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by random5634 6y ago
Separately, another area where upside / downside risk of providing feedback is no longer good is in feedback to rejected candidates for positions. Folks have said this can still be done, but our office was burnt by giving feedback, and
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by random5634 6y ago
Female founder friend (non tech space) was in a female focused incubator / competition. She got only one set of somewhat critical feedback - ie, lacks experience in X and Y which are key in product space Z. She posted a comment on her
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by random5634 6y ago
it's been productized for employee theft as well when tied into register systems. Most checkouts probably have that (or many do). Register doesn't balance, find clip of employee taking the $20, train model a bit better for next ti
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by random5634 6y ago
The problem is in part the anti-nuclear folks don't want the problem to be solved. So you can build a skyscraper 100 feet tall in a high earthquake zone, but you can't build a container. The normal approach (france etc) is to recy
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by random5634 6y ago
The issue is they regulate so a) you simply can’t buy them - while other countries tried to get n95s and equivalent to everyone the us blocked sale to reserve them. B) price cap everything which means things like hand sanitizer can’t be bou
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by random5634 6y ago
Apple is a complete walled garden, and plenty of folks have migrated to their phones for example - they actually want an experience that is very predictable and can be trusted. Apple charges HIGH amounts of money as a result of this level o
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by random5634 6y ago
The trick is to do exactly what they tell you not too immediately. Masks don't protect against covid - jump on Alibaba and buy some. Don't buy extra toiled paper, there will be no limits on its sale - immediately do a order on ama
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by random5634 6y ago
I mostly consumed news stories via google news - so my exposure was relatively narrow
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by random5634 6y ago
I’m also interested- I consumed primarily on IOS via google news carousal - that icon meant fast and clean
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by random5634 6y ago
God - if remote code execution exploits are an EU right we are screwed!
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by random5634 6y ago
It really makes me realize HN is not user focused. You can have tiny code and fly a popover ad into a users face with a 20 second cooldown before the x to close appears. Users HATE this. Pages are ALREADY scored on speed etc. AMP was a subs
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by random5634 6y ago
This debate comes up repeatedly on HN - HN is really not a good spot for it I don't think. HIGHLY predictable behavior - some users like that. The apple walled garden, the apple billing flow, the AMP subset of HTML etc - all hated here
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by random5634 6y ago
Focus was on a "user first" - NOT developer or hacker first approach. So a ton of the stuff that HN folks demand (being able to do dynamic third party javacript ads and tracker loads, DOM modification after render - gone - you jus
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by random5634 6y ago
But yet these users never deploy a non-google debloated world. Billing on line is the same thing. Unless you are on a trusted site (Amazon / Apple) you can just get hosed trying to cancel subscriptions with jack up pricing etc. Same th
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by random5634 6y ago
Same - despite all the hate I liked AMP. Hackers / developers seem to insist on the non-AMP sites to bloat sites to absolute trash and back. If I saw the amp logo, I knew that was the one to click. Abusing users with bloat is supposedl
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by random5634 6y ago
This is interesting - normally AMP is great and I'm (generally) a fan of it. But somehow they messed up AMP here - I've not seen that before. The AMP page is really poor (third party blocking, time to paint, even JANK is here - sh
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by random5634 6y ago
I was only partly joking about extensions. Definitely disable them all for this testing.
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by random5634 6y ago
Interesting. I did some work overseas in out of the way places - did supernodes used to be potentially very close to you if you had your own network that was limited back to larger internet?
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by random5634 6y ago
Agreed - Teams is good enough, but a bit laggy and things like backgrounds lagged for users WFH.
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by random5634 6y ago
Huh? If everything but one browser works, the suggestion will be to avoid using that browser unless you can show the expensive equip is doing something wrong. So firefox doing nothing more than a connection reset message does not help at al
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by random5634 6y ago
God - skype went to hell - absolute garbage new interface etc. It's something maybe with their tech stack that does not handle realtime audio etc and then on design side it's all non-usable social network type stuff? I honestly co
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by random5634 6y ago
Actually, I just went to it and it's much clearer and better than it was. It is a year for me now. That said, here is a recent BBB complaint. When I cancelled 2 years ago it was worse (no option to chat, you had to call and they left y
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by random5634 6y ago
I know about this - it’s actually worse and very serious if you underspend. Almost all the higher ups are paid out of budgets based on how much you spend- so the supervising agency gets their 15 percent admin fee, your managers are part of
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by random5634 6y ago
Ya - if you look at list of complainers - folks running loot boxes, lock in uncancelable subscriptions etc, crazy privacy violators (Facebook). there is so much money in this though I don’t see how they don’t get political folks to force ap
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by random5634 6y ago
Which ends up doing almost nothing in terms of actual tracking.
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by random5634 6y ago
No kidding. The first sign is how intrusive it all is. The second sign is how ineffective it is at anything web / crime related people actually care about (normal people). On HN it's like - go ahead and let me cable company and ce
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by random5634 6y ago
Google is facing a 5B lawsuit over incongnito mode. The fact that someone goes overboard with this crap is not unreasonable.
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by random5634 6y ago
Apple has focused pretty heavily on the user experience, developers be damned. I know this is not popular on HN (ie, anti-trust claims to allow devs to abuse users the way they can elsewhere). They haven't been stupid / annoying a
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by random5634 6y ago
This is one of the major features yes. On iOS apps are totally prohibited from their own payment flows in app / on platform - it's completely banned. This is extremely noticeable in a couple of areas. Subscription - you get an ema
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by random5634 6y ago
Seriously, imagine the compute and requests costs to assemble a large git pull.

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