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by neilv 1y ago
I'd never heard of anyone with the same name as me, until '94 or so, when I put up a Web page, and some nice person with the same name contacted me. Name-wise, apparently there are at least two instances of a Dutch man (surname) u
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by neilv 1y ago
To technologists with societal awarenesses, this whole direction of Samsung is concerning. But a personally funny thing about this particular episode, to me, is that when I left a very nice CS PhD program, to switch schools, to work on AI+H
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by neilv 1y ago
* It's lowering the friction to the site identifying the user (separate from the identification done now by the more sophisticated third-party tracking by surveillance companies like Google and Meta), even for sites that previously cou
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by neilv 1y ago
That sounds very sensible, for some of the better kinds of companies. How do you handle retention, once you "marry" an employee? If the manager retired, would the company keep nurturing that?
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by neilv 1y ago
One of the hiring problems that companies face is they're now flooded with resumes. And the easiest thing to do is have many false-positive declines. That alone can explain lots of random declines. This can also dovetail with illegal
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by neilv 1y ago
How much do they need that angle anymore? Recent history shows that a lot of the old rules, about persuasion and enabling actions, don't currently apply.
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by neilv 1y ago
* There's definitely a place for well-designed and genuine solutions for these, when most of the tech application and platform space is dominated by design for engagement, sales, and flashiness, with what might be considered pervasive
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by neilv 1y ago
A recruiter gave me the terse feedback about "too long consulting" from one company. (And it didn't fit any rational objection I could think of, if they'd actually looked at the resume, beyond triggering on a keyword.) I
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by neilv 1y ago
> Startups are fine scheduling candidates for 5-6 rounds of interviews, Not all startups are like that, and you might not know in advance. Though, incidentally, I did find one about a month ago, and I will take this moment of inspirati
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by neilv 1y ago
> I was expecting [...] like doing an interview every six months Incidentally, I hear advice like that (especially a variation, of "practice" interviews) on HN, but I really wish people wouldn't do that. Actually, please
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by neilv 1y ago
Regardless, people are going to start writing naturally like current LLM output, because that's a lot of what they are reading. A tech doc writer once mentioned how she'd been reading Hunter S. Thompson, and that it was immediat
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Cybercrims plant destructive time bomb malware in industrial .NET extensions(theregister.com)
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by neilv 1y ago
> Distribution Strategy - Assuming this is the right persona, how are you going to reach them, and can you communicate with them authentically? The author's use of "communicate with them authentically" where I'd exp
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by neilv 1y ago
The article unleashes a burst of expert quotes: > Experts note chief dealmaker Altman doesn’t have anything to lose. He has repeatedly claimed he does not have a stake in the company, and won’t have a stake even after OpenAI has restruc
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by neilv 1y ago
Thanks, I looked at some of those examples. Several I saw were suspiciously similar, and I wonder how they got that way. Others didn't look suspicious to me. I wonder whether the similar ones were the result of something innocent, li
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by neilv 1y ago
Thanks: /r/gaming post that wasn't only about product: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/154ko01/why_is_bliz... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertain
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by neilv 1y ago
* I want to keep liking GTA, and to keep giving Rockstar more money, for each new chapter and new console/device. If it turns out that Rockstar was union-busting and defaming, then I really hope that they soon have a we-messed-up mome
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by neilv 1y ago
> Essentially they draw a hell of a lot of national pride from this 'doing more with less' attribute. It came about out of necessity during ww2. Two of my best success stories are along those lines, and I thought might hit fa
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by neilv 1y ago
Looks like `archive.is` is currently using reCaptcha. So Google might be able to figure out and tell the FBI who runs it. (If not by data around the registration, then by data around accesses to the site that seem to be by a developer of
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by neilv 1y ago
> There are also indications that the operator(s) are based in Russia. That's long been my assumption. What I haven't known was whether this was good Russian people (culturally valuing literature and intellect) wanting to be
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by neilv 1y ago
Maybe. But if the founders were at all pre-gold-rush Internet people, sentiments like "don't be evil" seemed (in my impression at the time) more the genuine norm than the exception.
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by neilv 1y ago
Agreed, though I think that spectator-sports-fandom (if that's what you meant) analogy also has emotional team-identification connotations that don't apply to the majority of HN strong opinions about browsers. (But apply more to,
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by neilv 1y ago
> G(nome)T(ool)K(it). It always was. I believe it was the "Gimp Tool Kit" originally, and Wikipedia agrees: > GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit[3] and GTK+[4]) is a free open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user int
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by neilv 1y ago
The differences started with the first Gnome startup. Even the two co-founders of HelixCode had differing goals for the platform, and even different visions for the basic nature of it.
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by neilv 1y ago
Jared gentle deadpan from "Silicon Valley": > Well, I looked it up. It's about a predatory flautist who murders children in a cave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ70b-WRHlU&t=18s
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by neilv 1y ago
I think "healthy competition" is the most productive way to look at it, given the situation. With the history of unclear alignment, it would be foolish for everyone to rely on Gnome. But there's a ton of investment and value
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by neilv 1y ago
I'm personally open to Wayland, and able to move to it (and sometimes have, though once I had to back it out because it was breaking too much in a critical factory embedded appliance) (and XMonad works noticeably better for me than i3w
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by neilv 1y ago
I had to look up what "Gnome Mutter" is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutter_(software) > Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, but then evolved to be a d
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by neilv 1y ago
There are many scenarios in which cloud providers (especially AWS) make sense. Ideally, your company has technical experts who can do quite a lot of things non -cloud, so you can make informed decisions about near-term costs, complexity, v
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by neilv 1y ago
> When Perplexity refused to stop its bots, Amazon sought to block them, but Perplexity released a new version of Comet to get around the security measure. I'm not a lawyer, but the "security measure" wording sounded jus

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