vikinghckr

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by vikinghckr 10mo ago
You have been perma banned from HN fyi
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by vikinghckr 10mo ago
No, that's charity, which while morally great is not sustainable at scale and in the long run.
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by vikinghckr 10mo ago
Yes giving people with fewer resources an option to pay with their attention is a morally good thing for society, actually.
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by vikinghckr 10mo ago
It's the exact opposite. Advertising-based model is why the poorest people in the poorest countries in the world have had access to the exact same Google search, YouTube and Facebook as the richest people in the US. Ad-supported busine
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by vikinghckr 10mo ago
Advertisement is unquestionably a net positive for society and humanity. It's one of the few true positive sum business models where everyone is better off.
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by vikinghckr 10mo ago
Who do you think his 30-40K paying subscriber audience are?
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by vikinghckr 11mo ago
Very interesting read! One question I have is, since the architecture involves quite a thick client on top of base Chromium, and the client seems to be platform-specific (Swift/OSX in this case), how is the team thinking about the over
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by vikinghckr 3y ago
What did they have you don't?
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by vikinghckr 3y ago
Well, enjoyment or happiness is tricky to measure because happiness = reality - expectation. So people in the 1820s might've been "happy" enough because they simply didn't know a better life like today's was a possi
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by vikinghckr 3y ago
Well, for a start, it's safe to assume you're not a woman or a minority. And even if you're a young healthy white male, your quality of life would be significantly worse in the 1820s. Not only would you lose access to a lot o
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by vikinghckr 3y ago
That this even needed to be said on a forum like HN baffles me. I suspect it's a result of decades of mainstream political/cultural doom-and-gloom propaganda.
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by vikinghckr 3y ago
The median quality of life is MUCH higher today than 100 years ago. And bottom 1%-tile quality of life might be 1000 times better. All thanks to advance in technology and increased productivity.
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
I'm not exaggerating but this might just be the highest impact library I've seen. As a backend developer who has lots of great project ideas but bail at the thought of having to use JavaScript and HTML, this library is a godsend!
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
Thanks! Injecting the data itself is an interesting approach!
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
Thanks! I really like the idea of the instrumented ExampleKeyValueStore class which can be defined like this: class ExampleKeyValueStore { ExampleKeyValueStore(KeyValueStore wrapped); int hit_count(); }; That means I can u
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
Hi, I really enjoyed the piece! How much to test at each layer of abstraction has always been something that's bugged me. This article provides a nice strategy. I still have questions about a few scenarios though. Let's say, I hav
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
What I really find interesting here is that PyTorch, a library maintained by Facebook, is winning the marketshare and mindshare due to clean API, whereas Tensorflow, maintained by Google, is losing due to inferior API. In general, Google as
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
Considered using Bazel? Perfect for what you described.
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
The paper literally reaches the opposite conclusion to what you just said. In any case, any sort of price control is bad for the consumer, so I'm opposed to the idea on principle.
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
I don't have examples of people getting banned by banks/PayPal for legal activities using crypto, no. But that doesn't mean crypto-based solutions can't fill that void in the future. Note that I never claimed crypto is t
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
First of all, the fact that you completely ignored the first point about perfectly legal "racist", "sexist", "anti-vaxx" behavior being enough to get you banned from PayPal/banks means you accept that ther
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
> Are all crimes, right? Banks will take your consumer money (provider management does get more complicated) for gambling and porn these days Not necessarily. For example, PayPal has recently introduced "acceptable use policy"
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
Good. It makes little sense to be a software engineer in Canada in the first place. Can earn double the salary for the same work by moving to the US.
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
Meanwhile Google and Facebook internally use VS Code based IDEs as their official developer tooling. Pretty sure their legal teams have considered any legal risks with licensing.
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
Never. I'm not changing any part of my lifestyle to prevent any climate disaster. I'm all for technological solution to climate change. In case that's not enough, I'm happy to face the consequences. But I'm still no
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by vikinghckr 4y ago
As someone who works at big tech company, the reality couldn't be further from the truth. This is one of the hottest job markets I've seen. Amazon, who are known to pay worse than other FAANGs, recently increased their compensatio
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Amazon Pip Horror Story(linkedin.com)
902 points by vikinghckr 5y ago|737 comments
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by vikinghckr 5y ago
Equity in salaries is all good and well, but it's not going to convince anyone to take a pay cut to join your company. For example, I flat out refuse to hear about any offer that's <$400K a year. I'm not going to join te
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by vikinghckr 5y ago
Very interesting project! This is one area where I always felt git was worse than mercurial. Latter has extremely useful tools like `hg hisedit` and `hg split`, for which git didn't have a counterpart.
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by vikinghckr 6y ago
Because Windows 10 is the best Operating System in the universe? It seems like HN is full of folks who last used Windows back in 2005 or something and are painfully out of touch with modern Windows.

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