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They weren't looking for errors in papers and trying to push for corrections or improve the science. They were using these errors as fodder for promoting their software. It might not be bullying, but it's not coming from a place o
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I wish I could remember where I read this, but I once heard it explained to me as this: It's easy to deride the journey of the rich college student: 80-hour internships at Goldman Sachs, unpaid positions in government, etc. But, the t
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OK, I get the argument. But is there no validity to the idea that a species has not meaningfully changed in many years? I've heard this idea that modern sharks are closer (in physiology) than human to our common ancestor. If I want to
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Does what? This method of press does. Generate news, invest in the people. It's like sales. Does press for startups? Sure. High-profile startups can raise a lot of money and do great things with them. It's not everything. Color ha
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It's common knowledge around here that PR is wasted effort for startups. So why do this? For startups and for any company, brand makes things nebulously easier. Sales require one fewer call, hiring pipelines are slightly more full, fun
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I feel like "lays off" is the wrong term here. If you're closing an office of 20 people at a company of 3,800, that feels more like firing a team for not producing, not making bottom-of-the-stack-rank cuts because you need to
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Yep. They had a bad experience during the interview. When they ask themselves "how do I feel about this company?", their main data point is negative.
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Background: I work on products that are less than 3 years old. Deployments are the #1 cause of outages. We don't write up fancy postmortems for the vast majority of these outages, because it's things like "We forgot to ship t
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I suppose I just disagree with you, then. From the Inclusivity Working Group Github: "Increasing inclusivity means making the Node.js project a safe and friendly place for people from diverse backgrounds." That seems like a solid
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Who are "these people"? The person who opened the bug report asked about a process that's relevant to the purpose of the group (flagging inappropriate language early in places that can be hard to change later, like APIs). The
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The part of this article that highlights what Douglas Crockford did to get him removed from Nodevember is fine. A bit boring, but fine. The part of this article that generally hand-waves towards "inclusivity" as a movement and dis
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I can't imagine it is. The benefits appear to be: 1) Initial marketing testing through Amazon storefronts. 2) Fulfillment and logistics. 3) Promotion on the same level as other Amazon products. This doesn't seem valuable to pure-s
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The overage feels generous to me. I'm not sure there's much of SF you can't get to with $25, even in traffic. It seems like this is their way of addressing the problem of "being in the car". If you get in the car wi
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Heaven forbid? Many other VC firms want to invest in ex-Googlers and their startups, especially one with previous success. It seems reasonable that they'd continue to invest in people they have high confidence in.
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> This transaction breaks a core promise using the internet: just because I visit a website doesn’t mean I consent to getting spam from it. No it doesn't. There is no core privacy premise of the internet, and certainly not one that
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Talk to people who you want to help. Try to figure out if you're good at something they're not. If you start a startup, you're going to spend every waking hour for, like, 2 years thinking about the problems your customers hav
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Yes! I'm pretty un-hireable right now. I have 4 years experience as a dev, 1.5 in sales, 1.5 in marketing, and <1 as a founder. So ... I started a company making marketing analytics software. It's pretty great! One of the most
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Here's some cases that I've handled with AWS that justifies the cost: - About a month ago, our database filled up, both in space and IOPS required. We do sizeable operations every day, and jobs were stacking up. I clicked a couple
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I don't think that's true. It's certainly possible for somebody else to run with tutorial creation, especially if the project gets attention / exposure before the tutorials are ready. If the response "Contributions
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If you're hearing the biography so you can attack the ideology, you're missing the point. Ideology is nearly pointless to discuss. Instead, the author suggests talking about topics that are more personal. By talking about experien
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Privacy expires at death. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/26/opinion/l-privacy-after-de... If you want to take something to the grave, you'll have to be more creative than simply assuming nobody is g
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Land and homes are the only leveraged asset available to the average American. Even at only 1.1% per year, if you take out a mortgage and put 20% down, you get 5.5% real return. The S&P is something like 7%. It's not insanity if yo
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Suggestion: Can you move the collapse button to the left of the username? One way I tend to use nested comment threads is reading all top comments, collapsing as I go. Great stuff, overall -- thanks!
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The larger companies were probably slower because they have started prioritizing their support tickets by how much you pay. If you signed up for a $5,000 / month plan with all of them, then emailed support, you'd have a different
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1) cron sucks, I hate using it. $10 / month to never configure cron again would be great. 2) Have you ever used Buffer? Chrome extension, in-app experience, cross-posting to multiple sites, drag-and-drop re-ordering, ...? It's not
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This is the point. The language is fine, the technical problems are solveable. The stigma remains. All other things being equal, choose a language where you're not going to have to fight this fight.
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10Stories was rejected 3 times in the last year. We ended up joining TrackMaven about a month ago and are building our product with them. Strictly speaking, 10Stories isn't a going concern, but TrackMaven Attribution certainly is. We d
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P2P connections is a place that's generally terrible for mobile. You have to keep connections open to more devices, which is generally bad for battery. You could imagine a copy/paste that waits for a message from the cloud (becaus
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If you're in the comments, trying to figure out if this is worth your time, it absolutely is. I've never seen anything about this process that's more complete, and it's basically all right.
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It's not JUST that, though -- it also modifies "my city" and "this country" to be your location, too!

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