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by syndacks 7y ago
There's something incredibly perverse about this; that business is inherently about exploiting others. You don't hear similar advice in medicine, education, entertainment, politics, etc. Sure, you can manipulate people at any junc
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by syndacks 7y ago
How do you mean exactly? Long, complex sentence? FWIW I don't think this is a particularly good one. But if you like this writing style, Jonathan Franzen does it quite a bit, and really well. Check out The Corrections. From a snarky pe
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by syndacks 7y ago
>I’ve done a lot of research and I think psychiatry is pseudoscience and antidepressants are largely placebo. Care to link any of them? I have a hard time believing they are placebo, as they fundamentally alter neurochemistry.
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by syndacks 7y ago
>Why would he be? Read Black Swan, by NNT. His thesis is that the most significant impacts on an individual and/or a collective are the function of outliers or "Black Swans". In a Malcolm Gladwell kind of way, he uses a bu
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by syndacks 7y ago
Why does this community (HN) have such a proclivity for these types of bitter responses? This comment makes wild assumptions, doesn't assume best intentions, and really just makes `brenden2` sound like a nasty person. Yet here it is, t
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by syndacks 7y ago
The title should be How to Write [an Essay] Usefully. This blog post is NOT about writing in general. It's not about the craft of writing, or the many varied types of writing (fiction, memoir, biography, essay, marketing blog, etc). In
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by syndacks 7y ago
More bots, more EC2s, more money More bots, more noise, bad analytics More bots, IP theft at scale, competitors now have my content I don't understand how this is hard to wrap one's head around. This is why we can't have nice
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by syndacks 7y ago
>having an entire company about exterminating the viability of bots is horrifying. I have a website I use to make money to feed my family. Shitty bots mess up my website, cost me money. A SaaS offers a solution, which saves me money. Wha
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by syndacks 7y ago
Ehhhh. This is pretty corporate sounding. It speaks nothing of leadership, nothing of creating a high performing team. Of building trust, developing systems...of creating a culture where shipping is celebrated. YMMV - if my manager was like
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by syndacks 7y ago
Sounds like you're not in the greatest work environment if so many managers have quit. Curious why you think that is? Also, if you have such strong feelings about management, maybe try it out? Based on what you're saying, managers
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by syndacks 7y ago
Superbowl* Sunday
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by syndacks 7y ago
To be fair, I've seen up to an entire plane cooperate for much less serious reasons than the one you mentioned. On budget airlines. In America. IMO _how_ you treat the "cattle" (as a commenter in this thread referred) is the
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by syndacks 7y ago
Thanks for your thorough point of view.
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by syndacks 7y ago
Have you read BHo7K? If so, what did you think? If not -- read it!
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by syndacks 7y ago
I'm curious if you can answer the question I posed on this thread a few sibblings up. Thanks.
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by syndacks 7y ago
What's the bar for being hired as a FAANG engineering manager? Prev FAANG management experience? Prev FAANG IC role? Cursory LinkedIn searches show many FAANG engineering managers were promoted from within or came from a similar positi
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by syndacks 7y ago
What's the bar for being hired as a FAANG engineering manager? Prev FAANG management experience? Prev FAANG IC role? Cursory LinkedIn searches show many FAANG engineering managers were promoted from within or came from a similar positi
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by syndacks 7y ago
I was so excited to read Glass Bead Game. I waited till the end, having read most of Hesse's other major works before tackling his magnum opus. I was so disappointed in it, and I too put it down. Part of me wonders if something was los
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by syndacks 7y ago
I found Inherrent Vice to be more manageable than other Pynchon works. You should consider that one as a warm-up to Gravity.
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by syndacks 7y ago
Somewhat orthogonal, I've never been so disappointed by a follow up work than I have with Marlon James; from Brief History of Seven Killings to Black Leopard Red Wolf (the most abandoned book on the "to" list). Seems I'm
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by syndacks 7y ago
I double majored in English and Economics and consider myself an amazing full stack developer.
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by syndacks 7y ago
Sounds like a (nice) summary of this zinger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21635896
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by syndacks 7y ago
Don't be purposely dull by implying the parent comment doesn't understand the difference between one hundred million and one hundred.
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by syndacks 7y ago
Just because you can't measure something doesn't mean it's not there. Perhaps we don't have the tools or knowledge yet to measure depression, like countless other human ailments of the past that are now treatable.
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by syndacks 7y ago
Practice. Try writing a blog about something you know very well technically, but imagine you are explaining it to a Jr. Dev or maybe even a complete beginner. Also, pay attention to the technical docs you like. For me, I think Digital Ocean
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by syndacks 7y ago
Your sentence uses "they" ambiguously, FYI. Two very different interpretations possible.
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by syndacks 7y ago
>Because most people don't get addicted to video games, just like most people don't get addicted to alcohol So, uhh, what _do_ they get addicted to?
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by syndacks 7y ago
You're not Socrates, Uncle Bob.
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by syndacks 7y ago
I'm surprised this article doesn't suggest reading books. The best way to improve your writing is to read good writing.
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by syndacks 7y ago
In other words, in America you have the opportunity, the freedom if you will, to be an idiot. Jonathan Franzen explores this in _Freedom_.

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