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by eevee 11y ago
"Finally!" the marketers cry. "We know exactly who John Smith's friends are."
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by eevee 11y ago
Why would it be illegal at all? Facebook isn't a government authority.
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by eevee 11y ago
Of course it did; there was a big hullabaloo that led to some people migrating to it. That's not really a sign that they did anything right, or that they'll have similar momentum in the future. The same thing happened to 8chan, a
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by eevee 11y ago
In what language does "stalking and threatening and hurting others" translate into "people I don't like"?
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by eevee 11y ago
Reddit is rank 32. Hacker News is rank 1,859. Bulbapedia, the Pokémon wiki, is rank 4,101. Voat is rank 25,171. I don't think I understand your definition of "huge success".
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by eevee 11y ago
English translation: "I want to be as big a jerk as possible and blame it on everyone else when they don't like it."
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by eevee 11y ago
This is inspiring and encouraging, thank you :)
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by eevee 11y ago
I wrote it because it was what I wanted to write, not as a formal teardown of the tech industry. You may notice that I didn't submit it to HN.
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by eevee 11y ago
I'm fully aware how lucky I am to be able to pull this off. (I don't have nearly enough saved to actually retire on, though.) Knowing that other people have it worse — or even that I used to have it worse — doesn't make it
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by eevee 11y ago
Whispered rumors of Yelp's business model have been greatly exaggerated. In almost four years I have never seen anything within the company to substantiate them in any way whatsoever.
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by eevee 11y ago
This resonates, definitely. I don't "care" about these problems in the sense that my heart can't really be in them, but they are still blinding obstacles for me and my coworkers that I would like to resolve, and it&#x27
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by eevee 11y ago
I used a couple emoji. Snag Symbola: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola.zip
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by eevee 11y ago
I'm not exactly a social butterfly, so from my perspective I've been getting much more out of my job by not having to work in an office.
44.
by eevee 11y ago
Phew. I was worried for a moment that making the world a better place would be really hard, but it sounds like the GP has set a really low bar for me.
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by eevee 11y ago
Ah, interesting! Useless in the same way pain is useless, then — not very helpful in the moment, but it sure teaches you what to avoid in the long run.
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by eevee 11y ago
I grew up on the Internet. I've only ever worked on anything remotely — my job, miscellaneous FOSS, my own things that happened to attract a few collaborators. I met all my closest friends on IRC. I still manage to care about prob
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by eevee 11y ago
Thank you! I'm glad you found something simultaneously worthwhile and profitable. Here's hoping I can do it too.
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by eevee 11y ago
I understand the math, but I feel like debt is a huge weight on my shoulders. I grew up with parents who were constantly in more debt than they could handle and constantly reminding me of it. I would rather not be anywhere near that situ
49.
by eevee 11y ago
I was (well, am, for now) working remotely. I've always worked remotely. I couldn't stand doing otherwise. Still drives me up the wall. I would suggest that maybe 8 hours a day is too much (France has a 35-hour week and, as I
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by eevee 11y ago
I am definitely hecka privileged. What would you have me do? Keep working a job I don't enjoy, out of guilt that other people have to do the same?
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by eevee 11y ago
I crunched some numbers, and the difference came out to losing a couple grand a year over the course of a decade by paying it off now. I decided I'd rather have fewer bills and no debt looming overhead while I figure this out than the
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by eevee 11y ago
I do also have some pre-existing savings; I just don't want to use them if at all possible (and have to start all over, sob), so I've been deliberately pretending they're unavailable.
53.
by eevee 11y ago
I am absolutely terrified, which is why I didn't quit six months or a year ago.
54.
by eevee 11y ago
I'm doing something with a huge financial impact, so I wanted to talk about how I was dealing with that. I deliberately left out actual numbers, but I don't know how to be any more tactful than that. Sorry.
55.
by eevee 11y ago
Is it really "the industry" if I'm not running a business?
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by eevee 11y ago
Be sure to check back in a couple months. :)
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by eevee 12y ago
i was kinda following you until that last part, where "not getting more favorable treatment" spontaneously mutated into "getting less favorable treatment"
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by eevee 12y ago
If you can offer me a more effective GamerGate blocklist, I'll gladly switch to it. Or if you could make GamerGate stop being so repulsive, that would be even better. Why are you criticizing a solution to a problem you don't have
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by eevee 12y ago
So if it's documented, it's not a bug? Oh man I'm about to save so much time.
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by eevee 12y ago
much appreciated.

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