naravara

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by naravara 6y ago
> The company should work to impress you as much as you work to impress them. This becomes more true the further in your career you go. But for entry level positions it's really just a numbers game.
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by naravara 6y ago
To build off this a little more, another pattern I see pretty often is for people to pilot things on personal projects and then, when they come on board a team, suggest their favored personal toolkits at work. Simply creating the familiarit
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by naravara 6y ago
The main impediment I have had are magazines I subscribe to who are behind paywalls. Ars Technica and Talking Points Memo have a subscriber feed, but it's basically just an honor system thing for you to not go sharing it but they'
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by naravara 6y ago
The real challenge, is going to be some way to not look like a dork while using it in public. If I had to have faith in anyone to design something that could square that circle it would be Apple (and maybe Sony). But it's a tall order.
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by naravara 6y ago
This is described as a joint AR/VR device. I don’t expect we’d be totally cut off, probably more like an overlay of computery stuff while still being able to see the real world behind it. Sort of like a virtual screen.
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by naravara 6y ago
> I've never open sourced it though because I guess it's a bit of a grey area - the sites want you to go to the full URL so they can show you ads etc I honestly would not mind much if sites just included ads in their .RSS feed?
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by naravara 6y ago
If the incumbent erects a paywall, free challengers will come up and they won't be the big player for long.
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by naravara 6y ago
> It's time to move on and use those services for keeping in touch with old classmates or whatever they are good at and develop platforms that are good for holding serious conversations. The challenge is, there's no money in th
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by naravara 6y ago
> Most of the successful startups are based on a pure, authentic vision of a founder who is absolutely convinced about their vision for the future. Is this that different from how film studios work? Many successful films are based on a p
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by naravara 6y ago
When accountants at Enron defrauded the State of California and the SEC, we didn't say "accountants at Enron." We said "Enron" and held Enron, the entity, responsible.
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by naravara 6y ago
“Walkable” has never meant “has sidewalks.” It means the neighborhood’s denizens can reasonably walk to meet their day-to-day necessities. It has always meant that.
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by naravara 6y ago
Make that 97 > Where is the good knife?” If you’re looking for your good X, you have bad Xs. Throw those out. No, I keep a bad knife because I don’t want to ruin my good knife by cutting open boxes with it. The bad stuff is useful to pre
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by naravara 6y ago
Fans of any genre say this. If you don't like metal then it's all loud guitars and screaming. When you do like metal there is fractal complexity of subgenres all the way down. Except Phish fans. For them there is only Phish.
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by naravara 6y ago
It's not just media. Every year or so I reinstall the Swype keyboard and it works great. But after about a month or two it 'learns' from my jokey misspellings or starts learning a lot of my more obscure vocabulary and starts
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by naravara 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it flags everyone as having bad taste and the algorithm is tuned to customize its mockery. The AI is simulating a record store snob. That said, I thought it was funny because I realize people making fun of me for not be
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by naravara 6y ago
Yeah I've noticed the same. It doesn't feel the same though since Twitter feels like a much more hostile environment to put thoughts out. Twitter seems to prioritize your take on what you're sharing moreso than the content yo
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by naravara 6y ago
> Facebook seems relatively easy to me as well, although I have few friends/family who are regular Facebook users at this point. Maybe if I had extended family or circle of friends who all used Facebook daily, I'd feel differen
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by naravara 6y ago
I still maintain that Google killing Reader to make room for Buzz and Google+ is what really killed the best of the old web. Even though RSS readers only ever had purchase with a minority of internet users, they clicked with the most "
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by naravara 6y ago
The user seems to be posting about UX and navigability rather than ad tracking. Wikipedia's banner ads that take up an entire browser window before you can scroll down to the content is definitely a good example of that.
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by naravara 6y ago
For some reason storefronts don't seem to understand that when they all do this, it just pushes me to do my shopping through Amazon or some other online "everything store." I'm currently shopping for a new sofa, but the
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by naravara 6y ago
If you structure your company around an ethical business model, then changes to the marketplace to become more ethnical inevitably end up benefitting your business model. I'm not actually seeing the problem here. It's like saying
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by naravara 6y ago
> So make laws to prevent monopoly, rather than making size/employee count based. Yes. That's generally what "no billionaires" policies are focused on. But "market power" is still a useful consideration.
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by naravara 6y ago
I'm currently strongly conflicted on whether I should bother building a PC. I had been wanting to do one for years, but now that I have the space and the money I find I don't actually have time to justify the expense for how littl
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The more I learn about early Apple the more I wonder if maybe Jobs' greatest strength as a leader came from hiring people ballsy enough to defy him on the most important things.
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> There's a reason Apple don't make Time Capsules any more. Servers are usually commodities, and Apple don't make commodities if they can reasonably avoid it (anything they make that's even close to a commodity still,
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by naravara 6y ago
Considering how the M1 SOCs are, the possibility of a future "affordable Mac tower" looks more remote than ever. Apple seems to be aiming towards piling as much into their dedicated SOCs as they can. I expect what "pro"
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by naravara 6y ago
> The problem with just taxing it all away to prevent him from being a billionaire is the money is tied to control of the company, so it's equivalent to saying nobody can build a business bigger than some arbitrary limit. Limits are
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by naravara 6y ago
In theory. In practice just about every quantitative method or metric used to measure social welfare or individual well being falls back on price. And since our culture has a fetish for positivism and anything that looks like “math” those a
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by naravara 6y ago
> But doesn’t that imply that more cheaper clothes would eventually end up filling thrifstores? Not really because the fast fashion types of clothes don't hold up well over time. > The reality is that not everyone can afford to b
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Yes. Vintage clothing (and even more current but high quality clothing) does well in thrift stores. But most of the clothes people are junking is low quality and doesn't actually stand up well enough to being reused OR it's got so

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