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by save_ferris 9y ago
Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher A really interesting dive into looking at common apps and industry problems from alternate perspectives, as well as how bias affects technical and design decisions in software. Not super technical
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by save_ferris 9y ago
Agreed. So it sounds like Amazon is making efforts to reduce configuration failures, but users don't necessarily take the time to properly learn the tools and configure them correctly because the risk of error doesn't seem to moti
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by save_ferris 9y ago
I get that it's the customer's responsibility to correctly configure their services, but what does it say about the UX of AWS services that they're so easy to misconfigure with disastrous consequences? And despite this happen
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by save_ferris 9y ago
Not necessarily, a company I used to work for had to lay off a significant chunk of engineering but paid out big bonuses to those who stayed on. If there's a shortage of labor to do the job, money is a pretty easy way to simplify the p
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by save_ferris 9y ago
You may be right, but I so dream of a serious competitor to air travel in the US. Flying is so expensive, inconsistent, uncomfortable, and stressful. I've experienced missed connections/cancellations on roughly 1/3 of my flig
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by save_ferris 9y ago
Not necessarily. I once found out how much one of my team members made that started on the same day in the same role as I with the same amount of experience (the HR manager left his most recent offer letter open on her screen about a year a
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by save_ferris 9y ago
How many TechCrunch articles can you find where an acquiring company says "the software we're buying doesn't really work, but it sure looks good!"? I just left a job where the founder (who didn't have any software b
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by save_ferris 9y ago
> Google search shopify and millionaire and you'll see 27k results. Then go to Youtube and enter shopify and millionaire and you'll see 10k results. Funny, I just searched "google ads millionaire" and it returned 6M r
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by save_ferris 9y ago
Just went to nextdoor.com to see what the app was all about after seeing this and sure enough, there's a full-width banner on their front page of media outlet logos, including NYT and WSJ. Oh the irony. What's funny is that it doe
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by save_ferris 9y ago
> OTOH, there will be misinformation directed to confuse the public about that, too, and that may be challenging to sort out. This is what scares me. We saw in the last few days that a prominent 'antifa' Twitter account pretend
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by save_ferris 9y ago
I don't think this isn't limited to IBM, my partner's PE firm recently hired a small consulting group touting a "revolutionary, AI-driven" real-estate analysis product that has zero AI whatsoever. It's basicall
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by save_ferris 9y ago
I used RescueTime to kick my social media habit and learn to code 5 years ago. I was working in the retail industry and found a way to spend 10 hours a week coding on my own for almost two years before I got my first full-time development j
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by save_ferris 9y ago
I agree that it's sometimes over the top, but I do prefer that over a presenter who's clearly qualified to speak on the topic but lacks the communication skills. The dude clearly cares about his productions, and I really appreciat
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by save_ferris 9y ago
Depends on what your goals are. I do very small projects on the side just for my benefit and I've found Siraj Raval's YouTube channel to be good for digging in without much of a knowledge barrier, as well as r/learnmachinelea
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by save_ferris 9y ago
Interesting, I usually give my class a slightly stupid name and figure out a better one once some or all of the behavior is in place.
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by save_ferris 9y ago
Couldn't they have picked a better platform than Facebook to try this out on, given all of the research into the effect of social media on one's mental state?
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by save_ferris 10y ago
Why is it that farmers don't have a right to modify and fix equipment that they purchased in 2017 because some software they didn't ask to be installed on their equipment prevents them from doing what they've been able to do
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Ask HN: How Should I Discuss Work Expectations with New Employer
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by save_ferris 10y ago
This guy has Gavin Belson written all over him: super-polished and charismatic when the Valley is watching him, and coldly detached when they're not.
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by save_ferris 10y ago
Granted, this is all still speculation, but what would such a lawsuit do to the Uber brand? They'd basically be telling all of their drivers in two-party consent states not to not use dashcams because of the liability, which seems ten
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by save_ferris 10y ago
Stories like this are so enraging, and yet far too common today. My partner went through a somewhat similar experience at a Big 4 accounting firm a while back. She tried to request an internal transfer to get away from a sexist, toxic envi
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by save_ferris 10y ago
Regardless of the frequency of such a situation, it can really bite you when something big breaks and you need to ssh into a vanilla server in the middle of the night under pressure. Trying to fix a production fire under the gaze of an ang
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by save_ferris 10y ago
This. I'm a back end dev at a small non-profit news org and it blows my mind how fast my employer wants us to integrate with FB instant articles and AMP without considering the consequences (AMP traffic staying in Google's network
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by save_ferris 10y ago
Not sure if how much external consumer data the credit rating agencies use, but I can't help but think of the possibility of repercussions to your credit. I've been in a years-long dispute with Transunion over my credit due to inc