ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
I interviewed at FB recently (didn't pass the in-person) and the one question I asked each interviewer was "tell me about the parts of FB I don't see" - because they have an odd hiring process where you don't figure
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm far from the group that thinks everyone not working is "lazy", but I can understand the situation: If you find someone that is legit being lazy (best examples are clear fraud with no mitigating reasoning) you feel outrage
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by ergothus 8y ago
Exactly - I'm trying to imagine being in his place and being open about all of this...and it's HARD. It's easy for me to want HIM to do it, but as much as I think being disgustingly wealthy would be great...I'm sure I&#
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm not sure how citing a single example counters my point, but I'll bite: Searchers aren't the customers of Google, and we have no shortage of stories on HN about Google abusing or potentially abusing their monopoly. To ret
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by ergothus 8y ago
> real selling point of JSON Is that really the selling point? I interact with numerous services that speak JSON...and most of them aren't written in JS. YAML and JSON both have to be parsed to be used, even by JS. Otherwise it&#
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by ergothus 8y ago
So substitute Amazon, Facebook, or any of the companies that people have many complaints with, yet continue to funnel their business to because competitors can't match the network effects.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> That says it all. Does it? Competition and survivorship have long been accepted as the premise of capitalism. What I find more disturbing is that we've been told competition will be to the benefit of the consumer, and this focu
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by ergothus 8y ago
Did they? Can you name the people to blame? If someone shows up with Instacart on their resume, is it hard for them to act like they were either ignorant or against the decision?
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> Furthermore, the fact that they have deep pockets is actually important. It means they reflect an important aspect of the economy, so ignoring their interests could also have detrimental economic effects. This embeds the idea that some
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Wasting your time on futile sentences like this tells me that you have more free time than you can handle. I have no idea what you mean by this, but thanks for adding to the amount of joy in the universe.
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by ergothus 8y ago
Because my reaction isn't based on Slack - it's based on my experience of nearly everything that goes public shifting to growth at the cost of user contentment. Everything gets loaded with ads, pages start offering me solutions
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm in my early forties, and I've been having the same worries you list the whole time. And the answer (for me, so far) is....it's complicated. I definitely think I have a harder time processing new ideas. OTOH, I have a l
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by ergothus 8y ago
> It’s never the end of the world with vendor lock-in. I think that's a matter of scale. Using Oracle for your counter example isn't very persuasive, as that's a huge vendor, so there's a market to extract you. Not
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by ergothus 8y ago
My primary uses for slack are the searchability, and the multiple workspaces connected through one client, which Discord hasn't offered me, though I might be missing features.
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by ergothus 8y ago
...and my confidence that Slack will continue to be useful and a good experience for me just plummeted. Does this mean something is wrong with our market, or just my expectations?
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by ergothus 8y ago
> just a low tolerance for bullshit. How about "just a low tolerance for what they perceive as bullshit"? It seems many such people perceive things like manners, respect for other people, and anything that doesn't push the
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by ergothus 8y ago
> with much smaller and more recently developed countries. I'll give you that European countries are smaller, though in this case I don't see the relevance (talking about trains, sure, talking about major AIRPORTS - doesn'
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by ergothus 8y ago
I was completely distracted from your point when you mentioned the "foxy twin" of the "stillborn child". I know foxy had a double entendre here, but...uh...disturbing choice of words.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> This ruse solved my support team's problem. Having places where I don't recall if I have an account, and if I do, which of my email accounts it was registered to - this solution would actually make me happy. I recall running
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by ergothus 8y ago
>> which have no answer > There is no meaningful answer to your question Didn't I say that? Didn't I point out that the ATTEMPT to answer was valuable? >> Is this how I want things to be? > because all of existe
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by ergothus 8y ago
> And it would never make sense to make a robot that is leery of being turned off, because maintenance is essential. How many humans avoid necessary health care out of fear, up to and including the point at which their delays reduce thei
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by ergothus 8y ago
> There's nothing deeper to uncover. For me, at least, you're coming at it from the other direction. I'm not really asking "why" in the "how did this come to be" - the answer to that is rather self obvi
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by ergothus 8y ago
> this is how I always reasoned about the "human-centric" focus in this context. I can reason it fairly easily - I'm disturbed that I never even considered the questions
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by ergothus 8y ago
When I was in some philosophy classes in college I developed my "theory of bullshit". Basically, when I'm reading your work explaining your theory, if I go through two full pages without encountering a new idea, your work is
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by ergothus 8y ago
Leaving aside the literary purpose for the moment - when I go back and look at them now, some multiple decades after I first read them, I see a massive human-centric focus that I never did before. WHY is a human life more valuable than a r
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It's worse when they are right though. I wish I could say that had not happened to me.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> the rich, powerful and elite are also not responsible for anything either? Just individually? The distinction is that money provides opportunities, poverty is the lack of them. You can hold the wealthy responsible for what they do with
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by ergothus 8y ago
Nothing. Sure, INDIVIDUALS are at fault for a variety of options, but if you're looking to blame the poor as a group for something, you're using the wrong criteria, since it's a status that has no direct mapping to choice.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm not an economist. I understand the theory that capital gains being taxed at a lower rate is that we want to encourage investment - putting capital where it will grow more jobs/more needs being met by companies. I also understa
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by ergothus 8y ago
I think people are taking me way too literally here - Your company uses toilet paper in the bathroom. No one suggests that you have no extra toilet paper on hand. Instead, someone says "we use 3 rolls/week on average" Dumb

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