matai_kolila

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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Hm, “chimps do it” is not the stellar argument you think it is. Chimps throw feces, should we start doing that too?
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I think this is the perfect counterexample to the idea that HN is a good pattern upon which to look for a quality forum. Dismissive, elitist, and equips the very people least qualified to moderate with the tools needed to attempt to silence
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
A common pattern among people who visit this forum is to idolize/worship it for its "high quality" content, when in reality the quality is actually bad in different ways they're not knowledgeable enough to understand. Yo
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
HN is not based on good behavior... The vast majority of the highly upvoted comments here are, to some degree or another, FUD. I would not hold HN up as any kind of bastion of quality, it's just another forum. No better, no worse.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
What's an "HN-like" environment?
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I mean... how nearsighted is this supposed to be? You literally cannot see the job market improving (or the startup environment for that matter) at any point in your remaining 25 years of employment? Sure, if nothing changes you're i
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
*Musk claims. Not a reliable narrator, we'll have to see how this plays out. If I had to wildly guess, Apple tends to be pretty strict about how an app moderates its content, and is not sure Twitter will adhere to its standards for wha
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Eh, I don't think family ties are "completely destroyed" in the West, we're just not as into our family as some "Eastern" cultures (I'm thinking of India in particular) can be. Remember, a lot of the &qu
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
The whole point of keeping your crypto with BlockFi was how much interest they were paying out. But yeah, this whole debacle with FTX has finally made me realize that if I were to ever keep meaningful quantities of crypto, I would need to d
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
If you meant the company as a whole, why was your counterexample about an individual relationship? I think you meant an individual, however what you demonstrated was that your relationship with that person hadn't ended, which actuall
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I meant with the company as a whole, not an individual. By ending your relationship with the company, you're declaring that relationship necessarily deficient in some way. My advice is to define those deficiencies deliberately, rather
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
No relationship ends successfully, nothing wrong with spending 3-5 years at an org, learning what you can, then moving on. Knowing this, maybe it’s worth resetting your goals at the next role to take i to account how this cycle tends to go.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Er, the butter robot joke was a throwaway line about the exential crisis of a robot that carries butter, not a blueprint or metaphor about how to conduct software development, please for all that is holy don't try to read more into tha
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Not the ransomware crews, and def not when you’re pulling in 100mm+, it would lose you money to try…
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
DPRK 1%ers get a western education and have normal Internet access. It’s not ideological, it’s practical; get a cybersecurity degree in the states/Europe and live “lavishly” with your family or flee and never see anyone you love again
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Uh, I doubt many/any of them are “crack a crypto algorithm” sophisticated. These groups know how to buy exploits, attach payloads, and be persistent. Not trivial per se but hardly PhD math stuff…
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I was able to circumvent my state's betting laws using Litecoin, so that feels meaningful, heh...
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
So is the fundamental problem with blockchain, as described here anyway, that you can basically do all of the cool parts of blockchain that people get excited about, but using a central service instead? I feel like I don't really under
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
This isn’t farming, he needs zero resources to build this on his own, the fact that he doesn’t do it means he doesn’t think this idea has merit on its own. Investors, cofounders want to see skin in the game. This disclosure shows he doesn’
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
And that's the point; it's his farm, they're his robots. You're an employee. You got a job in an industry you like, that's not the same thing as, "I partnered with someone to build my idea."
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
It is not, not if you can build this system on your own. Demanding you be paid for your time to build this demonstrates you aren't convinced it's a profitable idea, which is a huge red flag to potential investors.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I seriously doubt that.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
It’s this idea that if nobody is doing it, or if they handle it poorly, then nobody will care if you also handle it poorly. CEOs are just writing it off as pesky lawyer shit, even though it’s 100% preventable…
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
It costs nothing but time to build the service. His hesitancy is a red flag for potential partners.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Basically anything that corrupts data, fails to apply auth controls, or total site outage inducers don’t ship, but almost everything else is fair game (I’m sure I’m forgetting something but you get a taste for these things over time). When
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
So he “saved” $800k by spending way more than that building in house infra? Hmm. Edit: since this is spam, I’m now wondering what you could have accomplished in that time by learning about how AWS works…
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
> Shameless plug: I understand how to make and launch exactly this kind of system, at least technically. If you want it built, please contact me. I cannot roll my eyes hard enough - if you can, then do it already. Why the hell do you ne
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Other folks have said the basic (these aren't the same) but one thing that I feel like few people realize is that "Pull Requests" aren't actually a git concept at all. "Pull Requests" are just implementations t
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I actually operate in this space right now, and you wouldn't believe the number of companies who don't care about privacy, screw it up, get fined hugely, and then... just keep on not caring. It's unreal.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
> Apple can only sustain the high margins they do because you’re wrong. Some people care a great deal. Are you suggesting that some people care a great deal about how pretty Apple's code appears, despite having zero way of knowing a

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