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by aparsons 6y ago
Lived in India in the 1980s - going there on a spiritual journey (yes, I know) and stayed for a few years. When I left the country, two events had occurred for which I don’t think I’ll be able to see that country in a good light ever again.
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by aparsons 6y ago
When Zuckerberg is unhappy with your actions it means you’ve done something right. Keep it up Apple. I’m loving the new iOS update.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Took a look at the page - I haven’t cringed this hard in a long time
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by aparsons 6y ago
We achieved this at Hotmail 2 decades ago by trading latency for correctness. Publisher: do at least once delivery, but only up to the next k minutes. Each subscriber has a bitset of received IDs, filtering out redeliveries. Every 2*k minut
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John Allen Chau(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aparsons 6y ago
If I had a dollar for every WYSIWYG web dev tool that bit the dust, I'd be able to single-handedly finance this round. Before the downvotes: I get it. Webflow is a nice tool. So was Dreamweaver when it appeared. And everything in betwe
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by aparsons 6y ago
Bitwise manipulation question? How often is this done at a web company? Maybe at Microsoft it's more apt.
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by aparsons 6y ago
try billions* :)
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by aparsons 6y ago
Indira made one bad, expensive decision re the Golden Temple. How hard would it have been to simply lay siege to the place for an extended time without storming in? In many other ways, she was a great democratic force. One costly decision j
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by aparsons 6y ago
Resume ====== ... - Dropped 3 production tables, losing lead data worth up to $6 million - Designed O(n^2) solution which was fixed in six-person all-nighter a year later when our search p99 plummetted. ... I would interview someone that pu
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by aparsons 6y ago
Thanks for the perspective.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Since Drew referenced it in this article, does anyone actually know what is going on in China with the Uygurs? I can’t seem to find an unbiased source. Some of the stuff covered by the MSM sound horrific. I also have chinese colleagues who
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The Read-Only Memory Lane: From Sawnwood to Software(romlane.substack.com)
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by aparsons 6y ago
Thanks for asking. I am doing about as well as any old head could hope for. The market downturn earlier in the year made me withdraw more of my savings than I’d like (I try to stick to 3% annually), which was unpleasant, but could have been
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by aparsons 6y ago
You’re very welcome. Always nice to walk down memory lane to an exciting era for the industry. Fun office rumour from the time: MSFT offices were in Seattle, while most competitors were in California. Yet Bill and co always seemed to know w
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by aparsons 6y ago
Lot of people understood it was going to be massive. But they understood it as “doing X on the internet”. Just like everyone was making “Uber for X” three years ago. Yahoo was yellow pages on the web. Viaweb was shopping. Broadcast was rad
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by aparsons 6y ago
It’s possible. Steve Jobs said Microsoft lacked taste. But they were also able to build the Xbox, Zune, Surface etc. If they realized the internet was a consumer products, very likely they change the heading. From what I heard, by 1999 they
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by aparsons 6y ago
Steve hated it. Bill hated what it turned out to be by 1999 (I left around then). Dave Cutler hated it. Eric Engstrom saw it more as a defensive strategy. Microsoft poured an incredible amount of talent and resources that would have gone to
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by aparsons 6y ago
> "You'd have to sit in a meeting with Bill, and he's frighteningly brilliant. People throw around the word 'genius' all the time, and the way people say 'genius' is not accurate if you've met some
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Ask HN: How to build 'Startup-y' product / landing pages?
6 points by aparsons 6y ago|4 comments
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by aparsons 6y ago
You may also need to hire more people as you scale. With API-based billing, this is fine as you can still allocate a certain expected revenue per user as a cost. With head-based billing, what used to be a fixed cost now grows linearly, year
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by aparsons 6y ago
Vercel billing per-user is so head-scratching. I think it's a greedy billing strategy.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Tech in general - and Silicon Valley in particular - have an ageism problem. Let me explain. - If you entered the industry when you were young, you are fine. Myself and several colleagues/friends who started our careers in the 80s and
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by aparsons 6y ago
This seems like design flaw more than malice. Google services on entities that can potentially have an address revolve around Maps - restaurant, hotel, location ads all seem to join against their map data at some point as it’s impossible to
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by aparsons 6y ago
Why mention the Russian hackers? Aren’t they just hackers?
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Words to Watch(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aparsons 6y ago
This is brilliant. The simple solution though, is - don’t sign into personal account in a corporate device!
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by aparsons 6y ago
The Flag Antipattern
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by aparsons 6y ago
Facebook is absolute scum. Can’t believe they were the darling of SV just a few years ago. Quickly becoming clear after Moskovitz and the other cofounders left, Zuckerberg is an egotistical, power-hungry maniac.
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Why Would Someone Hire a Bootcamp Graduate over a Computer Science Graduate?(codeinstitute.net)
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