Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

I work for the Internet, at , mostly on Atlas. Opinions here are my own.

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    16 hours ago
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    BTW, one reason comp has gone up faster than one might expect is that 💰 has shot up since the Google et al. wage fixing agreement was killed

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  2. May 30
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    And that doesn't exist anywhere, and won't exist anywhere, until it exists somewhere, and then every bank will have it in 24 months.

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  3. May 30
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    A lot of the blockchain enthusiasm is "Eff it I just want a REST API endpoint I can use to move money from an account to another account."

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  4. May 30
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    "So do you agree with this?" No, not really. Incremental adoption of technologies happens; really really slow followed by Shockingly Fast.

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  5. May 30
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    (For additional layer of cynicism, add "The self-organizing distributed ponzi schemes are, in fact, necessary to get the industry adoption")

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  6. May 30
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    This one is practical: "Oracle. IBM. Cisco. If you get to ubiquity you make billions of dollars; tech neither sufficient nor necessary."

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  7. May 30
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    There's an earnest Bitcoiner argument about the Byzantine general problem as an important one in computer science, trustless systems, etc.

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  8. May 30
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    I don't particularly think that it is a *good* argument, but it avoids saying anything untrue about the technologies at play.

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  9. May 30

    "Blockchain is a once-in-our-lifetime opportunity to convince finance firms to agree on an API; worth ponzis to get there." is an argument.

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  10. May 30
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    Apologies for me continuing to bang this drum but I think that nobody's life gets worse if they possess accurate market data to inform plans

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  11. May 30

    This is not wrong at AppAmaGooBookSoft or the smaller-but-still-public companies that have to dogfight them over individual engineers.

    Replying to @codinghorror @patio11
    My GF is in HR/People Ops. Says market comps for talented engineers w/ 15-20yr experience in SF is 200k/yr cash + 200k/yr stock + bonus.
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  12. May 29
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    "You, too, can make a software business. Did you see the Social Network? It's almost nothing like that. Closer to running accountancy."

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  13. May 29
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    "Consultants are routinely paid more than $200 per hour. $300k not an exceptional pay package. Some managers are not abusive." Boring! True!

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  14. May 29

    Most frustrating genre of comment is "You're lying about [trivially true positive thing]." If I wanted to lie, I'd make better stories.

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  15. May 29

    Last five Bitcoin blocks all through a single miner.

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  16. May 28
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    For many, many more recommendations on good REST API design: I remembered this in context of a ?pretty=true I saw.

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  17. May 28

    Pretty printed API responses should be the default; you're gzipping them anyhow so byte savings of only machine readable JSON is negligible.

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  18. May 28

    This is not the first time that Google has asserted that SQL suddenly fails when asked to analyze salary numbers. A curious oversight, that.

    “Google officials testified...that it would have to spend up to 500 hours of work and $100,000 to comply”
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  20. May 26

    Inbox asks a simple question so I'll give a simple answer: No policy regarding net neutrality meaningfully impacts small software companies.

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