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by dieterrams 8y ago
It’s typically implicit given the nature of the event.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
In addition to flaking, people are highly reluctant to commit. Which is to say, they won’t say yes or no until the last minute. This is just as rude as flaking, given that many occasions require headcount for planning.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Personally, I've found that taking a lot of pictures worked for me, in that comparison of the multiple shots I took gradually taught me what made for better photos. The downside is that I'm usually lazy/reluctant to delete th
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by dieterrams 8y ago
It is really not “racist” and “sexist” in the way that GP is claiming. But you’re either someone who thinks all instances of discrimination are morally equivalent or not.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
People who are paid well? Shared responsibility?
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Honestly, little of this makes sense as long as you still have to hold a device up with your hands. But I guess it’s a good way to iterate on AR software until they can release a set of glasses.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
The idea behind self-documenting code is that much documentation that would normally be required because the code is so poorly written, becomes unnecessary if the code was rewritten to more clearly express what it’s doing. It is absolutely
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by dieterrams 8y ago
If you option-click the green dot, the window will resize in the “classic” way.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Mind if I ask what team(s) you were on at Amazon? Looking to avoid the worst. I’m starting to get the impression, though, that if I want to be happiest as a Big Tech Co. engineer, I really just need to work at Google.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
My issue isn’t so much with having to influence people, but being in a situation where you’re always struggling against other people to do so, constantly being worried that a point you make in one channel will be repeated by someone else
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by dieterrams 8y ago
> Or do you actually care about the company having shares, perhaps because you like getting RSUs? That, and the (usually) better work/life balance compared to startups.
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Ask HN: What public tech companies have the least internal politics?
47 points by dieterrams 8y ago|28 comments
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by dieterrams 8y ago
> Coders are often under a mistaken impression that interviewers care about your answer. They don't. They care about how you approach it, how you think through it, what you do when challenged, etc. This isn't always true. Some
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Sure, but you might be surprised how many undergrads go in not realizing how common these are.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
You left out the combativeness, the fact that hardly anyone will read your work, the unnecessary inaccessibility of the field, the low pay of post-grad work and poor odds of getting tenure, and the academic equivalent of pagerank gaming to
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by dieterrams 8y ago
You seem to be getting downvoted here. I agree with you: the Smart Keyboard is fantastic to type on, imo. And it’s impervious to spills and crumbs.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
https://m.facebook.com/account/delete Use this link to delete hassle-free.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Honestly I think Jobs would’ve been all for dropping x86. They also derived an immense amount of value from the effort to move to x86, so it’s not like it was wasted.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
This is totally the norm in Silicon Valley / lots of startups.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Obvious criminality is not the same as obvious non-criminality. You seem to be getting pretty worked up about this. The reason I don’t think the claim is obviously untrue is because I believe the magnitude of wealth involved, and often the
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Google: anticompetitive practices, and the no poach agreement with Apple, Adobe, and Intel, off the top of my head. Berkshire Hathaway was investigated for insider trading, resulting in Sokol’s resignation. Four former execs of BK’s General
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Can you explain? It’s not obvious to me.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
I just don’t think saying “people shouldn’t let themselves be bothered” is at all a viable solution. Automated troll detection is clearly a hard problem, but I’m not convinced it’s unsolveable. Whereas getting people to not be bothered is,
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Trying to get everyone to not be bothered by trolls is a massive and neverending undertaking.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
GP said "basically electron tabs", as in the electron wrapper is functionally equivalent to a browser tab.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
I was hoping it referred to a singular, monolithic C++ class in use by Google, to which any new C++ code must be added.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> Austrian economics doesn't claim that short-term inefficiencies do not exist in markets, but rather that they are less harmful than attempts to fix them. They seem to assume this a priori.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> There seems to be increasing evidence that our abstract reasoning is built from the cognitive building blocks acquired by exploring the physical world as infants. If you’re not already aware, this line of research generally falls under
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by dieterrams 9y ago
I’m being slightly tongue-in-cheek, but what history can be researched or delivered in human-digestible form where the histories of the delisted at the scale you’re concerned about wouldn’t be so lossily compressed as to amount to roughly t
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by dieterrams 9y ago
I’m sure any future historians working on a scale where these delistings would be relevant would be working with tools that would be able to do the equivalent of a content-aware fill on the missing data.

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