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by aylmao 9y ago
My understanding is user activity and user data are distinct, and I'd imagine by now Facebook has enough user data that this might not be as huge a concern as when they were getting started.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Same with WWDC, I/O, or Build. Big tech's vertical integration always hits 3rd parties.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Someone once told me if I was gonna get into photography I should invest in good lenses, not a good camera body. Any body I got would get old. Eventually if I had money I could buy a better body. Lenses are forever though.
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by aylmao 9y ago
This is actually a very good point I didn't think about. By virtue of their size bigger companies tend to have higher stakes, which means less margin for error. I do wonder though how there's still large failures at big companies:
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by aylmao 9y ago
I mean, that'd be why. It sounds like she/he is not invested in work, so does less of it.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Interesting to think of the parallels of this and network architecture and/or distributed computing (though very different in terms of how work actually happens).
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Ask HN: Why are big companies so much less efficient?
156 points by aylmao 9y ago|108 comments
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by aylmao 9y ago
> downvoter: I'm not wrong downvoter isn't either, IMO
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by aylmao 9y ago
A muslim friend of mine suggested that I fast with her for Ramadan. I only did it for one day, but honestly it was a pretty interesting experience. I come from a country where skipping a meal is unthinkable and grew up thinking it was unhea
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by aylmao 9y ago
In the paper they mention he wasn't living off just fat. Gut flora is not hard to restore, and in fact people have to do it quite often since antibiotics take their toll on it.
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by aylmao 9y ago
+1. I'd like to add that there's businesses that just don't want to grow after a certain size. Where I'm from there's plenty of small businesses that will make enough the family that owns it and their employees, and
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by aylmao 9y ago
I'd be curious to see the methodology behind the rankings you speak of. EDIT: saw the sibling thread.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Ah gotcha, yeah that makes sense.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Wait, care to elaborate? I'd assume it's the other way around; people who don't want to see ads are probably less likely to click on them and drive revenue, no?
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by aylmao 9y ago
According to Stackoverflow's developer survey it is [1]. Doesn't surprise me since developing for web means JavaScript. Curious to know what rankings you are referring to though. [1]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com&
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by aylmao 9y ago
I suspect the example in the proposal refers to an object that doesn't match any of the previous options, but is still an object. For a default I'd expect there to be another pattern.
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by aylmao 9y ago
I'd argue we should strive to move away from the switch syntax where it's not necessary because it's verbose and has curious semantics [1]. As an example, this should work: switch(expr) { case 'foo': c
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by aylmao 9y ago
I'd also argue none are as important as JS. People can choose to not use Ruby, Python or C++, but if you're doing web atm you're pretty much stuck with JavaScript.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Love this comment; reminds me of what I thought when I first encountered pattern matching. a. Yup, that's what it's called in OCaml, Scala, F#, etc. Might be a little confusing at first, but it's all about finding a "mat
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by aylmao 9y ago
^ Probably correct, +1. I'd like to add that Android by default tracks your location constantly [1]. I recently got a Pixel and was staying in a hotel. Every night I came back to the hotel room it would ask me to rate it or upload pict
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by aylmao 9y ago
#2 is probably to jumpstart profiles, but also to have a more accurate representation of the social graph. If I sync my contacts and you show up there, and my friend syncs her/his contacts and you show up there too, assuming phone numb
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by aylmao 9y ago
You pose an interesting question actually, when is data you generate, "your data"? If the data is only associated with a browser fingerprint then I see the argument for it not being your data; it's just data. It's like s
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by aylmao 9y ago
> no growth + less revenue I'd argue it's more like *slower growth, which should be acceptable, especially at Amazon's size. Also, I'd in fact argue that making sure your employees have time to go pee wont significant
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by aylmao 9y ago
> Due to population increase the revenues would grow. When a company stops growing and increasing revenue its not keeping up with population increase and may as well be dying. I'd like to retort this because I think it's import
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by aylmao 9y ago
That's the problem with the current labour market. A job sounds almost like a favor, because it's better than nothing, but workers (should) have rights too. There will always be someone who has less and is therefore satisfied with
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by aylmao 9y ago
Yes, though that doesn't fix "the problem", only puts you on the better side of it.
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by aylmao 9y ago
> But I do already own some of the robots. I have Amazon stock in my 401k. That's what "the people owning the robots" looks like. Is it though? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't stock only generates value if i
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by aylmao 9y ago
I see what you mean, and I hope you mean it in the "playing devils advocate" kind of way, because implying the most reasonable thing to do is what makes most business sense is what's unfortunately wrong in this country.
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by aylmao 9y ago
Not trying to be combative! Just providing a counter argument. Although it doesn't directly and immediately benefit a company, doesn't having lots of buy interest keep the stock price high, which _is_ beneficial for the company in
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by aylmao 9y ago
AWS has pretty good margins afaik. They have the money to make huge acquisitions and invest in planes, drones, etc. They have the money to treat their employees decently.

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