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Ask HN: What is going on with mainstream website usability?
12 points by optimusclimb 9y ago|5 comments
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by optimusclimb 9y ago
> Now, you’ll find a bronze commemorative in front of the nautical-themed restaurant that serves New England-meets-“Mexican-street-style” fusion to baying tech bros and yoga mom Yelpers. One paragraph in before the lazy stereotyping. Ugh
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by optimusclimb 9y ago
I'm not sure what the title has to do with the article at all. It's just pointing out a language gotcha/subtlety. The title might as well have been "Go is Not Javascript", "Go is not QBasic", etc.
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by optimusclimb 9y ago
I don't prefer Lyft or Uber to monopoly taxis, I prefer to axe the monopoly part, which seems to have led to terrible taxi service in many places. I don't want - Drivers that drive like maniacs. Drivers that spend the entire ride
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
OR perhaps engineers and UI/UX people should be doing the design instead of PMs, sales people, and tight schedules. Though on the engineering guilt side, add to that dozens of layers of bloat, VMs, interpreted languages, and, "per
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
I wasn't really arguing with sama - just making some commentary on a small part of a larger document.
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
I think you may be mixing up the state of the company and/or its mission at the time of founding/early investment with their state at the present time. > Uber isn't about "getting privileged people with smart phones a
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
> 4) Does this company have a clear and important mission? > Without this, I usually get bored. More importantly, companies that don’t have this usually have a hard time recruiting enough great people to work with them, and thus stru
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
> it looks like the amount of time one would have after work and on weekends. If you're single with no children and no hobbies.
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
> e.g. If they ask you to merge sorted arrays and you don't know that Heap sort is the best way to do it, you've lost the interview no matter how clear your thought process is. Not because the interviewer is not watchful. But b
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
I'm with you on the elites bit. It strikes me as the kind of ambiguous blanket term that will leave some student 20-40 years from now reading a primary source from this time period scratching their head, trying to understand exactly wh
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
Except that the world around us is buildings, made of raw materials, i-beams, 2x4s, piping, etc. Built by people with trade skills. Filled with beds, sheets, refrigerators, dish washers, art on the walls, TVs, etc, etc. The whole world may
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
> It's not so much that I worship financial success, it's that I'm scared of being financially insecure. I'm taking some time off from working right now and I think about this a lot. American life right now is a lot l
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
What does that even mean? How can a risk come from "outside" LinkedIn related to my password? If I haven't leaked my own password, then there should be nothing to fear, and my account should be secure. Unless of course LINKED
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
Could it be that Facebook is just a more compelling platform to advertise on, so they have less need for salespeople to shove it down their customers' throats, as opposed to Twitter?
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by optimusclimb 10y ago
If the VCs know what's going to happen next, where were their predictive skills when they were pumping all of this money into companies with bad financials/business models in the first place?
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Without going on a spiel about the realities (often times) of working for startups, I'd say that - if Ford gets/hires the right people, I can't see a major reason not to consider them over many an SV startup. They at the leas
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
So going back to the last dip in 2008, that would be roughly equivalent to average inflation, no?
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
> and investment companies need operating capital even in (particularly in) down markets. Do they though? As far as I know, the premise of the public stock market is that there are companies that feel they have an idea/opportunity t
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
> But the fund manager may disagree with your investment thesis. I'm referring to funds managed for me with the proposition that they will beat the market, i.e. the fund manager has a thesis which they agree with (because it is thei
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
> The op was imprecise. True. Edited my comment.
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Why are actively managed funds paid via fees, and not based on performance? If someone (or some company) is claiming to be better than me at using my money to make money, surely they'd agree to put skin in the game, and only profit whe
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
I don't know about proving that the market will be "less efficient", as OP put it, but certainly the rules would be quite different. If 100% of retail investors were in "passively" managed funds, wouldn't that
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Assuming (could not be the case of course) that you program - the joy one experiences after coding for hours and then finally having everything fit together and work likely does not mirror the experience one had the first few times programm
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Nicely put together. Some commentary though - When I started running, it would have been very useful to have it drilled in to me that all "running" is not equal, and doesn't have to be at a fast clip, until that makes sense.
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Just to add further rationale behind these "rules" - In any form of climbing - the proposition is very straight forward - could you get yourself from point A, to some higher point B, using only your physical strength and prowess?
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
That guy's problem set allowed him to filter out massive percentages of his data from the get go.
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
About 5-6 years ago I was interviewing with Apple. It was a two day interview process. I went in the first day for about a half day, and then maybe after a few days (it's been a while) they said they wanted me to come back for another
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Don't blindly follow advice from articles with hard "yes/no" imperatives as titles.
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
> (e.g. working at known, established tech giants and/or startups), knowing people or being knowledgeable + luck? Passing an interview gauntlet will usually suffice. Be really good at sophomore level data structures/algorithms

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