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by dunkelheit 5y ago
It is a strange thing, in theory what you say should be true, but in practice things were quite different. They could chase moonshots and try out crazy ideas but in practice they were working on small inconsequential problems with almost
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You need someone on your team who figures out what is important for the users and prioritizes accordingly. The arrangement where the person who does this also codes a bit can work (especially when the team is small and the application domai
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Mirrors my experience. It is almost painful to watch some of these washed-up OG engineers. I worked at a company that followed a similar trajectory to Google (scaled down quite a bit, of course) and there was a special team reserved for tho
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
I think the problem lies not with mixing politics and work (which can obviously be political) but in pressuring companies to engage in activism on unrelated issues. The problem starts with the slogan "everything is political" whic
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
People always bring Dropbox to these discussions as an example of a startup that was dismissed by HN but turned out to be huge, but turns out there are examples of the opposite thing happening too! Does anyone remember Color Labs? Go read t
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle It is not an axiom though, but rather an architectural guideline that comes with its own set of trade-offs and must be applied judiciously.
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> First, he clearly has too much skin in the game to be credibly neutral about it. I think this is a general and important point (and sadly not at all discussed in his post). When an expert publicly says something that seems wrong, my de
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
I think this rephrasing misses the mark a bit on the original concern. GP explicitly states that he wants Rust-the-language to remain as it is - close to the metal, no GC, with minimal runtime and 1:1 threading. The concern is indeed with t
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
> I've previously done robotics work which had many asynchronous tasks. I've used QNX for that, and I've used ROS. There, you have a lot of intercommunicating processes, which works but has more overhead. I wonder, why is
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Seems like discussing burnout and disillusionment with tech is a perennial HN favorite. I've bookmarked a lot of great threads and comments on this topic. Some of my favorites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22862
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
> Are these people who also made a ton of money via RSUs or Stock Options? If so, the answer is clear, right? They simply... don't have to work on things they don't care about. They have the money they need. Eh, no, the answer
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
To the first order this is correct, but don't forget that people are much more productive when the work is engaging. As a contrived example, suppose you waste a third of your time on some wacky things to make your work life more fun an
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Right there in the first article: > There was no immediate indication of Russian involvement in the release of emails that the Post obtained, but its general thrust mirrors a narrative that U.S. intelligence agencies have described as pa
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This complaint has nothing to do with teaching hot new python libraries. The thing is, data cleaning is no less fundamental than backpropagation. Maybe more so - learning algorithms come and go, but real-world data is always going to be inh
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words. I think you are onto something - the sentiment you describe runs deep, especially among older people. It is of course generously fueled by state propaganda with "see how they treated us " being one of
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As a Russian, I have definitely felt a change in attitude towards Russia fairly recently (since Crimea probably). Overall feelings switched more towards fear, distrust and annoyance that Russia is punching above its weight (wanting to be a
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
> Is that bad? Isn't that sometimes just the nature of having to prove a different idea in the face of another idea that may be proven? It isn't necessarily bad. Novel ideas should face a higher standard of proof than orthodox
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
This is close but not quite the same. Russel Conjugation is a play on the emotional content of the words, and I was describing tricks with statement attribution. But you are right, there are examples of Russel Conjugation too (e.g.: "A
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
> It's a bit ironic that you would say that, even as others have complained that the "subjective" presentation is just weasel words and fake balance, i.e. saying "Some people think X." when you really really want
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
One trick that I noticed that adds considerable amount of 'spin' while allowing the article to remain factually correct is to present positive things about the group as subjective - coming from the group itself (which paints them
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Yeah, the current situation is that because mainstream journalism are supposed to have 'standards', you get the product with predictable quality, but this quality is slowly but surely getting shittier. Blogs and twitter by contras
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20200620130623/https://slatestar...
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Yes, probably the age rating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Internet_Restriction_B...
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> You can be the beneficiary of a system and still understand that there are specific positive externalities of that system's partial failure. For example, a corrupt politician can understand why an anti-bribery campaign is benefici
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> I've never seen anyone make the argument that looting is helping the cause. What I have seen is arguments that acknowledge the 'badness' of the looting, and point out that the same arguments are not being applied to the
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> It's been a couple of hours She posted that tweet more like 11 hours ago. Since that time it has become somewhat infamous - I've seen it in my deliberately not-politicized timeline and separately here on HN. What is the chanc
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
> John Carmack's success is due to id Software incubated at Softdisk. The reality of that success, at least in the beginning, was an already established stream of revenue, a ready assembled team, and proper leadership. The brillianc
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
The problem with this way of thinking is that existing markets are probably efficient enough - meaning all easy ways to make a lot of money have already been exhausted. This means that any idea that you generate by encountering a problem an
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
The problem is not the absence of volunteers, the problem is that as the first wave of the epidemic recedes, most volunteers won’t catch the disease by themselves and thus will add no information as to whether the vaccine works. And challen
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Your product is already useful for a single isolated user. In contrast, apps such as tinder are essentially useless without a sizable existing user base. I'd imagine getting first users for a product that relies on network effects is o

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