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by enumjorge 4y ago
> Mission succeeded, I suppose. Looks like it did although I really wish we didn't reward these type of brazen stunts to get attention. Outrage-baiting is still very effective I guess.
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by enumjorge 4y ago
I’d assume the parent comment is more interested in the in-person interaction than the content of small talk.
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by enumjorge 4y ago
We know how well that worked out for Google+
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by enumjorge 4y ago
> And today, we’re [...] opening it up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks. It feels like a mistake to make the big announcement for this, but not open it up to a wide audience. I
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by enumjorge 4y ago
I agree that shutting it down would likely backfire if the prof tries to shut it down too aggressively, but I don't know that I follow the conclusion that this is mostly a positive. There's some selective minimizing of the student
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by enumjorge 4y ago
> Slack replaces in-person conversations, which have the same deficits, and many of the same benefits A couple of disadvantages of Slack vs real-time conversations: there can be multiple Slack threads happening at the same time. On parti
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by enumjorge 4y ago
Sort of an aside question, but the article praises Hastings ability to execute: > To say that Hastings excelled at execution is a dramatic understatement; indeed, the speed with which the company rolled out its advertising product in 202
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by enumjorge 4y ago
You're forgetting the good developers who want to minimize the time spent dealing with issues or idiosyncrasies at the OS level.
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by enumjorge 4y ago
I’ve been making playlist for years, and I’ve noticed Spotify mangle songs on some of the older ones. Like one of my earliest playlist now contains a few tracks of super obscure jazz from the 40s that I’m pretty sure I never added. What the
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by enumjorge 4y ago
One of the most notorious examples of banning was that of Trump from Twitter. He went and built his own. I've seen news report on his "tweets" (or whatever they're called on his platform) as if they were on Twitter. Bann
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by enumjorge 4y ago
This feels like the tech news equivalent of eavesdropping on the couple sitting at the next table at a restaurant, and then concluding that because they're having an argument, their marriage must be in trouble. As you pointed out, it&#
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by enumjorge 4y ago
> But how is it better to sit at home making $0 than working and having an income? In one of the young couples in my extended family, the mom recently stopped working because daycare cost more than what she was bringing in. I’ve heard th
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by enumjorge 4y ago
If we ignore the low pay, physically demanding work, bad benefits and and unpredictable work schedule, then yeah I guess these jobs sound great for moms.
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by enumjorge 4y ago
I’ll add to the chorus and say that this was a wonderful post and the type of content I hope to find when I come to HN. I enjoyed how you explained certain technical concepts succinctly and using simple language. For example, as someone who
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by enumjorge 4y ago
> a famous enough person hosting their own instance So if the likes Obama or Stephen King want to move over to Mastodon their barrier of entry would be to complete this laundry list [1] or find a service that does this for them? Given th
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by enumjorge 4y ago
I believe there's a notice on the site for the cards saying the money goes directly to Trump and not to his campaign. I would double check but I already saw the video once and I'm still trying to detox.
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by enumjorge 4y ago
> I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" button on stuff he doesn't like. It’s amazing to me that despite despite several data points showing Musk would be capable of
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by enumjorge 4y ago
> That you must hate the person and nothing else matters... It’s funny you mention that because a lot of the alt-right’s success the past few years has been fueled by a pure, unadulterated hatred of anything deemed liberal or progressive
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by enumjorge 4y ago
Hopefully you wouldn’t market yourself as a free speech absolutist and make a big stink about censorship by the previous leadership, unlike Musk.
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by enumjorge 4y ago
> is a brand I wish more people would understand this. For people like Musk, his personal brand is extremely important and they spend a lot of effort portraying and selling a specific image. It is an important part of his success as a bu
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by enumjorge 4y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were able to in the 2020 to early 2022 job market. Today’s market will be a good litmus test to see if people with surface-level knowledge and limited experience can land $200k+ a year jobs in tech.
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by enumjorge 4y ago
Can you share more info on this? I want to read more about it, but a few google search didn't turn up anything.
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by enumjorge 4y ago
> Not many people want to trust an AI with spending their money or buying an item without seeing a picture or reading reviews. I wonder how much the decline in quality of Amazon's marketplace has affected other parts of the company&
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by enumjorge 4y ago
It's about the optics of some rando, with a half broken site that he's sharing publicly, claiming he'll "come up tonight" to help run one of the biggest sites on the web. Using a landing page creator like ConvertKit
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by enumjorge 4y ago
Well we know that after an ultimatum, enough employees quit that Musk is now asking some of them to come back. The number of employees leaving is also so high, that they're shutting down access to offices. There's also been report
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by enumjorge 4y ago
At first I thought paulg must have posted that weeks ago, but no, it's from yesterday. I wouldn't expect such a vote of confidence on Musk after all the data points we've received since he took over the company. I'm not
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by enumjorge 4y ago
Later in that thread he says he's currently in sales, but used to be a "self-taught infrastructure engineer". If you look at the site that he links from his Twitter profile you'll see a half-finished site made with a s
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by enumjorge 4y ago
Which other store? The only stores that matter as far as mobile goes are Google and Apple's.
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Isn’t part of shorting also predicting when the drop will happen?
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They’re original stuff is often so incredibly generic and uninspiring. They might have changed how they display shows recently, but I swear there was a period of time not long ago when the main image for a show would only have a single pers

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