vikasg

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by vikasg 6y ago
reply, smug, just like that. Commenting on HN is settled. Quarterback, armchair, they call it that. -- Have you talked to a human? One of the action steps is to not be a know-it-all. Alas, sentences with two commas, is what you have.
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by vikasg 6y ago
How is this comment that adds zero value considered "civil"? Oh, right. Because it fits right in with the bullshit reflexive contrarianism around here.
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by vikasg 6y ago
They don't know. Like half of all HN comments it's just speculation disguised as a fact.
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by vikasg 6y ago
+1 In a startup you want to actively screen for candidates like this. Someone who idolizes technological "purity" above all else and looks down on business will never be happy at a startup that needs to get shit done quickly. It
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by vikasg 7y ago
The only comment on HN more tiresome than "lol I can build twitter over a weekend" is a comment by a throwaway implicitly claiming that fixing the twitter product problems is easy.
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by vikasg 7y ago
Sour grapes, more like. If simply asking how they'd work with people from diverse backgrounds was triggering enough for this person, the process worked perfectly in rejecting them.
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by vikasg 7y ago
Andy Grove talks about this in "High Output Management". He says there are two kinds of managers, "know-how" managers and "position" managers. Both have a certain amount of authority, and a successful technolog
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by vikasg 7y ago
This is the most thoughtful comment I've ever read on HN.
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by vikasg 8y ago
The site was made by an ex-twitter engineer, so lots of the entires come from other Twitter engineers.
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by vikasg 8y ago
It's because HN prides itself on "civility". So you can "innocently", "just to be fair", "playing the devil's advocate", "but what about" say any offensive thing you like, and when
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by vikasg 8y ago
No one is disputing that a better system cannot be devised. This is true for many problems in the world. If you could start from the zero state, you can do it much better. So let me say this: _coming up with the ideal system is not hard_. B
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by vikasg 8y ago
Software is built for humans to use in the real world. While reshaping the entire world might make the code simpler, it's not a practical solution.
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by vikasg 9y ago
It would be more honest --- still inappropriate --- for a company to take everyone out to a strip club where the rules of interaction are well-known. It's gross that a company would hire women and have them pretend to be employees sole
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by vikasg 9y ago
What if someone drove you out of your house, sold that house, gave that money to 10 starving families in India, set them up for life? That would be an overall good. (despite the misdeed).
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by vikasg 9y ago
I don't dispute that moderation exists on HN. I just think MeFi makes better trade-offs.
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by vikasg 9y ago
While MeFi has its own blind spots, it is definitely one of the nicest communities online because of: (1) $5 fee to sign up. (2) It doesn't believe in absolute "free speech" like Reddit or HN. The moderators will tell you to
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by vikasg 9y ago
Thank you for saying this. For a community that prides itself on rationality, it's insane that every single issue needs to be relitigated from a position of absolute ignorance. Every "prior" needs to be set at 0.5, right? Whi
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by vikasg 9y ago
He doesn't understand because he's a complete _tablua rasa_ --- ignorant of all history and society. Not realizing that sex comes with a lot of baggage and that consequences of sex are dramatically different for a man than a woman
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by vikasg 9y ago
There's a whole lot of difference between two colleagues consensually sneaking off to have sex and having a fucking designated sex room in the office for everyone to see. You clearly never understood the phrase 'hostile work envir
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by vikasg 9y ago
Daemon.
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by vikasg 10y ago
The use of the word 'fuck' doesn't mean it's uncivil. I'm merely making a point as forcefully as the subject demands.
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by vikasg 10y ago
> Sure but I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader. You seem to think you're a professor we're all dying to listen to. Make a point or get the fuck out.
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by vikasg 10y ago
Congratulations on burying the lede. Nowhere in the article's phrasing is an intent to mislead. It clearly states that some organizations were not allowed to attend --- which is the real story here --- and some were allowed to attend.
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by vikasg 10y ago
I would go much farther than that. The attitude being exhibited here is "mind so open your brains fall out". The "prior probability" of human nature is called history. You can't look at every event as if it's h