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   by aahortwwy 6y ago

   Blame the users? Do you think users are more interested in ARPDAU or love/sex? Tinder-style profile-based match dating (which is basically all dating apps at this point) is bad at getting users love/sex but great at maximizing ARP
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   by aahortwwy 6y ago

   > Why would online dating make offline dating harder? By de-normalizing offline dating and removing participants from the offline dating pool. > Unless you're young and in the LGB group most people find their partners offline. In
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   by aahortwwy 6y ago

   You're basically saying that preservation is easy if the original developers took preservation into account. The article is making the point that developers and ecosystems increasingly don't consider preservation ahead of time. &g
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   by aahortwwy 6y ago

   You could've chosen a better example of "content producers for the open web" than lyrics websites. Musixmatch didn't write Money For Nothing.
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   by aahortwwy 6y ago

   This author consistently omits important context from their posts. When this is pointed out there is always a rebuttal (however unconvincing), never a change of perspective. When new insight is gained, it always confirms or elucidates an op
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   by aahortwwy 6y ago

   A lot of companies instruct their interviewers to "default to no" when making hiring recommendations. Effectively the opposite of what you're suggesting. I knew a lot of interviewers at those types of companies who wouldn&#x2
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   by aahortwwy 6y ago

   I could've phrased that better. You're making a prediction about your ultimate hiring recommendation, not about whether they complete the problem or answer your questions correctly or not. The point of this exercise is not to prod
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   by aahortwwy 6y ago

   Every time one of these interviewing posts bubbles up I skim it to see if the author mentions things like: company size, team composition, the nature of the work the team is doing, the nature of the industry the company exists in, the way h
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   by aahortwwy 6y ago

   I figure there's probably a name for this sort of comment (which appears a lot on Hacker News). Would it be "relative privation"?
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    by aahortwwy 6y ago

    > You just have to not care about what you're doing You do have to care, you're just mistaken about what it is people in big corporate companies are actually doing. What they're doing is advancing their own careers and tho
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    by aahortwwy 6y ago

    I was 100% on board with the "it's just a pipeline problem" idea until I started interviewing. The more I interviewed, the more I saw how sourcing/recruiting works, the more hiring decisions I witnessed being made, the c
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    by aahortwwy 6y ago

    This is cool. I'm glad people are working in this direction. A common theme that I've noticed among recent upstart social efforts is a focus on platform and/or policy differentiation. I personally believe this is not very imp
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    by aahortwwy 6y ago

    There are a few strawmen in this post. 1. I never said everybody is stupid. The vast majority of people in Big Tech are great, but there ARE stupid people there too. I resent the implication of your first paragraph. 2. Who said anything abo
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    by aahortwwy 6y ago

    When I say stupidity I don't mean mistakes. From the article: > At that point, it was decided that something easier had to be done. The barrier to entry for safe and sane rollouts had to be lowered even more to bring more teams on b
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    by aahortwwy 6y ago

    Deploying to 100% of production when the option exists to do a staged rollout[0] isn't "breaking things in more obscure ways," it's ignorance or laziness. [0] As mentioned in the article.
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    by aahortwwy 6y ago

    It's funny that the big tech companies have such high hiring bars and yet when you get inside there are large teams of people actively working to protect the company from the stupidity of their colleagues.
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    by aahortwwy 7y ago

    > Why is this one team not more secretive about their recipe to success? It's not a secret. Many other organizations (not in F1, by your description) operate this way. It's well understood, but... > Why aren't more team
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    by aahortwwy 7y ago

    I estimate that one third of "no return offer" decisions I've seen have been attributable to the intern. The other two thirds are attributable to the team or company. Poor task selection, poor support, unreasonable expectatio