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by madrox 4y ago
A song I listen to regularly on Spotify once got changed to a slightly different mix, and it totally messed with my brain for a while. I realize in this case it didn't actually happen, but it can and does across the internet regularly.
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by madrox 4y ago
This is the real story, but not a new one
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by madrox 4y ago
"Learn and get better" is absolutely a plan and a great basis to build on, though it's nice to know if there's something in particular they'd like to learn. I've never encountered a candidate who will say they
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by madrox 4y ago
I think hiring managers tend to be pretty realistic about this (can't speak for recruiters). All we want to hear is that the candidate has a sense of how they want to develop themselves. The best entry level candidate story I've e
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm pretty short on Tesla. I'm hearing too many real customer frustrations and no customer success stories. That company has serious problems. If I had to guess, Musk is too distracted. Take your pick of distractions, but the guy
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by madrox 4y ago
This is well said and sums up my experience
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by madrox 4y ago
As a hiring manager, I've found entry level roles to be the hardest to fill well. No metric is a guarantee of a quality candidate. I loathe whiteboard programming, but for entry level jobs it's at least a signal that they're
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by madrox 4y ago
I think we're both seeing a generational difference here. Those of us who remember those times know in our bones how much better things are...even if you don't want to look that hard. That was 15+ years ago. A lot of HN probably w
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by madrox 4y ago
Perhaps, but I don't think you could argue that how things were 20 years ago was better.
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by madrox 4y ago
It didn't flummox the US. It flummoxed Miramax, which is what the article is saying. Miramax wanted Mononoke Hime to be a 90s Disney film, and when they couldn't cut the film into one, they gave up on it. It really highlights how
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by madrox 4y ago
I thought a member of my support group said it best: "getting high makes you ok with being bored."
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by madrox 4y ago
I've been there. I was staying up way too late and when I did sleep I'd be laying in bed for hours before I finally dozed off. I had things I wanted to do, but since I didn't have the energy to do them I started feeling worse
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by madrox 4y ago
The purpose forums served aren't dead, but the experience has continued to evolve. There's plenty of topic-based messaging products out there...enough of them that if you don't like one for a particular topic of your choice,
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by madrox 4y ago
You ended with a question mark, so I must assume it doesn't save you a few clicks. I'll take my downvotes now.
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by madrox 4y ago
Unity must be in more trouble than I thought. There's no way a game engine company that's doing well would merge with a company like this. They're reporting earnings in a month, so it must be pretty bad.
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by madrox 4y ago
I tend to agree. If there's a reason to drag Reddit, this isn't it. Reddit is a messy place, but not nearly as messy as Twitter. Twitter has all the same problems and more. What this author is running up against, which is what all
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm weirdly cheerful about being able to report that this isn't true. Backends do get pirated with sufficient motivation...mostly in games. MMOs spring to mind, but lots of games with online multiplayer get this treatment. Some of
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by madrox 4y ago
That's per day, so 91,500 fewer seats this summer...most of which are already spoken for, it sounds like.
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by madrox 4y ago
This article doesn't feel like it was written by anyone paying attention to the scene for the last decade. It downplays the role MOBAs have played in the downfall of the RTS by calling them "subgenre offshoots that snuck off"
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by madrox 4y ago
It's stuff like this that leaves me despondent as a technologist. Are these the people whose lives we've spent decades trying to make easier? I'm starting to suspect most people don't actually want their lives to be easi
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by madrox 4y ago
Everything about this deal strikes me as Elon trying to buy his way out of the fact he illegally acquired stock in a bid for a board seat. At the time, I'm sure he thought it was a clever way out of an immediate problem, and he certain
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by madrox 4y ago
This happens without machine translation in the wild already with pidgin. If you want to see real life pidgin in action, watch korean and english gamers interact in FPS games. This has been common at the borders of cultures where two langua
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by madrox 4y ago
This line of reasoning has been around as long as the cloud has been a thing, and yet companies are still doing it and seeing better results than running their own data centers. At what point do we put this argument to bed? You want to talk
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by madrox 4y ago
I really feel like Python has an embarrassment of riches in terms of web frameworks. Django, Flask, and even FastAPI are master classes in how to build great open source projects that will survive the test of time. In my opinion they'r
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by madrox 4y ago
The big risk to products where better UX is a differentiator is that it's easy for competitors to catch up and you need to keep moving. I tend to agree that Unity will be around for a while, but I'm not sure it will keep its same
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by madrox 4y ago
This is true, and not all contracts are valid. It's why I'd love to see a good case brought. I feel like every time this happens the little guy just folds instead of doubling down. But agree, would love to see some lawyers weigh i
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by madrox 4y ago
To be fair, I'd love to see a case like this brought to court. I'm not sure there's great precedent here. I think a case could be made that Slack was not harmed through this work.
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by madrox 4y ago
In my experience, interviewing for engineering teams is an afterthought that comes from how little interviewers are included in designing the interview process they have to use. When I approach each opening like a software project with a ki
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by madrox 4y ago
I absolutely agree, and I think even bands can feel the pressure to keep going if they think people count on it as a livelihood. Making a collective decision to move on is brave no matter the context.
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by madrox 4y ago
I think my favorite line of the article was knowing when to quit is its own kind of skill . Shuttering my startup last year, I felt this one. I think I quit six months later than I should have. Knowing when to quit is difficult...especiall

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