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by a4isms 5y ago
Anecdote: I lived in Ibadan, Nigeria around 1970 or so. I recall the newspapers had serials, some were comics they bought from England, e.g. Garth, and some were a kind of photobook thing where models would stage scenes from a story and cap
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by a4isms 5y ago
I don't see how it's a dichotomy. It's entirely possible that a closed ecosystem enables a large number of features with a certain set of tradeoffs, and an open ecosystem enables a large number of features with a different se
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by a4isms 5y ago
Exactly, add another decade and we're talking about the original Script Kiddies being seasoned executives, or possibly even having cashed out a startup or two and are now investing in startups via the Founder-to-VC pipeline.
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by a4isms 5y ago
What's very interesting about your comment is this: Let's say that JavaScrip was a language for "kiddies" in 2008. Let's call them people in the age group 17-22. That was fourteen years ago, and those "kiddies&
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by a4isms 5y ago
https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
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by a4isms 5y ago
In a rant that was (at one time) legendary, the late Erik Naggum responded to the argument that XML was nothing more than another way to write s-exprs, and if you like s-exprs, the only quibble you have with XML is the syntax. Erik wrote,
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by a4isms 5y ago
Dart is absolutely a C-style language.* ——— * In all the ways that don't matter.
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by a4isms 5y ago
The usual excuse is that they are optimizing for results that produce clicks on paid search, rather than optimizing for your satisfaction with the search results.
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by a4isms 5y ago
There is a story about this: An emperor commissioned a work from the greatest calligrapher in the nation. "Make me something auspicious!" was the brief. The calligrapher thought for a moment, then wrote on a banner: Parents die
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by a4isms 5y ago
It has other anti-yelling-past-each-other features. For example, after a comment is made, there's a delay before anybody is allowed to reply. I doubt anybody in the middle of an argument would cool down and change their minds, but it d
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by a4isms 5y ago
Who's lionizing HN? I've been here for fifteen years and could write fifty of these rants about it.
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by a4isms 5y ago
I don't disagree, I'm joust pointing out that it should be easy to see why people post the kinds of things on Twitter that the OP is posting here.
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by a4isms 5y ago
Absolutely positively one would expect different outcomes here than there. Even if the exact same people see this comment here as there, the platforms systemically optimize for different outcomes. For example, this forum is moderated, Twitt
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by a4isms 5y ago
Ironically, this "Ask HN" post isn't much different than the kind of rant thread one sees on Twitter all the time, including the comments from people piling in to agree with the rant. There's nothing particularly constru
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by a4isms 5y ago
Interesting to read all the supposed systemic reasons that manufacturers do not want to serve the market for a compact phone. Is it the lack of a flagship camera array? Battery life? Screen size? Less powerful but battery-thrifty CPUs? The
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by a4isms 5y ago
Dug into the "archives..." My first post on HN was 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1901 Happy birthday, HN! And thank-you dang, for all you do.
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by a4isms 5y ago
I don't follow that reasoning at all. For example, in many businesses there's an "ecosystem." Within the ecosystem, companies are actually "frenemies," because while they're ostensibly competing, the more
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by a4isms 5y ago
Game theory does not say this is the case in every game, only in certain games like Prisoner's Dilemma. The fact about reality is that there are lots of games, and if you choose a game which is zero-sum or even negative-sum, it's
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by a4isms 5y ago
Another anecdote about him: He once stopped by my small apartment to pick up a document I wrote for a pitch or financing or something. He looked around at my furnishings, and said: "This reminds me of the apartment we had in Montréal w
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by a4isms 5y ago
Contrarian proposition here: The idea that only sociopaths succeed is an artefact of what we observe. And what we observe is driven by which narratives get turned into stories about business success, into hagiographies about politicians and
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by a4isms 5y ago
My sole stint as a VP was in a thirteen-person startup. I had that title for pseudo-legal reasons, we needed a VP. My later role as Director of a 50-person engineering group in a 200-person startup was way more relevant in terms of my exper
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by a4isms 5y ago
Savour with a side of H-1B visa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
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by a4isms 5y ago
I have worked in consulting, and internally, the above was pretty-much our definition of "senior" that we used to determine who was billed out at "senior rates:" The engineers who also had customer-facing skills and coör
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by a4isms 5y ago
I have demonstrated my ability to convince clients to pay amounts of money like this for my skills. And yes, the not-so-secret thing about consulting is that if you're able to convince a client that you're worth $500 an hour, it&#
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by a4isms 5y ago
Pardon me while I blow the dust off the standard quip about "years of experience:" "Is that one year of experience, repeated five times?"
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by a4isms 5y ago
There is no standard whatsoever for the adjective "Senior" when applied to engineers: Sometimes it means, "Able to work without someone looking over their shoulder at all times." Sometimes it means, "Able to lead an
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by a4isms 5y ago
That’s not how language works, but nothing wrong with trying to slow its progress…
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by a4isms 5y ago
Two words: Eternal. And September. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Every social space either withers, or grows until there is a preponderance of new people whose values no longer reflect the founders an
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by a4isms 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrYV7wS3JUk
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by a4isms 5y ago
Our experiences and outlook may differ, but I am very gratified to hear that you have found your way to a better place.

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