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by pjlegato 10y ago
Moreover, most people either run ad blockers that hide the sponsored headlines, or else have simply learned to ignore them as they scan the page visually. I believe what OP is doing -- what all successful self-promoters on Reddit do -- is i
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Granted, people are often unnecessarily rude about their criticism and dismissive attitude, but -- they're the default because, frankly, almost all projects are not actually worth much (monetarily or otherwise), irrespective of how muc
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by pjlegato 10y ago
That's not just capitalism; that's all systems. If you had a great new idea in the Soviet Union, for example, do you suppose you would be just given the resources necessary to execute it well? Of course not, and moreover the i
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It's not just hardware support (though even that still requires stuff like editing text files before the GUI will start on certain common machines.) The UX of the GUIs leaves much to be desired - certainly relative to an Apple machine.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I use Linux on a daily basis, including recently building a Linux desktop machine from scratch. Its usability is much better than it was in 1999, yes, but it's still a very far cry from the polished, just-works user experience of the M
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I 'd buy it! Who's going to fund the upfront development? "We're going to make a new desktop OS that takes on both Apple and Microsoft" sounds like a hard sell for the VC crowd.
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Suppose you need a new computer for work. Your other options are Windows or a Linux desktop experience, both of which are vastly worse in other ways. (No, I don't want to dork around with spending days compiling kernel patches and inst
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by pjlegato 10y ago
They've long solved that challenge. After a few generations of phone (read: a few years), all new iOS upgrades simply refuse to install on your old phone. Then, after a short while, your apps auto-upgrade themselves and then stop worki
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Off topic, but I just checked out your website. I read the landing page, and it sounds reasonable so far. I saw the "Try Some" link and thought, "Sure, I'll give it a try!" I thought it would lead to a page offering
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Presumably the Soylent guy ought to be held to a higher standard of knowing what "basic nutrients" are, as he actively promotes himself as an expert on the topic and encourages people to buy his drink full of "all basic nutri
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Even better for the company, if they fire someone even just before the end of the year -- no bonus at all for them. If they were to pay them the equivalent of the bonus in extra salary installments throughout the year, most of that money wo
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Seneca was, therefore, wrong in his assessment (assuming that the English translation is entirely accurate.)
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Of course, in the same sense that most people condemned to die (or merely to go to prison) are also there against their will.
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Manufacturing costs -- it's cheaper to not include a DIMM than to include one, so why would they? Also, this way, you have to buy another whole computer in five years when 16 GB is no longer enough.
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The games weren't "murder," which is by definition the unlawful taking of another's life. Roman gladiatorial combat was perfectly legal at the time.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I'm in San Francisco right now, a dense, large city with a huge tech-savvy population. There seems to be one other person online at the moment. I guess there are probably more online elsewhere in SF, just not within 1km of me. Adapting
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by pjlegato 10y ago
What's so weird about wanting to share your coffee with someone? The screenshot shows someone riding a train -- presumably they are in a distant city where they don't know anyone.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
If you think nobody will have much motive to run a very sophisticated / expensive attack on you specifically (e.g. Spotify), then self-hosted is great. You won't be taken out as collateral damage when they're targeting someon
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Open office plans are a great example of cargo cult management, second only to Agile. Despite numerous well controlled studies debunking the myths that people are somehow happier, more creative, or communicate better in open plans, we get:
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I would go even farther and assert that the US is much less corrupt than the vast majority of democracies in the world.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Yes, I'm sure the collapse of the state was quite terrible. Nobody is trying to diminish the horror of that experience. The point is that "westerners," even HN readers, are not all a bunch of naive rich people who have neve
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This is called "having roommates" in the US, and it's quite common, especially among students and younger people.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
> Western country... very big societal changes... It's already happened. Contrary to popular belief, Western countries are not uniformly rich and successful places where everyone drives a Ferrari and owns three houses. This stereoty
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Most brokers allow you to borrow money against stocks. It's typically called "margin."
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Rants are purely emotional and lack any reason or evidence. Polemics are in part emotional, but also contain a significant element of reason and evidence.
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It wasn't that we gave up responsibility; it was that we were told "ignore those problems and build it poorly anyway, because if you don't we'll just replace you with someone who will."
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by pjlegato 10y ago
They're not interested in your email trail. They just want a scapegoat. You're not put on trial first before you're fired; you're just summarily shown the door. Since you're not given any chance to defend yourself,
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by pjlegato 10y ago
So is it true that the screening interview is with 2-3 non-technical HR people? If so, that's completely incompatible with the procedure you've outlined. Non-technical people are by definition not capable of evaluating points a),
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Maybe I should've written, "shiny new managers".
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Tip to shiny new CEOs: Ghosting a job candidate is not only grossly unprofessional, it's extremely rude at a personal level. The candidate went to all the trouble of engaging with you; you owe them (at the very least) a timely and prof

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