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by fsociety 5y ago
I’ll happily take my quiet, small, and cool MacBook and number crunch in a data center infinitely more powerful then your laptop. Guess that makes me a shiny iPhone idiot. Relax, no one is forcing you to use Apple products.
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Agree with this. To add, I think they initially tried to rebrand as a privacy/security-first company but that, IMO, failed because they didn’t commit to being a radically transparent company. Now they are trying to rebrand as something
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The lawsuit was really about FB converting H1B workers, of whom they already hired, into permanent US workers. They post a PERM position and then have to apply the H1B worker to it due to outdated immigration laws. They argued that a compan
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I agree with your general message and positivity but it is worth mentioning that Adderall, and stimulants, work differently in an ADHD brain vs. a neurotypical brain. The biggest effect I notice is not focus in a pill but instead a calming
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Nothing to fear, if you do have it your brain has always been this way so in a sense nothing has changed. That said a diagnosis can bring a lot of clarity, understanding, and help you form strategies to do better. If you seek evaluation, se
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In that case JavaScript is a systems programming language if you consider the web a system. Golang having GC and a heavy runtime make it unsuitable for systems programming IMO.
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Maybe, but the other side is that good software dev shops are hard to come by. Industry is filled with bad practices, overworking, bad management etc. I have had multiple companies to tell me to prioritize them over everything else. It can
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What do you mean? Public trust in the media is at an all time low. News companies almost died at the advent of the internet but came back fighting by drive engagement with emotions. Even documentaries like “The Social Dilemma” are guilty of
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This is the real value proposition, Ben Thompson has a lot of good articles on the good and bad of Facebook. Radio and TV ads are expensive because they can only serve one ad spot at a time. Plus, my understanding from friends in advertisin
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You have to calculate the amount of data provided from all users in this case + storage + processing power to do all of that. It’s probably more than you would expect too. The second point is why would a company do that? If the NSA or whome
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And what is the end goal of Spectacles? Surely to do more than just be exclusive for creators.
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The real money comment in this entire thread. Corporate incentive structures are messed up. Why does a corporation sacrifice principles and values over money. If they really care about the people they serve they would consider this seriousl
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Apple likely does not have engineers, designers, or execs in Russia… but they have Russian Apple stores etc. whom are all Apple employees.
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They do have policies against spreading misinformation.
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Right and now we are in semiconductor shortages because people adopted Toyota concepts in a non-Toyota context. In the mean time, Toyota adapted their own concepts to weather the storm of semiconductor shortages, for a short while atleast.
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US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with an r=0.99789126 to suicides by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation. Is that just a coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. The issue is, you hate FB so you are happy to jump to conclu
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I’d bet money that this is imposter syndrome at work, and that with a couple days of refreshing they’d pass interviews no problem. There is always variability, and I think good interviewers actually help candidates a decent amount.. so if y
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46.5h to interview at a company? I’m not sure why cream of the crop developers would tolerate that over 5h of interviews. That sounds nearly predatory.
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Because this is highly subjective, prone to bias, and isn’t a repeatable process when companies interview hundreds or thousands of people every few months.
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This is good solid math that I encourage everyone to think hard about, and that death rate is only going to go up.
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Huh? Most console games today aren’t exclusives, developers have the freedom to release them on any platform they want with little restriction, and there is no risk in a console maker refusing to let you sell a game and then they go back an
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by fsociety 5y ago
Goroutines make sense for Go, but it is a bit much to say goroutines > async. Nothing is free and in this case FFI hurts and boy does it hurt in Golang. Python strives off of C code.
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I disagree a lot. I don’t think using AWS Tenets was done nefariously.. but it has an important implication on the Rust community as a whole. Engineers are really relying on the Rust Foundation to do right by them, and by adopting Amazon or
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Time crunch, pressure to deliver while interviewing a large number of candidates, lack of feedback provided from the candidate, lack of formal guidance or training in what to look for, quality control over the hiring assembly line, sometime
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HN definitely has a darker corner of these kind of things. I find it hard to understand why people need to reflect their own values upon others in the form of judgement. But it outlines the importance of behavioral interviews.
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Your concerns seem reasonable and well-grounded, it’s just odd to insinuate a conspiracy of how these articles were released. It probably was a reaction but it a perfectly reasonable thing to do. WhatsApp is committed to being transparent,
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Rust is likely used more in industry than you think, you just have to look for it.
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Sometimes it is. In my experience I was expected to do less at a start-up but to do it well. Yes, I worked across the stack and often would find myself doing varied things but instead of stacking more on in a day, it was more like quickly s
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So much spin. I can’t visit the pay equity channel because Slack should only be used for business functions but I can go onto a dog related channel.
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It sounds like you are saying this is first world problems. Instead, for anyone else reading, I’ll suggest that making your own issues smaller makes it impossible to deal with them. Yes, people under the poverty line have it harder but it d

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