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by bfung 6y ago
A cynical take supporting the above: NLP in other languages can help sell better ads in those languages. You all can follow that chain of thought down to it's corporate conclusion =)
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by bfung 6y ago
He’s not wrong...
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by bfung 6y ago
Longest ad I’ve read in a long time! Well done and done right! =)
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by bfung 6y ago
If a student could go through all the soldering and programming involved, they should automatically pass some freshman college engineering course. Casio missed out on a new market for tinkers...
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by bfung 6y ago
Savage.
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by bfung 6y ago
My opinion is that the article is misguided in many ways. 1. A viral pandemic is very different than a major fire. Fires are visible and generally localized. To compare viral infections to fire catastrophes as equivalent is not understandi
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by bfung 6y ago
Bullshit.
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by bfung 6y ago
The crux of it is: “... it's just techies doing techie things because they don't know what else to do.” All the comments here, esp HN, should think about if this is even a useful app, before debating other stats. Will ordinary peo
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by bfung 7y ago
I hope a16z puts money where their mouth is. Investors can own and drive a lot of what "we" want.
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by bfung 7y ago
Nested for-loops go brrrrrr lmao! But #truth.
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by bfung 7y ago
It also depends on the level the GP is applying to. Is GP willing to take a L4 position although applied to be a L5? Of course usually that will come with comp expectations too.
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by bfung 7y ago
At this point, you should look out for yourself - why worry about affecting your employer if they’re the ones putting you at risk? If you have enough saved up, quit and be safer. That will signal to your team and they can make their own adu
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by bfung 7y ago
One of my favorites: https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard
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by bfung 7y ago
My snarky version of this is: ideally head of master is deployable (no regressions, yadda yadda). In reality, how many times has head master of master been broken and one had to rollback, and then had to scramble to find the rollback? Gitf
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by bfung 7y ago
Even if there was 75 million in the bank, what would they do with it? Burn it, keep trying to pivot, run out of investor goodwill when all the money is gone and nothing to give back? If Justin ever wanted to start another thing in the fut
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by bfung 7y ago
Kudos to shutting down instead of dredging on. It's never an easy choice, but giving everyone closure helps everyone to move on.
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by bfung 7y ago
Grandpa bfung said (paraphrased from translated Cantonese): “if your fried rice is the color of soy sauce, you’re doing it wrong - that’s the color of poop”. Just wanted to share some fried rice wisdom.
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by bfung 7y ago
It wasn't gmail -- it was google maps that really made everyone look again at javascript. Although MS added XMLHTTPRequest, it took something like google maps that pushed it further than anyone thought at the time to make JS a real th
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by bfung 7y ago
Nope. Just someone that is willing to use tools in addition to build tools to deal with data. Most who consider themselves software engineers only want to code and build new, not use existing. Mostly a mindset thing.
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by bfung 7y ago
Yep, another way to pre-market/pre-signal to investors. A pretty common story these days: 1. I built an X to solve Unicorn U’s problem. 2. Open source it, give talks on it 3. Leave Unicorn U and start a company based on X 4. ... 5. Pro
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by bfung 7y ago
I also ran the quiz several times and can reproduce your results. Science! I’m going to say the quiz is overtuned.
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by bfung 7y ago
Theoretically, a person could learn SQL by knowing relational algebra and still not know what a table is. Just sayin’.
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by bfung 7y ago
IANAL (I am not a lawyer) - but I think there’s a distinction here in that the lawn mower is going to be on private property, but having urls in the Internet is generally assumed to be public.
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by bfung 7y ago
Off topic: weird HN bug? I see this item on front page as item #12 and on the second page as item #39. The latter was posted 14hrs ago and former 7hrs ago (10:35am PST) — both have the same item id.
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by bfung 7y ago
It's more "art" than practical, but that's fine, I find it fun to read! The equivalent in English is like if someone wrote a programming language with Shakespearean english syntax and keywords: I have a function, t
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by bfung 7y ago
Without tone of voice over text, unsure if the suggestion is in sincerity or sarcasm. The article talks about micro services being split up due to fad as opposed to deliberate, researched reasons. Putting Kafka over the database also make
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by bfung 7y ago
Slippery slope here is, how far does one take performance first design? I’ve seen too many devs rely on caching as the upfront solution. That’s performance first design, right!?
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by bfung 7y ago
At the company level of conversation, the UI of AWS services isn't that big of a deal. The people with budget authority usually don't even see the AWS UI and have most likely never logged in.
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by bfung 7y ago
^^^ spot on. My thought while reading the article was how poor Google’s sales and customer support culture is across the entire company that has led to non-tech firms picking solutions with Azure and AWS who invest heavily on the support s
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by bfung 7y ago
> "I see no point in studying any technology, tooling than the toolings my organization" My personal take on this is that the opposite should be done -- study and understand the fundamental problems tech orgs have and know the

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