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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Ahah super, bien joué la frontpage sur HN !
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Tesla is an MBA case study of CEO-aligned board (which is bad for public companies, Im sure you can see why now), probably because Musk had most of the seed capital. As to how he kept enough out of his previous ventures, I dont know.
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
But firing the CEO, even a founder, is the right of investors who paid for it... I mean what else do you sell them? If they like the business but not the guy, why should they forever be forced to have him as a parasite in their mind ? Dilut
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
It's funny, when it s not the devs, what you describe sounds strangely exactly like what many ivory tower CTO are like, "researching" useless shiny craps by reading some headline like "google does monorepos" and com
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
The guy clearly does it the wrong way, he has a solution and everyone is looking at him "but what problem do we have this solves". So yeah, I mean even if these tools were production ready, they wouldnt be used. If they solved a p
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
And maybe these guys would have trouble delivering week after week productive changes in a system used for important things by important people. After all, all this genius did is open a nintendo switch to eventually run software made by you
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Also, rules only matter when problems arise. If you dont care abt processes and the error rate is low you'll never have any issue. But just because you can fix issues quickly doesnt mean you ll survive having one everyday, so testing b
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
I work in a regulated bank and yday night I had to have an auditor look at us deploying a new version on one user, trigger one order, revert back. He ll then spend the next 3 days studying the changes (that we didnt test in front of him) to
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Let s imagine we build all the trading robots to have one server per group of client. That would def work, we probably cant pay for one set of server (for HA) per client since we have hundreds, but then all these per client servers have to
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
We all do it for urgent fixes, the thing is to try to make it less holy to avoid "we cant fix this crushing bug before next release window" stupidity, but still holy to avoid "Ill fix it now in prod and forget abt that fix th
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Yeah it s nice to be trivially shardable ! Ours is not: stock market connections to 13 countries with clients having global trading controls across these countries - so we can shard some parts and not others and each country having specific
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Yeah but it's somewhat right what op said: because of that crisis, all they are willing to do now is save. Save save save. They'll spend nothing at all, too hungover of the bubble burst. You can double the supply, they ll double t
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
I can: you expect it, so you create it. Inflation can be psychological: the workers want to resist inflation, the unions block the factories, the factory leaders pressure the politicians, the central bank say now currency divided by 2, sala
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
The GPL issue doesnt matter for your buying decision. In fact, becoming a client expand your voice: you can now say you're even paying support already to listen to you whine about why they didnt publish the 5 patches they made to some
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Yes I agree. We get sometimes trapped in fixing well working but awkwardly written features, when the very well written initial assumptions just slow any change much much more visibly, which could actually be fixed by ... a badly written ru
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
But you missed his point, it can be negotiated too. You get called a perfectionist because you project you refuse compromises, but have you thought of the business cost of any quality-oriented delay? (the opposite of quality-oriented work i
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Yes the IPO proved not only Neumann insanity but moreover Masayoshi Son's inability to do due diligence in his adrenaline rush-saudi funded "we must spend this whatever the cost" decisions. I think it s safe to assume whatev
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
The balance is probably hard to find: to get into the insane risk of locking the best locations in the expectation later your market shares will allow you to price them right requires cowboy management, while making any money in real estate
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
I disagree a bit. The positionning of WeWork was so similar to a tech startup I rmb being like "oh right they do 0 technical innovation and 100% lease-fu" when it started being discussed at the IPO. It feels I wasnt alone and many
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
The thing is, being gay is probably a random distribution or even a gradient with no clear border, just like being "black" (a brazilian, a jamaican, a nigerian and a french blacks are all black but all very different, both in colo
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
You wrote a long diatribe I admit I didnt read but the first paragraph, but just to say this: this is not profitable because competitors dont do it. If competitors have to do it because no insurance, suddenly the cycle starts and everyone s
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
I think I disagree a little bit. You're right to say this would be abusive, but the obvious right thing to do is not to do quota on color pigment (why would a brazilian descendent of slave be equaled to a nigerian, or an american Irish
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Yeah in France where I was born, which is no perfect by any means of course, we tend to call the american obsession with racial segmentation "racialism" and consider it just as bad as racism. Like racism is to grade races when rac
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
I'd be curious how they define race. Do they have a rule book with color pigment density, size of external attributes and maybe even a grading scale of good to bad "diversity factor"? I find it more disturbing they consider d
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Sure, but are they brave new world dystopia or farming societies. One has to decide.
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
And they re not closed, you can live in them and see for yourself. I m a Hong Kong permanent resident now and I agree with you: these societies seem more like traditional family oriented societies than western sci fi dystopia. In effect, fo
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
That means nothing: I want to be free to copulate with any mate - what should you do when I approach yours? Well, this is this balance and how to reach it that is the difficulty: what you say has no substance and everyone agrees.
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
Yeah I m in the same boat. I come from France, an old, maybe aging, proud of itself democracy and... when I discovered Singapore then Hong Kong, two semi-dictatorships in different ways, omg: I had never seen people so free in ways we cant
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
if needed=each time presence change. So you d have an enormous graph with one node in the center refreshing presence for everyone. And end up worse.
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by secondaryacct 5y ago
It's nice. I m French living in Hong Kong, and in both I sometimes have to cancel my credit card to get rid of newspaper subscription. And often, the more the newspaper whines about freedom of the press the harder it is to get rid of t

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