np32's comments

On: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

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Devon Zuegel is a great thinker in a large breath of subjects ->

On Urbanism:

Her podcast Order without Design [0] where she interviews the Bertaud couple

Fields note on Miami [1] (with beautiful pictures)

Metamuse interview on cities [2]

and a lot more on her blog

On tech :

She was the PM for Github sponsors (and I believe other open-source friendly projects), great interview of her by the changelog [4]

The Pioneer series (of which this interview is an episod), favorites are Louis Pouzing and roundtable about Hamming [5]

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/order-without-design-h...

[1] https://devonzuegel.com/post/field-notes-miami

[2] https://museapp.com/podcast/33-cities/

[3] https://changelog.com/podcast/370

[4] https://www.notion.so/blog/topic/pioneers

On: Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location

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I find Rob's writing highly enjoyable too. It is witty without talking to the reader like he is 10.

Not very HN-y, but I recommend his serie on being a parent : https://robertheaton.com/married-with-kids/

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I thought

  return a || s || l ||

was a subtle jab at the early chat apps of the 90s (aol chat rooms)

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That's perfectly HN-y; good read, thank you.

On: How to Work Hard

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"My heart is in the work" - Andrew Carnegie

Probably a very stress-inducing sentence to a lot of CMU CS grads

On: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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If you are interested in more maths and 3D Geometry, the bible of the field is "Multiple view geometry in computer vision" by Hartley and Zisserman. Szielski's book is very hands on, but is it more of a formulas + litterature review book than a clean derivation book.

A lot of 3D Geometry algorithms are based on clean derivations and estimations, thus depending on your math fluency, you will find great enjoyment in that book too. The proofs flow really well.

On: Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

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From JB Kempf of VLC, and supported by Xavier Niel who is a huge VC in France and founder of Free, which totally disrupted the ISP mafia in France.

This video is a great interview of JB + story of Shadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0c1CJT8X8A&t=20s

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Thanks for the additional info, I had forgotten Niel was the backer.

On: Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about students outcomes

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> Nothing about Lambda School is predatory

I think the PR vs actual results of Lambda is a big problem when a lot of complains on higher education are about the gap between the dream vision of what a degree does for you, vs reality. But fine. The complains about ISA are mostly unfair

> I have never lied

That's probably one of the things you should never say ever. People will find moments you were either not telling what turned out to be the truth, or were not accurate, and will paint you as totally dishonest.

On: Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries

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This assumes talent is geographically homogeneous. IMHO, Talent in top cities in the US is better than the one in the rest of the countries, and so it goes for other countries.

For top US firms, it may well be that there is a better pool for top talent, but not THAT much better. I believe it would be possible to do inferences from # of non-US citizen in FAANGs.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

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Hey ! Still no visa sponsoring for the London role ? :(

On: How Huawei controls its employees in Europe

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Monzo, Revolut vs Deepmind are not at all in the same ballpark of salary though. Deepmind pays 2x as much.

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I've got an ex-colleague working at Revolut. 5 YoE, and he got hired for £140k. I'd be astounded if DeepMind were paying non-specialist, BSc developers £270k+. Monzo is behind, sure, but they still get a lot of attention, and don't pay badly. But my point is these companies are talked about way more than the "large century-old semi-government companies".