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Hard Reset
- labrador 4y agoI'm not the audience for this but it seems like good advice. Another thing, I learned from the dotcom bubble not to assume a drastic downturn or "macro" (as the article uses) is a temporary thing. They can go on for years and recover slowly.
- JoeOfTexas 4y agoI can't focus with this circle thing.
- JamesianP 4y agoI scrolled it off the bottom and used the mouse wheel. Still annoying though since I like to keep my place with the mouse pointer.
- keyle 4y agoThanks, I went from "neat!" to "arghghlgh" in 3 seconds tops. Why bother writing words if you're going to deface them with a chew toy? Ironically "how not to drive your web content off a cliff" applies here.
- MereInterest 4y agoSame. Based on a glance through the minimized JS here[0], it looks like it's a custom animation implemented using GreenSock's "TweenLite" [1]. I'm crossing fingers that this isn't a sign of a larger trend. [0] https://sarahguo.com/script/minify/blog-post-text-min.js https://sarahguo.com/script/minify/blog-post-text-min.js [1] https://greensock.com/tweenlite https://greensock.com/tweenlite
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- googlryas 4y agoThe content actually looks really nice on mobile. But on desktop it is a travesty. We left these cursor modifiers behind in the early 2000s for a reason.
- Affric 4y agoI don't like it a lot as an implementation but thinking about how I read webpages I will often highlight sections of text I am reading as I go so I don't actually hate it as an idea. I also enjoy reading non-narrative physical books with a pointer. EDIT: I think I find the blueness intrusive. I would prefer a smaller yellow circle with pure black text maybe.
- eMSF 4y agoAgreed. I can't even tell if the circle is the worst thing, but it doesn't behave like a cursor as it moves off the screen while scrolling, but jumps back (with visual noise) when the mouse if moved even 1px. Anyway, this grabbed my focus and I did not finish reading the article.
- Wowfunhappy 4y ago> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- daguava 4y agoThis transcends tangential - it's so annoying it's unusable.
- pvg 4y agoThe guideline is there specifically because these things are super annoying. So annoying that talking about them can eat up the whole thread, as this thing is threatening to do.
- kllrnohj 4y agoThe guideline seems to be about the common annoyances. That massive yellow thing is definitely not common, and personally had me immediately "nope" off the page.
- pvg 4y agoNo the guideline is about not filling threads with one's irritation, however righteous. If it was too annoying to read, that's regrettable but largely interesting to the person who didn't read it. If a wasp is pestering you the entire time you read a piece you probably don't feel the urge to comment about it on HN right? Same thing.
- daguava 4y agoI'm sure the New Yorker wouldn't tolerate this level of irritation. Or were you not shown there? Maybe they can't use you.
- tolciho 4y agoLooks fine in w3m. Granted, the modern web mostly stopped being usable years and years ago...
- gruez 4y agoIt's even more annoying than usual because if you disable scripts you'll find that there's no cursor at all, because the page's css has main { cursor: none; }
- daguava 4y agoMaybe this entire website should be re-submitted as an anti-user experience.
- imperialdrive 4y agoCan't figure out what the purpose of the circle is.
- dpbriggs 4y agoFirefox reader mode made it readable for me.
- salmaic 4y agoRunning these two lines in the browser console removes the circle and restores the cursor: document.querySelectorAll('.container-mouse,.mouse-pointer,.circle-path').forEach(n => n.remove()); document.getElementsByTagName('main')[0].style.cursor = 'initial';
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- sour-taste 4y agoPaste in console to remove: var style = document.createElement('style'); style.innerHTML = ` main { cursor: auto} .mouse-pointer {display: none} .container-mouse {display: none} `; document.head.appendChild(style);
- dang 4y agoregisteredcorn posted a workaround. I've pinned it to the top of the thread. Let's stay on topic now please.
- jasmer 4y agoIt's brutal. For an otherwise bit of decent advice, that is some really bad design.
- sithlord 4y agowhy are we still referring to Twitter and Meta as startups?
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoWhat are you talking about? The author refers to neither Twitter or Meta as startups.
- dang 4y ago> What are you talking about? Can you please edit out swipes like that? This is in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Your comment would be just fine without that bit.
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- hn_throwaway_99 4y ago> It is an unpopular view, but startups are not for everyone. Startups are not for people who panic in times of crisis, they are not for people who want to work 9-to-5, and they are not for people who seek financial stability or a cash salary competitive with FAANG. They are not for people who are going to be offended that someone is sleeping at the office. Teams will once again be more appropriately, and more sparsely populated. Well, then startups better start paying more. One of the biggest things that caused the "startup financial deal" to get out of whack over the past decade was how much the FAANGs were paying. The old deal was simple "You work harder now, you take less in cash salary now, but with more equity so that if the startup hits, you'll be sitting pretty." Except what happened over the past 15ish years was: 1. VC firms and startup founders took more of the upside. 2. The FAANGs started paying considerably more So what happened is that all but the very earliest employees, or very senior C-levels that needed a ton of equity and cash to jump to a riskier startup, end up doing worse or barely hitting FAANG level comp even if the startup successfully exists (and, mind you, most startups don't successfully exit). Basically, I'll put it another way. The reason C-level execs require a ton of cash and equity to join a startup is because they know what their worth is, and they can do math. Many startups still rely on young people fresh out of college who (a) don't know their worth yet, (b) haven't learned how to appropriately value their equity awards, or (c) buy in to a vision to the point that they undervalue how much their skills are worth. Look, I'm all for working in startups - I've pretty much worked for ones my entire career. But prospective employees should look at their packages and employment options with the same dispassionate eyes that investors use to evaluate companies. Edit: Sam Altman had a good blog post on how startup employees often get shafted with equity comp, and I totally agree with his diagnosis and proposed solutions: https://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity https://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
- dbish 4y agoWell the FAANG pay is heading in the other direction right now, so the oppurtunity cost math is shifting. I have a feeling it's not just temporary, average pay next year will be lower in FAANGs since there will be less job demand, stock based comp has dropped and is unlikely to go up, and they have very little incentive to bring TC back up to old numbers if there are a lot of people on the market after layoffs.
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- alexb_ 4y agoI once again ask, how much of the tech industry today could survive a recession? How much of the tech industry revolves around the assumption that user data and advertising space will always have a growing market? How much of the tech industry has no clear path to profitability at all?
- nyokodo 4y ago> How much of the tech industry has no clear path to profitability at all? You’re saying “tech industry” but it sounds like you mean “tech startup industry” as how many non-startups are unprofitable?
- registeredcorn 4y agohttps://archive.ph/DhAxv https://archive.ph/DhAxv No offense to the owner of the site, but the circle thing was very distracting.
- throway28hskd4 4y agoFeels awfully like a fluff / personal marketing piece: - Just launched new VC fund - Her personal website advertising alp Greylock investments - Irritating CSS built by an "agency" - Posted Saturday evening to maximize HN hits At least today's web makes it easy to sniff out these types ...
- hardwaresofton 4y agoTIL posting Saturday evening is the strategy for views… Does no one on hn have a social life? I’d expect Saturday night to be the worst night!
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- Mizza 4y agoFor real.. it's not 2008 anymore. I don't think anybody is buying the "grind yourself into dust for VCs in times of economic uncertainty" bit anymore. You ever hear of a VC sleeping in an office?
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- paxys 4y agoAfter benefiting from the fed money printer for the last 15 years you can now see the VC class starting to panic. And the best they can come up with is asking startups to "return the money to your investors" or "work twice as much and sleep in the office". Please. Your lack of due diligence is not my emergency.
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- compiler-guy 4y agoIt is your emergency if you need to raise funds again, or structured your deals in such a way that the VCs sit in your board and have power.
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- aabhay 4y agoTL;DR: After causing a newly minted generation of entrepreneurs to lose fiscal discipline, investors demand companies unwind this capital-burning strategy by seeking immediate profitability, in turn allowing those investors to demonstrate fiscal discipline to their LPs.
- simsspoons 4y agowhat % of startup founders need to hear this advice right now and are blind to reality
- zshrdlu 4y agoThe hijacked cursor is very annoying and disappears as one scrolls. Not sure what it's meant to achieve.