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by sequoia 5y ago
> Lego did extensive research and found that girls preferred to play with the characters rather than build sets. So they created the Lego Friends line where the characters own beauty salons, pet boutiques and can be news reporters workin
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by sequoia 5y ago
tl;dr: 'I didn't want to work with Ruby on Rails and I realized I don't care about ecommerce.'
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by sequoia 5y ago
Yeah this sort of language was what threw me off. It explicitly states that they want to "get to know you" in a way that, presumably, extends beyond "how many years JavaScript experience." I actually remember thinking &
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by sequoia 5y ago
That's hilarious! Also a bit disturbing that you felt the need to recite some political "party line" to get a job (not that I think you were wrong), but I suppose if it's an explicitly political org it could make sense.
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by sequoia 5y ago
> Shopify has a Life Story round. Due to developers' insistence on rebranding everything, this is just a cutesy title for a work history interview. When I interviewed at Shopify, naïve as I was (or perhaps just overly-literal, as en
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by sequoia 5y ago
I'm having trouble understanding what companies or industry these data reflect. https://dataforest.sequoia.com/about/#methodology Is this startups? All companies? Are food processors and cement producers and machi
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by sequoia 5y ago
For people wondering "what's the sleng teng riddim?" here's some examples: Original "under mi sleng teng" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjw7m-BKmQ8 One of my favorites, "The Don" by
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by sequoia 5y ago
There's not much network effect for wordle. If you make another one tomorrow I can just as easily play it there. To be honest buying his game was as much a courtesy from the times as anything, if they were unscrupulous and didn't
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by sequoia 5y ago
I like this story but I must say it leaves me with more questions than answers. How did he get restaurants to sign on and trust him enough to prepare food for 1 month without payout? Assuming "based on existing relationships" I ha
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by sequoia 5y ago
I want to leave the apple ecosystem as well, and appreciate this post, but there’s an inherent limitation to “just switched” posts like this. To wit: they don’t capture the cost and benefit over time. Switching to Arch & rsync takes “
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by sequoia 5y ago
In 2019 my new employer sent me a new MacBook pro. I couldn’t connect it to my home office monitors which had vga and dvi ports, so I asked for dongles. Rather than try to sort out the cable confusion, they simply shipped me brand new mon
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by sequoia 5y ago
"Come to my office for a 1:1 at 3:30. You're getting fired." The problem with always mentioning the reason is that it then stands out when you don't. Sometimes there is something unpleasant to discuss that you can't
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by sequoia 5y ago
oh no... I've been holding off on the beta for precisely this reason. I'm a paid Protonmail user and I accept a lot of the tradeoffs of using it (no pop/imap, kind of a clunky client etc.), but this will definitely be the las
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by sequoia 5y ago
> end-to-end encrypted mail just works from a proton to a proton address. This is no longer email, it's a proprietary messaging platform. They offer email to other email providers, and encrypted messaging to other protonmail users,
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by sequoia 5y ago
I agree the CEO is being very silly and stupid, but author is a bit ambiguous about whether he is or isn't making a replit clone. "they say they make it easy to share and remix your creations—but when I tried to remix Replit itse
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by sequoia 5y ago
Through shrewd acquisitions, blatantly copying the exclusivity of rivals (read: Snapchat, TikTok), Facebook managed to become an integral part of our lives in less than a decade. This is just plain stupid. Yes Facebook is a Big Evil Corp
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by sequoia 5y ago
That’s too vague. That could mean some money goes to MDN (enough “to make it self-sustaining”) and the rest goes to other Mozilla stuff. I would believe Mozilla if they said “100% of the funds will go to MDN” but they don’t say that.
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by sequoia 5y ago
> Take MDN with you: Download MDN documentation and deep dives for access offline. (Don’t tell anyone about wget!)
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by sequoia 5y ago
I wish they’d clarify if the money is used to support MDN or not. I wouldn’t be opposed to supporting MDN patreon style, and if it comes with “perks” like articles, sure, why not. But I would do this to support MDNs core documentation , no
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by sequoia 5y ago
Yeah I stopped consulting and for a full time gig around the time I quit Twitter. You’re right I really couldn’t afford to quit while I was consulting, at least it seemed unwise at the time.
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by sequoia 5y ago
+1. I did exactly this a few years back when I saw a prominent member of the Nodejs community get savaged for linking to an article (exploring the idea that campus speech codes might adversely impact autistic people). I thought "if the
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by sequoia 5y ago
Gaza is not technically a city. I encourage you to learn more about the fundamentals and history of this situation before making broad assertions about it.
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by sequoia 5y ago
I’m responding with derision because you’re so casually hand-waving away attacks on Israel as no big deal or not the same because they are “able to flee” (you still haven’t specified where is the safe place they can flee to). Have some empa
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by sequoia 5y ago
> Sure, if you decide to start there. You seem to imply that the ethnic cleansing of the Jews from Arab Muslim countries was “caused” by earlier events. Are you suggesting that the ethnic cleansing of Jews in all Arab-Muslim states was j
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by sequoia 5y ago
> If rockets are fired at Bnei Brak, the residents there can flee to the rest of Israel. When rockets rain down on their homes, citizens of Bnei Brak can flee from their homes in car or on foot, go ??? somewhere (where exactly?) and hope
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by sequoia 5y ago
@dang how do you “report” comments? BronzeAge: a lot of the facts you are reporting are true and you’re sharing an important perspective that’s missing in this conversation but your comment is turned into complete garbage by the fact that
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by sequoia 5y ago
Can you explain your use of “exculpatory” here? It’s a Fantastic word and not part of my every day vocabulary, but I can’t quite see how it fits.
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by sequoia 5y ago
Downvoting because this is dehumanizing rhetoric, the kind used to rationalize all kinds of violence and oppression of a group of people. This kind of demonizing of one side or the other is exactly what I’m objecting to; both populations
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by sequoia 5y ago
From your examples only Bangladesh is referred to by reporters (not as a quotation) as one of the most densely populated in this case “countries” (which is much easier to count than “places”) in the world . (“Most densely populated places”
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by sequoia 5y ago
Just to clarify: these are the neighbours that expelled all their Jews leaving them refugees in Israel and also tried to destroy the country and many of which have not stopped trying for its entire history. Getting along takes two.

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