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by arkitaip 5y ago
Therapy sounds like a good start to untangle what you're experiencing. Also, you work at a FAANG, for any reasonable definition of success, you've made it. You wouldn't be where you are if you weren't good at what you do
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That's amazing to know!
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If you can scrape together useful lead data you can sell it for marketing purposes. There are also people who scrape and sell sales data for sellers on e-commerce platforms like Amazon or Ebay.
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Not can, actively is. If you as as manager know that you have to fire x% of your employees no matter how good they are as a whole, you are always going to hire certain people just so you can fire them in order to protect your most valued pe
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Is there a name for this economic phenomenon where actors rather destroy goods than give it away or manage it in another, less wasteful way?
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> Thirdly . . you'll need patience. Because the magical under-2-seconds launch requires time for the car to be ready. With "Drag Strip Mode" turned on, you'll need anywhere between 8 to 15 minutes before launch, so th
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This is actual supported by Fitts' law, one of the very few laws in UX design [0]: "Placing layout elements on the four edges of the screen allows for infinitely large targets in one dimension and therefore present ideal scenarios
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The biggest surprise to me is that Dreamweaver is still alive and kicking.
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You have to be utterly delusional to make this comparison as a positive in the first place.
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It's the only async channel that works with all people as long as you have their phone number. Anything else requires that you use a specific app or network. Email is too formal for most people and, I've discovered, some people do
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Link is dead.
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Imaging all the telemetry, a/b testing, user research, design and dev work that went into this change only for it to not matter at all. We think of FAANGs as infallible but surprisingly often they fail at the basics.
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That's like making major code updates on a Friday afternoon after a really long and hectic dev cycle.
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I don't get the mindset where you finally ship but botch the launch marketing. The window of opportunity is so small and rarely comes back, that you really need to get the basics right, e.g. closely monitor launch posts, answer within
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At this point, Apple isn't just 12 years behind industry leader Waymo, they might be chasing a tech that's still decades away. I think it's infinitely more likely that Apple creates a non-self driving car that millions will b
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How long before employers start renting WeWork-alike spaces for their employees only to realize that they could cut out the middle men and run their own office spaces...
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Weird, I don't know a single country on the planet where customers are forced to buy electric cars.
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Thing is, shared hosting providers have offered web app installers like Installatron, Softaculous and Fantastico for many years. They allow users to visually install web apps but are still difficult to use and require lots of maintenance. I
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> Discover several new blocks and expressive tools, including blocks for Page Lists, Site Title, Logo, and Tagline. A powerful Query Loop block offers multiple ways for displaying lists of posts and comes with new block patterns that tak
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I love when news like this penetrates through the HN echo chamber where people legit believe that static site generators are going to take over WP any day now. It's a reminder that we all have blind spots.
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This is a tangent, but has any noticed just how terrible Netflix subtitles can be? Occasionally, when watching with family members, I will enable Swedish subtitles for English movies and sometimes it's as if they have worked on a diffe
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> But there will be ways around it. And suddenly with over half your email data at stake this is what both marketers and publishers will start working on in the coming months. Until emails are wholly plaintext there's always somethi
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I can't think of a single case. Most company websites can barely support the needs of their own organizations, often resulting in employees using SaaS to circumvent IT. Sharing a domain with a totally different corporate entity? Unimag
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How about the insane entitlement that many devs have when it comes to open source? Getting bombarded with requests and angry emails from people who demand free support and bug fixes can burn anyone out. I think Github can be a positive forc
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One thing I think N++ could do better is plugin support. The current UI feels very outdated and overall plugins lack the community that, say, Visual Studio Code has.
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I love Notepad++, it's the app I use most after Firefox. It's super fast, convenient and open source. V. 8 introduces dark mode, distraction free mode and many other things [0]. [0] https://notepad-plus-plus.org/do
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Maybe you are getting a/b trapped?
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"We use AI & ML, combined with human intelligence, to gather and analyze lots of data and information on your competitions." How do you use AI/ML if you don't mind me asking?
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Because it wasn't more important than any other thousands of decisions that Jobs and Apple executives made over many many years. This is just hack writing where the author tries to sell a made-up narrative instead of doing actual resea
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I'm so sorry to hear that, really. It's a shame you didn't find a better therapist, sometimes it takes a couple of tries before you find one that gets you. I hope you find a path forward where you have health and happiness.

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