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by sah2ed 7y ago
On the contrary, it’s a pretty good filter for the kinds of engineers they want working for them.
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Oh, you are that Mark Watson that used to hang out on TSS [0] back in its hey days? 0: https://www.theserverside.com/discussions/
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Interesting perspective and I mostly agree with the kernel of your article. A few small gripes. All three words start with the letter M perhaps to make them easy to recall, but I feel like other words that are more familiar wrt the subject
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Perhaps a word that connotes neutrality like “impartial” would be better in this context?
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Funny that you bring up past numbers on revenue and profit. Andy Grove, Intel’s most celebrated CEO, used to sound a note of warning about relying too much on such metrics for decision-making. Revenue, which is really about what has alrea
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> Anyone want to propose some theories on why disregard for an extant body of work tends to plague software so extensively? Removing stuff isn’t restricted to software practitioners but there’s no need to reach for a flashy theory for
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Slightly unrelated, from what web tools did you take these screen shots [1,2] that were shared in your interview? 1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.starterstory.com/story_images/i... 2. https://s3.amazona
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> Aircraft engines are designed to be light, and sacrifice low cost and the ability to burn cheap diesel fuel for that. Small correction: aircraft engines generally use kerosene-based fuels (Jet A-1, Jet B). Also cost-wise, aircraft-gr
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Adding that prepaid debit card to your PayPal account, then paying DO with PayPal works seamlessly.
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by sah2ed 7y ago
True, I also occasionally run XP inside a VM. The only issue is that the version of IE bundled with Windows XP cannot be upgraded to a newer engine, so for software such as Office that defer to the IE browser engine shipped with the OS to a
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> It's like in 20s-30s last century - radio was invented and democracy wasn't ready for it - and when crisis came the result was totalitarianisms. Interesting. Can you suggest additional reading on this? Thanks!
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> IMHO, ubiquity, especially when traveling, will ultimately be the winning move. Many of Uber’s customers are price sensitive. The minority who are not price sensitive are more likely to (be able to afford frequent) travel, but I fail
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by sah2ed 7y ago
The first 9 release names of OSX (v10.0 - v10.8) were based on cat names after which they switched to Mavericks for v10.10: - Cheetah - Puma - Jaguar - Panther - Tiger - Leopard - Snow Leopard - Lion - Mountain Lion - Mavericks
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Yes. They even did a Show HN in 2016 when it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667494 Larry McVoy comments here occasionally as https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=luckydude
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> Sundar has no more vision than Larry does yet somehow is paid $200m+ a year and in my mind is the most unjustifiably overpaid CEO by a huge margin. Do you have a source for this? My understanding is that this $200m figure is a multi-
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> So even in traditional media there's a little precedent for this. There may not be a precedent in traditional media but boy there is an Internet entity that well known to us already: Wikipedia. Many forget that Wikipedia (where
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by sah2ed 7y ago
OT: Interesting blog you’ve got there. I’ve seen Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems book recommended here a few times before, but your review really pulled the trigger for me, so thanks!
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> And Drew DeVault is kind of an asshole This sentence was totally uncalled for.
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> I want a company that I can hire that will take care of all of my backoffice/HR tasks. Hopefully one of these companies should offer something that meets your HR needs (in reverse alphabetical order): - https://www.tr
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by sah2ed 7y ago
1. Do you have employees (or virtual assistants) to handle support requests? 2. What is your competition like?
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by sah2ed 7y ago
This resignation notice [0] coincided closely with the Judaism moderator's firing by SE. It should provide a bit more context with respect to their apology to the LGBTQ+ community that felt let down by SE: 0: https://literat
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> Looks like the mod that made that post is a developer. No offence to other developers but my personal opinion is we developers are best to leave the delicate communications to the marketing team Not correct. Perhaps she used to be a
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Exactly. Commingling under one umbrella, religion and sexual orientation, which are essentially identity-based communities [0], will invariably lead to a headlong collision as you say. 0: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.h
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Based on the gp's handle, I believe the full story [0] had been posted here [1] before: 0: https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> Implementing features based on feedback from 1 customer, then find out the customer wasn't articulating the problem at all. What about, ahem, Google Self-Driving Cars :)? Unpopular opinion around here but here goes: I feel the d
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Who hands out the key to the letter carrier, a security guard?
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by sah2ed 7y ago
You are making a subtle mixup between “I am” vs “I can”. He didn’t write that he is a full stack dev, he wrote that he interviewed for a full stack dev role: > “I recently interviewed for a full-stack dev position, and I felt I did qu
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> I'm so glad I read hacker news. I almost took a job at WeWork just 2 months ago with a recruiter working very hard to convince me I'd be rich when they IPO. Did a 2-month old HN comment foretell WeWork imploding which infor
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> But that's not even a complete sentence! Why do you consider the sentence incomplete when the context of the sentence you quoted is quite clear. FWIW, it was beaten over our heads in school that merely writing “Yes.” in respon
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by sah2ed 7y ago
I strongly recommend you seek out therapy in some form. Heck, even something like using this free service [0] where you could offload to a stranger could help lift the enormous burden you are feeling and help reset your currently gloomy per

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