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by freyr 8y ago
> it's less insane than popularly reported. So instead of spending time with your loved ones and living life, you sleep under a desk just to clock in your 12 hours at the office. Sorry, it doesn't seem any less insane.
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by freyr 8y ago
Or maybe it’s not? It’s an uncool company, an uncool eponymous social network, and a cool photo sharing app. https://engineering.berkeley.edu/2018/11/i-dont-really-want-... https://www.thenational.ae&#x
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by freyr 8y ago
You don’t need to follow the media or read the headlines to know that Facebook is net destructive. I’m sure the pay and work environment make it easier to ignore that.
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by freyr 8y ago
> An NSL compels you to say nothing. You can neither confirm nor deny anything Ordinarily, yes. But what if this was double secret NSL?
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by freyr 8y ago
Issue #4: Go to the Tables page, click a header on the example table, the entire page disappears.
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by freyr 8y ago
70 years ago, flying cars were just around the corner.
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by freyr 8y ago
The graphics are not great. They’re not bad, but they’re also not on par with most successful indie games. My suggestion, if you don’t insist on going solo, is to team up with an excellent designer.
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by freyr 8y ago
I don’t know anyone who actively hates Google. Most people don’t even think about it, even though they’re constantly using it in one form or another. People hated Microsoft. Remember blue screens of death? Clippy? Developing for IE?
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by freyr 8y ago
> That's how Costco survives and prospers in Amazon era. Target, as well. Their shipping and packaging is not on par with Amazon yet, but you always receive the product you paid for.
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by freyr 8y ago
> Yeah, that's part of the DoD budget. $4.8 billion / $639.1 billion = 0.75% It's a minuscule part of the DoD budget. A rounding error. The majority is spent by the army, navy, and air force. The biggest expenditure cate
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by freyr 8y ago
> Maybe just not my type Says the guy inspecting Slawek's markup.
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by freyr 8y ago
If there B2B quality control is anything like what they offer to consumers, I’m not worried. They cannot pull the blind eye to counterfeit garbage like they do to their consumers.
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by freyr 8y ago
Inverse square, in free space.
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by freyr 8y ago
Unless we radically alter the way the human brain works, there's no chance to "learn everything." We already know much more than any individual could learn in a lifetime.
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by freyr 8y ago
Do you give the heroin dealer the same consideration?
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by freyr 8y ago
Yes, if they’ve contributed to the opioid addiction of a few million people, they should bear some responsibility. Of course the distributors supplying the black market and pill mills should also bear responsibility. But if you penalize the
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by freyr 8y ago
> "due to rampant interference in the operation of the free market" But maybe in another sense, San Francisco is a product, and the feature it's selling includes rampant overregulation. If that's not a good business m
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by freyr 8y ago
Interesting fact: those two went on to create the search engine Google. You should check it out.
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by freyr 8y ago
If you define winning as safety, freedom, control, privacy, then I'd define the "big winners" as those who have made an impact by those metrics. If nobody has been impactful in those areas, there's a problem. That's
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by freyr 8y ago
Making Prince of Persia is terrific. I'd also recommend Masters of Doom, a book about the heyday of id Software. https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cult...
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by freyr 8y ago
> They're not after engagement metrics, ARPU, or stock valuation. You’re also not defining a winning criteria. What are they after? And who are the big winners?
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by freyr 8y ago
If I worked at Gatwick Airport, all my practice at whiteboards would finally be relevant to my job.
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by freyr 8y ago
I've always thought Python was a little too readable and obvious. I'm glad people are hard at work trying to fix that.
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by freyr 8y ago
Not really, if the amount of disposable income is the deciding factor.
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by freyr 8y ago
Zuck paid $19 billion for it and needs some form of return on that investment? You can't just lose $16,000,000,000 in personal wealth in a day and come up with a plan that maxes out at ~$1 billion a year in revenue.
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by freyr 8y ago
It surprises me that ad companies build their businesses around audiences who cannot afford $1/year for a useful service. I'm not suggested that people in poorer economies should be deprived of targeted advertising. It's just
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by freyr 8y ago
Bad comparison, Moby Dick never tracked your activity across the web and sold your data to advertisers.
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by freyr 8y ago
Regardless of whether OP is good at programming, it sounds like he might not enjoy it. To OP: you spent a couple years in college and got yourself a CS degree. Congrats. It is not an obligation to spend the rest of your life doing somethi
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by freyr 9y ago
> "patent trolling" Qualcomm generates a lot of IP, but don't they also implement that IP in their chipsets? Does "patent trolling" now just mean enforcing their IP rights?
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by freyr 9y ago
Despite the reputation of the Bay Area as a liberal and progressive region, the reality is that almost everyone who “makes it” here quickly changes their tune to “I got mine, now screw you.”

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