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by romanhn 4y ago
As as Soviet kid growing up in the 80s, there was not a whole lot of personal computing going on. Around '91 I entered a new school, which offered informatics classes. My first exposure was with the Soviet "Corvette" computer
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by romanhn 4y ago
I gotta say, seeing the Meta CTO / Senior Fellow pop up on HN is an unexpected treat! (Oddly, a relative and an ex-boss of mine both worked with you at CenterRun back in the day. Silicon Valley is a small place indeed)
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by romanhn 4y ago
Having spent a couple of years at Facebook, I was honestly surprised by how different Zuckerberg is vs the outside perception. Now, I wasn't part of his inner circle or whatever, but in his weekly Q&As he came off very thoughtful,
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by romanhn 4y ago
After a long, intentional break break from the Microsoft ecosystem (more on this below), I recently kicked off a side project and was faced with the tech stack decision. After agonizing over Python vs Elixir, I landed on C#, unexpectedly. R
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by romanhn 4y ago
Similar to the sibling comment, I think the multiplayer recursive nature is what would set this game apart. The overarching theme being the exploration of the concept of fate, how much is within your control, and how much predestiny might p
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by romanhn 4y ago
Maybe when it comes to the basic mechanics. I think the multiplayer recursive nature would be the more interesting aspect.
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by romanhn 4y ago
When I was a teenager, I came up with a concept for a game that I think still would be amazing. It would be called something like "Fate" and would explore that same concept. The idea is that you have certain goals to achieve as a
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by romanhn 4y ago
Having reference customers that are willing to be publicly associated with your product is one of the most important tools in the product marketing toolbox. It's not meant for you as a consumer, but rather for the decision-makers/
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by romanhn 4y ago
This seems like it belongs squarely on Reddit, particularly the r/antiwork subreddit.
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by romanhn 4y ago
Others provided a bunch of alternative options. I'll throw another one in the mix. Parag has been a CEO a few short months. If he's about to be out, he won't have much to show for his time. Bold moves now can show potential f
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by romanhn 4y ago
I tried to answer in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356567
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by romanhn 4y ago
I suggest a bit more research into his background. This is something he has been working on for the past ten years, at least: https://www.thorn.org/about-our-fight-against-sexual-exploit... . EDIT: Actually established in 20
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by romanhn 4y ago
What makes it funnier is that the registry developer is not the same person as the bee hater, if I'm reading this correctly.
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by romanhn 4y ago
Audiobooks have been a lifesaver in my otherwise busy life. I listen when I drive and when I do chores primarily. Try to alternate fiction and non-fiction, been doing it for probably 15 years now. Last couple of years I've started incr
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by romanhn 5y ago
When I was entering the workforce twenty years ago, I interviewed several times with Microsoft, without success. I recall string manipulation questions, linked lists, and puzzles. I probably spent the most time preparing for the latter. Bef
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by romanhn 5y ago
You have overlapped (meaning, lived at the same time) with almost all, perhaps all, oldest verified people in history. I'm 40 and overlap with all of the 100 verified oldest women and 100 oldest men, save for one.
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by romanhn 5y ago
The article talks about "mating success", which I'm not really sure correlates with marriage necessarily. Calling Tinder a marriage market is quite a stretch as well. Summary seems to be "physical attractiveness leads to
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by romanhn 5y ago
Yes, I'm quite certain it happens accidentally during phone scrolling (in fact, I have seen it happen while scrolling). It's certainly bad UX, but considering I haven't seen such UI sensitivity elsewhere, part of me wonders h
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by romanhn 5y ago
For sure, I was one of those preallocated folks. That said, bootcamp allocation is far and away the most common way people get assigned to teams. Good point in not focusing too much on it, so many people switch teams in their own every 1-2
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by romanhn 5y ago
Everyone's trying to figure out which is which, so here are my takes: Wouldn't work ever - Amazon Wants on-site - applies to Apple, Google, Netflix. My guess is Apple. Team assigned later - Facebook/Meta with its bootcamp pro
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by romanhn 5y ago
Added a second page after about 10 years of experience. Not planning to ever add a third. Nobody cares about what you did three jobs ago, so I'm content with having my early gigs summarized to literally a single line each. There's
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by romanhn 5y ago
TBH, you might be looking in the wrong place. Computer science != software engineering and you'd probably have more luck engaging with folks in academia circles. Look into the Papers We Love community as well. I would, however, caution
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by romanhn 5y ago
As far as I know, App Runner still doesn't scale down to zero, whereas GCR does.
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And people will also disagree on what an ad is.
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While still somewhat cheaper than prime Bay Area real estate in absolute sense, the price edge in San Diego and North County has rapidly diminished in the last couple of years. Bidding is extremely aggressive and many homes in the more desi
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by romanhn 5y ago
Fascinating! I've been on HN for years and this is the first time I've heard this.
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by romanhn 5y ago
An odd assertion, since that user does in fact have plenty of technical comments.
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by romanhn 5y ago
Caro's The Power Broker, a biography of Robert Moses, was pretty great as well, even if you don't have a particular interest in public works.
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by romanhn 5y ago
Yeah, I was really curious about the current state of things, but lost interest after reading the abstract, which was very careful to use "may" everywhere. It's quite a leap to go from "they could do X if they wanted to&
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by romanhn 5y ago
Presumably he is US-based, in which case you can. I did find the verbiage of "discontinuing" people rather unsettling, but otherwise it's a thoughtful piece that resonated with my experience.

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