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by seiji 11y ago
and perhaps lead to more intercourse In America, the popular public society-wide meme opinion is "sex is bad outside of procreation." You're not allowed to encourage it, you're not allowed to make it safer, and many d
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by seiji 11y ago
The only thing that makes email useful is "everybody has this thing that accepts stuff and they get notified when new stuff shows up." That's all. Email is the single biggest vector for "hacks" and stealing money.
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by seiji 11y ago
So, basically you're arguing never change anything because https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by seiji 11y ago
more notes on a random idea with lots of questions. That's djb's greatest strength and greatest weakness. He just does whatever he wants and doesn't care how it integrates with the rest of the world.
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by seiji 11y ago
You know what system I'm describing? Call switching! Exactly right! The "distributed" part of Erlang (including mnesia) was designed to run in a blade-like system where the networking was provided by a physical common backp
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by seiji 11y ago
For example, how many people who don't work for Red Hat offer Red Hat support services? Oh, I've no idea. I'd only go to RedHat for "official" RedHat support? Another intersecting approach is something like Postg
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by seiji 11y ago
Always a good re-read: The world was out to dupe and enslave you, but he, Paul Graham, was — disinterestedly, dispassionately — going to get you out of here alive, armed only with Lisp, random facts about medieval Florence, and deep knowle
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by seiji 11y ago
developing it all was what the business was about It is interesting how some software is more amenable to being "business open source" than others. If your software is touching online, realtime, and mission-critical data, that
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by seiji 11y ago
Office and Windows. Okay, now where do they make their money? They're pretty much just left with services work, and services and support often only exist if the software has problems. Did you just casually imply Office and Windows do
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by seiji 11y ago
deep thinking That's not a thing. is there a market for this? nope. It's the classic "I'm an idea guy, I don't worry about the details" stereotype. Execution beats ideas every time. (no taxes, no problem,
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by seiji 11y ago
When the Internet starts making you feel bad, turn it off and go for a 3-5 hour long walk. Don't forget your water bottle.
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by seiji 11y ago
I guess it also helps to become irreplaceable and/or indispensable at something. There are employees at Google with hundred million dollar stock packages, but those obviously aren't bottom-of-the-org-chart drones. You can either w
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by seiji 11y ago
His entire argument is that the company must retain power in employee relationships, never the employee. If one non-manager employee is ever in a position to show other employees they are being undervalued, the employees may do something
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by seiji 11y ago
Fun related story: a few years ago, Google was hiring entire teams from Microsoft away to work on Google-only projects. After noticing the ongoing pattern, Microsoft just doubled the salaries of entire teams over night. 90k -> 180k. 1
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by seiji 11y ago
It's called an acquihire. Exactly. Wasn't the original question about how to get a raise at the same company though? The option of "quit, give up all your security, hope to make something amazing, then get acqui-hired&quot
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, over time. Not one bulk grant (at least for "unimportant" employees), but every year you get an additional grant with a new vesting schedule. Over time it adds up. Of course, it's always better to have been hired 10 y
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by seiji 11y ago
At a significant company (Apple, Google, Microsoft) very soon after getting hired, you'll have stock options and/or RSUs worth millions of dollars vesting vesting on a rotating schedule. "Leaving" can be painful unless
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by seiji 11y ago
Your argument failed once you said "yes but" — when valuation is a function of number of employees, adding fine-grained nuance and deeper levels of consideration just won't happen. If companies want the best, yes they should
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, they are setting charset with headers instead which works fine: % curl -I https://news.ycombinator.com/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: cloudflare-nginx Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 20:09:47 GMT Content-Type: text&#x
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, if money were defined by thousands of lines of poorly written C++ code and you had to run the same (bug-for-bug compatible) C++ code to use your money, then sure, programmable. Also, when the monetary policy needs to change, you need
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by seiji 11y ago
fun fact: pg hand-wrote the (original) news.yc http server (in arc) and it wasn't standards compliant. it terminated newlines with '\n' instead of '\r\n' causing much pain when trying to integrate any external tool
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by seiji 11y ago
OpenGL is a neat example because it's an abstracted physical interface, and the physical interface isn't drastically changing. It's like being the world's best assembly programmer — you're always going to be the be
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by seiji 11y ago
spot how trendy magpie technical stacks map to old patterns that the industry has been consistently reinventing over time. oh, gosh. That too. The other big problem we have with so many "new" programmers is you can get a cri
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by seiji 11y ago
Great points. The proper flow seems to be: have experienced people who are better at strategy mentor inexperienced people who may know more modern tools and are better at immediate tactics (regardless of age), then over time the inexperienc
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by seiji 11y ago
Rampant proliferation of "new" also breaks the hiring process. Companies (i.e. "in-demand startups") want new stacks, and they want to hire people who are experts in everything that didn't exist 2-3 years ago (li
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by seiji 11y ago
The fun part about unions: when you see your company has $200 billion cash in the bank, the union gets together and says "we made that. everyone deserves a raise." If you're a programmer working at Apple or Google making les
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by seiji 11y ago
Some companies are just looking for young, smart people who can solve problems fast. When your company only exists for 6-18 months before being acquired at $2 million per developer, it's worth getting the build-big-who-cares-about-co
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by seiji 11y ago
Could anyone explain where this obsession with youth is coming from? Many people in control want more attention for themselves. One great way is to say "I made that" but refer to people. So, you see investors and industry &quo
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by seiji 11y ago
To start a "modern" project today, you have to know programming languages, infrastructure, and packaging systems that didn't even exist five years ago. That's the surface-level "technology" they (VCs) mean.
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by seiji 11y ago
Primarily my inability to spell naiveté. It's one of those "gift/curse" things. It's good they can challenge assumptions, but they don't realize how wrong they are when they are wrong. There are some notes at

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