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The author is discussing facts and providing replicable results. Disclosing their "conflict of interest" more clearly would be laudable, but even if they lied to us and pretended to be an independent journalist, that might sway ou
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The comment you're replying to is obviously being sarcastic and trying to "stir the pot." But I will respond to you seriously. Most Americans who use the word "racist" mean "intentionally and adversarially raci
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As an author, I agree with what you are saying 100%. But I'm not sure that you are disagreeing with the OP. His point--as I understand it--is that you don't get better marks for writing an essay about Jazz that is clear, complete
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What may have even more impact on HN readers is the possibility that we are seeing "The end of the bloviating blog." I say this as someone who—under the pen name raganwald—built much of my public reputation writing blog posts. But
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I’m aware of several flight simulators that support VR headsets. For those who don’t get queasy using VR in a simulated aircraft, it is an excellent benefit: In real life, many tasks like flying the landing pattern or joining a busy area of
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Yes, provided one acknowledges that we survived not having 24/7 communications almost everywhere, but others did not. Same as saying that before the nanny state passed laws requiring children to wear bicycle helmets, we not only rode b
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Completely tangential anecdote: --- At one point, a little software business/hustle of mine had run its course, and I needed some steady income while I figured out my next move, so I got a job as a retail computer salesperson. The stor
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I do not loan money to people, ever. I will give money to people I know to help them out from time to time. Sometimes people ask for a loan and insist they will repay me. Fine, I will call it a loan because that's what helps them frame
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I have also met many intelligent and thoughtful investors. I am speaking only to the systemic effects of a kind of marketplace for information that overvalues hype, and undervalues criticism. My speculative musing is that if people could ta
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Having lived through hype wave after hype wave after hype wave in tech over the last forty-fifty years, the commentary about the behaviour of VCs resonated. I wonder if part of why VCs back so many copycat companies in hype cycles is a stru
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Way back in the early 80s when I worked in a bicycle store, we used to sell adult tricycles to Air Canada. The aircraft mechanics had a choice between golf carts and tricycles for getting around, but the trikes were popular because so many
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> the free market ideal I don't think that's the free market ideal. Let's switch away from employers vs. employees and ask, "Would an ideal free market allow companies to collude to fix prices? Would an ideal free mar
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Oh I totally get that, and as someone who likes to program for fun... One of the ways you make more time available for the things you learn for fun (esoteric programming, rock climbing, ultimate, playing music, flying gliders) is by being v
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> learning without purpose sucks, I mean it's still very valuable, but it sucks in that sense that it is "unpredicatbly effective". Your presumption is that people are only interested in learning things that make them more
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True, but having had a number of my own musings make the front page of HN, the author must embrace the fact that just because they write about Y , doesn't mean the audience won't pull on a thread and decide the important thing to
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The issue I have with on-demand/just-in-time learning is not when you learn, but rather that such learning tends to be self-directed. To repurpose a famous quip... The person who is their own teacher has a fool for a student. The pro
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"Just in time" is a great expression. It resonates with me because there is an existing body of knowledge around doing things just in time to reduce waste, and I think that's a lot of the motivation for learning things just i
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As an exercise, change your statement from ”If you want rock solid documentation, switch to waterfall” to,” ”If you want rock solid tests, switch to waterfall.” They have all the same organizational forces acting upon them. You don’t need a
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"Free rein," it's an equestrian term. https://writingexplained.org/free-rein-or-free-reign-differe...
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Zoom has the “raise your hand feature,” and it manages a queue of people who have raised their hands so that they can speak in order. We use this at work, it is especially great for large meetings which otherwise can devolve into chaos. A s
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When accused by Steve Jobs of ripping Apple’s technology and designs off, Bill Gates is said to have cooly replied: "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this ri
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I am in no way saying that the Apple ecosystem is superior to the Android ecosystem, or that Keynote is superior to Slides or PowerPoint, for that matter. Just that all reasonably open ecosystems are full of crud, and while pointing out tha
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I can tell you what the benefits are. Whether those benefits make it better than FigJam or whatever is a tradeoff evaluation for each person to make for their use case, it could be that FigJam is right for Alice while Freeform is right for
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What the comment says is that the third-party app ecosystem on Android is shitty. Which is not the same thing as saying that Android itself is shitty, or that Google’s apps are shitty. Just that for various reasons, statistically, 90% of th
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Calling it ”sherlocked” is recency bias on our part. Apple learned it from Microsoft, who took a thing that happened from time to time and operationalized it into a full-blown business strategy. One by one, Microsoft took aim at successfu
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I’ve been hiring programmers for three decades. What is obvious to me is that we play a game where there is a posted set of rules such as “Don’t talk shit about the companies that interview you and definitely don’t reveal what they told you
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This is an absolutely evergreen comment, so much so that an appropriately worded version belongs in the guidelines, something like: “Before dismissing something as common knowledge or obvious, consider the vast disparities in education, exp
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Your take appears to be a generalization of my take in at least two axes: 1. Asserting that it's hard if not impossible to generate valuable signal, where I am speaking only to the case where access to web search makes it hard if not i
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I agree. This reminds me of the argument that being able to use web search during a “coding interview” is cheating. My stance is that if web search can render the difference between a competent and incompetent candidate undetectable, the pr
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Now all we need is a Markdown dialect supporting illumination.

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