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by oldtownroad 3y ago
We hired a former Googler recently, great hire. Your resume couldn’t be more different from his: yours is so generic that my only takeaway is “oh he worked at Google”. I fear you’ve taken resume advice along the lines of “…explain the value
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Netflix used their magical tech money to compete with studios in a wildly unprofitable way. Netflix churns out hundreds of thousands of hours of content each year at heavy, heavy losses, because they can afford to burn money to force the st
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
There’s a strong, widespread objection to hiding security features behind a paywall: https://sso.tax/ If 2fa is the only way you can differentiate in order to force enterprises to pay, it’s better to have a fee for security
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
I very much doubt it. They’re a huge company doing very good business: they have easy access to capital so even in a liquidity crisis they would have no problem addressing it before anyone noticed. If they’re insolvent, that would be one he
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The lawsuit accuses the CEO of being a shady person in general. I think it’s plausible that the co-founder was surrendering equity he thought worthless (to move on from working with the shady person) and perhaps the CEO was advised by someo
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The story is almost certainly untrue or a misunderstanding. Facebook has no reason to scrape individuals personal information and then forcefully update their Facebook profile. There are various processes at Meta that do require identificat
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
I’d guess so that ticketmaster etc. can’t identify which tickets are being sold via StubHub. If the domains were identifiable, ticketmaster could block the transfers.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
My theory is it’s a janky workaround for a system that requires “an account” to buy tickets and so this was the solution they came up with internally to support third-party integrations and possibly affiliate programs. The amount of weird-a
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Part of the appeal of the cloud over on-premise is that on-premise is not just expensive, but hard: oxide’s product isn’t just on-premise hardware, it’s on-premise hardware _that is easy_*. If on-premise was just expensive, it would be so m
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
bench.co offer everything you need, I’ve been very impressed. Flat fee, listed on website.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Amazon hate their employees. Google hate their customers.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Steve has always been the leader reddit deserves, not the leader it needs. The position Reddit is in is of his own creation. Even the most uninspired out of touch corporate leader would have avoided this entire clown show. Steve believes th
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
LLM developers have no need for Reddit’s API: Reddit data is available through a variety of sources that don’t require usage of the API. The API they’re targeting are third-party clients used by humans. Apps like Apollo are the target. Redd
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The tired “don’t build on someone else’s api” lesson doesn’t apply to this case because Apollo is specifically a method for accessing Reddit: Apollo wouldn’t exist without Reddit. The outcome here is sad, yes, but the author built a wildly
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Business advice rather than legal but… your customers are working with a company, not a person: the number of people at your company is immaterial. Lots of well-funded startups send everyone on vacation at Christmas for 2 weeks, and in some
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
You’re probably not working in startups, then. If a new developer can’t push code to production on the first day in a company of <100 people then there’s something wrong. If you’re joining a big corporate with thousands of employees and
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The limit only applies if you’ve created… I can’t remember the number exactly and it’s not listed anywhere but I recall hitting a limit around 5 pages. You can see that it’s free to make a page here — the only requirement is a free account:
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
I have lots of LinkedIn pages for various companies (alive and dead). I’ve never had to pay: while there’s limits on page creation for free accounts (which appear to be prevent abuse) there’s no direct payment required to create a company
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Visit a platform like LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook and try to report content: the complex decision tree of what to report and why will be a good demonstration or how unintuitive the reality of content moderation is. Every user of every pla
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
That’s the point though, right? Encouraging illegal activity may not itself be illegal but moderators aren’t arbiters of the law, they’re protecting the integrity of the website for the intended user base. If you want to allow people to enc
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
As a white person who grew up in the west, I was berated often for holding my knife and fork the “wrong” way and so it’s instilled in me that there is a “right” way to use utensils — thankfully, I only embarrassed myself a few times asking
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
One of the highest selling songs of the decade, Old Town Road, was made by some kid on a laptop in his bedroom. He has outsold Radiohead, the song went 16x platinum. Production value means nothing in the success of music, even some of the m