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by sah2ed 9y ago
Not cool. You comment descends a bit into ad hominem territory. That blog post was basically Boz publicly acknowledging a personal flaw he hadn't been aware of up until his interaction with Dustin. In other words, calling him a mean co
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Nice that you posted client examples. I think your examples do not really prove the role of visual design conclusively because in the 18 month time-frame, the folks at Groove must have had several efforts running concurrently with the expl
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by sah2ed 9y ago
It's a running joke about DropBox. The giveaway is in the link in the parent's post.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I must say that your Unit 731 rebuttal did a great job of contrasting genuine bad behavior with the parent's claims of "worst thing I ever read".
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> I prioritize technology ahead of marketing, and am currently struggling to flip this around. May I ask why you feel strongly about a technology-first approach? I can think of someone that tried your exact approach, but it didn't e
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by sah2ed 9y ago
It called facing reality and realizing that certain phases in a company's growth require having someone with real world experience at the helm. It's the reason why John Doerr brought in Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO for adult
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The parent likely picked it up from the Twitter announcement: "The entire #Docker team would like to thank @solomonstre for creating the containerization movement and his 10 years of service and innovation. Thank you for bringing us al
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Same here, although I'm only 14 years in.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Facebook did not lack sound advice from competent executives, they just didn't have the spine to do the right thing, because money. One central tension at Facebook has been that of the legal and policy teams versus the security team.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I wasn't the one you originally replied to but it looks like you are shifting the goal posts here. > Maybe I'm the only one on HN that hasn't heard about it, but even so, sources shouldn't be omitted. You asked for
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by sah2ed 9y ago
It's a cognitive bias that kicks in when your monthly salary is involved, as succinctly noted in 1935 by Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it
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by sah2ed 9y ago
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Did the scandal actually happen? The articles I found only talked of the possibility for abuse by Uber. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/05/uber-removing-apple-gra...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The article clearly mentions that they had to punish someone. Also, China imposed harsh consequences in the form of lost revenue for Marriott due to the liked tweet: "China forced Marriott to suspend all online booking for a week at i
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think Occam's razor applies. Several days ago, Musk posted about his brand new "media empire" called Thud! [0] — "That’s the name of my new intergalactic media empire, exclamation point optional" [1]. Not implyi
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Signal disadvantage: It wont work with limited permissions on your phone according to some people on HN. I'm curious as to what those limited permissions are? I assume this refers to iOS, because in my experience, Android is not a
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> I look repulsive and my personality isn't much better. If you tell yourself those things often enough, which frankly sound like what other people have said about you in the past, eventually you start to believe them as fact. Both
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by sah2ed 9y ago
In fairness, your links are opinion pieces not staff reporting.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I wouldn't call it hypocrisy, more like having to deal with the unintended consequences of your action. He and others that have come out to publicly criticize Facebook knew what they were building, they just didn't see how powerfu
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by sah2ed 9y ago
For anyone who is curious like I was, there's a related episode on 99percent invisible that links to a YouTube documentary, although it's in spanish: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/managed-retreat&#x2F
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I don't think that applies here since the poster didn't disagree with the excerpt, they only pointed to a correction -- the fact that an aspect of conventional wisdom had been rendered untrue via research. The link to xkcd-inspire
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Wait, are those products listed at higher prices on Amazon or your website? If I can get an item cheaper from the seller directly, assuming paying them securely is not a problem and shipping costs stay constant, of course I'll switch t
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You are making a subtle mistake here. Tyler's legal defence came from his parents' finances, not his grandparents. Also, Tyler opting to become a whistleblower on Theranos caused a strain between his grandfather, who is a Theranos
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You make a fair point and I'll concede my error in equating deceleration with decline. But I think most of my points still stand.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Mobile is a decelerating market, while cloud and servers, where Intel has a huge lead is an expanding market and profitable. No, it is not decelerating, it's still growing [0]. Besides, demand from other low-power applications suc
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Exactly -- the key thing is the historical cost structures of the high-end makers makes low-end chip making highly unattractive which was why it was easy for Paul Otellini to say no to Apple to make chips for the iPhone. In the end, low-pow
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Alfred Anaya's conviction is quite a story. He really got the book thrown at him and then some, while much bigger fish in the drug trade got half of his 24 year sentence because they opted to bargain with the government. Thanks for the
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The trolley problem is an interesting dilemma, TIL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem Got any links on the Mercedes issue?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Not sure what the source of disagreement is, particulary when my comment was merely to agree with the gp's water analogy when s/he asked: "What makes a diamond "natural"?" Diamonds are perceived as luxury g
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think the gp's analogy of natural water is better than the luxury good you suggested because the underlying distinction is a choice between something naturally occuring vs man-made.

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