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by ativzzz 6y ago
Honestly, it's just part of the game. If you want a job at a company, you have to play the game of interviewing. > My interest in the role is it matches my experience This is a great reason to want to work at a company. "I spec
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Having any kind of subscription payment massively increases complexity and support requirements in your app.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
You mean like the CE logo that marks products safe in Europe? Chinese companies are practically faking it: https://www.ybw.com/vhf-marine-radio-guide/warning-dont-get-...
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> didnt become cancerous Ultimately any platform big enough becomes cancerous unless it has sponsors who are willing to fund the platform without turning a profit, like HN is funded by ycombinator (though notice how over time there are m
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> The phrase "don't feed the trolls" is well-intentioned but it's difficult to scale the message when so many people are online and can witness and partake in minor and major conversations alike. I wonder if it's
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Interesting article, and of course we don't know the reason for decrease in trust. Is it because the media is lying more, or because the people have better access to information and thus are realizing the lies of the media? That's
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Because the question is hard, and there are so many answers, you can twist those answers and that data to support pretty much any viewpoint, and ultimately this is the problem with having too much data at our fingertips.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Everything in life is an engineering problem until someone makes a breakthrough/discovery at which point it becomes an ethical, moral, political and financial problem.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Pretty sure this was a motivating factor in the re-organization from Google to Alphabet.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
The people who share your sentiment are a tiny minority, like IE users.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> To me this is the main reason that going multiplanetary or space habitat based is basically the only way to escape this inevitable doom I disagree with this. Leaving the Earth doesn't remove random acts of doom from happening, an
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Pretty sure that's what they were saying in the 60s as well
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It's ruby but with extra steps
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Well it literally came from their marketing department per the blog post, so that's exactly what it is.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
I've been reading Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (19th century) and while some of the monologues are unrealistic, the general attitude of > We had the same exact wants, needs, anxieties, and petty egos back then. is exactly how I
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Nice way of thinking about things, though > The answer, obviously, is that neither of them are right I'd say both of them are right, they're just looking at the phenomena at different levels of abstractions. That's what ma
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> Read old books, preferably books published before the 1900s, it really alters your psyche to realise how different things were just 100 or so years ago. It's funny the author mentions this, because when I read old books I have the
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Rioters are almost always young. Especially now, when many young people are unemployed (Corona) or out of school for the summer.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> This works pretty well in Switzerland. Democracy that works in a country of 8.6 million does not scale up to work for a country of 330 million.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
From the posting guidelines: "What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Well now with remote work those people actually have job choices.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
The companies that own our data subsidize their collection of it. In other words, we get to use Facebook, Google, etc for free, and we pay them with our data instead of with money. When you own land with oil, you need to buy/rent the e
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> I'm disappointing none of these tech companies are acknowledging the happiness that comes from camaraderie and togetherness Exactly, which is why I work so I can experience camaraderie and togetherness with the people I actually w
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by ativzzz 6y ago
The companies that abuse work/life separation have been doing so without remote work and will do so regardless of the situation. Generally, these companies tend to pay more because if they didn't, nobody would do them. So just as
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Looks like he made his million on his successful startup (making him a successful entrepreneur) and then proceeded to start a non-profit, which by definition should not make him exponentially richer.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Every community has its rise and fall, and there is no one solution for all of them, but I still think without heavy moderation that fall comes much quicker and more violently.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Sounds like the school owned device needs to come pre-installed with a password manager then, at least for school related activities. > though best practice it may not be, "written on a sheet of paper, kept in a drawer" is in f
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by ativzzz 6y ago
I mean you essentially need to learn a pseudo language on top of math to be able to do that. The barrier to entry compared to writing pen and paper is much higher, and math is hard enough for a vast number of Americans.
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Computer literacy is not one of the topics covered by high school computer science.
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The same technologically incompetent leaders who manage failed software projects are going to be the ones to write these standards/certifications. The real problem is a lack of technologically competent leadership. Many of the skills r

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