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by alex_c 7y ago
Can you explain?
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by alex_c 7y ago
Hong Kong and Tokyo somehow manage to stay creative and interesting despite being more expensive per square foot than the new Toronto. The difference, in my uneducated opinion: commercial and retail space in those cities goes up . It is n
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by alex_c 7y ago
I do like Montreal... Except for the weather :)
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by alex_c 7y ago
I mean... are you dismissing the bad because there’s worse? My takeaway is that this kind of new development looks better (“movie set”) than what you describe, but it does not meaningfully change how people use and interact with the space a
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by alex_c 7y ago
Are there specific English translations that are good and reasonably modern? As a kid I read Jules Verne translated in my native language, and loved it. Not sure where I would start to acquire his work in English.
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by alex_c 7y ago
Toronto handles this in part with a separate fleet of buses for wheelchair users. It’s effectively a taxi service with the same cost as a bus fare. It’s not perfect, it has to be booked in advance and times / availability can be unpr
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by alex_c 7y ago
You're making assumptions about the op's situation. Their description could easily match one of my first summer jobs - also at a bank. On a typical day I would walk in around 9:30, ask my supervisor if there is anything to do, us
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by alex_c 7y ago
>And if we at least somewhat agree that this had to have consequences, why .. does it matter? This might be where our views diverge. If you don’t think it matters whether a US company punished a Hong Kong national, in Taiwan, for polit
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by alex_c 7y ago
Blizzard absolutely has the right to punish Blitzchung for his statement, and I am sure he expected and accepted there would be consequences. The issue is, was the punishment: 1) Strictly because Blizzard did not want unauthorized politica
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by alex_c 7y ago
Context is important. Context #1: there has been a years-long trend for Western entertainment media (movies, games) to cater to the Chinese market. This ranges from voluntary censorship that seems odd in the West (no skeletons?) to more sen
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by alex_c 7y ago
That is true in the US, but not to the same extent in all countries. In some respects Google is more centralized than national governments. It’s possible to have a future where it’s easier to move countries than to avoid Google completely
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by alex_c 7y ago
I’ve always been curious - what would you say was the driver internally behind the legendary “Blizzard polish” back then? What made that happen?
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by alex_c 7y ago
In context of that paragraph, that should be read as “Full democracy, of course, has always been out of the question [for Xi]”. What the author is willing to accept is irrelevant - the question is what is China willing to accept.
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by alex_c 7y ago
iOS review process used to be much much worse years ago - up to two weeks at worst. It’s much better now.
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by alex_c 7y ago
I generally avoid politics on HN, but: “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening” seems lifted straight out of 1984. A few years ago I agreed with you. Now I’m not so sure. https://www.bbc.com/news&
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by alex_c 7y ago
>the label’s metadata is always present and accurate Based on my tangential experience with this part of the industry... it absolutely is not.
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by alex_c 7y ago
Ideally pivot, if you have the runway. If the initial idea was way off it might be hard to pivot within reasonably short time/cost. If the plan is self fund - launch - show traction - get funding, then the "get funding" step
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by alex_c 7y ago
"What else would validating include, apart from interviewing users" Interviewing (prospective) users would actually be a good start. Some of the B2C projects I worked on did not do this until after launch. B2B - I've worked o
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by alex_c 7y ago
Oh boy! Which one? Startup #1: we did not recognize the need to bring in the talent we lacked (graphic design). We had an interesting but ugly product in a space where looks were important - had some traction but not nearly enough. Startup
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by alex_c 8y ago
Agreed... that’s why I spent yesterday moving all my expenses to a different system.
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by alex_c 8y ago
They re-added the accountant feature recently. I imagine they received major pushback on that change.
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by alex_c 8y ago
This is exactly how I feel about FreshBooks’ redesign last(?) year. Sure, it looks a lot prettier and I assume discoverability is better for first time users, but it feels overly dumbed down, information density is much lower, and common ta
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by alex_c 8y ago
Both games were among my favourites growing up, for very different reasons. I always wondered why a “sequel” was so different from the original - fascinating to learn the reason 25+ years later! I might have to fire up Dune I again. Unlike
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by alex_c 8y ago
I stand by what I wrote. The human mind is generally not that rational and literal, especially when scanning a long list of headlines. The brain sees "$2500", "a day", subconsciously makes a connection that $2500 is mor
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by alex_c 8y ago
Because "in a day" carries the implication "Man makes $2500 every day doing this one simple trick". That's why it's in the headline. "Man made $2500 doing X once, never to be repeated again" or &quot
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by alex_c 8y ago
A lot of tech industries seem to be winner-take-all, so aiming for 30% might not be a sustainable plan in many cases.
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by alex_c 9y ago
“Save that money to pay good talent more” The whole point is all that stuff costs much less than any meaningful pay raise.
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by alex_c 10y ago
Which parts of the interviews were you really bad at? How would you change the interviews you had so they don't reject qualified candidates? I've been interviewing a lot of developers lately, and while I'm fairly happy with
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This researcher programmed bots to fight racism on Twitter. It worked(washingtonpost.com)
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by alex_c 10y ago
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra

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