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by throwaw12 4y ago
> These people seem out of touch. Why? This is basic capitalism, every party cares about their interests. On one side you have companies laying off people to increase profits (some of them have billions in their account), on the other si
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strange wording > It is not AI that will end up stealing your job, > it will be stolen by people that have learnt to use AI to become more productive This is by definition AI stealing your job. AI will not come and say: hey move on, I
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by throwaw12 4y ago
> We will end the year at $130M in annual revenues and burning ~$925K/month so your expenses are $141M/year. I am not in your shoes, but if I were, I would start with cost cutting: - easiest, fastest and unfortunate one - layof
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by throwaw12 4y ago
this discussion will not add any value to the tech community of HN. My main concern of parent comment is, it is adding politics to the discussion of recently open sourced tech piece, instead of focusing on its capabilities, trade-offs and s
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by throwaw12 4y ago
brainwashing at its peak. When USA does things, it is for the good of society, democracy. When Russia does things, it is hurting people, bad for society. Come on buddy, time to wake up and understand every country does things for its own go
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How do you verify if badge usage is legitimate? People do everything for SEO
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by throwaw12 4y ago
I am not arguing about Google's innovation. They innovate, but their definition of "failure" internally is hurting real users and people are losing trust. People can't give Google a chance all the time, especially when i
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by throwaw12 4y ago
Let's say 3B unique people use 100 Google products. Their biggest apps get largest amount of users, but there are disjoint number of users using other products, e.g. 100M using Google Reader, 10M using Stadia and so on. For Google, ind
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by throwaw12 4y ago
> I think this is both obsolete and subtly wrong Maybe you are right, not sure. But this is my impression from working at Big tech. New thing is easy to measure, compare these: "launched X in region Y" vs "prevented possib
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Yes, exactly. Managers are too much focused on new thing, because it is much easier to see impact on new thing. Quantifying impact on support is much difficult and it seems big tech mostly gave up on trying to quantify it, hence people get
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by throwaw12 4y ago
> It's much easier to build a brand new highway In software world, new highway is not a new thing, it is just a copy/paste. In software new thing is mostly relates to inventing a solution for specific use case, solution itself
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> What's especially hard about new things? Because it doesn't exist yet, you need to investigate previous approaches/research, come up with architecture/design, evaluate pros/cons, hardware requirements, staffing
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At this point, I think issue is not about products Google build, it is about how Google put their incentives in place. - Build new shiny thing -> promoted - Support shiny thing -> it's not difficult, everyone can do it This type
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> If you really can't be bothered to write the welcome email maybe just don't not everyone has good english and corporate writing skills.
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how companies should make money, if AWS can package it any day and sell as a service? regarding self hosting, how can contributors make sure that you are self-hosting and paying? If code is open and already in your infra there is no way to
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somehow I got scared after reading this. I have very similar experiences described in the article, I start doing things and forget along the way. To remember what I wanted to accomplish, I rewind things, like imagining that I just came to m
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no, but based on replies, I guess I am burned out
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> Does your mind wander elsewhere? Yes, it is constantly elsewhere, but not with me, at the moment. To comprehend your sentence I spent 3 minutes, reading again and again.
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> ceases to dream during his sleeping hours For at least a year I am not seeing a dream, I thought this is because I am too tired and sleep goes like a 1 second, I go to sleep and wake up. Don't feel anything what happened in betwee
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Ask HN: It seems I lost imagination, what to do?
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