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by sequoia 4y ago
Having read the rest of TFA I think my initial reaction is not fair. What they said about kids not being able to put the phones down for a 1hr meeting was surprising to me and made clear how bad the issue is. More power to these kids and to
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by sequoia 4y ago
This is interesting but I can't help but notice how intensely performative these kids are as well, at least how they're characterized in this article. They're wearing Carhartt (an unusual choice for a metropolis like NYC), re
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by sequoia 4y ago
If you use windows, notepad++ is what you're looking for. It was my first love in terms of code editors, and I still haven't found an editor (besides vim, and probably emacs) that handles on-the-fly macro recording and playback li
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by sequoia 4y ago
This post resonates strongly with me. I love the term "a linux evening." This was precisely my experience when I used Linux full time: mostly it worked great, but then occasionally something wouldn't work (some personal examp
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by sequoia 4y ago
These things are going to drive me crazy. I think stuff generated by an AI like this should have to be tagged. It’s infuriating to waste one’s time trying to read an interpret a message (or some code), trying to understand the author’s inte
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by sequoia 4y ago
I can almost guarantee you that people would read that as flippant and tonedeaf "s/he didn't even bother writing anything! Laying off 30% of his/her workforce isn't even worth a tweet to him/her!" But I wi
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Ask HN: What do you want to see in a mass-layoff notice?
8 points by sequoia 4y ago|4 comments
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by sequoia 4y ago
I should clarify, I'm more interested in the use of "brainwashing" than the use of "literally" which I agree has entered common usage to mean figuratively.
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by sequoia 4y ago
Phabricator[0]: code review/CI solution from Facebook. My company uses it, open development has since been halted by Facebook and we're effectively on abandonware. Flow[1]: JavaScript typing system from Facebook. My company uses i
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by sequoia 4y ago
What does “literally brainwashes” mean? I don’t think “brainwashing” is actually a well defined concept. Can you link to an explanation that would clearly exclude persuasion?
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by sequoia 4y ago
Flow is not better than typescript. People who say it’s “better”, what they mean is it’s more strict, which really means more rigid . The rigidity is a complete pain in the ass that’s not well suited to web UI development and leads to all
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by sequoia 4y ago
"The way employees were treated was beyond disgraceful." Sorry I may have missed this in the article–was it something beyond being laid off? Being laid off sucks (it's happened to me) but it's a normal part of business o
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by sequoia 4y ago
Is there a way to export one’s blog? I’d like to try it but want to avoid my content “going down with the ship” if you move on to another project :)
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by sequoia 4y ago
VexIQ is one big competitor
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by sequoia 4y ago
"toot suite" is slang in English, an intentionally incorrect derivation from the French. But it probably is where the hogs go as well :)
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by sequoia 4y ago
On an extended visit to a small village in Mexico where the pigs would wander, I made a sport of stalking the piglets and attempting to pick them up. I achieved my aim once and the mother sow came charging at me & thereby convinced me t
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by sequoia 4y ago
I think there's a few reasonable reasons. I think 65 might be too low, I'd probably go with 70, but one reason is just to make room for new legislators which is good both to get new ideas & perspectives in from time to time,
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by sequoia 4y ago
Didn't know it was that long! That's fantastic.
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by sequoia 4y ago
I should have added this at first but I'm not saying this policy is bad, I'm not even against layoffs in all cases. Sometimes you hire a lot, sometimes you cut, that's business. This policy does seem better than direct layoff
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by sequoia 4y ago
It all depends on what percentage actually get new job offers internally. If it's "most or all" then it's very different from layoffs. If it's "few to none" than it's very similar to being laid off. &
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by sequoia 4y ago
You get garden leave while you apply for jobs internally. After 30 days (assuming you can't find a new position internally), it seems identical to having been laid off
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by sequoia 4y ago
Facebook and google have "required some employees to apply for new jobs if they wish to remain at the company." I have to say this is a sort of hilarious newspeak framing of layoffs. "We're not laying you off, you just n
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by sequoia 4y ago
You seem to be mistaken about what the "ends" refer to in end to end encryption. If I whisper something in my friend's ear and she whispers it into your ear, that is not a secret message between you and me even if each "
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by sequoia 4y ago
Seems like they're just following local import/trade rules? I think the rule is bad but presumably plenty of local trade rules are stupid. One doesn't get to pick and choose which to follow. I guess the implication is that go
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by sequoia 4y ago
Here's my less magical, more manual post on the subject of reducing docker image sizes: https://sequoia.makes.software/reducing-docker-image-size-pa...
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by sequoia 4y ago
> Is there a way to avoid this? Is there a reason to avoid this? GP commenter's list of "status" cuisines (including "chopping vegetables" as a status symbol) is just nonsense, you should not expend too much en
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by sequoia 4y ago
This list of no-nos hilariously inverts the "shaming" you're trying to avoid: instead of feeling bad for using shortcuts, now I'm supposed to feel bad for not using them? I chop onions instead of buying them pre-chopped
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by sequoia 4y ago
Speak for yourself. Sometime one wants their thoughts "provoked," other times one wants to laugh, or relax, or be thrilled by something scary. I continue to read the somewhat mediocre wheel of time series mostly because it's
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by sequoia 4y ago
Is basic always this inscrutable? Not a great intro example.
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by sequoia 4y ago
This take doesn’t make any sense. What is the author suggest as a replacement, hooking your IDE up to prod via FTP and editing PHP files directly on the live server? Sure I’ve done this, as a solo developer on smaller projects, but this d

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