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by samhw 5y ago
I think that was their point (though I'm not altogether sure where they were going with it). Anyway, there's a case to be made that radio and television advertising are less malign by virtue of being less targeted. They can only r
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by samhw 5y ago
Haha, this reminds me of a previous company I worked at, whose backend was at one point so architected as to enqueue every single HTTP request onto RabbitMQ to be processed, and then consume the response and return it to the client. (Don&#x
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by samhw 5y ago
No, you said FAANG pay is higher than average European dev pay, not that average FAANG pay is higher than [average] European dev pay
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by samhw 5y ago
> how many times have you seen amicus briefs written to the supreme court defending 5th amendment rights? Are you serious? There are 5th Amendment cases in the Supreme Court practically every month, to which plenty of groups will submit
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I definitely agree to some extent. I've worked with enough people like this to know that there are 100x engineers, and 100x CEOs, and so forth. But I wouldn't assume that every 100x CEO succeeds. It's a contributing f
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by samhw 5y ago
I guess it depends on the average relative valuation (i.e. are more people undervaluing that person to a greater degree than those overvaluing them?). But this also seems to depend on some kind of great man theory of business history. Plent
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by samhw 5y ago
This seems to amount to "pick fantastically successful businesspeople to invest in, before the market has priced in their fantasticness". Obviously that would be successful if you can do it, but it's predicated on your being
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by samhw 5y ago
> Every decision in life has an "investment" component to it (what should I eat today? Should I buy a house? Should I go to uni? Should I date that person? What route should I take from A to B?). I like to take that grand view
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by samhw 5y ago
> You can't do that with astrology unless you find a sucker to sell your astrology services. That's precisely what TA itself relies on. As the comment above mentions, the avowed rationale of TA is simply "other people use
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by samhw 5y ago
Latinus in HN suffragia vincit, sed non est nisi hoc
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by samhw 5y ago
That's true, and I'm aware how lucky we are in this profession. But I'm talking relative to the software engineering job market at large.
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by samhw 5y ago
> after publishing a series of essays “arguing that sex is a biological reality” (TERFese for “trans people don’t exist”) I ... what? I'm supportive of trans rights, but that is an absolutely risible mischaracterisation of the utt
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by samhw 5y ago
I mean, better and worse doesn't really exist. They just are . Being smart has certain consequences, and being inventive has others. And what's better for the world (for some definition of 'good') may not be what's
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, it's totally dependent on what you're doing. It would be insane to write a simple script in C, and it would be insane to write an operating system in Python. Most code lies somewhere between those two extremes. I fully admit
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by samhw 5y ago
Eh, this is not always and everywhere true. I have friends at Google here in London and some of the salary figures I've heard are shockingly low. As in, sub-or-around-100k low. Though admittedly these are people who I'd guess ar
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by samhw 5y ago
> Or those novels that do not ever use the letter "e". As a note on this, I think the novel you're talking about is Georges Perec's 'La Disparition'. Supposedly the lack of an 'e' is symbolic of th
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by samhw 5y ago
Did you think Google might have deleted them from the internet ? I'm somewhat struggling to understand.
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by samhw 5y ago
> the reason python beat out ruby was almost entirely due to ruby being really really slow Relative to Python, that language which notoriously makes C look like a sloth on training wheels...
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, fair enough, that's true. It's written to the AOF before processing the next query ( https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#L4... ), so I believe you get read-your-wri
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by samhw 5y ago
Could you explain why that has a bearing on the risk of data loss? Note that AOF is a WAL. (Also, I think you mean RDB – unless you're talking about something else entirely of which I'm unaware?)
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by samhw 5y ago
'Not normative' doesn't mean 'not in compliance with ethical norms'. It means not pertaining to ethical norms. It's not the correct word, however you twist it. Here's some more info if it helps: https:&
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by samhw 5y ago
Yes, but not when we're explicitly talking about how to monetise their product.
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by samhw 5y ago
To be clear, I've been through this process as a cofounder, so I'm not disagreeing from inexperience. > An "exit" is the part where you and your investors get rich. This is normally a consequence of an exit, but - a
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by samhw 5y ago
An exit strategy just refers to the founders' plan, whatever that may be, for exiting the company. Most people can't meaningfully work on one thing forever, but there's no reason why you can't exit a company and leave it
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm at an absolute loss here. You started off by saying that the company should adopt a free model. You've since spent several comments vaguely insinuating that you were saying something else, without explaining what that is. What
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by samhw 5y ago
> suggests that you're going for an "exit" strategy I'm not sure what you're trying to say here? An exit strategy isn't, like, a particular type of business model that some businesses use. It's just a w
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by samhw 5y ago
> I never proposed they make it free of charge. I said the best model for their community is free and open source. I ... they're the same picture ...
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by samhw 5y ago
Don't even bother. This is just the predictable RW vice signalling which has to pop up in every thread. They can talk as much as they want about hardnosed capitalism, but you're not very good at hardnosed capitalism if you can&#x2
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by samhw 5y ago
Right, again, not wanting them to make it at all is a different point. You were proposing that they make it free of charge. (As for 'quoting you', it's called paraphrasing. I'd have hoped it was rather obvious I was not
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by samhw 5y ago
My point is about the unbelievably privileged attitude of "you should make products for me free of charge, or else you're the greedy one". Not whether this specific product should exist, which is a different point from how

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