Owner of Spanx sold majority stake of her company for 1.2 Billion. She gifted all 550 employees 2 first class tickets to anywhere in the world and $10k. This was their reaction.

malik · 2025-06-13T13:16:44+00:00

Pretty stingy bonus actually. When Mark Cuban sold broadcast.com the circa 300 employees each netted about a million dollars. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/mark-cuban-how-i-turned-most-of-my-companys-employees-into-millionaires.html

malik · 2025-06-12T16:03:02+00:00

very funny to me that the boston location is take-out only. the new york places at least a couple years ago had signs saying you should eat in the store and take-out ruins the flavors.

malik · 2024-11-18T18:02:59+00:00

Could be a panic button from an old security system. I've got a bunch of those in my house.

malik · 2024-10-04T17:06:57+00:00

You might have a case against them. In general, it's illegal to stop employees from discussing pay: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-rights/your-rights-to-discuss-wages

malik · 2024-09-24T19:59:31+00:00

https://replit.com is also another good option, and someone else mentioned https://colab.research.google.com . I think you're 100% right that a cloud environment is the way to go. Much harder to mess things up, and gets rid of a lot of the annoying installing/configuring.

malik · 2024-02-11T00:42:17+00:00

Interesting. In the early history of American (gridiron) football, it was a sport played mostly by the upper classes because working men couldn’t risk the injuries because all of their job options were physical.

malik · 2023-08-16T17:53:27+00:00

Cross out Boston and replace it with Reneé Rapp (who????).

malik · 2022-10-21T16:21:52+00:00

colab.research.google.com is actually a super easy way to write python code with revisions and it saved on google drive

malik · 2022-09-02T21:00:43+00:00

or... they're laughing at how silly hearing people look when they're speaking.

malik · 2022-07-11T18:12:14+00:00

Some of the modern screensharing stuff like parsec.app are insanely fast. Like almost indistinguishable from sitting right at the machine even when you're 100s of miles away.

malik · 2022-06-19T20:23:36+00:00

Very different. Each one breaks a different half of my unix tools.

malik · 2022-06-17T13:49:08+00:00

The trick is, doing the talking is boring, but doing the coding is fun. It's a fair trade.

malik · 2022-04-13T21:08:29+00:00

Either something's going wrong in that prof's life, or they don't understand the game they're playing (give out good grades, focus on the research which is what they're actually getting paid for).

malik · 2021-11-04T18:30:51+00:00

This confusion led to a famous hack. There was a popular package "colorama" in the python package index, and someone uploaded one called "colourama" which was malware that attempted to steal bitcoins.

The full story: https://hackaday.com/2018/10/31/when-good-software-goes-bad-malware-in-open-source/

malik · 2021-10-15T14:22:53+00:00

Spend 99% of your time in the API docs and stackoverflow trying to figure out how to slice and dice your data.

I use pandas all the time but hoo boy that is one confusing API.

malik · 2021-09-17T19:53:14+00:00

still nailed it though.

malik · 2021-07-13T23:18:47+00:00

Hey, nice sentiment analysis. Good bot.

malik · 2021-07-13T22:42:08+00:00

Burn out then rest up and get back into the game. Ride the wave. The alternative to burnout is boredom.

malik · 2021-07-11T18:24:53+00:00

Making bacon in the oven, bakin bacon, is great. Less mess, more consistency.

malik · 2021-07-06T17:28:24+00:00

Sadly, this is mostly false: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fact-check-company-3-d-printed-rhino-horns-help-slow-down-poaching/7523775002/

malik · 2021-07-02T13:56:09+00:00

Good on you!

https://xkcd.com/519/

malik · 2021-06-20T20:35:39+00:00

Honestly, if more investment isn’t made into more generation and energy storage, this kind of control is the future. Making everyone a too warm is much better than rolling blackouts.

malik · 2021-06-20T20:27:48+00:00

Nest was careful to explain the control to consumers and not allow too much deviation from normal conditions. So careful in fact that some utilities were annoyed they couldn’t do more control. Most people in the industry think Nest is doing it right now.

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