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by mkl95 4y ago
I wonder what Musk's plan looks like. ~90% of Twitter's revenue comes from ads, and they are not doing too well since Musk took over. He may have to double down on non Western markets where large companies are still willing to wor
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by mkl95 4y ago
It may be useful, but Twitter has not turned a profit for about four years.
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> This didn’t happen to Facebook and Twitter. Both attained a scale and durability that exceeded the networks that preceded them. For many people, it seemed like the operators of these services had cracked the nut of making eternal socia
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by mkl95 4y ago
This is a bit of an obscure fact, but HN favorites are also public. You can browse them at https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=<username>
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Bookmark button (de facto silent like) on Tweet details rolls out a week later. Long form tweets early Feb Unless they are planning on bullying their users into switching to some mobile app (kind of like Reddit do), I don't see th
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Place a video feed as a 3D object inside Sponza, why not? This is amazing.
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by mkl95 4y ago
If you like startups you should hate noncompete clauses and love anti-trust. Somehow they coexist in many areas.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Before I knew it I had five interviews queued up and the recruiter advised me to read a book on Google’s tech interviewing practises to make sure I pass Your comment describes my experience with Google so far, in fact I'm sure my
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by mkl95 4y ago
Whoever this person is, they need to find a niche they are strong at and apply for jobs in that niche. Their resume needs to be tailored to focus on that. The current market is bad for engineers perceived as generalists (despite very few of
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by mkl95 4y ago
GoDaddy is a bottom of the barrel company. I have been buying my domains on Namecheap and using Cloudflare's nameservers for a while, with no issues whatsoever. I have heard good things about Porkbun too.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Stock rises after company announces broad restructuring plan focused on driving ‘profitable growth’ Could someone explain how layoffs lead to stock rises in layman terms?
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by mkl95 4y ago
I want modules that are highly decoupled. But it's often more painful than extracting some API from a monolith and defining a message passing strategy, interfaces, etc. Another way to put it is that teams that share parts of the same c
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by mkl95 4y ago
> You don't just get trust for free, you have to build it by creating moments like this where people can demonstrate vulnerability around each other Not every company is an ideal organization where demonstrating vulnerability is goi
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Follow up question : Is that complexity necessary or artifically inflated? Is Javascript's complexity necessary or artificially inflated? Modern frontend development boils down to a bunch of abstractions on top of Javascript.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I have been dual booting Windows / Linux on the desktop for ages. Each of them allow me to be very productive on some specific tasks, and I'm OK with it. Also Windows has progressively lost relevance for me, because Linux keeps le
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by mkl95 4y ago
With the current interest rates and inflation, those people will also need to be well off to even get started.
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by mkl95 4y ago
After 10 years of nonstop use, I have stopped using Python almost completely. The main reason is that working with Go makes my life much easier when it comes to building distributed stuff on AWS, which is my main focus at work. I miss Pytho
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by mkl95 4y ago
Based on the EU job postings I browse on LinkedIn, since hiring freezes started there is a trend towards hiring specialists over T-shaped guys. 2020-2022 was a T-shaped heavy market.
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by mkl95 4y ago
From my point of view, both.
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by mkl95 4y ago
TIL LastPass have been SOC2 and SOC3 certified for a few years. Huge facepalm
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by mkl95 4y ago
> it's already deprecated on a device ~50% of American's use America is one market among many. iOS usage is ~28% globally. Even if Google suddenly announced their plans to deprecate OpenGL ES on Android, it would happen in the
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by mkl95 4y ago
On Apple platforms it's still being used via stuff like MoltenVK.
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Intent to Ship: WebGPU(groups.google.com)
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by mkl95 4y ago
OpenGL is not close to deprecation. It may be decades before mainstream GPUs stop supporting it. The amount of non abandoned software built on top of OpenGL that is not being migrated to Vulkan is mindboggling.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I have passion to be a programmer. What companies don't understand is that it doesn't mean I enjoy my job. I stopped programming the things I am passionate about in my 20s because I had to eat. I wouldn't work on your dumb Sa
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by mkl95 4y ago
They are close to unicorn. But last time I saw a similar company raise that kind of money their valuation was ~1.3bn.
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by mkl95 4y ago
One of our non unicorn competitors just raised ~200M in a niche where 100M+ seed rounds are usually something you raise after you become a unicorn in a series D or something. There still are crazy investors out there but they are crazy abou
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by mkl95 4y ago
What is Cybertruck's target market? I find it hard to believe there is a non negligible amount of people who want one.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> If ChatGPT builds a product that people choose to use instead of Google, then Google's business is done Every new search engine out there is having a hard time building a significant userbase, because Google Search is very close t
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by mkl95 4y ago
I can't imagine a ChatGPT based ad product that can compete with Google at the moment. Google search lives in billions of heads rent free. Success will happen niche by niche rather than "beating Google search".

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