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by s17n 6y ago
I realize that he's an asshole and his behavior was pretty egregious but as engineers we should not be happy about the precedent that this sets.
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by s17n 6y ago
At my company, we interview a lot of intern / newgrad candidates who are also considering careers in finance. The less these people know about what "real work" in the tech industry actually consists of, the better our chance
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by s17n 6y ago
I don't think he was saying that artists aren't working hard enough, I think he was saying: 1. Albums don't maximize artist income - musicians should be steadily releasing new tracks. (Ironically, this is how things used to
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by s17n 6y ago
Every product relies on an external ecosystem for it to be useful. The lesson is to that if you're buying a product that isn't already highly successful, don't get too attached. Incidentally, the vast majority of the world
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by s17n 6y ago
Google doesn't really use any of the "standard stack". They use open source libraries for things like SSL but when it comes to the things that matter for quickly ramping up - source control, build/test infra, release ma
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by s17n 6y ago
Google doesn't really care that much about the FLOSS community's contributions - they have in house projects to do everything (even a kernel or two!) just because they have so many engineers. Pretty sure the main reason they don&
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by s17n 6y ago
More like someone who had never really considered freezing my sperm but I'm 35 and I could possibly be talked into it, and while I'd like to think I'm above something as trivial as the company's name / brand image I
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by s17n 6y ago
Yeah, just the describing your children as your legacy seems like a gross way of thinking about the world to me. Not trying to detract from the value of what you're doing, or suggest that the name is a bad decision, just thought you m
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by s17n 6y ago
To me the name "legacy" is a huge turnoff, big enough that I probably won't use your service. Maybe it's just me though!
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by s17n 6y ago
Those who disagree with Bari Weiss have spent plenty of time and energy engaging with her ideas directly. At this point, it's pretty clear that she's a troll.
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by s17n 6y ago
They're announcing these things at the same time for obvious reasons, but you can assume the prices would have gone up anyway.
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by s17n 6y ago
If that's the case, then the prices should go down for bundled content (and this does in fact appear to be what is happening). A la carte makes no sense.
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by s17n 6y ago
You aren't going to be able to spend less money though. Since there's zero marginal cost to adding extra channels, you should assume that the price you're getting charged isn't actually based on the number of channels y
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by s17n 6y ago
If you're buying an established business, then yeah most likely it's not gonna go well for the employees, since your whole thesis is that you can extract more profit post acquisition then pre acquisition. That's not what&#x27
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by s17n 6y ago
I'm assuming that Amazon is offering retention packages to the employees, otherwise, why would they bother acquiring the company? Early employees who were dreaming of a windfall aren't going to get one I guess, and anyone who left
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by s17n 6y ago
What "no code" is really about is "no figuring out the toolchain, deployment, integration with third parties, etc". For actually writing business logic, replacing code with drag and drop logic blocks is... not really he
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by s17n 6y ago
There's no such thing as a "slave branch"
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by s17n 6y ago
Lisp failed as an industrial language precisely because it has powerful meta programming capabilities. In the real world, nobody wants to have to solve a puzzle every time they visit a new area of the codebase.
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by s17n 6y ago
The point is to prevent Google from getting paid for the work that the put into Android, the point is to foment competition in the search space.
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by s17n 6y ago
I don't think that the earn it act will affect Signal - they aren't a publisher by any reasonable standard so they don't need the 230 exemption in the first place.
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by s17n 6y ago
NY times has 3.5M digital subscribers. Netflix has 120M. There are 4.5 billion internet users.
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by s17n 6y ago
Exactly the way it looks today, because most people aren't willing to pay for content.
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by s17n 6y ago
I see amp as improving the user experience of the internet as a whole. Amp sites aren't amazing, but they are usually better than the alternative.
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by s17n 6y ago
Right, and this reduced expense is the one that is in fact reflected in the GAAP numbers. But it might be useful for investors to know how much salaries would cost if they had to be payed in cash, which would be a higher number.
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by s17n 6y ago
For mature companies it's pretty simple, stock-based compensation can be valued using the current share price and standard accounting principles. For young companies, employees typically believe that their equity is worth more than t
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by s17n 6y ago
I think the fallacy is to confuse cause and effect. The characteristics necessary to achieve greatness are very likely to also make you an asshole. But, deliberately being an asshole is only going to make you less likely to achieve greatn
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by s17n 6y ago
Seems one of these things hits the front page every month or so. My question is, why don't the browser makers adopt something like this as the default stylesheet? Are they constrained by the spec here or is it just a matter of inerti
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by s17n 6y ago
Blogger... wasn't shut down?
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by s17n 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not really advocating the use of GVFS specifically, but what I am saying is that once you've lived in a world where all your dependencies are in your repo you won't want to go back, and that Git should improve their
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by s17n 6y ago
A better solution is something like https://vfsforgit.org/

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