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by ativzzz 5y ago
You call it dysfunctional but I think it's just a communication technique to accelerate learning, like the author describes, that can be used in a plethora of situations and not just business meetings.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Outside of super simple examples like your sum, I've come across multiple codebases written in C/C++ that look exactly like that with shorthand variables and function names, and it makes approaching the codebase nigh impossible wi
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I agree with this, I haven't torrented anything in a very long time as most of things I want are streamable somewhere (and I don't care about file ownership), or set up for direct download on some forum somewhere.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
This is also because the women's team had originally negotiated a contract that prefers stable salaries over the higher risk-reward benefit that comes with winning: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/0
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by ativzzz 5y ago
The thing is, it's not simple due to the massive human factor involved. Ultimately, the vast majority of people need to deliberately be on board with HN guidelines and actively follow them for HN to remain as high quality as it is.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I think this is just because HN is getting bigger, and people downvote comments that don't necessarily warrant downvotes, and one or two downvotes will probably attract more people to read a comment and disagree with the downvote.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Political comments are very much allowed. The issue is how people present political comments. Most people present them in the same way they would on a subreddit for their particular political ideation, which is more akin to an echo-chamber
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by ativzzz 5y ago
apply to every remote only job you see and only to remote only jobs if you're a competent engineer it's just a standard job search
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Because we as engineers create software for our customers, and if you don't understand who your customers are how can you create software that actually suits their needs? Very rarely are we our own customers
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by ativzzz 5y ago
We've been normalizing artificial happiness for millennia with alcohol and other drugs, it only makes sense for humans to continue experimenting with such things.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> McKinsey's oil division could work just fine if it had 0 pharma consultants Their oil division would be much smaller, or possibly insignificant without the other divisions because the of the total "power" the company has
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I work as a database engineer at FB. Do I contribute to the issues FB causes? not really. I work as an accountant at FB. Do I contribute to the issues FB causes? Not really. I work as a product manager at FB that isn't a "problema
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> "No ideology allowed." Is an ideology itself, it's contradictory.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
How on earth can FB > invest the money globally over two years to ensure metaverse technologies are "built in a way that's inclusive and empowering," when they can't even build their current platform to do that?
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I'm so jaded that I think she will get off scott free
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Hard disagree, particularly when non-technical people are involved. Most I've worked with are awful at organizing, labeling, and just generally managing large amounts of data scattered across a bunch of files (something we do daily as
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Should it be up to social media companies to integrate controls for people who lack self-control into their products? Should alcohol companies include a BAC meter on each bottle to determine if you can drink from it? Should casinos allow yo
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by ativzzz 5y ago
For #1 it's the same because the content on each page is dependent on reddit's algorithm, which may change by the time you load up the next page (maybe reddit has some caching that prevents this), so if you link page 3 to someone,
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I live next to a private school, and they did not close down at all. It's a pre-k - 5th grade school and the kids have been wearing masks the whole time (still do) even at recess. IDK what other measures they have taken, but they certa
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> Remember the days before forever scrolling on Reddit? Yea it was awful. Pagination is an optimization for faster page load speeds that has nothing to do with user engagement. Sure some people can get caught in the doom scrolling, but f
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by ativzzz 5y ago
sounds like bitcoin mining without making money
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I think the problem is that there is a pretty narrow set of highly technical people using Gemini, the kind that exists on so many other communities on the regular web (like here on HN)
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> I'm curious what the author thinks about the navy seals Probably that it weeds out a lot of people with seen or unseen issues who would be perceived by society as lazy.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> deliberately, knowingly manipulative and deceitful I would argue that none of those traits correspond with laziness in any way. In fact, it takes a lot of work to become really good at these skills (for most people), and performing the
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Probably because the people capable of building that necessary expertise choose to go into more profitable and easy to access ventures, like software as a service, and I don't mean software developers.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> The problem, of course, is that this practice of having China, Inc. make everything used in this US is increasing reliance on an increasingly problematic country. The article mentions factories moving to other Asian countries as it&#x2
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by ativzzz 5y ago
Because the Apple software product model isn't built to be customizable by the end user.
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by ativzzz 5y ago
I assume you are a software engineer? If so, part of our job is to use a variety of software tools, since that's our specialty. The researchers are not software developers. They learn how to use one particular tool to do their jobs, bu
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by ativzzz 5y ago
What is "fair" treatment? Are different levels of negotiating abilities unfair?
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by ativzzz 5y ago
> They're consuming, not interacting. It is not lazy nor is it dismissive to suggest smartphones are largely devices that inspire consumption. This is also probably one of the reasons TikTok took off; it allows high quality content

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