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But an AAA in itself is already an announcement. If I can read this now, I don't need to wait for the next thing. I can just move on now.
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"e" following "d" in the alphabet, the successor to systemd would be called "systeme", which is the french translation (système) for "system".
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I don't like WFH, but I hate WFO more. Actually, what I like is WAFO: "Work Away From the Office". I usually prefer cowork spaces, or coffee shops as a fallback. In such environments, socializing is possible, but opt-in. Peop
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> I’ve tried Triplebyte to a resounding failure. Do you mind sharing more about what didn't work out? Did you pass/fail the Triplebyte test? Did you meet with a few interested companies afterward, but nothing came of it?
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We're focusing mostly on new hires, but since work-from-home went mainstream, I've observed some existing and trusted employees suddenly always off camera during zoom meetings, with a different voice. Often along with a dip in the
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> why everyone feels OS means you'll have the app forever. Your hyperboles aside, I don't think there's much to prove. Maintained and long lasting forks abound. Enough to instill confidence in the principle. If Figma was
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I had the exact same experience. 30 minutes paired leetcode type test of moderate difficulty. My solution seemed algorithmically sound and efficient, but the test wasn't passing at the buzzer. The guy failed me and we said our goodbyes
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> Our users are primarily financial technology companies. As a developer, I'd love to have some more information about the typical problems that inspired Increase's value proposition. If I was meeting with a financial tech C
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> cereals are out of fashion right now due to Bro Science on the internet You're wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cordain Call it bad science if you want, which you'll then have to defend, but it&
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> We need better definitions for these terms When I point to the moon with my finger and say "moon", the fool looks at my finger and calls it the moon. Is it more important to mindlessly tag yourself "Agile", with
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In base-ten, the value ten is 10. In base-two, the value two is 10. How do you get pi = 1 in base-pi?
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It's not even that they're built for cars. They're simply just not built for humans to walk around. If you've ever been in a situation where you're visiting a friend in an unfamiliar neighborhood and the map is tell
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Complaining about unfair practices doesn't imply that you're unwilling to be tested, hence strawman. The recurrence of those complaints indicates that the process could be improved to benefit both parties. Everything you listed ca
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About 20 years ago people used to say the same thing about mindfulness and meditation. When looking for books at the library or bookstore, you were guided to the spiritual or esoteric section. It's been funny to see them slowly migrate
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I don't disagree with the points you were/are trying to make. I disagree as to their relevance in a discussion about colors .
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> Beside, color is all in your mind. Out of it, it's just electromagnetic waves. It's like saying that food is just nutrients, or sound/music just vibrations. Color is an experience.
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I don't know what you wrote earlier, and don't know if I would agree, but I share the current sentiment of your comment. I come to this topic with strong influences from eastern philosophical takes on consciousness, but also with
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Reminiscent of this equally upsetting article a couple of years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225
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> make sure to share the critical feedback with us too. it really helps to improve the product Will do.
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As an aside, I'm a long time backend developer writing my first mobile app with Dart/Flutter. I tried the popular backend recommendation in that ecosystem. After weeks wasted on it, I googled "{PopularBackend} alternatives&q
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Maybe there's something I missed in the article, but to me, it read like a case of sunk cost fallacy. > Within six weeks, we narrowed in on a concept we all liked. > By December, we were three months into the project. WebAgency
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In other words, morality is relative to intent. I think the jury is still out on that. Our planet has seen its fair share of saviors, liberators, purifiers, improvers of all sorts. And they've left us with a culture rich in clichés and
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I suppose wisdom is in the eye of the beholder, as it should be. One perspective is that teachers come in many forms and always have something to impart. You take some of what they offer and leave some, but you stay on your own path. Regard
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The goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue - Alan Watts, attributing the original thought to Confucius. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cegl1BZ-0tI
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A way in is better than no way at all. A friend of mine was concerned about a similar (mis)use of psychedelics in the service of productivity. Except that neither Buddhism, nor psychedelics discriminate in the kind of insights you end up wi
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Sometimes you just get acquired because "large sums of money". Some startups are on their way way up, with spare room to improve on their value proposition and mission at the time of their acquisition, and it's difficult to k
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Keeping with your medical analogy, palliative care exists because it's just practical to acknowledge that treating a disease is also about dealing with human nature. You can't just focus on the illness and ignore the discomfort it
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It's impossible to know whether anything or anyone, other than yourself, is sentient. Attempts at codifying what sentience is may lead us into a world where some committee checks boxes to decide whether your appliances have become sent
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There are certain questions that are so stubbornly elusive to science (as the study of nature), that they should feel by now to belong to the realm of philosophy (e.g matter, consciousness, mathematics, an infinite universe). The study of
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Finding amino acids on an asteroid confirms something we already knew. They can be available without showing evidence of life. The real mystery thus remains life itself. The fact that on Earth it used amino acids to express itself doesn&#x2

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