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by somsak2 3y ago
it would be great if it were as simple as re zoning. unfortunately it's not so easy. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office...
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by somsak2 3y ago
>how many colleagues from your previous jobs do you really keep in touch? i still hang out with people i met at my previous job over 5 years ago.
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by somsak2 3y ago
power outages that aren't weather related are not increasing. https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/surging-weath...
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by somsak2 3y ago
When there's only two competitors and the margin is only 20% in some subset of the population, that's not "very high market share." EU-wide, Android is >70%.
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by somsak2 3y ago
Google+
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by somsak2 3y ago
this is just not at all true -- companies have private betas that they monetize all the time. yes, the company provides lower guarantees on the product being supported. but the customer gets to use a product far before they normally would i
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by somsak2 3y ago
how do you define "real value" for products? i guess it must not have anything to do with profit in your world?
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by somsak2 3y ago
lol, what are you talking about? they do give a date. and the date given is so absurdly soon that they couldn't possibly hit it even if they got millions of $ in orders. > Orders ship by November 2023 from San Francisco, CA. Short p
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by somsak2 3y ago
are you considering using this in production somewhere in the next few days? your reply comes off as absurdly aggressive, especially when you mention no intention of supporting the project monetarily. and that's on top of this question
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by somsak2 3y ago
source? does not seem like it based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_private_equity_and_...
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by somsak2 3y ago
it's even simpler: stop using C/C++. responsible for 70% of CVEs. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
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by somsak2 3y ago
what makes you say all of a sudden?
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by somsak2 3y ago
FINRA works pretty well
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by somsak2 3y ago
i always cringe when i see Singapore used as a comparison point with developed nations. it's a single city and has an authoritarian government. how is that at all an apples to apples comparison?
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by somsak2 3y ago
While not as popular as he was, he's still pretty big. I think the main reason is likely because he hasn't published a new book since 2019, though that's coming in September later this year. https://trends.google.c
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by somsak2 3y ago
This is mentioned in the second sentence of the linked article.
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by somsak2 3y ago
Any sources for these claims?
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by somsak2 3y ago
>You don't pay someone $200k to churn out CRUD I've got some bad news for you about what 90% of FAANG work is like
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by somsak2 3y ago
>Graham's manager told him something stunning: The finished project, which Graham worked on for more than a month, wouldn't see the light of day. are you kidding? I've worked on projects way longer that ended up getting sc
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by somsak2 3y ago
Uber is not profitable
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by somsak2 3y ago
you ask for a solid source but provide among the shakiest of sources yourself
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by somsak2 3y ago
that's what in store pick up means -- you still get the phone right away.
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by somsak2 3y ago
IMO code review is way too late to be talking about API semantics unless you're at a really tiny startup. Once you get to even 100 engineers, this stuff needs to be hashed out with stakeholders before you start writing code. this can b
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by somsak2 3y ago
>it’s like a room on a cruise ship — the boat is gonna sail one way or another. So it has to be sold. super shaky reasoning. the less rooms that get sold, the less likely future ships are to sail or even be built. individual decisions ma
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by somsak2 3y ago
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look
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by somsak2 3y ago
i think parent prefers to simply be angry than contribute to the conversation
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by somsak2 3y ago
whenever you see the word "systemic," you can be sure that what follows is going to be painting in broad strokes at a population level and not something that is actually relevant to decisions an individual can make.
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by somsak2 3y ago
our salaries are not insane given how much value is created. the amount that is captured by peak capitalists is insane. ultimately you need to get away from being reliant on a salary and become a capitalist yourself. otherwise you're j
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by somsak2 3y ago
what is your definition of the word most? it's wrong.
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by somsak2 3y ago
> The lesson here is simple: you are living in a small niche. We all do. Your experience is not representative of anything but your own. hmm, really disagree here. if you look at history the consolidation of "networks" is insan

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