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5y ago
Are you writing fan fiction? Not sure I follow.
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5y ago
> Maybe they are just too busy making sure all new series are woke-i-fied to care about how this simple stuff works? Or maybe it's not as simple as you think? "Baffled" is a strong word. It's the same "baffled&qu
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5y ago
The usual progression is sitting. Just sitting. What your talking about is tech folks seeing the benefits of meditation and looking for shortcuts. If it works for you go for it.
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5y ago
This article is so badly written I had to stop half way through. The random double quotes makes it look like a high school student took over the WordPress installation. > This week, a group from the New York University School of Medicine
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5y ago
And who decides the split of profits vs. employee compensation? You? In most places it's the market. And these companies pay above market. Way above (double+) in most cases. If you take this idea, and apply it to say McDonalds, the rat
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5y ago
Hilarious. You act like they were paid minimum wage to do their jobs. They didn’t care about the money is very different from they weren’t paid good money. I don’t disagree that corporations will exploit you given the opportunity, but softw
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5y ago
> and still have fundamental, mission-critical issues at play that outwardly appear to be being ignored. The only place I’ve seen anyone mention these “fundamental mission-critical issues” is HN. My family and friends are Prime subscribe
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5y ago
Amazon’s LPs have built in tension. It’s explained away by saying be Right A Lot and judge which side you’re willing to give up.
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5y ago
Hello. Rewriting the requirements to be more realistic is lowering the “standard”. No one, anywhere has said we shouldn’t be doing more. This conversation is around gatekeeping by listing unrealistic minimum requirements.
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5y ago
> That’s more or less what John Carmack is trying to say here: The requirements aren’t being used internally as a strict pass/fail criteria before anyone is considered for the position. Then remove them? It says “Minimum Requirement
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5y ago
> - performance is comparable to go. sub 100ms response times are normal What does this even mean? What are your dependencies? What does your service do? Sub 100ms response times are the norm for many languages. It's replies like th
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5y ago
> This project seems very similar to Apache Arrow, if OP or anyone else is around to explain why one might be used over the other that would be great. Arrow is primarily a serialization format to transfer data between distributed systems
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5y ago
> The pilots are expert in flying and no doubt in-the-moment aerial observation; And the pilots say it's something they can't explain, and have never seen before, on the record. More than one account. The problem is the writer
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5y ago
A person without actual expertise dismisses numerous accounts by trained pilots who saw this first hand by Googling for YouTube explanations and calling these witnesses liars or incompetents. Does this person happen to work in tech?
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5y ago
And these people could have decided to keep that money or like her former husband spend it on 100 million dollar boats. She decided to donate it instead. That’s something to celebrate.
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5y ago
I can't remember the last time I was ghosted. The problems you listed aren't problems that I experience. I don't care what part of my resume recruiters look at. I don't care what they do with it. Sure, having metrics on
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5y ago
It's great you're able to do your work with only a laptop. Many of us require a few more things, since we spend 6+ hours a day working, like a quality monitor, desk and chair. Not only that, since we share our space with others (r
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5y ago
I understand what you're saying, and I agree to an extend. But this is a thread about the apology after these accusations were made public. Instead of the apology Ajmad gave, clearly stating that nothing was stolen would be much more b
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5y ago
Every time there's a thread on this I want to bring up the fact that Amjad still has not listed what this open source project stole. You cannot go around accusing someone trying to start their career (this intern) of IP theft and not p
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5y ago
> Just the tone of his writing seems, and the "one of most difficult interns" gives me gut reaction that he might actually be someone who tries to be pushy while being nice. You took a single sentence out of an entire article w
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5y ago
Incredible that a genius like Elon didn’t know this beforehand. More incredible that the BTC profits Tesla made turned their quarter profitable just in time for reporting.
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5y ago
What a perfect example of developers pushing for technologies they want to learn. A web application stack in the flavor of the month systems language for correctness! My eyes can’t possibly rollback far enough.
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5y ago
And it’s why YC doesn’t have the reputation it once did. Letting Sam bro up the institution wasn’t the best decision in hindsight as this incident demonstrates.
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5y ago
But you think this impacts a 20ms budget? It’s mostly trivia to get sub 20ms p99 in Go.
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5y ago
Not only does the manager have to have low empathy and questionable morals, they also have to get throwaway head count, collude with bar raisers to hire low performing employees, and they need to fool their directors. Like the OP stated, it
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5y ago
> I don't think VR will ever take over the world. Too many people get motion sickness from it and I don't think it's only a matter of more pixels/fps. To think they won't solve motion sickness (or N other teethin
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5y ago
> It hurts Facebook, but it hurts their competitors more. So it hurts Google and Amazon more? [1] 1 - https://www.businessinsider.com/google-facebook-amazon-were-...
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5y ago
I can only speak for software engineering: Hiring is extremely difficult and time intensive. I have a ~10% hire rate in over 500 industry interviews conducted. These were at large tech companies so they included 5+ people spending 3+ hours
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5y ago
Here are all the reasons why capitalism is inefficient. Stay tuned for our alternative and sign up for our mailing list. Replace capitalism with programming languages.
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5y ago
What systems are you working on? Many are held together by ritual, and deviating from the ritual causes outages. They’re very fragile in some form (deployment, change, infrastructure, dependencies, etc.). They won’t break if you follow the
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