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by hcnews 8y ago
> There just shouldn't exist problems that relatively untrained eyes can spot and fix in short order. There exists no such thing, at least in the current workplace. We give importance to speed and agility (which makes sense) and thi
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by hcnews 9y ago
That was one employee? Articles like these have brought journalism over time, step-by-step.
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by hcnews 9y ago
+1, I have absolutely zero confidence in Zuckerberg and Sandberg. The board should ask them to resign and appoint new people (obviously the most extreme ask from this scenario). As a user, I want facebook to stick around and be more useful
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by hcnews 9y ago
Good for him that he isn't black in today's America.
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by hcnews 9y ago
I guess fullwsj.com got shutdown because of recent facebook limitations. Does the twitter referrer still work for wsj.com?
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by hcnews 9y ago
> Cryptocurrency is just high tech money. Crypto was referred to as drug/illegal money in its early days.
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by hcnews 9y ago
Nice, that was a good explanation for your stance. I am not supporting either, just liked the turnout. Obviously this isn't my usual kind of hn comment.
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by hcnews 9y ago
> In the moments before the collision, which occurred at 9:27 a.m. on Friday, March 23rd, Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum. Would've loved to know the exact moments we are talking
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by hcnews 9y ago
Fair enough, I added it in the flow of saying I don't work for Tesla. Removed it.
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by hcnews 9y ago
As someone who writes software (haven't ever worked for Tesla), I think this statement does provide some credibility. It probably means that the visualization system does understand such scenes and is able to navigate it. Ofcourse, thi
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by hcnews 9y ago
Proudness is quite an unimportant emotion when the betterment of human society is at stake. In fact, there are tons of examples where proudness leads to blindness (most probably close to 100% of the time). I personally explicitly try not to
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by hcnews 9y ago
I think one of the key points that has come out of the discussions in the last year or so is that the general public cannot trust Google or Facebook or any organization to keep its best interest at heart. Their needs to be better targeted g
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by hcnews 9y ago
Only in the US can actions regarding firearms be considered a political move. (Most of) Rest of the world sees it as a safety issue and is happy to give away their firearms.
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by hcnews 9y ago
This is because some of the successful businesses have learnt to build on their existing success. This is an evolution of previous generation of successful companies which mainly relied on working on one main idea. Now its become easier to
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by hcnews 9y ago
Ah I see, its git repository history. The 2 places I have worked at thankfully have other ways of visualizing this. I also don't view the different commits using git. Rather use a different tool like Phab etc.
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by hcnews 9y ago
What does this git command do? I have used git for a decent amount of time and still have never used this.
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by hcnews 9y ago
+1, was looking for these comparisons. Very vague article.
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by hcnews 9y ago
> Well, that—and, maybe, a pinch of Company-wide culture of sexual harassment. Source required (specifically about company-wide culture, x != entire company fwiw where x is the number you are claiming).
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by hcnews 9y ago
I don't think this is a true statement. Children can be pretty vocal about their needs. I grew up as an introverted child and refused to go to relatives/gatherings etc. whenever I didn't want to. My parents understood early o
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by hcnews 9y ago
Just consider this, Amazon refuses to sell (some) Google products because of their whims from time to time. Maybe this extends to other brands/companies other than Google that I haven't even heard about. Isn't this bad for th
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by hcnews 9y ago
idk I feel like the days of Uber fucking up are getting past us with changes in last 6 months. YMMV.
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by hcnews 9y ago
$300k per year income is pretty common for 5 years experience in silicon valley including stock grants these days.
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by hcnews 9y ago
I am quite surprised at 100x amount. In the enterprise industry, companies usually have set SLAs and amounts written in the contract for violating SLAs. Did slack really write in 100x repay in the contract or is it overpaying enterprise cus
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by hcnews 9y ago
Basically solve a small problem at a time (however uninteresting it is; a lot of things are uninteresting to me), never try to put the whole world in my head or continually come up with ground breaking stuff. I also realized that most other
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by hcnews 9y ago
I was at one of the FANG companies for 6+ years, joined right after graduation. However, I couldn't get senior due to me being naive (I have no ego, hence wasn't able to collaborate effectively with teammates, pissed a few off a f