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by RickS 9y ago
Your measure of polarization is talking about distance on a political spectrum. This is perhaps the correct way, since it's literally polar. The vernacular "polarization" here would be better thought of as a measure not of co
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Awesome. The idea that companies are apolitical can't die fast enough. No person-to-person platform can reach scale and be apolitical. You end up with companies like reddit and twitter who are too timid to make a stand about what their
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This is great. Maybe they could work in something about the fact that an enormous, unmissable portion of etsy's products are manufactured in china and flipped by lazy faux-hippies under the guise of being "artisan". If their
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by RickS 9y ago
You can't possible believe this, right? Many of them have "fuck you" money that would permit them to never work a day again in their lives were that to be their choice. Please refrain from insulting every employee of a compan
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by RickS 9y ago
In addition to being needlessly snarky, you're effectively saying "progress doesn't count unless it goes all the way". That's bullshit. Attitudes regarding whether people should be jailed for substance abuse, and wh
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I recall twitter's early rewrite going pretty well. The "fail whale" was a real big deal before that. They went from notoriously poor uptime to being on par with facebook.
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>This whole late stage capitalism transition is going to be painful. The phrase "late stage capitalism" is one I've seen crop up only in the last year or so, and mostly in the context of the subreddit of the same name. Can
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>I would love to pay 15% of a contract to someone who could source and close contracts for me. Couldn't agree more. The product design space is crowded with low end parties on both sides, and I've fruitlessly offered a percenta
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by RickS 9y ago
This implies a mutual exclusivity that isn't realistic. The GP is asserting that real estate is a significant additional revenue stream for tech VCs. You're asserting that real estate returns aren't important because they&#x2
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I've never been to a festival that wasn't a mix of neon strippers and crusty dreadheads leaving all manner of chip wrappers and plastic cups on an increasingly sticky ground. Now, granted, lots of great music and good times, but t
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Not only is it exceedingly reasonable, google has a history of exactly this type of play. 2 examples: they offered "free 411" to train their voice recognition, and they used captchaa first to decode books, and now to train compute
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I'll admit that, based on what I heard before moving there, I felt the same thing. Joke's on me though, Lake Merrit's worst day is nicer than SOMA's best.
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My cynical hope is that this is a troll whose endgame is to point out that this is a re-worded approach to startup options. "It's worth cents now, so we'll give you a bunch of it, and then you code, and thats what gives it va
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Cultural and product focuses that emphasized engagement quantity rather than engagement quality. Comments would be littered with things like "hey, great, check out my stuff!" That type of shallow "like for like" culture
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by RickS 9y ago
This is a really beautiful legal document. It's concise, readable to someone not a legal professional, includes ample citations (and sometimes summaries of cited works), and is convincing using very simple, isolated, well structured ar
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by RickS 9y ago
I think it's worth making a distinction between their public and private conduct. To be specific: I am okay with them skirting regulatory procedures. I consider this an extension of "move fast and break things". I am not okay
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If the game can be played offline, just turn off wifi and you can disable cellular data on a per-app basis with settings > cellular > use cellular data for (toggle) I use this to disable ads and upgrade posts in angry birds, and it wo
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Well sure. The design community also continues to fawn over a cell phone assembled in factories where they have nets to keep the workers from killing themselves. The design community likes to pretend they're all TED talks and social go
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by RickS 9y ago
As someone who really followed them closely (archer was HUGELY impactful ~10 years ago, and gotham set a bar in politics that has yet to be surpassed), this breakup really left a bad taste in my mouth that's prevented me from ever doin
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by RickS 9y ago
People, we've gotta stop naming things after generic jargon. This is probably the 5th or 6th "Dash" named product I've seen in the last 2 years. There's: Dash, the amazon order button Dash, the offline API docs Dash
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Anecdotally, that's not accurate. The bay area companies with an outsized interest in drinking are typically pot friendly. Though with both, it's not cool to be intoxicated during real work.
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http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/kiko-plus/
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student + truck loans, about -30k 28 product designer focused on fintech from DC, in seattle via NY and the bay
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> The premise that visible business failure harms brands is false. Given that many forms of visible business failure literally cause brands to cease to exist, it seems indisputable that at least some of the time they're harmed.
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An ex was tricked out of about 900 bucks by one of these. Person is moving to a new city, needs a place, but doesn't have the time or budget to travel and inspect in person. They play it safe by picking an upstanding, corporate looking
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Hacker News is not an ad platform for your one hour old account to peddle wallets.
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Customers have ample alternatives to facebook, and avoidance of that entire product category is not debilitating. Neither are true of comcast's internet services.
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Relative to other lists of this type, this one is very good. Still a painfully young corner of the design world, unfortunately. For all of us out there building these: 1) Please make an effort to make them public. The community still needs
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Their resources are mostly around visual design and brand guides, OPs is much better curated in terms of live product component libraries. Huge, huge difference, IMO. Web companies need to start stepping their game up when it comes to compo
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How to handle mistrust and entitlement: Be trustworthy, and speak candidly about compensation.

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