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throwawaypls | 4 years ago | on: Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby

Sorbet is very useful, but the ergonomics suck. It’s fucking difficult to write rspec tests. The performance overhead of writing sorbet on rails in a big codebase is so much that we have turned it off. The pre-interpreter type checking is somewhat useful.

The alpha releases are also a big concern. We are stuck on a 300 commit (release) old build and can never upgrade safely.

We have also never been able to get the VSCode extensions to run.

Thanks for Sorbet, but I’d suggest people outside Stripe to look elsewhere.

throwawaypls | 5 years ago | on: Flowrite: Turn short lists of facts into well-written emails

Isn’t this just GPT-3 under the hood? Other similar things do exist (eg: copy.ai).

Not sure whether there’s much of a difference between all these GPT-3 powered services when all that distinguishes you from competition is some (slick) UI and the 500-1000 extra words of “training” you give to GPT-3.

throwawaypls | 7 years ago | on: Intern at a YC Company

Interesting rationalization. Thanks for putting it into words.

I agree that my tone was could have been better.

I don't buy the rest of your arguments, and would not comment on them for the sake of being misinterpreted again -- following the Golden rule of not feeding the trolls.

Thanks.

throwawaypls | 7 years ago | on: Intern at a YC Company

I would prefer not to.

I expressed my concerns about not hearing back from employers to Kartik -- I applied only because he reassured me that every application "in their system" (sic, iirc) gets a response.

"We don't do that", hah. If a founder wants to lie to prospective hires, that too when they are meeting them for the first time, it suggests that something is really rotten at the company. If you don't treat people nicely, well, there's a tonne of other firms in the area that are hiring...

throwawaypls | 7 years ago | on: Intern at a YC Company

I would ask people to stay away from Starsky. Terrible recruiting practices -- I met some of their senior staff and they assured me, well even guaranteed that someone will get back, but no one did.

As job-seekers, we should start maintaining a black list of firms that treat prospective employees badly, and urge others to not apply.

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