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by _qulr 6y ago
It's not just Twitter, it's also Facebook. (I believe Facebook was actually the first to take action.) What if Google does it too? In the past few years, we've seen these big tech companies operate in a manner that seems coll
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Then not only decided to not pass that savings onto the customer, but actually secretively raised the price $30. They raised the price $130. iPhone 11 was $699, iPhone 12 is $829. Apple slipped in the "mini" at the old price
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by _qulr 6y ago
> because ratings for TOS were so low, it became a cheap filler 5 nights a week in syndication It also lacked the standard # of episodes required for syndication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_episodes
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by _qulr 6y ago
The last known iPhone ASP (from AAPL 2018 Q4 results) was $793
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Everyone is talking about the $30, but the real story is that iPhone 12 is at least $100 more expensive than iPhone 11. The $30 thing seems almost like an intentional distraction from a huge price increase during a global depression and pan
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> Well one thing is a "pause" in production I'm confused, what are you referring to here? The Original Series ended in 1969. It was truly dead. But the fans kept it "alive" for a decade. Its popularity rose throu
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> If things like Star Trek were canceled season three, it'd never have reached such masses This comment strikes me as very strange. I guess you're talking about TNG? But the Original Series was canceled after the third season.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Agreed. IMO the first few seasons of The Office (US) and Parks & Recreation were the best, and they went downhill over time. Very few shows can sustain quality over time. For sitcoms... maybe Seinfeld?
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by _qulr 6y ago
> That's something I ask myself every time I'm cleaning my monitor. How is there a fingerprint anywhere on it much less inexplicably in the corners? The bottom left corner of a monitor is the first place I touch it in order t
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The laptop in the video just looks like how my screen gets when too my fingers have been on it. When do your fingers ever get on the bottom left corner of the screen, for example? That's classic Staingate and not an area you would
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by _qulr 6y ago
Because I own a MacBook Pro that has developed Staingate twice (the second time after a screen replacement). If you've ever seen it IRL, it's obvious.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Has anyone noticed that this newer MacBook Pro clearly exhibits "Staingate" anti-reflecting coating peeling off the screen? (You can see it in the video.)
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by _qulr 6y ago
> your style of argument comes across to me as deep diving on points where you can be correct, or changing the subject. There's only so much that can be said in a HN comment. I'm trying to avoid writing a whole treatise. > S
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Don't take it as proof just because there is a study. I don't. I take my lived experience as proof that this is real. You seem to be in denial of a common psychological experience.
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I don't know, almost every day I regret the invention of JavaScript...
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I've seen no evidence that stage fright is a significant factor ruling out good candidates. I'm just going to link again to a scientific study on the subject. https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-i
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's not nitpicking. I want to draw attention to the fact that the so-called "false negatives" that everyone claims are acceptable casualties of the system are not just random false negatives. Audition-style coding intervie
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But "has ways to help mitigate" stage fright has nothing to do with assuming good faith. You'd have to assume magical powers. It's like if someone has a fear of spiders, and you bring out spiders during an interview but
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Assume good faith That's an interesting defense of an interview process that specifically does not assume good faith of the candidates. > has ways to help mitigate it I'm not sure this understands the nature of true stage
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by _qulr 6y ago
Most arguments I've seen claiming the incompetence of senior engineers are circular. A: We need programming quizzes even for senior engineers, because many turn out of be incompetent. B: How do you know they're incompetent? A: The
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by _qulr 6y ago
> This feels good if you’ve already made it or you grew up with the right connections, but it’s far from ideal you’re a promising developer who doesn’t yet have the right credentials on your resume to unlock the job. I've never unde
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by _qulr 6y ago
> It is amazingly heavy. I had to carry mine home from the store, because I didn't have a car. Oof! Worth it though. Best iMac ever.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> If I had to pick a thing to make Google give up, it would probably be YouTube and not Chrome. You don't have to pick a thing though. For some reason the article title highlights Chrome, but the article makes clear that they'r
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I think the problem is more that certain influential technologists have failed to heed the warnings of dissenters in their own field. Yes, this. Being in tech doesn't mean that you have to be ignorant of all other things. We encou
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by _qulr 6y ago
> the political influence of employees of SV companies Maybe employees have power in Europe, but here in the United States employees have almost no power. Employment is at-will, and anyone who causes trouble for management is summarily f
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by _qulr 6y ago
I just opened cnn.com, clicked on the top story, and... it's about a tweet.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Literally nobody was buying that Iraq had WMD. This is literally false. As you said, "SOME THINGS ARE JUST TRUE AND SOME ARE NOT." I didn't buy it myself, and there was certainly significant opposition to the Iraq invasi
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by _qulr 6y ago
I think Twitter does have that power, but not in a way that Twitter or Twitter users understand. Most people aren't on Twitter and don't get their news directly from Twitter. And people who are on Twitter and who follow politics o
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by _qulr 6y ago
Let me ask this: what evidence is there that the results of Twitter's censorship are actually in line with the political beliefs of Twitter's employees? In many cases, Twitter's rules have been used to suspend accounts that p
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Some people get burned out I'd say if management routinely burns out programmers and prevents them from having long careers, that in itself is a form of age discrimination. > If the industry now is 10x the size it was in 2000 (

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