kareemsabri

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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I think it's a very Valley-centric opinion to think Microsoft doesn't have any consumer customers. Even putting aside all their other end user products consumers buy (XBox, the utterly dominant Office). I certainly don't agre
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
> Microsoft is in the same boat. Virtually no users of their products are actually their customers. Apple has less than 10% of the PC market. What do you think the rest of them are running?
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Canada has started to be competitive, mostly because of US companies coming in and bidding up wages, but when I left (~10 years ago) a top salary for a SWE was about $80k. I'm not sure it's because of some cultural appreciation o
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Can you explain how paying software engineers higher salaries means other people need to live "perilous lives". You could just lower your EBIDTA a bit. Software engineers in the US aren't rich because of janitors being underp
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Network effects.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
IANAL The main issue would be that Snap bought the IP, and the founders signed the irrevocable, interminable, exclusive rights to that IP in any universes known or unknown over to Snap. To replicate the application under a new name would be
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Yeah but the right to exit is critical. Emigration is very hard, or impossible, in totalitarian states.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
From your own definition it seems like you admit it doesn't really fit. - all-encompassing ideology Maybe a lot of startups fit this bill, but most jobs people just come, do their work, and go home. They couldn't give two shits ab
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
So goes the argument. I don't think the author has really proven it, it was pretty theoretical. It's not clear the tiny minority won't just weaponize the powers that be to silence those that disagree with them even further. T
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Yeah, it was a bit tongue in cheek. I'm also Canadian.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I don't think that's what totalitarian means.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Fair enough. My defensiveness is based on the assumption prevalent in these sorts of discussions that if you don't share a viewpoint you are just suffering from insufficient education on it. I'm picking extremes because the OP mad
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I've listened to enough Richard Wolfe debates to know the talking points. Dropping a book link isn't really helpful in the context of this discussion, I'm not going to go read your favorite book before I reply to you. Yes I&#
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I don't think they're all that democratic. But there's a world of difference between democratic, which itself has degrees, and being totalitarian.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I don't. I wouldn't consider most workplaces I've been in totalitarian - though maybe you've lived in some pretty nice totalitarian countries I'm not aware of. But I also don't see why customers shouldn't
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
> But platforms like Rumble which trumpet their free speech bonafides are missing the point: moderation is good, normal, and reinforces free speech principles. It is right for platform owners to decide the range of permissible posts. Thi
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
It just sounds like a lot of work trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. Point taken that the content (maybe) exists on the platform, but if I can't find it what good is it? As essentially a worldwide daily competition for viralit
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Fair enough. I thought I'd test it. I opened Tik Tok for pretty much the first time. I've installed it but not yet used it. It showed me a bunch of girls dancing, as expected. I thought I could swipe up / down to tell them wh
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Then you're either being willfully naive or don't understand how media works. Marshall McLuhan described this phenomenon 60 years ago, the medium is the message. Can I settle in on Tik Tok and spend an hour gaining a deep understa
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I don't think I'd worry about the risk of them leaving (unless you have some highly lucrative IP, and as a fintech you probably don't). The thing with sharing potential deals is mostly just they will usually fall through &#x2
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Perhaps they care cause early stage startups are hard and it can feel like a Sisyphean task, so encouragement / interest from outside parties helps drive their motivation.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I don't think the public conscience thinks that, but maybe we are in different cultures.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
First I heard of it. This is insane.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
All I can give is my experience (been coding professionally for maybe 12-15 years) but I never looked at patterns like you are for a LONG time. I had no choice but to code in a "simple, straightforward" style because I didn't
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Teams is horrible, of course. Like I said, Microsoft won cause of enterprise market dominance.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Slack isn't dominant. They sold to Salesforce because they couldn't beat Microsoft on distribution in the enterprise, and saw the writing on the wall. I am skeptical this is driven by "resource cost". What resources will
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Sure they will. They're the ones inventing Golang.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Surely they exist (10x lawyers, writers, chefs, photographers etc. also exist) but it's annoying to hear people who haven't written a line of code in decades pontificate about "how to spot one".
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Concerning work hours.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I know many who got it with a bachelors degree. Advanced degrees are not even a part of the eligibility criteria. https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-m-chapter-...

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