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I worked with Alex (founder of stainless) at Stripe and he's awesome. Happy for him and well deserved. Congrats Alex! :)

It's always funny to me how they are still insisting on customer experience and good coffee house. In the bay area most starbucks have become the burger king of coffee shops: housing of drunk homeless people

you should probably read the article then, it's pretty clearly explained

Is his book "Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It" worth a read?

nothing wrong, you do you and stick to what makes you happy :)

insane, I never thought that `toList.appendChild(item.closest('li'));` would MOVE the item. You learn something every day

I totally agree with the impact of spontaneous things happening when in person.

I had been working remotely for 8 years and really was 100% for it and advocating it. I recently joined a new job where I'm at the office 3 days a week, and I can definitely feel the difference both in the time it took me to onboard (compared to other remote-only onboarding I did) and the productivity / relationships / other gains from those days we are all in the office.

Those ad-hoc conversation happening around a desk, a white board, at lunch, do bring a lot of value that you never get while WFH. I can definitely see how some of my previous burn outs may have been prevented if I was not 100% remote.

Of course YMMV, but personally I can definitely see how a company may decide to get back to the office and it's definitely not all black and white where remote is better and omg the mean bosses are getting butts back in seats for more control.

the question is, when you "work" more, are you actually "working" more. I'm not advocating for either side, but I believe a few places that have moved to a shorter work week haven't seen lower productivity. Might be a sign that most people actually can't do ~40hrs of work per week.

I'm surprised they don't mention Parker. At school in France in the 90s, that was the true classic.

Sorry, can someone explain what is happening here? What's wrong with those products?

I learnt ruby with Zed Shaw’s Learn Ruby the Hard Way. Was a really great experience!

That's good timing, because with the increase in the price for youtube premium, I started thinking that I wanted an alternative to watching youtube on my TVs without ads.

Does anyone know if using a pi-hole triggers ad-blockers popups on websites, and if yes, is it easy to deal with (either activate ads for specific websites, etc)?

I've just started playing the demo yesterday and I'm hooked. Will definitely buy the game, but wondering on which platform. My laptop screen already feels a bit small - anyone has an experience playing on switch and thoughts on playing on handheld mode and/or using controls compared to keyboard/mouse?

Yeah, high prices suck but I do agree and fail to see what, exactly, is wrong here?

Don't get me wrong, I don't like TM, I don't like monopolies and I don't like high prices, but... price = equilibrium between offer and demand, it's the basics of our capitalist society, and all this look like to me is that TM is doing a good job at figuring out the equilibrium price for their tickets?

19,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 240.

Damn that's a lot of applications to review. Is there any data in terms of quality of applications? Is there a big part of spams/very low quality applications or is everything pretty serious?

somewhat unrelated but I recently looked for a pi and it was sold out or the price tag was 10x the regular price everywhere, mostly because of the chip shortage. Am I looking in the wrong places?

You can find it on google map and its scale looks very impressive!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richat+Structure/@21.16845...

it only appears on mobile tho, so i'm not sure what it's supposed to be...

I really like building Conway's Game of Life. It's big enough that each time I still have to think about the solution and how to build it, but small enough that it allows me to recognize patterns and differences from a language to another.

salaries in europe are much lower - but to be fair, I lived much better in amsterdam with 100k euro than SF with 150k

So, how does that work for current stock holders and employees? If you own Twitter stock, will it be automatically sold at 43b val? And twitter will get out of public markets?

For employees, are they pretty much seeing their comp getting divided by 2 because now they can't sell the stocks/rsus they vest every quarter?

I just saw someone on tiktok showing how they made their own invisiline from a scan of their teeths. They programmed their own multi-step adjustment, bought a special 3d printer and printed all their invisiline things. Unsure how efficient or comparable theirs will be to the right thing, but I found that very interesting what a single person can do nowadays!

yeahh

Funny, I tried it and ended up on http://www.agoogleaday.com/. The site looks broken because clicking on the only button "start playing" does not work.

I recently discovered this youtube channel (Brick Expereriment [0]) and I'm addicted. Their videos are fun, clever and smart at the same time and you can learn a bunch of things, related to legos or not!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsFdM0HzTdF1JYoraQ0aUw

this seems accurate

source: We're currently working with an architect on a similar project.

We planned on going for 2 years, stayed 3. We could have definitely stayed forever if we wanted to (I'm European so no visa issue). We came back as planned because my wife's family is in SF and we always planed to get back closer to them.

indeed, but the catalogue is nothing compared to what amazon has.

This is completely true. And also, if money feels like it could be an issue, and you are coming from the US with a US network, it's still pretty easy to find contracting work with your US-based network at US rates. That's what we did once we quit our jobs and I was pretty much working 2 days/week.

Hey! I'm back in the US but my wife and I moved from SF to Amsterdam for 3 years. We moved with our tech job there and ended up eventually quitting and doing our own company.

- Where do you live? SF -> Amsterdam

- What's the biggest sacrifice you had to make (i.e. pay, housing, friends, etc.) I was shocked when my HR department told me our salaries would pretty much be cut in half. I was also furious because I was going to be working remotely for the same team, doing the same work and would bring the same value. We still did it, and honestly, I felt richer over there. Housing is much cheaper both renting and buying. Groceries felt like no matter what we'd buy, it'd be 20E. Even after 3 years we'd be surprised at how cheap it is. Activities, restaurants, etc are all much cheaper too.

We left a bunch of friend behind obviously but made friends there. Like most expats, mostly other expats through work and not a lot of locals.

Weather sucks.

No amazon and it sucks not to have it when you are used to buying everything and getting it the next day. Also, probably because of the amount of countries there are, buying things online seems to be shipped more often from other countries and the delivery times are usually longer.

- What have you gained? As mentioned, despite /2 our salary, we felt much richer, much more comfortable. When we quit our jobs we felt comfortable not making a lot of money because even our mortgage there was cheap. Working for a US tech company still put us way above the average income. Also, like in most of EU, great healthcare and other benefits.

Amsterdam in particular is great for biking/walking, it's truly a very nice city except for the terrible weather. We still talk about how we miss our lives there, but would never move back because of the weather, especially compared to the bay area.

I think the TLDR of our experience was that EU was just more chill, more comfortable, a bit broader in terms of culture, less grind less work. I was so happy about where i'm at in Amsterdam, and as soon as we got back to the US, something, I'm not sure what, made me get back on that hedonic treadmill and grind again for more more more and more.

I'd recommend it :)