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by ixtli 10y ago
Thank you for remembering this. Also worth pointing out that they too ruined their launch experience for millions because of features no one really wanted that were secondary to the core experience ;) (IIRC they did some sort of light simul
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by ixtli 10y ago
Many large companies in manhattan participate in pretax programs that allow people (myself included) to get a monthly metro card for ~60 dollars. So yeah these types of programs will never compete with that.
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by ixtli 10y ago
Hah. yes fixed.
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by ixtli 10y ago
Before you get all excited about this, it's ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 (edit: obviously 100/20 = 5, it's early. leave
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by ixtli 10y ago
While the thing you're responding to is obviously idiotic it occurs to me that the sanity of the valuation of Yahoo! is not "obvious" at all. It's a result of the application of partially visible heuristics to determine
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by ixtli 10y ago
I would say this is the more important thing. I would argue that even if you are under-performing when held to a certain set of standards, if you _love_ doing it then whatever. If you _don't_ love doing it then you should switch career
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by ixtli 10y ago
I don't think you're responding to what I actually said. Perhaps it was poorly worded but what I intended to say was twofold: I am a member of the group (the privileged class in america) and that I exhibited prejudice. I made no f
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by ixtli 10y ago
Thanks. This is what I was going to try to explain but was too tired to bother. Also, as a member of the white male american engineer group, I will 100% cop to this sort of prejudice when dealing with generalizations as in the parent articl
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by ixtli 10y ago
Sorry, I'm unclear how what I said was racist :/ Edit: To be clear I used those examples because they are the majority in America (which I should have been more clear about) in an effort to point out that the majority often does n
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by ixtli 10y ago
Ah, I should have specified software engineering. However as an example, there have been a good amount of studies that show that problem solving (detection and solution generation) are enabled by diversity† Combined with this, many studies
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by ixtli 10y ago
Maybe it's a rhetorical failure then? I feel like to get that reading requires you to assume a lot about the emphasis placed on the word "And".
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by ixtli 10y ago
There are definitely ways this _could_ make sense in the context of the article but you're right that without proper explanation is seems at best heartless and at worst pretty racist.
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by ixtli 10y ago
I believe the salient point that "the goal is basically to provide for themselves everything that their mothers no longer do" is a direct effect of lack of diversity in our field. Homogenous, largely white, largely male, largely s
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by ixtli 10y ago
I came here to say exactly this, although I do not think that the doomsaying about the Wall•E-sque dystopia is really called for.
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by ixtli 10y ago
Yeah I basically agree. There's some good arguments to be made against Apple's decision making process but this is basically how the media responds whenever they change anything? So maybe this article is actually just really deep
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by ixtli 10y ago
Did Aunty Beebs just mess up adjectival order? As a native American English speaker "big next" sounds awkward to me.
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by ixtli 10y ago
This is basically it. Japan is a very service-oriented country. People take pride in how well they interact with customers from book stores to restaurants to taxis. This interaction assumes a certain level of honesty and it really changes h
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by ixtli 10y ago
I'm fine with that, though I have noticed in years participating in _this_ community that it vocally penalizes strongly worded criticism. This is, of course, stupid.
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by ixtli 10y ago
Definitely don't get in the way of criticism. But do _get_ criticism. There is a big and meaningful distinction. "Don't read the comments" is a clickbait article title: worse than having haters is developing an echo cham
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by ixtli 10y ago
I think you may want to decouple your ethical analysis from which private company is making the most money. Remember that the only functional difference between you and somewhere like kayak.com or padmapper is business relationships.
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by ixtli 10y ago
Ah ok, so you're saying you'd use it to handle input rather than to "simplify" output spew. Fair.
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by ixtli 10y ago
While I'm not sure I agree with your entire point I think it's clear that not only do people not appreciate the _generations_ of hard work you're leaving behind when you abandon LLVM/Clang/etc or languages with powe
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by ixtli 10y ago
I remember when this was true but I don't think it is anymore. Whenever someone asks me to teach them how to program from scratch I always introduce them to the REPL first. You know, "1 + 1 prints 2!" The easiest way to do th
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by ixtli 10y ago
I have always thought that one of JavaScript (or at least the community's) best assets is the fact that no one defends it as "the best" or "the next big thing." Everyone embraces discussing its faults or mocking poo
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by ixtli 10y ago
The equivalent definitely exists in a software-only startup with enough users. In practice it's rarely the case that it's _one_ user, but that there are cohorts of users that want a certain thing you don't provide. I still ag
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Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary gives one of her first in-depth interviews(theguardian.com)
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by ixtli 10y ago
He said he'll be using it so I'm curious what needs a curses-like gui if webpack spew doesn't.
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by ixtli 10y ago
So what are the cases where "noisy and scrolly" bothers you in a way that makes it reasonable to apply blessed?
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by ixtli 10y ago
I think anyone who likes what they see here needs to honestly ask themselves how they believe this applies to their world. Whenever this PDF is posted on HN I am disappointed to see comparisons between how people perceive Valve and their ow
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by ixtli 10y ago
tiny nitpick for a really cool thing: it's not based on JS/HTML/CSS, it's written in or build on JS/HTML/CSS.

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