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by bsimpson 1y ago
> “I’m 43 and at a crossroads, where I can either be almost done or just getting started,” he tells me. “There's a scenario where I'm basically done. Airbnb is very profitable. We've kind of, mostly, nailed vacation rental
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by bsimpson 1y ago
This concept has been floating around for a long time. I think Motorola was pitching it in 2012, and I'm sure confidential concepts in the same vein have been tried in the labs of most of the big players.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Google gave out the HTC Evo at I/O in 2010, which was what got me to switch to Android. At the time, it had a much bigger screen than an iPhone and gave you more control over the device. It could play Flash games/apps, and let yo
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The TypeScript team was in Munich, and then became the Python team. The new TypeScript team is in Mexico.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
> She treats engineers as commodities in a way that is dehumanising, reassigning people against their will in ways that have no relationship to their skill set She's not alone. Another exec fired the entire Python team (many of whom
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I'll never forget how jealous the Dutch coffee shop owner I met was of Americans. Dude worked at a bank - respectable white collar job acc. to his Dutch friends and family. He picked up a passion for coffee and wanted to open his own
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by bsimpson 1y ago
This 100% sounds like an id software game. (Also, it's 2025. Why does HN still scrub emoji?)
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Most of my exposure to LLMs has been through GitHub's Copilot, which has that same interface.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
They also charge like $20 just to play as whatever licensed character in their game. If you wanna be able to play as Batman or Mr Meseeks or the dog from Adventure Time, that's $60 already.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Tim's a selfish businessman, whose interests just happen to align with the public interest in this instance. He makes excuses about Linux market share when asked why Fortnite isn't on the Steam Deck, then ships a build for Windows
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The Register has a reputation for being playful with language.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
FWIW, Bill Maher met him, and said his public persona is an act.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Jon Stewart talked a lot about this on Monday, both in his monologue and interview with Chris Hughes. If you were thoughtful about economic policy and truly believed a trade war was the solution, you'd prepare ahead of time (e.g. by st
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I had hoped Trump getting elected the first time would trigger a wave of voter reform. Instead, it just made it trendy to be constantly apoplectic.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
There's no ethical ambiguity about serving garbage to malicious traffic. They made the request. Respond accordingly.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I graduated college in the late 00s, and this was already considered a trend then. Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit were famously based in SF; while companies from the Google-Facebook era centered in the South Bay. There was a sense that young
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Isn't that already how insurance works?
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's a crime that were compelled to concede our 4th Amendment rights in order to travel.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've been at Google for 10y and include that time in my anecdote.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I feel this way about remote work. I've been working in tech since 2008. Nobody ever cared where anyone worked from. I've spent many summers digital nomadding. Then, the pandemic happened and some reporters started writing artic
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Oh shit - I never thought about the privacy ramifications about the death of paper menus. I get that it's more eco friendly, and that it allows each dish to have more space for a photo and detailed description; but I hate the experienc
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> In fact it feels very much like they're using this as an opportunity to push the median average age and compensation level of their staff down. They're doing exactly that, veiled in euphemisms like "making our talent po
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I hated that an aux cable cost $30 (back when $30 was $50). I also loved that I knew exactly where to go to get an aux cable, or any other random component I might need.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
In NYC, even if you walk in to a restaurant with open tables, they'll often insist on taking your number before you can be seated. It goes through a platform called Resy.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I smile whenever I see the RadioShack logo on my solder and soldering iron.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
127.0.0.1 means "self" in IP. Presumably that means that it if you browse to your IP address from your computer it will work, but from your phone it will not. I usually do the opposite - 0.0.0.0 - which allows connections from an
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Ruth and Fiona aren't Patrick and Laszlo. It feels like there was leadership turnover in the late 2010s where "conventional company" people assumed the reins of power and started managing it like one. The founders are complic
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by bsimpson 2y ago
If you globally install the npm module dhost, you can run it from any directory (`dhost`) to start a webserver there. Python 2 had a similar function (`python -m SimpleHTTPServer`). I know there's a Python 3 equivalent, but I don&#x27
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm glad it's been deservingly downvoted. It was at the top of the comments when I saw this hit HN, and it pissed me off to see a trollish shitpost in that position, especially when the post is about the community losing an awesom
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by bsimpson 2y ago
A potentially unique feature of Google (at least pre-pandemic/McKinsey) is that it cultivated communities of people in a particular discipline despite being spread across the world. When I first met Adam, we were both UX Engineers. We

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