the axiom is "a little copying is better than a little dependency" (see, e.g. https://www.efekarakus.com/2021/09/23/a-little-copy…

I'm reading between the lines here, but my guess is that you're interested in the coffee role because you're passionate about coffee. It also sounds like you've looked at the pay c…

I think you're missing the point. Sure, the bands did it because it sounded the way they wanted, and may not have had any deeper justification. But a music theorist is going analyz…

A few years ago, working at a startup, I tried to convince our founder to pay for SO talent. IIRC, there was a minimum 6-12 month commitment, and while not crazy expensive, it was …

All of the examples cited use a repudiation of the backing of currency or bonds with gold or silver. I don't think I'd call that a default. I know that there is a political minorit…

It's fine for automotive companies to maximize their profit margin. If they have smaller margins than google, that's probably because google is nearly a monopoly, and there's fierc…

[citation needed] Denim is usually dyed with natural or synthetic indigo. The quip about the navy refers to Methylene Blue's pharmacological use as an antimalarial drug. https://ww…

This is potentially an advantage for the Colorado bill, which (I think?) specifically targets right-to-repair for farmers/farm equipment. When you only target one industry, that in…

It is really hard to recommend getting a Leaf in 2023, at least in the US, unless you _only_ plan to charge at home. The Leaf still uses the Chademo plug, (I believe it's the last …

I have the opposite complaint. I don't need 300 miles of range, 100 would be more than enough. I can rent a traditional car if I need to take a road trip. But I do want a nice inte…

> This seems like a project an entrepreneur ought to try and take on. In a market where there is an affordability crisis, why would we want to add a tech entrepreneur as a middle m…