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by jowiar 10y ago
I'm sorry -- "detach", not "kill".
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Your decision yesterday to kill my comment, and not kill the parent comment, was this in action. Apologies for the quotation marks. I was intentionally (and, if you look at my posting history, non-characteristally) violating the guidelines
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The world is political and ideological battle. Ideas will win and ideas will lose. People will win elections and people will lose elections. Technology shapes society, and who technology deems the winners and losers is political, both in th
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So as long as we add a "bless your heart" or two beforehand, like the good-ol-boys, we can say whatever we want.
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It's pretty clear by now -- anyone can be as misogynist or as racist as he wants to be around here, or spew fake news and conspiracy theories with Putinesque proficiency. But one hint of calling a spade a spade and dang waves the banha
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Things like this are why YC has zero ground to stand on when they attempt to solve "fake news" through investment. YC can start by firing their useless mods and hiring folks with some guts. FWIW, my strong word choice was to draw
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File metadata wasn't my concern. Spreading baseless rumors without concern for grieving family and friends makes Sparkling (and his buddies) grade-A fuckwads in my book.
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I live in DC, and have a bunch of friends in common with Seth. The crowd of tinfoil-hat-wearing jackasses spreading this bullshit do nothing but continue to cause pain for his family and friends. Y'all can hide behind your keyboards, b
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Quit with the fucking conspiracy theories. Seriously -- can we get a fucking mod in here to get rid of this shit.
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They have also been around long enough that everyone in the industry knows someone who said "great product, shitty place to work", or something to that effect. We all knew there was _something_ a bit off, but didn't have a pu
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Regardless of whether you continue the job search or not, pick up that hobby. I love my job, but non-work hobbies keep me sane. Relying on career to be the sole provider of personal fulfillment is a recipe for an abusive relationship with y
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The particular thing I like to test in an interview is "How are you at communicating something that (should be) in your wheelhouse -- Asking questions, explaining your thought processes, discussing tradeoffs, etc". For a recent gr
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I think a better way to phrase it is "Barcelona is THE example". It's sort of like citing a unicorn when deciding to start a company -- sure, there's upside potential, but it's a whole lot less likely than you think
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Google is a little bit of both. At least from having gone through the process (and ultimately turning down an offer due to the ridiculousness of the process). There's a massive funnel where they're trying to bring in a bunch of sm
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Andres was crazy fun and delicious, and the tasting menu at Leo was one of the best five meals of my life.
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I was in Bogota earlier this month. We flew in from sea level, and felt some degree of crappy for a few days (and a bit scared that we were suffering mosquito-borne ailments from our previous adventure before we realized the altitude). We e
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Visiting Colombia recently, Bogota felt like an absolutely brilliant place to work remotely from. Housing and dining are ridiculously cheap (and high quality), but one can easily collaborate with the US (it's on the eastern time zone,
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The caveat here is that with flux/redux, I'd argue "make as few components as reasonably possible interact with redux" is a best practice. If "things popping out of nowhere" is a problem, you probably have too
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"Too much magic" is a serious stretch. Running through the tutorial here: https://egghead.io/courses/getting-started-with-redux , you pretty much reimplement the whole thing. It's just not that much code.
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Is this "If you can't beat em, join em" Nazi edition? Half the challenge of the other boards out there is keeping the waste of molecules that constitutes 4chan away.
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Perhaps I wasn't clear enough with "position of power". I wasn't talking about "James Wilson, truck driver in Madison" or "Allison Smith, bartender in Columbus". It's the folks who single-handed
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This is meaningless grandstanding until: 1) YC voted Thiel off the island 2) YC establishes a policy of "take money from Thiel and you are toxic to us" Anyone in a position of power who took a look at Trump and didn't recoil
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Because one person, one vote. I don't give two shits how many acres you own, you should get one vote (and that was the justification from the beginning -- a compromise so slaveholding scum would be overcounted). The country would have
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There are a couple dealbreakers for now, but I'm seriously looking forward to the day I can migrate our stack ON to create-react-app largely for this reason. Having other people working to make my dev experience better is a huge plus.
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Go to a good art museum and see the "studies" associated with many pieces of art. Before the final product, the artist has a bunch of experiments with techniques, framing, and the like. One of the things we often lack in software
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I'd chalk it up a lot more to population migration / economic trends than anything else. There are a lot more Democrats who used to live in now-Republican enclaves and have since cut ties with them than vice-versa. i.e. people who
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Having had this in Policy school (albeit a decade ago), I remember the follow-on class basically being: "So, this happened in real life. Except it wasn't racing -- it was the Challenger". (A room of 70 promptly headdesked). W
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The biggest issue with funding is that, many times, the only reason you need it is that someone else has it. If you are competing for market share with someone willing/able to take losses, it's not going to be a pretty fight. The
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If the community as a whole defines signal to be "Which bits are going to flip" and noise to be "How are folks going to put dinner on the table when we flip that bit?", I don't want to be part of that. The "som
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I'm saying that, in a forum dedicated to the practice of shaping the 21st century world by people who have immense power to shape the world, having a "We will be having none of that politics stuff in here!" policy is dangerou

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