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by lhnz 10y ago
> Micropayments on that level are a race to the bottom. > Why read The Times content when you can be presented > with a similar article written by some blogger. Because "Content is king" [0]. I'm not talk
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by lhnz 10y ago
You wouldn't own or display their content, nor would you set their prices (you merely give them the option to collect micropayments from a central wallet). Also, all social media companies already have data on their audience - that&#x2
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by lhnz 10y ago
Yes - an adjacent thought, too: niche publications that are unable to make significant advertising money through sheer scale [0] would benefit from being able to attract users who just want to test the quality of their content before purcha
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by lhnz 10y ago
I would try to eat journalism. I would create a system where subscription to News on Twitter helps to automate payment for individual articles. 1. The lede or quote gets pulled into the tweet. 2. http://t.co becomes a paymen
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by lhnz 10y ago
Generalise to the simplest expression of the logic of your application. Don't generalise towards the expression of the logic of all future applications. The article kind of already says this: > Keep your code absolutely simple.
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by lhnz 10y ago
I can only assume that the creation and sharing of this article is meant as a political act, since there is no way that this will move the growth needle. If you want to change Uber's culture for the better, you need to persuade those t
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by lhnz 10y ago
This is how I feel, too. I'm well able to be kind and reasonable to people and avoid making offensive jokes, but I am simply not okay with participating in an environment in which I can be ousted for having a different political opinio
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by lhnz 10y ago
That could be a bad sign. People are looking around the company and seeing rigidity in thought. It is becoming aspirational.
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by lhnz 10y ago
I would probably hire somebody like you, but I think the norm for many companies and recruiters is to seek somebody that represents themselves as a specialist and won't want to input on the whole product and business. You're easie
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by lhnz 10y ago
Can you explain what you mean? There seems to be little connection between the category of blue-collar work and programming other than it is a form of 'building'. The crux of blue-collar work is that it predominately involves phys
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by lhnz 10y ago
> In English-speaking countries, a blue-collar worker is > a working class person who performs non-agricultural > manual labour. Blue-collar work may involve skilled > or unskilled manufacturing, mining, sanitation,
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by lhnz 10y ago
I think, in a sense, Twitter is living up to its potential -- and it has a lot of potential. What happens, however, when it doesn't live up to its benefactor's expectations?
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by lhnz 10y ago
> Undocumented in the post: you can invent channels > for app-to-app communication from the JSON API. Is everything accessible from the JSON API? Like, say I wanted to create a mashup of GitHub and Keybase, could I do so?
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by lhnz 10y ago
I get the feeling that they are going to work on it come hell or high water until it lives up to their intentions. So while it might read like satire today, it probably won't in the future. But yeah, I don't have a non-costly use
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by lhnz 10y ago
I am not sure that the network layout of the present is less dystopian -- more or less everything is owned by Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
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by lhnz 10y ago
It doesn't make sense to call him active in the alt-right since his blog finished in 2011 and the alt-right didn't exist back then. You probably mean neo-reaction which is highbrow right-wing idiocy and not populism.
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by lhnz 10y ago
Yes.
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by lhnz 10y ago
I bet their "Why we failed at X" satire article will do well with their target market.
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by lhnz 10y ago
You should take a look at Teller [ http://teller.io ].
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by lhnz 10y ago
Have they fixed the middleware graveyard? When I last used it, I found it insanely difficult to pick the correct middlewares due to the changes between versions.
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by lhnz 10y ago
> Instead you should do the most good, and > talk loudly about it. That I'm 100% onboard with.
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by lhnz 10y ago
I do not think I missed the subtextual meaning at all. I explicitly drew attention to the misuse of the term in my last paragraph. The textual meaning is in my opinion more important, and more often than not completely lost on people. The t
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by lhnz 10y ago
Because fraud is bad. Virtue signalling is a term to describe people that are doing harm to a cause or providing no benefit to it, while also aiming to maximize the admiration they receive from others. That is at least how it's meant t
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by lhnz 10y ago
> It's very difficult to use the concept > of "virtue signaling" as a rhetorical > weapon without conceding a whole lot > of personal credibility. It's telling that you drop three paragraphs in
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by lhnz 10y ago
Big corporations send manufacturing to countries where it can be done for cheaper due to fewer regulations protecting local environments and sweatshop working conditions (China, etc). They then place the products into shipping containers an
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by lhnz 10y ago
Wouldn't it be better for both the environment and local automation industries [0] if we produced goods within the countries that consume them? Whether or not local manufacturing jobs never come back, I just don't see why you woul
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by lhnz 10y ago
> Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills Personality is also about team fit. There are plenty of people that are excellent to work with in some groups but awful in others. People often antagonise each other: perhaps
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by lhnz 10y ago
Everybody wants a pure meritocracy. The social justice crowd believes it doesn't and can't exist, while the anti-PC crowd believes it does exist and in fact they and their friends are members of it. I'm happier in teams where
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by lhnz 10y ago
Although I was never demoted (I left), I completely see where you're coming from. When I was a manager, I stripped away red-tape and created an environment which I felt gave engineers room for self-improvement - particularly if I could
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by lhnz 10y ago
> 'Facts' don't have an independent objective existence, > unfortunately. 'Things that occurred' ( the literal > etymology of 'facts' ) always require some form > of interpretation i

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