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by paulcole 8mo ago
Hostility? What did I say that wasn't true? They should probably have promoted the guy who was reading the book. 0% chance he'd let one of his reports make him do work that the report should've been doing themselves.
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by paulcole 8mo ago
You’re the one who dealt the cards! You’re the alleged (self-described) manager here. No wonder you got pushed around by somebody who was able to do their work. You seem to see yourself as the victim of circumstance rather than in control o
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by paulcole 8mo ago
The kind of person who gets pushed around by their reports like this will end up walking by everyone’s cubicle a few times a day because they’re afraid to tell the bad employees why the good employee gets special treatment. Read the guys st
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by paulcole 8mo ago
Of course they should be fired if it’s been made clear that behavior is unacceptable (which it should be). Culture is what you let people get away with. But seems like the company (and you) thought that was acceptable so who knows.
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by paulcole 8mo ago
> Postman has quietly removed free multi-user collaboration and limited the free plan to a single user How would they do this loudly?
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Who has described them this way?
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by paulcole 9mo ago
> but I still have this deep sense of imposter syndrome You might be an imposter?
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Ooh and aah most certainly are words. Is meow not a word? Can I spell it miough and sit smugly correct?
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Use the AI to make the “machine” that does the repetitive work? I’m not a programmer but that’s what I’ve done. In the past I would’ve needed either to learn how to code or hire someone.
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by paulcole 9mo ago
> Marketing budgets can fund stuff whose authenticity is independent of who’s writing the check, right I think “follow the money” is the cliche that applies here. > Especially when their audience is extra-contrarian and sensitive to a
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by paulcole 9mo ago
> But I’d argue their underlying spirit isn’t the same. And your argument is based on the fact that you’d like this to be true as well as the fact that the vc company behind this site said, “Trust us bro!” How is that different from the
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Sorry, I was replying to the person who said, “Since when was HN about venture capital?” The answer to that is obviously since its inception. It’s like watching those weird flying contraption contests and asking, “Since when is Red Bull abo
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Do you believe all marketing and advertising copy that you read?
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Cool that you bet your ability to pay your mortgage on something that is only good for the simplest throwaway code and things that can’t be relied on or maintained by others. Doesn’t seem like the vibecoding mandate is the problem?
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Unrelated but I have long held a Jurassic Park Theory of Startups. The easier you can map yourself and coworkers to characters in Jurassic Park the bleaker the prospects of the company.
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by paulcole 9mo ago
They may be early but they’re not wrong.
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by paulcole 9mo ago
None of the above! I don't understand why it's obvious that I should be able to tell the software maker how to make their software (don't change the UI, give me option to use old UI) but that it's not obvious that the so
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Between the situation I described and the one you described, one is a crime and one is not. I wonder if one is a bigger deal than the other!
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by paulcole 9mo ago
There's a bunch of services that charge to help you with the reinstatement process because they know what keywords to use to help you navigate the Amazon system. I think they're worth reaching out to (I don't have one that I
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by paulcole 9mo ago
> Someone should be able to freeze their user interface in time if they wish. Why?
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Yeah I disagree. I don’t have enough info to say that’s “bad.” Sounds like they’re not raising prices for the end consumer? What’s wrong with finding efficiencies? Is it more moral to let a company be inefficient? What’s wrong with buying a
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Culture, in my opinion, is the sum of all behaviors in an organization. Behaviors are driven by incentives and disincentives. When we talk about culture we talk about the behaviors that are generally incentivized and disincentivized. Core v
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Who’s saying you can’t enjoy the typing of letters, numbers, and symbols into a computer? The issue is that this is getting to be a less economically valuable activity. You wouldn’t say, “It’s not that they hate electricity it’s just that t
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Did you mean to reply to me or someone else?
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by paulcole 9mo ago
Isn't it kind of logical that if you knew that if you got on the radar of the authorities that you'd be deported, that you'd do your best to avoid committing any crime (even a minor one)? And even if that's totally illog
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by paulcole 10mo ago
> Like, if I go to a restaurant that refuses me sugar for my tea, it better be darn good tea. But if you demand sugar in your tea it doesn't matter how good the tea is, right? You are not going to like that restaurant. > Importan
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by paulcole 10mo ago
> Particularly with the average user, the bar of understanding is lower now. Can you explain how this is true given that everyone using a computer today has had a lifetime of computer use whereas in 1992 many people were encountering com
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Did you mean to reply to me? The person I replied to said, "that interface designers or even the average computer user understands more than in 1992 is highly implausible on its face" Think of computer users at the ages of 10, 20,
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Why is it highly implausible on its face other than the fact it makes arguing against him harder?
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by paulcole 10mo ago
I thought that was supposed to be Apple’s thing. “We decide how to make it and you decide to buy it or not.” It makes it seem like they’re designing for you until they’re not.

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