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by sequoia 8y ago
Agreed. When the web technologies were more simple and rudimentary and HTML page hosting free and easy for beginners (e.g. geocities), it took very little to start writing HTML, adding some tiling background images, gifs and midis to expres
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by sequoia 8y ago
re: "is it the tool or is it developers using it wrong" it's clearly the tool(s). It's like the JS scene can't leave well enough alone and must constantly reinvent everything, and anyone who preaches restraint is re
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by sequoia 8y ago
"In a statement provided to TechCrunch, a representative of Whole Foods said they respect the “ individual rights of [their] team members.”" Ha... now there's a carefully chosen phrase. “[We] have an open-door policy that
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by sequoia 8y ago
They don't want to be regarded as a utility as that would suggest that regulation is a reasonable course of action. They banned Jones in part to demonstrate that they can "self-regulate" and don't need regulation. Being
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by sequoia 8y ago
Thank you for taking the time to share all this.
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by sequoia 8y ago
So who here is cutting the cord? I quit about 12 months ago, the dissonance of using the service and knowing how bad it was got to be too much to handle. It isn’t the end of the world! It’s actually quite nice to miss all the junk that cons
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by sequoia 8y ago
> Advanced skills with Linux/Unix operating system, computing hardware and networking. Demonstrated skills in Go, C/C++, or other compiled languages. Demonstrated skills in Python. Proficient in Git version control. > Pay Sc
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by sequoia 8y ago
> Anyone can buy a pair of pants. Wait a second... what's the alternative to pants?? :p
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by sequoia 8y ago
Sorry to get triggered but oh my god I dislike those buzzwords. I find those two come up any time attempts are made to delineate responsibilities or make it possible for teams to run in parallel (by saying "you work on this area of s
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by sequoia 8y ago
_This_ is the 64 thousand dollar question that no one seems to have a clear answer to, and leaves people frustrated with both email and slack. I tried emailing longer form things at my current job and rapidly hit a cultural wall: people _do
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by sequoia 8y ago
serverless is a config/deploy thing that deploys "functions" (to lambda etc.), ties them to HTTP routes or other events, provisions resources (storage etc.), ties them to your applicatoins etc.. The main thing it does not do
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by sequoia 8y ago
So it's like Serverless framework for k8s? https://serverless.com/
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by sequoia 8y ago
It strikes me as highly significant that a large portion of the questions here are along the lines of "what the heck is this thing?" I'm certainly in that boat: as far as I can tell Knative is some kubernetes based cloud some
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by sequoia 8y ago
Is it fair to say that your system relies, more or less, upon one server change per client request change/new request type? Doesn't sound like a dealbreaker necessarily, but I thought this was a big part of the problem GraphQL was
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by sequoia 8y ago
Is anyone else struggling to feel sorry for these high achieving graduate students because they, what, feel bad sometimes? > ‘Even exercise doesn’t sound like a total escape for Tom Nicol: he is training to beat his dad’s personal best m
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by sequoia 8y ago
I had a similar experience last year as an advisor to a large "enterprise" type company. They are a slow-moving company with no competitive pressure & tons of compliance constraints, had several teams of Java engineers, they a
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by sequoia 8y ago
It seems like their initial problems were: 1. Tests hitting 3rd party APIs are flakey & slow 2. The job queuing mechanism can cause all jobs to be slowed by a single 3rd party API outage/slowdown Eventually they arrived at: 1. Repl
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by sequoia 8y ago
"YAGNI" is the first thing that pops into my head. d:o)
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by sequoia 8y ago
After a few minutes I gave up on evaluating this tool. It looks interesting but there's no "hello world" or even a simple use-case explanation in the first few pages of docs. Couple that with the no-warning switching between
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by sequoia 8y ago
You used the term "fake meat" in the comment I replied to, I repeated it. I'm a meat eater and of course that doesn't mean I won't order or eat mushrooms. It means I'm unlikely to purchase Morning Star Farms so
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by sequoia 8y ago
> Many Americans avoid "fake meat" due to their cultural beliefs. Would you order a dish prepared with fake avocado and fake olive oil? If you are happy to eat the genuine product, why would you choose to eat an imitation, barr
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by sequoia 8y ago
Funny that NYT came up on two separate threads here. I know they made me go through hell to cancel, sounds like I'm not the only one.
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by sequoia 8y ago
Not only do they not allow you to cancel online, they autorenew your annual subscription to the tune of HUNDREDS of dollars. This happened to me and I'm certain I didn't explicitly opt-in to autorenewal, as I would never conscious
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by sequoia 8y ago
> Collection of taxes is done to enforce law To _comply with_ law.
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by sequoia 8y ago
Also orders of magnitude fewer customers you're targeting, probably at least 350 million fewer.
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by sequoia 8y ago
And what would it look like if Mom & Pop were starting an ice-cream shop instead of an online storefront? Would they _not_ have to pay tax then? I get that being subject to regulation or taxation is more burdensome than not being subjec
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by sequoia 8y ago
Have you tried contacting the author/copyright holder to find out whether you can negotiate a commercial licensing agreement for the software? I assume you're open to paying commercial licensing fees.
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by sequoia 8y ago
I'm sure it's little consolation, but kudos to you for sticking to your ethics. I sure wish more in the tech community would take this approach!
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by sequoia 8y ago
> In the 1920's, the Protestant Establishment still dominated business and society. University administrators sensed that if they admitted too many Jews, they would alienate themselves from the power centers around them. So they res

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