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by coward8675309 6y ago
I haven't looked, because I would get too depressed, but I'm sure YouTube contains videos teaching people how to get rich quick by creating videos that teach people how to get rich quick by…
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I spent $600 on a PS2 from an eBay-based scalper in 2000. I can only imagine how much more organized and pervasive the practice is twenty years later.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
The paranoid conspiratorial tone of TFA is a symptom of what's wrong with the Internet and therefore humanity: > The big brands that are ultimately at stake (Sony, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD) all talk about “demand exceeding supply”. Oh
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by coward8675309 6y ago
What we're witnessing, mercifully, is the strangling of programmatic advertising. So much of the app install business — the thing that is most at stake to Facebook here — is in free-to-play games, which are going to be plummeting in pr
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I don't think Facebook is playing the long game very effectively. They and Google have more attention share of consumers than nearly anyone else, and they're going to benefit, relatively, from Apple's or the EU's or Cali
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Facebook is being sleazy, but they're not being hypocritical. In America, casting yourself as the champion of Small Business™ is nearly a time-honored a tradition among scoundrels as is wrapping yourself in the American flag.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I read the comment you just flipped out over as suggesting that the developers weren't tuned into to the current performative hypersensitivity and outrage that is fashionable among members of the American Left and those who pander for
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by coward8675309 6y ago
At the time of the intro of 64 bit ARM, the conventional wisdom was, "Pooh pooh, this'll just bloat your code and not offer any performance advantage whatsoever. How pointlessly stupid!"
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by coward8675309 6y ago
You're bringing issues of morality into this when it seems to me that the employees are more focused on self-interest and the accumulation and exercise of raw power while Google is preoccupied with public relations.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I don't know what general principles people are arguing for here, but the facts at the heart of TFA relate to someone laying down an ultimatum to an employer — "do these things or I'm going to quit" — and the employer re
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I don't disagree with you. I was at an adtech startup, and I had bright lines — no payday loans or for-profit education. Luckily we never needed to blur or cross those lines, but as our business evolved, the way I delivered my — and my
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Maybe works like Faust have deep resonance with people because we all make deals with the devil and are conflicted and make choices that balance not good vs evil or even evil vs some other evil but a whole menu of ambiguous options agains
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by coward8675309 6y ago
This makes no sense to me. If you don't believe in the raison d'être of a company, you should not join the company. There is no need to delve deeply into competing theories of the corporation. I'm willing to bet that even ove
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Das Tolle an Deutsch ist, dass es lesbar ist, während Englisch nicht.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
The exasperating thing about AWS is that it inevitably turns engineering teams into equities and derivative traders. Yes, all programming is about balancing storage, CPU, memory, network I/O against each other, but AWS introduces the c
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I don't pack a desk in my messenger bag: a laptop, pencil, and notebook suffice.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
The way I put this to clients is that you should own the bricks that your product is made of and not worry so much about the mortar. The bricks are the SQL queries, the logic inside the container images you run, the data stored in the table
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by coward8675309 6y ago
True, and filing lawsuits is not the same as violent, armed insurrection.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Maybe go find someone who subscribes to the NYT or watches MSNBC to hurl your unfounded accusations at. Because you’re not replying to someone who’s trying to grind you into dust.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
True. And people filing lawsuits is not the same as armed insurrection.
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by coward8675309 6y ago
As someone who voted against Trump twice, I am horrified by his attempts to cling to office. At the same time, I am also reminded of the people in my social circle as well as in the Lefty media who in late 2016 talked about how Electoral Co
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by coward8675309 6y ago
It's not clear to me that open-source-as-a-business-model was ever vibrant enough that it makes sense to say it has now died. Open-source-as-a- funding -model was surely a thing, but turning open source into a source of consistent and
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Docker, Inc. has the opportunity to be the NPM, Inc. for container images. How much did NPM sell to GitHub for? Less concretely, is there a business model for a low-level piece of infrastructure like Docker? Is there a business model for
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Here's a thought: Open source project contributions can function as a Veblen good. Made to display or assert status and to communicate that you produce intellectual property in such bulk that you can afford to give it away. Surely open
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by coward8675309 6y ago
While incumbent car manufacturers may or may not envy Tesla's technology, market cap, grassroots enthusiasm, et cetera, they so, so, so very much envy Tesla's ability to dispense with a dealer network. Auto reporters in the past
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Airbnb is a great example: While I love the company's product — I've stayed at Airbnbs dozens of times — the company does generate negative externalities, and the company has done what I'd consider shady things (mostly astrot
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by coward8675309 6y ago
What, so that thousands of HN readers in search of an authentic open web experience can trample them into dust?
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by coward8675309 6y ago
You've touched on something that irks me to no end — the tendency of many Elite Coder Bros to say things like, "Didn't you see my enormous headphones on?! Can't you see I'm coding — don't you realize I think
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by coward8675309 6y ago
I'm very much with you on this. Increasing standards of living are directly tied to a decreased cost of energy. Aside from property absolutely everything can be decomposed into physical or mental effort — energy [omitted at suggestion
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by coward8675309 6y ago
Any suggestions for alcohol-free things to do in Covid-era NYC after hours in autumn and winter when you live by yourself and have spent all day at your desk in your bedroom?

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