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by raydev 4y ago
VPNs still work with Netflix? Way back when Netflix was mostly still non-original content and movies, the US had a far superior selection compared to Canada, so a lot of us Canadians used VPNs to get access to US content. Around 2015 Netfli
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by raydev 4y ago
> when you have these people posting 'day in the life of twitter' 'day in the life as a google yelp elitist', etc. Where it seems like majority of the day is spent pampering oneself than actually working I've bee
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by raydev 4y ago
> I won’t work someplace my tenure is based on a dice roll. Having lived through multiple layoffs in the last few years, I'm not sure there's any org larger than, just handwaving here, 1k people that doesn't do this. I thi
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by raydev 4y ago
Because it doesn't matter. The idea that these companies are overflowing with "low performers" is a complete myth, a lie that people use to comfort themselves. The Big Names are actually filled with so many smart and producti
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by raydev 4y ago
I do wonder about the details of his life. Can't find info on his father, only his mother who is described as a dermatologist, which is interesting. Was anyone in his family well-connected in the tech industry? If his mother was regula
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by raydev 4y ago
I've seen some people (mostly on Blind and one person IRL) very strongly suggest to those laid off from the Big Names™ to not just take a job at no-name tech companies, as it looks bad to both the Big Names™ and to the startups who lik
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by raydev 4y ago
> do your fellow human a kindness, as opposed to just selfishly passing along the garbage Layoffs impact everyone at the company, even those who remain. There is no "passing the garbage", it's already there, on top of ever
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by raydev 4y ago
I wouldn't. Getting laid off is a lifechanging event, on the approximate level of an immediate family member going to the ER. Both require leaving the office immediately. My teammates (if they are still employed) can sort it out.
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by raydev 4y ago
> it would not be able to save 5% of the workforce from getting fired This part of your statement has no relevance given MS's position, even taking into account the current market. MS as a company is in no danger here. In fact, they
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by raydev 4y ago
How old is your data on this? This is repeated multiple times in this thread, but my experience with layoffs hasn't shown that poor performers are cut. It's random or it's entire teams/orgs.
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by raydev 4y ago
> Mass layoffs give you the opportunity to quickly purge poor performers without as much paperwork This is repeated a lot but having lived through 3 layoffs (and survived 2) in my career, that has never been the case. Every time it seeme
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by raydev 4y ago
> where you get almost the same hardware a superb display and a keyboard built in. I just priced out a 24GB RAM/2TB storage M2 mini, and it's still $1kCAD cheaper than the equivalent Air. There is definitely a large "scree
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by raydev 4y ago
I had the 24" 1920x1200 Apple Cinema Display for several years, and I vividly remember that text looked objectively worse after I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite. I now use a 27" 1440p monitor and I'm always struck by how
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by raydev 4y ago
> The "For You" timeline is only for Elon The "For You" timeline is a new name for the "Home" timeline that's been around forever. And now it's easier to get to the chronological feed ("Follow
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by raydev 4y ago
There were also quite a few websites that just straight up hosted MP2s/MP3s for public download. I can't recall domain names but I do remember .se and .ru being common tlds. I couldn't read a single word of Swedish or Russian
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by raydev 4y ago
> If you drive away enough users We don't have any hard numbers but I'm curious why you think network effects would apply here. Twitter's audience is not the same as it was 10 years ago, when the tech/tech-adjacent Tw
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by raydev 4y ago
Not sure why you've been downvoted, you've called out the most likely concern. Despite the APIs bringing in some money, I doubt they've covered the ad revenue loss, especially in recent years as more and more advertisers star
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by raydev 4y ago
Facebook had far more engineers available to do this sort of work.
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by raydev 4y ago
Twitter's audience in 2012 was significantly smaller. A far higher percentage of users are using the official apps now. > this will vastly disproportionately hit influential users) Maybe within the tech space, but again, Twitter&#x2
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by raydev 4y ago
> Both the lender and the borrower know what they are doing better than outside commenters who have never spent any time studying "going private" financing It's pretty clear the borrower didn't know what they're
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by raydev 4y ago
Presumably email (plus getting locked out of equipment and work accounts) if this person was part of the November layoff group.
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by raydev 4y ago
I recommend it. For me, unused skills will become inaccessible relatively quickly, and interviews require a specific set that aren't used at all in any of my jobs over the years. Once, I did heavy interview prep because I was bored wit
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by raydev 4y ago
> they were consistently losing money ... with ever increasing revenue to cover it. If you take a look at the quarterly reports, clearly they had a spending problem and not so much a problem with ads. The business was fine. The leaders w
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by raydev 4y ago
I understand where you're coming from and I'm very much aware of how unhelpful my perspective is. After much work I can mostly convince myself ahead of time but then it all turns sour once the call starts, and I can feel my body v
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Ask HN: I'm desperate. How can I overcome anxiety in interview situations?
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by raydev 4y ago
Sure, why not? The key is that if it requires some sort of certification, as Canada claims it does, then it should be a modifier/adjective on the title like "certified janitor" or "licensed engineer". Just claiming
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by raydev 4y ago
> silently blocking an esteemed scientist is indeed horrible My understanding is that anyone using the chrono timeline could still his tweets as they happened. Twitter deciding not to promote his tweets in the algo timeline seems far a
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by raydev 4y ago
> yet its post are secretly set to have near zero visibility Whoever is following you and using the chronological timeline will see your tweets just fine as they happen. Twitter deciding not to promote your tweet in the trending-ish&#x
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by raydev 4y ago
FYI, I think your tweet must be hidden if the user is logged out. I'm logged in, and can see your tweet in the replies just fine. Still not shadowingbanning.
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by raydev 4y ago
- The grandparents have jobs of their own with limited vacation time (maybe a US-specific problem, you say you are from Brazil) - Does either side of the family have enough money to fund cross-country travel more than once a year for a week

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