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by iamcasen 10y ago
I've experienced this at just about every single non-startup that I've worked for. Basically, once the company is big enough that you don't know everyone who works there, the evil actors and back stabbers emerge. Especially w
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by iamcasen 10y ago
I'll be real with you. I worked at Uber for a while. I never noticed any sexual harassment while I was there, but what I did notice was that the company culture was quite excellent until the number of employees got up to 1000 or so. It
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by iamcasen 10y ago
Deregulation has allowed strong players to capture more wealth. I think you have it all backwards. Causation is not correlation, however, at the height of taxation and regulation, the middle class was the strongest ever. That has eroded sin
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by iamcasen 10y ago
You're comparing mechanical automation to AI which is a false equivalency. AI will be adaptable, creative, artistic and entrepreneurial. THAT is why they will replace humans in the work place. THAT is why this is not the same as the in
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by iamcasen 10y ago
The innovation behind deep learning and neural networks has allowed for driverless cars, among many other things. The switch from programming AI's how to think, to teaching AI's how to think has been revolutionary. With these adva
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by iamcasen 10y ago
I always find it funny how polarized the world is about drugs. Why is nearly every culture against it, with the exception of mostly indigenous tribes? I can't really imagine it's for any other reason than to have a firmer control
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by iamcasen 10y ago
robocop is nigh!
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by iamcasen 10y ago
What OP, and everyone in this thread don't seem to understand is that Uber has waaaay more up it's sleeve than a mere taxi app. Uber has more data about traffic patterns in every major city they operate in, than any other entity,
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by iamcasen 10y ago
Uber only uses subsidies when trying to break into new markets to expand. If they stopped expanding, they would become profitable rather quickly. Many of their losses were due to the turf war in china, which is now over. They have a 20% sta
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by iamcasen 10y ago
Your funnel is so spot on it hurts. I made it all the way to number 6, and boy let me tell you, it was a shit show. People being strong armed left and right, people suddenly not showing up to work, and management offering a memo like "
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by iamcasen 10y ago
I'm surprised there is no love for nuclear-js in this thread. I personally didn't like redux's approach, but I understand where it's coming from. Nuclear-js feels heavy-handed, and there is indeed a lot of boiler plate,
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by iamcasen 10y ago
Please checkout Hound/Houndify https://houndify.com I used to work there, and I can definitely say that are working hard and fast at becoming a non-walled-garden platform for voice. The voice capabilities are still lightyea
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by iamcasen 10y ago
I felt the same way after living in SF for 6 years. I moved up to Portland, though they probably find me to be an annoying migrant too :/
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by iamcasen 10y ago
You hit the nail on the head. There is real wisdom in your last sentence, and it's something I've come to know recently. In the end, it is unlikely that all of us will have an impact that goes beyond our local community. What is t
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by iamcasen 10y ago
Right, and it's not because Trump is a republican. That's what people keep missing. Trump is a man who has openly incited violence against ethnic groups! Called for the deportation of muslims. He's called women fat pigs, and
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by iamcasen 10y ago
Exactly! Up until this week, presidents had to be... well, presidential. I'm truly astonished that a demographic who is normally very outraged at moral missteps voted this man into office.
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by iamcasen 10y ago
When I lived in Sweden, I noticed a lot of the 2nd generation immigrants from the middle east behaved very similarly to black and latino people I knew from back home in the US. Very different styles, petty crime, boisterous behavior that st
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by iamcasen 10y ago
I definitely want to look into mobx now. Just thought I would throw out there that I've been using Nuclear-js/Immutable.js and it has a lot of the benefits you mentioned. All the data manipulation logic is encapsulated nicely, and
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by iamcasen 10y ago
Uber and Lyft have had to tackle so many legal issues already. Drastically improving and modifying how they deal with drivers on a daily basis from both an operational and legal standpoint. If what the article says is true about google vett
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by iamcasen 10y ago
Crazy that, though this is so widely known, nothing has really changed in the last 100 years. Instead, wages stay stagnant, and cost of living rises. Hours needed to survive increase. It's all so illogical, it's crazy.
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by iamcasen 10y ago
I think his point about Yelp was more that THEY CONTROL all those new choices you explored. Yelp becomes the gate keeper that restaurants and bars must appease in order to show up in their list that you are looking at.
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by iamcasen 11y ago
Are you me? My life seemed to slowly "fall apart" after college, and after I began working in the full time world. From the outside in, I am a wonderful success. I have a great job, enough money to be comfortable. I travel, I hike
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by iamcasen 11y ago
While I agree with what you're saying, I think the point of the article is lost on you. I don't think the author was implying technology has us "drunk on our screens.", but rather, the ability of technology to act as a b
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by iamcasen 11y ago
Yes it does. That's one of the main features.
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by iamcasen 11y ago
Soundhound programmer here: We just haven't developed that domain of knowledge yet. The natural language part of things can absolutely understand that, but the underlying base of understanding hasn't been developed. For example, w
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by iamcasen 11y ago
If you have an android, we can definitely get you an invite. Not sure if hacker news has a PM system though. Not sure if you wanna publish your email in here.
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by iamcasen 11y ago
Do I know you?
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by iamcasen 11y ago
Hey I made that page!
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by iamcasen 11y ago
I am one of the developers for houndify.com, so I can answer this question for you! We actually have an api endpoint dedicated to doing this for you. At the moment we have a concept of "domains" where developers use a proprietary
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by iamcasen 12y ago
You hit the nail on the head here. The harder you work, the more that becomes the "norm." Now, if you decide to slow down, you start to look "less productive."

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