troughway

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by troughway 6y ago
People in this thread have forgotten - or were not here when it happened, but there was an exodus of worthwhile, contributive people from 2010-2012 or so. The fellow who kept bringing up how "everything is fine" with his ASCII cha
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by troughway 6y ago
I'll add another one that has transpired: the technical and expert knowledge has gone elsewhere. The board is nowadays predominantly populated by emotional outbursts from people who have next to no idea what they are talking about rega
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by troughway 6y ago
In speaking to Africans in the West, in general they share a very traditional view of the situation as many other immigrants do. Namely, to remember who you are, where you come from, who your people are, and many other things from homeland.
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by troughway 6y ago
I was just curious because I keep hearing how younger people are committing suicides but nobody wants to explicitly break out the statistics. As for the documentary, although friends have recommended I see it I am up to my neck in propagand
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by troughway 6y ago
What's the age/sex demographic of most of these suicides?
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by troughway 6y ago
>I fear the rise of social media has caused more and more people to stay inside all day without interacting with any real humans. Read _Industrial Society and Its Future_. It has the path paved out already. Japan is, as seems to be custo
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by troughway 6y ago
>I get the impression that Mozilla is a bloated organisation that's resting on goodwill it built up back when Firefox was a compelling user experience. Great observation. Viewing it through a business lens, their competitors caught
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by troughway 6y ago
When you try to go up against FB and Google with feelgood nonsense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6atSU2iUrdI (yes, yes...)
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by troughway 6y ago
>it will need to decrease its unreasonable demands down to other similar careers for both men and women. Which unreasonable demands and which other similar careers?
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Ask HN: Keep November politics off of HN
11 points by troughway 6y ago|5 comments
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by troughway 6y ago
They need to do away with downvotes and use flagging as a means of getting rid of trolls and low-effort posts - f.e. "lol" and such replies. The same drivel they harp on about how FB is stifling contrarian thinking is very well pr
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by troughway 6y ago
Turns from amazing to expected after awhile. The more I read the comments the more I agree with the Gell Man Amnesia Effect. I don't trust HN with any commentary about anything anymore - not even software development.
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by troughway 6y ago
All these comments and no one is calling these assholes out for pushing antipsychotic drugs? Are you mad?
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by troughway 6y ago
I want to like this article but there is a piece that is missing. I think reading books is overrated, especially for something like what the author is trying to “cure”. My biggest gripe is that you’re reading an interpretation filtered thro
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by troughway 6y ago
Because they get clicks by calling you ignorant and telling you that you don’t know anything and they have all the answers. The amount of tech blogs talking down to their audience is staggering.
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by troughway 6y ago
Hey guys it's Ex-Google, Ex-Facebook, Ex-Tesla Tech Lead
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by troughway 6y ago
Is that what this is about? Then I guess we can expect the top womans MMA fighters to all be trans. Well done!
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by troughway 6y ago
>"Many LGBTQAI+/ally Spotifiers feel unwelcome and alienated because of leadership's response in JRE conversations. What is your message to those employees?" another read. Identity politics. Something tells me if JRE
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by troughway 6y ago
I get the vibe from this article and the photos that this is another cool kids club, akin to something from their high school days. The signalling language and posturing is too obvious. Nothing in here is about inclusivity. It's a powe
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by troughway 6y ago
Semi off-topic, but I've always wondered if Autechre's Tri Repetae album was named after one of the oblique strategies. The title translates to "Try Repeating", I believe.
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by troughway 6y ago
There is a lot to be said for the entirety of your question, but i'll try to focus on this since it stood out to me (plus the interest of time): >System design rounds require me to solve problems that the top engineers in the world
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by troughway 6y ago
Just to drive this point home: be careful what you post on HN and elsewhere about China (YC's ventures have their hands dirty with China as well), as it's probably being recorded somewhere and while they might not necessarily be a
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by troughway 6y ago
The surprising thing to me is that there is no mention of the copious online communities we have had for the past few decades. The number of WoW guilds alone is staggering. If you want to know the "surprising" traits, just look to
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by troughway 6y ago
Why though? ZH is the only one willing to report things that others would rather you not know about. If every so often they report something batshit crazy, that’s a small price to pay. I don’t see an issue with linking the good stuff. And Z
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by troughway 6y ago
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Great Programmers(bramcohen.livejournal.com)
3 points by troughway 6y ago|0 comments
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by troughway 6y ago
You're not allowed to ask about downvotes on HN.
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by troughway 6y ago
Offtopic: I’m curious to see how Substack fares and if we will have the same “Substack sucks” attitude from viewers that we’ve seen with Medium. Both it and Reddit are YC ventures and it seems like YC hasn’t moderated away people disparagin
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by troughway 6y ago
I wish we could take comments from threads like these and turn them into a kind of compendium of HN, so that outsiders can know what to expect of this site. Need to determine if it fits under the "Race Baiting" or the "Educat
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by troughway 6y ago
>we realized we needed to build a services business more than a technology business and that's not what we set out to do Wouldn't surprise me if this applies to majority of applicants.

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