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I have 25 years of experience, including at prestigious places like Blizzard and JPL. However I've worked for a variety of startups, none of which succeeded.

How do you search and apply for (especially senior or lead) jobs on today's internet?

I've been actively looking for a job for the last 18 months, and having no luck. I've applied for many roles, both directly and, occasionally, through recruiters. All of these role…

What are some of the most impactful/eye-opening lessons you learned from biome?

They used to call this "peer pressure". Admittedly this is a narrower form of it where you harness the power of vanity and shame for purposes of good, not evil.

That's a very unhelpful link if you want to buy or comparison shop. Online walmart sells over 300 different styles of countdown timer, including ones shaped like a tomato. Note tha…

Yes. I'd be curious to know how resistance movements deal with this problem in other regimes. How do (did?) Navalny or İmamoğlu supporters organize, for example? Is it simply Teleg…

I agree that anonymous speech is an important right in free societies. A novel attack on such a right in the Internet Age is to allow so much speech, anonymous or otherwise, ensure…

Yeah, I've been disappointed in a lot of code generation within my field of expertise. However, if I need to whip up some bash scripts, AI works very well. But if I want those bash…

What better way to "own the libs" than to openly transgress against sacrosanct values? There is a certain power when you demonstrate that shame, consistency, or principle has no ho…

Sidenote: Voidzilla did a 6 minute video about this interview [1]. Tucker focused on injustice, but not the billions SBF stole from people, but the fact that the people who took SB…

There are two big error modes that we need to look out for when reacting in anger. First is to not jump from the frying pan into the fire by adopting a browser that makes nice soun…

That only captures your output, not your input. The best people to simulate in this world would be so-called terminally online people virtually all of whom's input is itself online…

But the comment you're replying to doesn't say Java doesn't have any downsides. It just says that Java has a great story for doing shared types between client and server, which is …

Complex philosophy has a way of devolving almost inevitably into a kind of "four legs good two legs bad" sort of way a la Animal Farm. In the same way dei seems to inevitably devol…

Testimony is not evidence, and using the passive voice ("given explicit authorization", by whom? why does this matter?) is an explicit argument from authority. Physical evidence or…

>If a particular function doesn't fit anywhere, create a new module (or class or component) for it and you'll find a home for it later. It's better to create a new independent cons…

I think it is safe to say that few if anyone actually understands the common American voter and what they actually care about. Anecdotally, the prevalence of cyber-security plot po…

Actually, I think an abacus ring is a great idea or it could be multiple rings on the same finger where the main benefit is you could keep keep count of something. If you had three…

Love the book but I always thought this needed a little bit more explanation. It seems in our world people seek power for many reasons and only a small minority seek it simply to m…

>Also, the wood frog's ability to withstand freezing may help researchers discover how human organs used for transplants could be frozen and thawed without damage. This would incre…

There needs to be a word for when someone does something bad in their own interest, and as a result the wider society degrades far more than the individual profited. Corrupt anti-c…

Upvoted for Shoegaze reference. Suggest hosting a demo with My Bloody Valentine "Loveless" as the default musical selection. I will also echo the other commenters who believe your …

>The fact that persistent storage has to happen at the same place to be reliable is only incidental, not a defining attribute of a relational database. Persistence happens to proce…