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by gedrap 11y ago
I think it's more about a situation when you are 'omg I want to work at THIS company' rather than 'I just need a job'. You can get enthusiastic about one company and get something done about it. Following the Patric
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by gedrap 11y ago
Absolutely. When I was at my first job after the university, yet to learn about office politics, how things work and large companies, hyped up by the recruiter and all that stuff, I genuinely thought 'OMG so many things could be done b
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by gedrap 11y ago
While usually I'd agree with your snarky comment, I am genuinely curious about this too. It's not some yetanother.js hacked together in a night but years (decades!) of man hours. What's pushing them and stopping from giving u
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The ethics of consulting for the tobacco industry (2005)(andrewgelman.com)
1 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
>> We like to think that we're solving hard problems (and actually, on HN, we're more likely to be), but most companies aren't. A large amount of software is literally just a CRUD form and a database. I think it's
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by gedrap 11y ago
This is an interesting example of what might happen if you think that the things which are the most frequently mentioned on HN are the ones which are the most commonly used in production/industry :) It's a bit dangerous bias/
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by gedrap 11y ago
I found it fairly odd as well, then checked the domain, insideairbnb.com, what the hell? Sounds like some corporate blog domain. But no, it's not. Tiny yet frustrating detail.
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by gedrap 11y ago
I think there are plenty of reason for this, and the question should be 'why open source the original code rather than having a clean start without all the dependencies and ugly things that accumulated over the years?'. Once it&#x
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by gedrap 11y ago
It's totally true for things like spotify, where you can easily stream thousands of songs just in the background every month. Imagine how silly it would be if you had to make sure that spotify is closed when you leave your computer on
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by gedrap 11y ago
I'd assume it's to keep things easier, especially for a young company. It should be much easier to deal with publishers when you can agree on cost per view, rather than trying to work out some magic subscriptions share model, like
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by gedrap 11y ago
I remember seeing this project more than a year ago (I believe it was call dat_science back then). >> We can infer a shift from GitHub to alternate services soon from this, unless they change. Nope. People are lazy. Will a lot of peop
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by gedrap 11y ago
But wouldn't it be much more convenient (largely because of the complexity) to have the complete backup solution at the same place (i.e. DO)? Obviously, you want some offsite backups rather than completely relying on DO but that should
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by gedrap 11y ago
Agreed. When you actually need to restore something from backup, often you need a fairly recent state. Hours or days ago (and not 7 days ago). Having something 7 days old might be useful in some cases (especially e.g. DB dump) but it is far
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> Dropbox signed up 13 large companies with more than 1,000 users each So let's say the average employee count is 2k and they negotiated to pay $100/user/year. 13 * 2000 * 100 = $2.6M. Even if we double the average
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by gedrap 11y ago
After giving more thoughts... Yeah, credits certainly have a bad reputation so you might lose some credibility from the user point of view. In addition, if you have tiers of credits (so you have 3 distinct credits, rather than just replacin
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by gedrap 11y ago
I see, sorry for getting you wrong. Meanwhile in Lithuania, it's fairly typical that the majority of people working in retail are in their 40s and been doing that for the last ~20 years with very minimal increments in salary (usually b
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by gedrap 11y ago
It certainly adds some cognitive overhead to the user. I think a solution might be buying credits, e.g. you have bronze/silver/gold credits, and each article could be priced at 1 bronze/silver/gold credit (because the pr
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by gedrap 11y ago
Flagged. Wondering, how many people, who voted on this, have actually read it and found it to be valuable.
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by gedrap 11y ago
While I see your point (and I agree a bit), it's not exactly fair to put it this way. There are many people working in these industries who didn't have much opportunity to get decent education, etc. For example, my parents. They a
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by gedrap 11y ago
On one hand, yes, absolutely. We have much better than the vast majority of the people and there are times when it doesn't feel right to complain about it. On the other hands, it's turtles all the way down until you reach "we
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How does a segmentation fault work under the hood?(unix.stackexchange.com)
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> the point of near-human levels of learning Argh, these days, AI is like NoSQL a few years ago. The magical buzzword taken to an extreme level. When do you think it will happen, the point at which AI will overtake most of the jo
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by gedrap 11y ago
Vice made a short video about them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXleyHhi6k
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Alexander Litvinenko: the man who solved his own murder(theguardian.com)
38 points by gedrap 11y ago|4 comments
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Building Data Pipelines with Python and Luigi(marcobonzanini.com)
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by gedrap 11y ago
Fair enough. In my experience, "no one was ever fired for buying ibm" kind of thing is very strong in the interviewing. Why are you asking these meaningless questions, that don't give a chance to demonstrate any relevant know
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Yiwu: the Chinese city where Christmas is made and sold(bbc.com)
19 points by gedrap 11y ago|1 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
On a related note, Bugs Ahoy is a similar project for filtering issues in Mozilla projects: http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ there's 'Simple bugs' facet at the very bottom. E.g. simple and unassigne
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by gedrap 11y ago
While it looks like a nice exercise in front end JS, and looks cool, does it solve any problems? Do users actually need some more abstraction layers on top of Google Drive / Dropbx, etc? Either I am getting too sleepy, or they didn&#x2
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by gedrap 11y ago
Well, you ARE in the network right now. On HN :) networking doesn't have to be physical.

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