Zetice

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by Zetice 3y ago
Great soapbox; not at all how the real world of startups operates, however. If you have a nonfounder engineer, that person for sure shouldn’t just be doing whatever it is they feel like doing. They need to allow the founders to drive.
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by Zetice 3y ago
The real problem is that this argument relies on people actually meaning “anything”. It’s a strawman that’s so good, you get people actually trying to argue it, but the real argument isn’t about absolute publicity of information, it’s abou
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by Zetice 3y ago
As an engineer at a startup, not sure that matters much. The whole point is the founders have the eye, not as much so the engineers.
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by Zetice 3y ago
That’s what the non-engineers are doing though, and it’s not work everyone should do. Engineers should do engineering things at startups because nobody else can.
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by Zetice 3y ago
It’s not actually “great” risk, is the secret. The advantage is not in American recklessness, it’s in American shamelessness. The only risk made is in the money, someone’s “honor” doesn’t play into it, for the most part.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Nothing about an engineer includes having good sense at other things, either. In fact, many of the best engineers are profoundly bad at figuring out what to work on.
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by Zetice 3y ago
I think your question about avoiding these mechanisms isn't the right one; the real question is, how does one succeed despite these inevitable problems? In other words, I don't think you avoid these, I think you understand they&
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by Zetice 3y ago
> If you find an idea that you think is both valuable to the company and interesting to you, you can just drop everything to work on it. What. How is an engineer deciding what to work on like this, even at a small startup?!
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by Zetice 3y ago
Everyone thinks this is fun until you sit on a wet spot on your way to work the next morning.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Why would you believe him even if he took the time? Demanding people explain basic shit to you is a form of trolling, just FYI.
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by Zetice 3y ago
If your point is causality exists, okay. If your point is that the 1st amendment is an absolute freedom of speech, you couldn't be more wrong.
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by Zetice 3y ago
No it doesn’t, you can easily be prevented from speaking in the first place.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Are you even a leader in fintech if you’ve done zero crimes?
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by Zetice 3y ago
> And now it seems that any commercial product that uses the Terraform language under the hood is at risk of violating the terms of the license. Has an attorney who practices in this area reviewed this sentence in their capacity as an at
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by Zetice 3y ago
Once I see someone plucking individual phrases out of context and replying only to them, I tend to get pretty skeptical of their intent. When I see words like "straw man" and "personal attack", it validates that skeptic
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by Zetice 3y ago
...and I'm the one just here to argue? This is your ~60th comment on HN today. Maybe take a break, go outside, touch some grass. Not one thing you wrote here is reflective of the conversation you and I were having.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Why is profiting from data collection considered de jure bad? Why does collecting data cost your trust, and why does not collecting data earn your trust?
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by Zetice 3y ago
Nothing emotional in what I write, just pointing out that you have precisely zero examples of how shared data from your car has been used to harm you specifically. It's not about what I'm fine with or not, it's about what you
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by Zetice 3y ago
I think you're dismissing what I'm saying because you don't have a good reason to disagree with it, but you find it important to ape the "pro privacy" line, as that's what you see others do online.
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by Zetice 3y ago
You do all of that already for buildouts, you're pretending like this isn't a marginal cost question when in reality it is. And I never said you would retain 100% of the space exactly as it is in an open plan, I said it is not w
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by Zetice 3y ago
Fully agree re: CarPlay/Android Auto support. But the default of "privacy good at all cost" seems like massive overkill IMO. If there's specific evidence that a car is doing something that will specifically cause you har
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by Zetice 3y ago
Computers are built these days mainly to talk to other computers, due to the considerable value gained by offloading computational effort to a central location. Not wanting a computer to talk to other computers is like not wanting your ove
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by Zetice 3y ago
Why wouldn’t you want a cleaner UI and larger screen to show you the contents of that device? Also why do you care if your car has a computer on it or not? Seems overly paranoid, bordering on luddite…
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by Zetice 3y ago
Just read the transcript.
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by Zetice 3y ago
So? The AC you’re referring to isn’t what is cooling my home right now, nor is it what will stop people from deciding to live in the woods. But you knew that.
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by Zetice 3y ago
We've since invented air conditioning (among other things), so I doubt this is a relevant point.
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by Zetice 3y ago
I don't really know what you want me to do with this comment. Okay? What part of any of this suddenly exponentially blows up the cost of building many little offices (not average sized offices, unnecessary for this)? You asked me to
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by Zetice 3y ago
It's trivial to you that a few extra pieces of drywall and a handful of additional planks of wood would launch the cost of a buildout into the stratosphere? Are you even reading the comments about studies showing the lost productivity
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by Zetice 3y ago
I agreed with you in the first half, that we won't ever make it to "sci fi space defense", but not because humans don't persist. More likely we never make it there because of a host of other, more boring reasons, mostly;
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by Zetice 3y ago
It's a common but incorrect belief that many small individual offices is a substantially more expensive buildout option.

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