thewarrior

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by thewarrior 4y ago
Sounds like software estimation
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by thewarrior 4y ago
Noob question - What does go lack that makes it hard to write your multi threaded meta verse viewer
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by thewarrior 4y ago
How did your team kick Googles ass at advertising. Any lessons you can share ?
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by thewarrior 4y ago
“Empty Status Chasing” is a pretty important motivator for a lot more people than they’d admit in public. Status correlates with wealth, fame and opportunity.
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by thewarrior 4y ago
Interesting. Have you written more about this somewhere ? If not you should.
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by thewarrior 4y ago
Wow this is such a great line. I hope it becomes famous and you get credit for it :D
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by thewarrior 4y ago
Are managers and senior middle management more protected from being laid off ?
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by thewarrior 4y ago
Yes but only to an extent. We cannot have an economy only of rappers and influencers.
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by thewarrior 4y ago
Because software cannot produce resources just because it exists. Productivity refers to being able to actually manufacture more widgets and things like food, roads. Yes technology has made things cheaper. By moving things across the globe
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by thewarrior 4y ago
Yeah we are “just” going to build flood defenses for every single major city in the world just like Amsterdam. Easy peasy.
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by thewarrior 4y ago
How can every single manager become a director ? That seems impossible.
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by thewarrior 4y ago
It’s basically cargo cult engineering. There’s the appearance of engineering and sophistication but the actual substance is hollow.
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by thewarrior 4y ago
Honest question - how does one provide value in this reality. It’s something I’m trying to understand
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by thewarrior 4y ago
So we can’t even get an AI to recognize basic obstacles in its path but self driving cars are coming any day now ? I am puzzled at how a system with such basic bugs is rolled out to production. Even obstacle detection hasn’t been solved yet
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by thewarrior 4y ago
I guess this would suggest that keeping physically fit and calm is the key to getting the best out of your aging brain.
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by thewarrior 5y ago
It's all a big Fugazi
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by thewarrior 5y ago
Okay so I've been programming for many years, work at a well known company and all that. But when it comes to writing tests and designing my code (OO or FP) I still am not sure what the best way to go about it is. There is so much cont
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by thewarrior 5y ago
Struggling to understand whether this comment is serious or sarcastic. Maybe that was the point.
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by thewarrior 5y ago
Doesn’t Microsoft research pay top dollar ?
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by thewarrior 5y ago
Loved this post
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by thewarrior 5y ago
But the people working those jobs don't have recruiters beating down the door offering them other jobs.
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by thewarrior 5y ago
This post doesn't contribute anything new to the discussion. These problems have been known for years and the company continues to do well. Nothing will change until it hits the bottom line.
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by thewarrior 5y ago
Apples moat is simply enormous. From SoC design to camera design to manufacturing to software and compiler engineering. Competitors could spend 10 years catching up. Cook simply needs to keep the machine going till he retires.
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by thewarrior 5y ago
And yet competitor products are still worse.
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by thewarrior 5y ago
Sure and that slows GDP growth by 40-50%. They’re still growing by a lot. It just moves the date by a few years. Demographic doom is frequently cited for China but I rarely hear about the doom of Europe which has worse demographics. Demogra
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by thewarrior 5y ago
Here you go https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55454146
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by thewarrior 5y ago
Let’s not miss the forest for the trees. China will continue to grow and get very close to the size of the American economy. China is already the worlds largest economy in terms of raw output (PPP terms). China is already the worlds largest
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by thewarrior 5y ago
Nobody uses Facebook anymore. Apple is doomed. Google search results are terrible. Amazon is terrible. And every cycle of quarterly results there’s surprise on HN.
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by thewarrior 5y ago
This is the case for all companies in the world eventually. China will overtake the US economy in the next 5 years.
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by thewarrior 5y ago
They also have lots of vitamins and nutrients.

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