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by ctvo 5y ago
The people most capable of taking the action items are assigned it. This could be expertise, resourcing, proximity, etc.. In an open discussion of the root cause, many times the issue is across multiple services / organizations within
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by ctvo 5y ago
Do I have this correct? - You complained to customer service about shipping speeds to a low population area - Customer service refunds your Prime Subscription with a bonus ABOVE your purchase price - You emailed jeff@amazon.com and got it e
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by ctvo 5y ago
> I think the web tends to get hit the hardest by that because if a company is targeting the web for an "app" in the first place, they've already chosen cost savings over performance and UX Or it could be they're cho
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by ctvo 5y ago
> I dont think Apple is all good and Facebook is all bad, but in the aggregate Apple does do more for privacy than Facebook and Facebook does want to know as much as possible about your life to push that into selling ads. The article was
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by ctvo 5y ago
It isn't about how the salary compares globally. It's about how does this compare to their peers. The asymmetrical nature of information available to employees vs. information available to the company generally leads to employees
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by ctvo 5y ago
> This is not Apple’s fault This is a lot to unpack. Let me narrow it down here: - Developers submit app to AppStore - Apple scans it, manually reviews it, certifies it meets security, privacy, and quality guidelines - Apple allows users
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Let's not pretend that one greedy billionaire is the good one here. Who's doing that? If Apple's AppStore isn't protecting users, why not let there be competing AppStores and let users decide which serves them best?
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by ctvo 5y ago
Who is arguing otherwise? It's assumed that when a language adds a new feature that's historically been provided by libraries, it's probably better optimized. CompletableFutures, Streams, Date/Time. For many they've
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by ctvo 5y ago
When I say infer I mean from analysis of retail trends, pricing, and supply data. They don’t need to raid your AWS account to know that USB cables are profitable.
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by ctvo 5y ago
> I think Karpathy at Tesla has basically unlimited funding, Tesla's R&D spending in their earnings report was ~1.5 billion. That's a small number for unlimited. To contrast, their competitor at GM, with a significantly sma
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by ctvo 5y ago
And we think they need to risk the lost of business of breaking into your data on AWS to get this information? They somehow have no other way to infer this? How much business is this thriving Amazon-made products line? It's a fraction
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by ctvo 5y ago
Let's put it in terms of business. What does Amazon gain reading the data of retailers in AWS that they don't already have? How much more money would this make them? How much brand damage and lost of business to AWS (their most pr
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by ctvo 5y ago
Your whole series of replies has been "Docker can do whatever they want, don't like it? Uninstall!" People are sharing their opinion on the direction of a popular software product. I'm confident they understand how to un
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by ctvo 6y ago
> I think it is pretty well established in the public consciousness that only the Apple AppStore can provide apps for Apple devices. I disagree. I think the public knows software is locked to specific hardware (Windows vs. Mac, Android
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by ctvo 6y ago
You reply hints at these <issues> when you allow developers to distribute their software but doesn't give any specifics. What is your specific issue with how app distribution works on macOS? Are you running into low quality softw
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by ctvo 6y ago
Maybe the regulatory move here is to ensure on each iPhone box and prominently at each Apple Store there's clear warning to consumers that paying 1,500 USD for a phone also means you'll only be allowed to use apps available from t
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by ctvo 6y ago
The problem with reality distortion fields is they last a short amount of time. Tesla’s is already losing power. You have to deliver regardless of the hype, and frankly, Tsla hasn’t. Elon’s gamesmanship to maintain access to capital so he c
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by ctvo 6y ago
> But I do note that your examples are from quite a narrow sector. TypeScript, Go and React are all languages. TypeScript is a nice facade over JavaScript, and React is ... well, a very powerful DSL.[ß] > ß: Our frontend team will pro
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by ctvo 6y ago
> I'm interpreting this comment is saying we think this is a "leak" and that it unprofessional to show off internal politics with our bosses. Yes, I think including an exchange with your manager in a commit message is a le
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by ctvo 6y ago
Makes sense, but: "Hey John, there are legal reasons preventing us from working on VNIC even in an unofficial capacity as IBM employees. I've attached a document outlining the company position as background. Let's chat more a
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by ctvo 6y ago
The ideal outcome here is the person was going to remove their personal email address. The author of that message could achieve it in a few ways: - Speak to the person like a professional and explain the company policy and give a little con
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by ctvo 6y ago
Without a need for money, I need to rely on this person's ability to be a professional out of the goodness of their heart. Nothing in that post or their previous work says I can rely on that. Frankly nothing in the post or their histor
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by ctvo 6y ago
I sometimes run into people who mistake the ability to Google well (a very teachable skill) with intelligence. They often work in IT jobs, and for all their lives have heard how smart they were because of stereotypes around computers, scien
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by ctvo 6y ago
Really the only comparable pain is my equally large penis. It’s a drag.
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by ctvo 6y ago
> but I am concerned at how "rotational" are such jobs surely manual warehouse work would be pretty similar in muscle groups used? It's outside of our imagination to assume there are different stations? Surely some walk mo
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by ctvo 6y ago
A lot of people on HN have very simplistic views of industries. I sometimes wonder how they're not all billionaires. Everything is easy, simple, *just* this one thing. You'd imagine they're out there killing it.
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by ctvo 6y ago
It's always been programming as a craft to create something of beauty vs. programming as an engineering pursuit to produce something that solves a problem. Sometimes they overlap, but folks like UCB, DRY, SOLID, TTD, whatever the oft r
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by ctvo 6y ago
Giving him the benefit of the doubt that he knows his own customers here. He said: > Most of our customers, if they have on-premises systems—if they're lucky—can store two objects in the same data center You said: > I don't
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by ctvo 6y ago
Bananas vs. Apples vs. Oranges
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by ctvo 6y ago
> But in fact, you can easily refactor an entire application and the output can be both type-safe _and_ have the behavior changed such that it no longer meets acceptance criteria. You're catching a set of errors (interface / ty

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