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by exhaze 4y ago
You can be both. I used to identify with author. Then I was forced to get into "sales" (dating, pitching a startup, hiring, literally sales, etc.). I think it's good have basic competence at both and not develop this IMHO odd
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by exhaze 4y ago
> Q: Just show me some interesting careers that most people don't know about > A: Sure! Have you ever heard of UX Design? Just share the prompt so folks can actually get help. No need to spend time on bubblewrap monetization
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by exhaze 4y ago
What was wrong with 1/2/3/4 for key binds? I played CS 1.3 -> 1.6 professionally in 2000s, never really saw folks do this.
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by exhaze 4y ago
Former Uber engineer - had friend who got "randomly" banned in ~2016/17 and I investigated. Sadly, it's likely the same story as back then, and same story as you see with other large tech companies - false positive fraud
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by exhaze 4y ago
Totally agree. But then it’s more like brand-driven marketing - people literally typing your URL into their browser. Brands take a long time to build. New companies don’t have a brand so they kinda have to go at it along the SEO route, espe
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by exhaze 4y ago
I think is article is written from an eng/design perspective and thus fails to address business realities. Example: “product pages are way too long” Product pages are long because longer pages tend to perform better at SEO. Furthermore
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by exhaze 4y ago
> average reporters of that period, with a decent patronage; just documenting things on paper as they hear/research/study it; without the intention of publishing for widespread readership. We don’t really have that anymore thou
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by exhaze 4y ago
By the way, here’s a thought that worries me - where does “let’s all become good deep structural thinkers by writing a lot” break down? How will we know it happened? What do we do then?
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by exhaze 4y ago
I kind of stumbled upon writing by accident. To me it’s not about ability to get things done (thought it helps). It’s about feeling some semblance of control and structure, something I think so many struggle with in the past few years (Trum
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by exhaze 4y ago
Folks here mentioned that the core point is not about the need to the importance of reading, but the importance of writing. No, it’s really about becoming better at deep, structured thinking. I think that’s quite a good thing to focus on. T
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by exhaze 4y ago
"Every line, every casting decision" restated by Jerry back in early 90s, literally from the get-go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0TE_xXjp-0 As someone else said here, he did also give credit to rest of team
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by exhaze 4y ago
I think Garry changed my life in 2013 and might be reason why an awkward inarticulate engineer got into YC. He believed in my me and my cofounder. To me, Garry is one of the people that embodies the spirit of YC. See some kind of potential
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by exhaze 4y ago
To balance out my parent negative comment, I think the semi recent release of browser VS code on GH web (just press “.”) is awesome. Just wish the PR review experience would get more love.
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by exhaze 4y ago
There is “should” and then there’s what people actually do. Do you suggest that parent commenter should now go and change their policy on comments to solve this real immediate issue? If not that, do you have practical advice for parent? Par
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by exhaze 4y ago
No explanation about why. No name for blog post author. No gradual rollout I think? Was this ever a beta feature first like most other things? Compare to Stripe product releases where people who built it are instantly on HN, responding to f
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by exhaze 4y ago
Let's let the person who actually did this for the past 18 years decide how they want to feel about it.
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by exhaze 4y ago
I’m really disappointed that you would take such an antagonistic stance towards what I said and twist my words. I am not a saint. I never said I was. You, my friend, are also not a saint. I suggest you make arguments based on things you hav
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by exhaze 4y ago
I’m glad you had the determination to do something like what you did. You sound like a better person than me. Keep doing what you’re doing - need more folks like you who actually walk the walk.
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by exhaze 4y ago
I literally left Uber and moved to Japan. Mostly because I could not stand inequality I saw in SF and US. Did feel like Uber wasn’t great for full time drivers as well and it bothered me a lot and always on my mind. So I did that. You ever
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by exhaze 4y ago
Disclaimer: at Uber 2014-2018 Travis has not been CEO for 5 years. Based on this article, what do you want the people who actually presently work at Uber to do?
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by exhaze 4y ago
I agree with your sentiment. It's magic until it isn't. When something breaks, you need to often need to dig into the implementation and understand how everything works. This becomes harder and harder when there are more and more
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by exhaze 4y ago
> they don't first explain the problem they are solving I think you're right about this and the "hero text" on their landing page should explain that in one crisp sentence. I imagine the authors of the project just ar
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by exhaze 4y ago
They actually do right in the hero section of the landing page. For me: - fast (very important) - Fully Typed APIs (very important) Just those two points would convince me to try it and I can see it right away on the landing page. At my com
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by exhaze 4y ago
Just wanted to say that I spent several hours on this today and had 4 amazing conversations. Used safari mobile whole time.
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by exhaze 4y ago
Please read the article. It has a whole section called "In Defense Of Scrum". The author of the article was personally involved in a situation similar to yours and addressed many of the things you brought up.
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by exhaze 4y ago
Periodic liquidity events
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by exhaze 5y ago
The goat has to be sacrificed at an Equinox gym for that to work, duh. Why do you think they call it spring equinox ?
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by exhaze 5y ago
I wonder if it’s something like the “bozo bit”? Once you see one Waymo car doing something that looks unsafe, your entire perception of “Waymo car” becomes (nearly irreversibly) lower.
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by exhaze 5y ago
Can you give some examples? I feel like perception of safety will be a big adoption gap. What made the Waymo cars appear more natural?
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by exhaze 5y ago
Age is implied here. The author isn’t comparing the Silent Generation to the Baby Boomers. They are comparing two successive generations, which by definition, have an age gap.

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