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by baron816 3y ago
Heard directly from impacted employees. 30 to remain of ~300 pre-acquisition. 98 laid off today. No press release, which is why I’m saying something, but you should be able to find people posting on LinkedIn about it.
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Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
1025 points by baron816 3y ago|614 comments
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by baron816 3y ago
We’ve known for a while now that it was going to happen, right? And that all those countries that are committed to phasing out ICE cars by 2035 are being way too conservative. Isn’t it estimated that within a year or two, you’re going to ha
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by baron816 3y ago
> 600 million You mean 330 million?
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by baron816 3y ago
Could be the case that it was found in the Pacific, or by an allied country and handed over/“liberated”.
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by baron816 3y ago
I think immersive experiences is the way to go. Imagine being able to experience a bunch of (idealized) historical events—celebrating Allied victory in WWII, walking through a market in Ancient Rome up to the Colosseum to watch a match, wal
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by baron816 3y ago
This was covered in a recent Plain English podcast: https://www.theringer.com/2023/4/4/23668556/myth-busting-wel... The evidence for the health benefits is extremely weak. It can help accelerate “recover
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by baron816 3y ago
This is just blatantly untrue. The changes were definitely not overnight. Not even close. You’re still free to write React in the old way. The docs were there for half a decade. If they had just made a different project, we’d still be talki
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by baron816 3y ago
> I was just surprised when I recently revisited it. You can STILL write React like you used to (with class components). There haven’t been any major breaking changes. The transition was very slow. It was only recently that they even cha
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by baron816 3y ago
Easy: “Tomorrow, I’ll be better. The day after, even better than that.”
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by baron816 3y ago
Yeah a high speed ferry of Fisherman’s Wharf > Monterey > SLO > SB > LA > SD would be incredible. I’d pay a nice premium for that.
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by baron816 3y ago
If you’ve ever wondered what would’ve happened if Nazi Germany had won the war and had become a Thousand Year Reich, Rome is basically your answer. Militarism, War, Genocide, Slavery—it’s all right there.
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by baron816 3y ago
Sure, but it’s just imbalanced in people’s diets, partially because of the cost differential.
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by baron816 3y ago
Partial shade crops include broccoli, asparagus, kale, carrots, brussels sprouts, peas…basically all the healthy stuff. Adding a whole second revenue stream to their production would make them more competitive with the unhealthy stuff (corn
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Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M(mcsweeneys.net)
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by baron816 4y ago
I live about two blocks from the WF location in the article. I went there yesterday for the first time in a few months. I would like to be able to walk there and pick up groceries, but it’s very intimidating to do so. You have to keep your
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by baron816 4y ago
It all comes down to housing. If you make it affordable to build housing, you make housing affordable. If you make housing affordable, then you make services affordable.
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by baron816 4y ago
Oh, yes, sorry my phrasing was ambiguous. Not buying the property but buying household items for the residents. Buying the property would be a significantly larger pivot for Groupon.
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by baron816 4y ago
I think I’ve heard that in China, there are lots of companies that do some sort of group purchases for large residential buildings. Ie they essentially do a big Costco run for everyone and they get a big discount. I’m surprised Groupon didn
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by baron816 4y ago
Schools might as well raise tuition to $1 million per year. I guess I that case, the ruse would become more obvious.
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by baron816 4y ago
Timeshares too I hope.
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by baron816 4y ago
I think this is the real “time to poop your pants” moment for AI. It’s hard for me to imagine an AI to build all the context it needs to do my job. But if it’s able to ask clarifying questions and build that context, then I’m not really nee
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by baron816 4y ago
It’s amazing how the narrative around college has changed in the last few years. We often talk about government policy changes to do stuff like prevent kids from having to deal with college debt. But its presence in the pubic discourse can
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by baron816 4y ago
Isn’t it strange that we still look upon the Roman Empire favorably? The basis of it was chattel slavery and genocide. They deserve to be in the same bucket as Nazi Germany.
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by baron816 4y ago
With the rise of generative AI, it's looking much more likely that it'll just be easier to build simulations of whatever we want (including taking a Star Trek-esque adventure around the universe) than it would be to actually go an
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by baron816 4y ago
I did a coding bootcamp in 2014, and couldn’t get a job afterwards. I spent the next three years trying to break into tech. I had tried starting a startup, failed at that, interviewed at a handful of companies, failed those too. At one poin
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by baron816 4y ago
I created this library that would allow you to put all your state logic into classes: https://github.com/baron816/use-structure
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by baron816 4y ago
I'm going to say it: news articles are bad (and always have been) and AI will make it better. The problem is that they usually provide too much context, or not nearly enough. So you either get bored reading it, or don't have the r
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by baron816 4y ago
How do you know it’s a business insider article? It uses “freaking out” in the headline.
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Ask HN: Where are all the tech company closures?
10 points by baron816 4y ago|10 comments

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