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by sequoia 7y ago
Off topic but does AF pay a licensing fee to Disney to use terms like "Kessel Run" & images of Star Wars ships? I always thought them so tight-fisted with IP I didn't think they'd let .mil use e.g. outlines of the mi
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by sequoia 7y ago
We’re colleagues by virtue of the fact that we’re members of the same profession. Anyway, what’s the reason not to treat people on hackernews with the same respect you’d treat a coworker with?
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by sequoia 7y ago
If you think telling colleagues not to "simply go and poke your reporting fingers into" things won't insult them or put them on a defensive footing, I encourage you to try it and closely note the reception you receive. In my
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by sequoia 7y ago
> you do not simply go and poke your reporting fingers into individual service databases Side point: This is a needlessly hostile and unprofessional way to refer to a colleague. Remember that you and the reporting/analytics people a
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by sequoia 7y ago
Is this a client or is Dino also running a chat server/issuing accounts etc? I used to use pidgin/adium/finch back when google & facebook supported XMPP, but I'm not sure what I'd do with a client now. Crucially
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by sequoia 7y ago
Can someone tell us non-Facebook users what this looks like?
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by sequoia 7y ago
https://sequoia.makes.software Mostly technical posts. Roll-your-own SSG, naturally[0]. If you type "resume" you see my resume :) Comments use https://getsimpleform.com/ and just send me an email, then
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by sequoia 7y ago
Google is doing everything it can to tighten its stranglehold on the entire WWW, if another behemoth like Microsoft wants to put up a fight, I say have at it! I certainly am not shedding any tears for Google, who relentlessly funnels people
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by sequoia 7y ago
I'm not a compiler engineer, but I'm willing to venture that the lower bounds of a "competitive salary" for an engineer in silicon valley is somewhere between 200 & 250k. Compiler engineers may make much more, I don&
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by sequoia 7y ago
In her article, she explains her hypothesis that women leave top-flight STEM/academic careers because the demands (and, crucially, when they must be met: 20s & 30s) conflict with the demands of bearing children during a woman&#x2
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by sequoia 7y ago
This is the plot of an episode of Billions https://ew.com/recap/billions-season-4-episode-3/ > That is, he doesn’t lose until the chicken report is suddenly delayed after Axe Capital has already confirmed its m
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by sequoia 7y ago
> Forking is extremely aggressive This is not so. If you said "forking can be perceived as an aggressive action"* I would not disagree with you, but in the context of an FOS ecosystem, forking should not be perceived as aggre
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by sequoia 7y ago
https://sequoia.makes.software/what-is-javascript-part-1-the... agree
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by sequoia 7y ago
Clojure has a similar thing, where % is used as a placeholder in threading, which is similar https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros
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by sequoia 7y ago
> Fortunately, a much better syntax for this type of expressions is being introduced by ECMAScript, known as the pipeline operator. This is "Stage 1: Strawman Proposal." It's not exactly accurate to say the operator is bei
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by sequoia 7y ago
I was once at a company (X) that acquired another company (Y), and Y's main product was a graphical programming tool. Y advertised that their tool could speed application development up 10x. My (nontechnical) manager asked me "wh
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by sequoia 7y ago
This is a landing page. Is there anywhere to see more info?
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by sequoia 7y ago
> I think this is a dangerous way to look at things That's a fair point. I should have said "while a small technical oversight such as stating 'he went for lunch ' as a fact (absent proof) would normally not be worth
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by sequoia 7y ago
> Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch Normally one would give the benefit of the doubt, but given the abhorrent acts people were perpetrating or turning a blind eye to in this case
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by sequoia 7y ago
TFA does not say "No evidence"
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by sequoia 7y ago
Would you characterize his success since starting Loopt as being primarily about "working on things that matter" or strong relationship management and "political" skills? He managed to exit a failing startup with 5mil th
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by sequoia 7y ago
Cool! I am thinking it would be a good idea to write a short follow-up post highlighting the other approaches people have taken here. There are definitely many people who decided it was simpler just to write their own script.
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Build your own static site generator (2017)(sequoia.makes.software)
3 points by sequoia 7y ago|3 comments
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by sequoia 7y ago
+1 to japanoise's suggestion to write your own static blog script. Here's mine, which I initially wrote several years ago after evaluating & having issues with many other options: https://github.com/Sequoia&#x2
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by sequoia 7y ago
Most of this advice is not actionable. It falls into the category of such advice as "take breaks and have fun, but not too much" when the initial question was how much is too much. That is to say, you don't know more after he
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by sequoia 7y ago
> 4. Ai in healthcare will allow for decentralised expertise. The role and power of nurses will expand. Can you expand on this?
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by sequoia 7y ago
> Also, Toronto/Montreal will become the Silicon valley of Canada, as skilled immigrants move to the Canada knowing they will never get greencards in the US. As a (US citizen) programmer living in Toronto, I have seen this first han
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by sequoia 7y ago
This man's experience & his positive report of campus culture at an Ivy League school are heartening among all the distressing stories of ideological conformity on elite college campuses. It certainly is not all students at elite s
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by sequoia 7y ago
Avoid adding tons of tiny JS deps that require maintenance= move faster Avoid adding jQuery & write your own slideUp, slideDown etc. = move slower
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by sequoia 7y ago
> But injecting javascript Come now. It's a browser extension, it's written in JavaScript, and knowingly installed by employees. No "injecting" went on here, let's not try to make this sound more nefarious than i

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