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by ak_111 4y ago
Almost agree, but even banks there is huge variance, if you work in operations or cloud infrastructure might be much less hectic than working on quant or data science projects.
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by ak_111 4y ago
I think hard to compare in the abstract due to huge level of variance, probably if you working at palantir, uber or amazon you are working longer hours than say if you are working for apple, google or microsoft.
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by ak_111 4y ago
You are assuming that in these companies the managers are a completely separate class, but the truth is in most of big tech most senior developers / architects feed directly into product roadmap and management. In fact most of big tech
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by ak_111 4y ago
I think there is a bit of a contradiction in this logic. Why would redistributing 'skills' that lead other companies to lose cash at an astronomical scale help other companies improve? If their product and innovation was truly tra
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by ak_111 4y ago
I am interested in the attrition rate from Big Tech to traditional tech (such as enterprise software at banks or government). This will probably be a very hard adjustment for many in terms of salary, tech stack, benefits, work hours, cultur
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Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?
261 points by ak_111 4y ago|335 comments
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by ak_111 4y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but genuinely what is the most articulate and sensible piece on why the most likely culprit is Russia? All the commentary I read from reputable media seem to boil down to "Putin did it because that is the sort
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by ak_111 4y ago
I am surprised you haven't proposed the most likely (and sadly boring) for me: 7) They are not aliens or any unexplainable phenomenon, witnesses are all deluded or victims of things like lens glare and the DoD has let them go public (i
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by ak_111 4y ago
It is getting even worse where you are seeing increase of “head of…” titles, my friend just became “head of performance analytics” at an online media company and he is the only one in his “team” (so technically his title is vacuously true a
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Israel appears to have been behind drone strike on Iranian factory -US official(reuters.com)
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by ak_111 4y ago
For me personally I would put it a few orders of magnitude of a surprise above satoshi being alive.
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by ak_111 4y ago
Imagine one day all of a sudden a low-quality few seconds long video is uploaded to the channel showing only someone filming their feet as they stroll on on a beach.
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by ak_111 4y ago
Deciding to end your life by committing mass murder is already hugely irrational, trying to analyse any further moves such a state of mind had planned out from the viewpoint of rationality is nonsensical.
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by ak_111 4y ago
I don't think the amount of debris found is that great, a tiny piece of wing...
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by ak_111 4y ago
The strangeness of this story - a 777 disappearing into thin air in one of the most surveilled and monitored (due to geopolitics) places on earth leaving no traces behind - has spooked people so much that there is a section on the wikipedia
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by ak_111 4y ago
As someone who doesn't have intuition about these things: what are the chances that an 777 could have crashed and yet many years later very very few of its debris showed up or were spotted anywhere in the world (also factoring in inten
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by ak_111 4y ago
Still doesn't make it sense from a UX perspective. You can make it an option to highlight the square or just show coordinates and cater for both crowds.
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by ak_111 4y ago
Can you give us more details concerning your seniority/domain/tech stack?
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by ak_111 4y ago
Interesting I am not noticing this in the UK, what part of tech do you work in?
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by ak_111 4y ago
Question for those who got laid-off from tech recently (say since Aug last year): how hard did you find it to get another tech job? Would be interesting to get some anecdotal evidence to shed light on the following WSJ article which claims
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by ak_111 4y ago
I am predicting that thread might have a bias towards those that found it very hard to get re-employed since those will be the ones who can afford to browse HN all day (or is it the other way around?? :D )
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Ask HN: Are you finding it hard to get re-employed if you got laid-off recently?
1 points by ak_111 4y ago|2 comments
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by ak_111 4y ago
From the title I didn't expect it will take the angle it did. Your superior demanding you polish the artefact they signed you up for is a perfectly reasonable "play". I think where it can become unreasonable or controlling is
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by ak_111 4y ago
- Tragic assassination or suicide of a major tech figure (probably prompted due to either another huge tech downturn, or victim of culture war). - Many countries in the 3rd world that significantly depend on wheat and oil import start to fe
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by ak_111 4y ago
For what's it worth I don't mind it. I was just pointing out how easy it is to identify gpt content and wanted to verify.
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by ak_111 4y ago
I would be very surprised how much of start-ups spending is driving AWS adoption (it's probably less than 5-10% of their revenue). In the UK alone a huge chunk of the public sector and FTSE100 corporate sector has migrated to AWS and A
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by ak_111 4y ago
This sounds like gpt.
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by ak_111 4y ago
I am wondering how much of the excessive (even to the point of lunacy) funding of stupid ideas in tech is due to a low-rate macro environment as opposed to a spray-and-pray gold rush that naturally gets triggered whenever someone hits gold
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by ak_111 4y ago
Tangential, but it is interesting to note that it seems TT has been triggered enough by Elon's twitter drama to make a commitment in using mastodon. He has been very active in the blogsphere (and even google circles) for over more than
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by ak_111 4y ago
Are you sure this whole problem with its solution wasn't indexed in ChatGPT training set, so all it did here is retrieve the whole answer to the problem similar to how google will find the solution pretty quickly if you search for &quo

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