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by dreyfan 5y ago
If two people invent or discover a similar thing, independently, they’re both inventors.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Why did you settle for $58M in fines when Yodlee does the same thing but they very blatantly sell customer data, and as of yet, remain untouchable?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Absolutely, fundraising is often necessary. The problem is when it becomes the hallmark of success instead of simply a means to an end.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
There's a large body of people, particularly here, who measure success by how much money you can raise, and nothing whatsoever about actually running a viable business.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
PHP 8.x is very easy to install on debian by adding deb.sury.org to apt sources. https://deb.sury.org/
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I so look forward to the day when we have Google Cloud won't be supported past <a few months in the future>.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> and the output and results definitely show. I hope you're working for yourself or in a direct commission/profit sharing position. If you aren't, you should take that tenacity and apply it somewhere that'll benefit y
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by dreyfan 5y ago
And yet NKLA still has a $5B market cap despite the entire company being 100% fraud. Amazing. [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/nkla
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Oh I'm not defending the original talent whatsoever in regards to the cesspool, sorry that came out as connnected. I'm only saying they were responsible for making good games and all that remains is a toxic culture.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Blizzard hasn't produced a decent game in two decades, all the original talent have long departed, and now it's just a sexist cesspool. How about they quit instead of simply walking out?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Seriously? The charges in the admissions scandal had to do with mail fraud and bribery. Do you really think the American judicial system is going to get involved because some Google employees skipped a meeting by claiming they were Autistic
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by dreyfan 5y ago
You're misunderstanding You cannot do something like the following: "WHERE status in (...?)" and then ->execute($status_array) But you can pass an array of parameters just fine (to individually bound input placehol
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by dreyfan 5y ago
It’s staged just like the NFT auctions. Bootstrapping demand by fabricating a sale between two cooperating parties.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> and the economical implications of this. The average HNer has absolutely no clue the economic impact derived from invasive privacy tracking and the not-so-secretive data industry. It's absolutely massive across finance, consumer-f
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Zoom caps to 40 minutes and has an easy "upgrade now or this meeting will end" button. Very effective conversion tool.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Is "The car doesn't recognize a truck crossing in front of it so it drives under and decapitates the driver" still an open issue? What about the multiple instances where FSD drives the car forcibly into a firetruck?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
No shit. Nobody cares about net income. They care about how much consumer spend Amazon is losing during the outage. The total number above does indeed include AWS, which should be subtracted since it's not offline, leaving us with ~$34
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Amazon net sales were $386B in 2020.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> how do so many incompetent CTOs get into the ground floor of startups? You start a company, hire your buddy, and call yourself a CEO and CTO.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
The humans have been blindly copy-pasting from Stackoverflow for years, this simplifies that process. Especially for 10X remote engineers Copilot is a godsend.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> 2. I will not use or incorporate Amazon resources or information in the development, release, or marketing of my Personal Game... > 6. To help Amazon improve its products and services, I will use Amazon's publicly available pro
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Maybe a question is: what is today's hot tech? React, Kubernetes, Docker, GraphQL, Elixir You're absolutely right. So few companies are solving actual problems anymore. It's all a cyclical bullshit hype cycle with very l
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Avoid microservices entirely and you won't adopt 50 unnecessary cloud services and external SaaS platforms to help you manage those 50 services. If each business unit/domain has their own "monolith" it serves the same go
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Nobody needs cookies to track users cross-site. Cookies are just convenient.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
This is HN. It's a bunch of entitled mediocre programmers copy-pasting from stack overflow or automating the process via copilot. We're not talking about your average wage slave.
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Employers are generally paying for your output not the hours spent.
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Full-time remote jobs don't require a full-time commitment
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Microsoft is a $2T company, I feel like they could afford to do it right.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
luminati runs on holavpn which installs backdoor proxies on people's machines. that "user consent" is not actually known to the users but is buried in some terms & conditions when they're naively installing the &quot
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Up next: Someone will read this post, write an exporter, immediately find that Notion's system is handling authentication but not authorization, and dump tens of thousand private notion datasets.

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