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by herval 4y ago
As any experienced interviewer will know, “I’m looking to explore new opportunities” is code for “I got fired” or “I’m not doing well”. You’re giving the interviewer full control over what they want to guess your issues are, so it’s usually
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by herval 4y ago
1 and 2 are now possible to implement, since 1.18 - I'm using this and it does save quite a bit of boilerplate: github.com/life4/genesis I'd love to see less verbose error handling too, but Rust's ? IMHO is not the
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by herval 4y ago
Lots of innovation came out of web2, from concepts that are ubiquitous today (tags, social profiles, the concept of a feed) to technologies that are very useful (nosql dbs, oauth, lots of web frameworks that were born due to the needs of we
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by herval 5y ago
What do certifications have to do with creativity?
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by herval 5y ago
I used to do this too, but it's a considerable amount of effort, and doesn't really prevent much: many domain hoarders/resellers know the trick, so they'll try to match other data they get from you, and sometimes build a
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by herval 5y ago
I'm a Millenial but I really prefer the GenZ mode, out of these 3. Boring UX is BORING.
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by herval 5y ago
Can you cite a couple of examples where it _did_ improve things?
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by herval 5y ago
Besides the equity, would you expect any responsibility differences?
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Ask HN: Cofounder vs. Founding Engineer
1 points by herval 5y ago|3 comments
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by herval 5y ago
This could seriously be a good commercial product!
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by herval 5y ago
I was in NY when this was launched. Long lines every single day. Totally worth it, yum!
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Ask HN: Stripe Atlas vs. Capbase vs. Firstbase vs. Angellist Stack vs. ...
5 points by herval 5y ago|0 comments
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by herval 5y ago
What's wrong with that answer?
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by herval 5y ago
I’m working on a Wikipedia meets HN meets social bookmarking site (plus accompanying mozilla hubs space) called xrpedia ( https://xrpedia.xyz ) Idea is just learning me some Web VR by building a site about VR that can be visited i
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by herval 5y ago
Building I live on has clearly fake reviews on their official site and loads of 5 star reviews with no comments on google/yelp/etc, offsetting all the resident reviews (1-2 stars). It's quite difficult to realize that, unless
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by herval 5y ago
I currently rent in a building from a big Private Equity/rental corporation (Equity Residential). Everything is purposefully low quality, common areas are terribly maintained (except for the areas they take prospect residents for a tou
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by herval 5y ago
> Defragging your disk prepares you to understand the concept of heap fragmentation later on in life uhhh no. Absolutely did NOT help me, or any of the people I know (many of which never got into tech, so don't even understand what
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by herval 5y ago
Palm Pilots didn't have folders :-)
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by herval 5y ago
File systems are not how "computers work on a lower level" - they're just a handy abstraction we (well, someone much smarter than me) introduced in the 70s. Like any abstraction, it's an imperfect and incomplete metaphor
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by herval 5y ago
Why "blame"? What's inherently great about file systems that _must_ survive generations? My father was a programmer in his COBOL years, and heavily user of text editors and all sorts of terminal-based systems in his job. He n
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by herval 5y ago
_If_ it's a money laundering scheme (I also believe a good portion of it is), then reason dictates it'll probably never go to zero (at least until it ceases to be a viable option, eg banned in the countries you use it). Which mean
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by herval 5y ago
Hubs itself seems a bit abandoned for ~1y. They laid off a large number of folks related to it back in 2020
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by herval 5y ago
I know :-) I constantly have to explain that
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by herval 5y ago
I know, that's part of what I try to tell people :-) it does require a somewhat beefy desktop/laptop though, and most folks are used to doing everything on their phones these days
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by herval 5y ago
I've been trying to get friends to join me on VRChat. Lower pressure than a Zoom call, and after a day of typing, feels good to just talk a bit from the couch. Of course, VR as a requirement has been a bit of a deterrent.
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by herval 5y ago
> I honestly wonder if the Fed knows that the only way out of the current predicament is to cause large scale inflation such that incomes and earnings "catch up" to asset prices. Playing the current situation forward a couple t
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by herval 5y ago
> what made that guy a doctor was bedside manner + being able to remember a lot of things That sounds like a lot of professions, engineering management included :-)
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by herval 5y ago
> it's a process of optimization within a solution space bounded by constraints By that definition, almost any profession - from surgeons and taxi drivers to construction workers and cooks - are all doing "engineering"?
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by herval 5y ago
I always, always quit bosses.
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by herval 5y ago
> This further reduces git to being just a means to an end: the end being able to just mindlessly push code over a fence and see it magically deployed. I fail to see how that would be a bad thing?

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