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by hitekker 4y ago
The article’s “viewpoint” is backed up by facts. > Bankman-Fried’s parents became involved in the scandal when Reuters broke that the professors had been named owners of a $16.4 million vacation home purchased by FTX. His parents told Re
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by hitekker 4y ago
I like how this comment starts out claiming every language has zealots, then it says Rust disdains zealots, and then proceeds into Rust zealotry.
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There's a vocal minority who earnestly believe that because the internet obscures wrongdoing, it absolves all wrongdoing. Those people cheat, steal, lie, and then say "it's online, what's the big deal" to skulk away
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by hitekker 4y ago
Before I read this article, I was on the fence and didn’t know much about lambda tech. Now after reading https://mobile.twitter.com/fulligin/status/14526586408091975... , I’m much more negative. The CEO seems like
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by hitekker 4y ago
Nice try. The same question applies to you, since you’ve jumped from one comment thread to another defending a sketchy business in the midst of a downfall.
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by hitekker 4y ago
Nah, it's them. The drawing in the blogpost just looks bad compared to what you can do in Krita. Anyone aware of GIMP's history can figure out why the project goes in circles. History like how their developers "accidentally&
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by hitekker 4y ago
My point was that small minds use pedantry to compensate for insecurity. I’m sorry that it hits too close to home.
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Redditors often bemoan how comment threads are ruined by low-effort commenters making low-effort jokes. It's an easy, knee-jerk complaint that ignores the bigger, tougher problem of bad moderation. Subreddits are plagued by bad moderat
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by hitekker 4y ago
Eh, according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk , the admin gave credence to the stupidity by initially calling Roll’s basilisk “a genuinely dangerous thought". Later they all backtracked and
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by hitekker 4y ago
> This article doesn't do anything in the way of making psychology nor psychiatry more precise. This article is a lot of nit picking, in ways that look valid externally but would have anyone familiar with these things wondering why
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You're onto something with "innovation theater". Companies that overhired need to occupy all their new hands. Well-defined initiatives are already staffed so the extra's are thrown into big, ambiguous initiatives that ex
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by hitekker 4y ago
Some time ago, a Notion engineer was telling HN that their old principle of hiring slowly was blocking growth. This was around the same time Notion started launching half-baked feature like https://www.notion.so/help/g
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by hitekker 4y ago
Cronyism is a good word too! It's telling that the article didn't refer to it. Nor did it explain its harmful consequences, or strategies on how to contain it. I think if the author was direct instead of elliptical, his article wo
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by hitekker 4y ago
Another management article, another comfortable metaphor that doesn't say much more than uncomfortable terms like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepotism . The image of "a formation of enemies smashing through
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I looked into "Why Nations Fail" and it looks like it wasn't persuasive enough to survive the last decade. http://whynationsfail.com is a defunct website. I think Bill Gates summarizes the theory's weakness w
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The GP wasn't referring to "not my favorite technology choice", but instead for the tendency to over-engineer and invent complexity in order to maintain job security. That is, both a character flaw in an engineer as well as s
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by hitekker 4y ago
There’s two “just”s in the GP’s comment so I’m not sure where your snark is coming from.
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by hitekker 4y ago
In my experience, "Data" is just a devout reverence for statistics. It claims to be a science but, like other modern belief systems strays into trying to be the "source of truth & the end of truth". https:/&#x2
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by hitekker 4y ago
The comments of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28818829 touches on the concerns you've raised.
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by hitekker 4y ago
Ironically, this article against procrastination may itself be a form of procrastination. The author's current company seems to have fallen on hard times; its Glassdoor reviews indicate executive mismanagement. A situation that would e
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by hitekker 4y ago
Are there articles or reviews that mirror your view on Battlestar Galactica? I only watched bits and pieces and it never quite connected with me.
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by hitekker 4y ago
My friends at Stripe are calling it a shadow layoff. > In late June, as a last-minute addition to its midyear performance reviews, Stripe managers in departments ranging from engineering to marketing were asked to rate their employees on
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Wow, it looks like they even started a coalition with other wikis. https://zeldapedia.wiki/wiki/Community:Nintendo_Independent_... I wonder how this group will fare in 10 years.
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You should be fine. The GP seemed to have forgotten they're not posting on FB"s internal workplace.
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I think some employees are, to put it nicely, insulated from management changes. Like the ones that came after Gabe Newell realized little “flat” fiefdoms were sabotaging his company’s interests. https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-
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by hitekker 4y ago
Trust your gut. It's a public shaming campaign disguised as a history lesson. Glauber Costa is trying to seem welcoming in one breath and, in another breath, is sniping at the same people he claims to want to join. > We [Glauber Cos
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A boring management credo. The CEO talks big about his lofty expectations of managers, and says nothing about his standards for himself. Unsaid double-standards feed directly into the "politics" that he claims to reject.
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I think the GP is being patient. Instead of policing his tone, you should reconsider yours. It sounds like you’re upset for an unclear reason.
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You're being downvoted for pointing out the make-believe that we want to believe in. Like you said, the recommendations are fantasy. The author is unwilling to delve into the darkness within the game, so his solution is essentially &qu
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by hitekker 4y ago
People see what they want. That goes double for shows people don't understand but are popular for reasons they also don't understand. The article that OP posted, for example, is a shallow application of the Wire's insight ont

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