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by s17n 2y ago
The article's thinking is pretty confused - SpaceX's work for NASA has been a huge success, and that... shows that NASA is failing? Criticizing NASA's continued support for the ULA seems valid though. But then, one could arg
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by s17n 2y ago
Enforced correctness is great. Manual memory management isn't appropriate for most applications (games of course are an example of where it is!)
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by s17n 2y ago
I have literally never used a doubly-linked list in my life, and I'm pretty sure that most programmers can say the same thing. As for the example... yeah, Python is pretty terrible (for writing production codebases, I think its a great
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by s17n 2y ago
> Fetishization of Efficient Memory Representation: ... I don't understand what the point is here. Some people care about avoiding heap allocations? They're a tool just like anything else The point is that dealing with the Rust
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by s17n 2y ago
The first question I have when I visit the site is, how is this different from Firebase?
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by s17n 2y ago
He's suggesting that acquisitions aren't happening because of antitrust enforcement. I'm pretty sure that has no bearing on the type of tiny acquisition we're talking about here but then again I don't actually know
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by s17n 2y ago
Weird that his example of YC's decline is a company putting together a hacky MVP based on open source code, which is an absolutely classic YC thing to do.
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by s17n 2y ago
In my experience doing these interviews in Node and Python, it takes about 5 minutes to get running. If it takes more than that... maybe use a different codebase.
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by s17n 2y ago
Yeah this part didn't make any sense to me - is he claiming that later interviewers will be heavily biased by talking to previous interviewers? If so, I think that's probably not as strong an effect as he's claiming, and its
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by s17n 2y ago
Obviously, what people want is full time jobs. That's what the whole political battle over these platforms is about.
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by s17n 2y ago
"A study from Australia and the United Kingdom by Lorraine Sheridan and David James[13] compared 128 self-defined victims of 'gang stalking' with a randomly selected group of 128 self-declared victims of stalking by an indivi
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by s17n 2y ago
more or less
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by s17n 2y ago
Meetup has steadily gone to shit, and it's not hard to see why: you can't make money with a user-friendly platform for hosting community groups. Do you have a plan to avoid their fate?
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by s17n 2y ago
Interesting, thanks! Not to get too far off on this tangent, but how is that different from the way VCs / investment funds work in general (taking fees from the LPs in exchange for their services)?
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by s17n 2y ago
> They’re frequently syndicated at double-digit spreads What does this mean?
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by s17n 2y ago
I think most employees are mostly well aware that founders take a money off the table in every round, and I think that it absolutely does negatively affect morale.
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by s17n 2y ago
The entire theoretical advantage of linked lists over vectors (constant time insertion and deletion) comes from not sequentially allocating them.
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by s17n 2y ago
I feel like at Google, design docs suffer from being the main thing that goes in your promo packet, which leads to the writing being done more with promo committee in mind then the documents ostensible audience of people who are working on
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by s17n 2y ago
If it was a phishing email it would have a signal username, not just "use signal"
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by s17n 2y ago
That'll show em.
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by s17n 3y ago
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/calif-residents-sue-h...
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by s17n 3y ago
I'm not talking about teenagers. If you think that your social life is the same with and without imessage you're wrong, regardless of how old you are. Using any other app just adds friction - obviously your best friend isn't
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by s17n 3y ago
In the US you can actually lose relationships if you don't have imessage. None of the other apps matter.
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by s17n 3y ago
Related to #2, professional investors understand that the implied valuation in a round with a >1x liquidation pref is, in a word, bullshit. As an employee, you too should keep this in mind when you are valuing your equity package.
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by s17n 3y ago
Yeah, Uber used to just be what Uber Black is now, if you remember. I'm sure that both the consistency but moreso the average quality of Waymo will eventually decline (although the experience will of course always be more consistent t
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by s17n 3y ago
That's because the cars are all brand new Jaguars that are impeccably maintained. If Waymo succeeds in becoming a widely used service that is price competitive with Uber, the experience won't be this good forever.
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by s17n 3y ago
It's not fundamentally necessary, old-school predatory businesses like Columbia House were able to survive without an automatic way to collect on debts.
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by s17n 3y ago
Lyft already had the ability to charge my credit card, as they do for almost everyone I assume. Robinhood actually just deducted the amount from my balance and then sent me a "you have negative cash in your account please add funds or
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Ask HN: Are app signup dark patterns getting worse?
46 points by s17n 3y ago|22 comments
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by s17n 3y ago
I feel like the license definitely can supersede that - you obviously wouldn't be GPL compliant if you required everyone who got access to your code to sign an NDA, for example.

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