brchsiao

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by brchsiao 11y ago
Social creatures like being valued. What they don't like about being objectified is having everything else about them disregarded. I hope it's not callously dismissive to ask: what new, surprising thing does this article tell us a
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by brchsiao 11y ago
If you're interested in Python and Lisp, Hy ( https://github.com/hylang/hy ) is great. They're welcoming and funny.
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by brchsiao 11y ago
What do you find tone deaf about it? I'm unable to extract this message from the essay: "No, really, my girlfriend was around to be the work mom and handle the social stuff!" It reads more to me like "despite all she&#x2
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by brchsiao 11y ago
Please reread the essay. She was not "a girlfriend with an English degree" he "brought on to handle marketing." > Y Combinator is fundamentally a nexus of people, like a university. It doesn't make a product. Wh
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by brchsiao 11y ago
While "a few winners and a whole fuckin' lot of losers" applies anywhere, the difference, the article says, is that in this case the losers have a lot more potentially malicious power over consumers, and you never want to be
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by brchsiao 11y ago
The main protest here seems to be that fixing what unions break inevitably benefits capitalists while cheating the worker. I'd genuinely like to know: what's the best example of an industry disrupted in this way that left workers
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by brchsiao 11y ago
Of course they're all IRC users inadvertently. That doesn't add to IRC's popularity. If Twitch disabled IRC and switched its chatrooms to some ghetto socket.io app, most of its users wouldn't know. > Of course they
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by brchsiao 11y ago
The discussion is about users who use IRC directly and consciously. Many of Twitch's users have no clue what IRC is. Imagine a new social app that used SMTP in its implementation. You wouldn't bring it up in a discussion about the
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by brchsiao 11y ago
Being powered by IRC is not the same as using it, in the sense meant here.
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by brchsiao 11y ago
If I may allow myself a guess, possibly the line of thought at livecoding.tv, given the other examples of banned users on your site, and given the lie about the cron job, is that these are merely moronic, worthless customers you're ali
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by brchsiao 11y ago
The unfairness of this makes me rather sad. A handful of YC companies make mistakes out of >800. Why the need for a snide remark toward Jessica?
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by brchsiao 11y ago
So the cron job turned out to be an invented lie told to a user they essentially assumed would be too stupid to think about it. Which is it then, that they e.g. have a tired support team using a canned response that includes a lie? Or is it