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by neilk 2y ago
According to the firm that redesigned the website in 2017, Lee Stimmel had written over 600 articles. https://www.baydesignassociates.com/article/website-redesign... Mostly relatively dry discussions, but they do seem
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by neilk 2y ago
I always thought the gentleman thief was a fictional character. Assuming this is more or less real (the detailed dialogue is a bit concerning) it’s fascinating.
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by neilk 2y ago
OpenHub (formerly Ohloh) tries, or tried, to do this. Seems like it’s not getting a lot of love lately but perhaps you can learn from it. https://openhub.net/ One useful feature is the ability to coalesce different identiti
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by neilk 2y ago
There is no discussion of how the employees are the last to be paid, after founder class shares and investor liquidation preferences are settled. Borders on misinformation to tell people that owning x% in shares equals x% of liquidity event
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by neilk 3y ago
I don’t pay attention to “points” systems at all. I sense that this is the right decision but I’ve never been able to quantify whether this is true. My logic is that the people who design credit card reward systems are smarter than I am abo
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by neilk 3y ago
I wouldn't dream to speak for Maciej Cegłowski here. I would require a greater depth of literacy and far more Eastern European family history to achieve that level of sardonic commentary. But... I don't think he'd appreciate
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by neilk 3y ago
> It sounds like there’s also a good chance that Yahoo’s apps might get a bit of Artifact’s speed and polish over time, too. This never happens. Good design isn’t a quality you can spread around. Speed and polish are the result of focus
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by neilk 3y ago
As Maciej always says, do not attempt to compete with Pinboard
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by neilk 3y ago
We'll probably just work our personal networks harder. Personal networks didn't work as well during bubble/ZIRP times because everybody good was employed and either they already made more than what you were offering, or were
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by neilk 3y ago
As someone who is trying to hire for server-side and devops roles, we are getting pickier. We have a lot of incoming. A lot of it is spam and people who clearly are using AI to fill in our form. One applicant didn’t even bother to remove “C
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by neilk 3y ago
I need to understand where this quintillion thing comes from. This is not just higher than the current world GDP, but higher than the cumulative world GDP since the origin of our species. Source: Our World In Data has estimates of global GD
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by neilk 3y ago
For my aging relatives I have set up code words to be used for actual emergencies, in case I'm impersonated over text.
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by neilk 3y ago
Millennials hold about 9%. Fun fact: Mark Zuckerberg personally holds over 1% of that 9%. (That is, he holds ~0.09% of all the wealth of US citizens, and happens to fall into the group of Millennials who as a group have ~9%. This from rough
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by neilk 3y ago
The original claim was not that geniuses and savants exist. They clearly do! The original claim was that a genius should be able to easily and quickly attain mastery of any topic, given a grounding in the basics. Like, you give Mr. Super
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by neilk 3y ago
In my experience, this is more of a fictional trope than a reality. There aren't any Tony Starks who become experts in thermonuclear astrophysics overnight. Richard Feynman was as close to this trope as you can get in reality, but insi
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by neilk 3y ago
I mostly agree but I have a few quibbles with some arguments. For instance, Bray considers the adage "The CIO is the last to know". From the 90s until now, developers have always snuck new technology in without management approval
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by neilk 3y ago
https://www.wave.com/en/ Fintech targeting Africa
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by neilk 3y ago
In this very comment page, there is a guy who flew Dan to a different city, just to hear this thoughts on random issues. Also, if you look at his other writings, he's often noted trends in how software developers are paid. And the para
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by neilk 3y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sad-2
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by neilk 3y ago
I think this analysis is flawed. New technologies are usually bad at substituting for things that already exist. It's 100% true this will not substitute for the existing genre of film and video. New technologies change the economics of
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by neilk 3y ago
No paywall, but it’s not loading for me. https://archive.ph/EZr39
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by neilk 3y ago
The latency of passthrough video through glass windows is really good. Like way less than 1ms. Also, they’ve figured out how the passthrough keeps working even if the device isn’t powered.
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by neilk 3y ago
That’s too pessimistic. Dozens of countries have some kind of carbon tax right now. Important and influential jurisdictions like California, also have them. Even oil-producing regions have them. They are universally rather timid in their sc
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by neilk 3y ago
Piece value is determined by how many squares it can threaten. This is why rooks are worth 5 and bishops are worth 3, despite both having apparently equal freedom of movement (just rotated 45 degrees). The bishop will be able to access stri
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by neilk 3y ago
I’ll give you this: I was not aware of the Brownell-CIA connection at all, so thanks for that. The common American perception of Orwell as anti-communist had something to do with that. But even if there had not been such a direct connection
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by neilk 3y ago
Orwell himself thought that his primary abilities were “a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts”.
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by neilk 3y ago
The article notes that Orwell’s father was an overseer of an opium farm in India. You might ask if it was just for medicines. Nope, the British Empire was also in the drug business, and it fought two wars against China to keep the opium tra
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by neilk 3y ago
That comports with my observations. But there are still differences to explain. For example, we even have natural experiments across the Chinese internet and American/European internet. The outcomes aren’t entirely fixed in advance, an
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by neilk 3y ago
To be clear, I think you can and should avoid a “pervasive sense of nihilism” at any organization. My quibble is with the people who think somehow Google should overcome this by finding their inner Googliness or tapping into founder magic.
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by neilk 3y ago
How does this relate to Tolstoy? I don’t know much about him other than reputation as an author and moral reformer.

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