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by villasv 5y ago
Sure, knowing that OP went to Whatever County in State Foo would be so much more valuable to her target audience... smh
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by villasv 5y ago
It's not like we will carelessly stumble upon world-ending technology. This is not a sci-fi movie.
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by villasv 5y ago
Zeynep Tufecki's ( https://zeynep.me/ ) newsletter is pretty good, and sometimes she publishes elsewhere like The Atlantic but links back to it, which I like too.
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by villasv 5y ago
Nothing (or a probabilistic electron cloud? I don’t think it counts as “being made of” something in a meaningful way)
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by villasv 5y ago
_Having_ to work (instead of the privilege of working if you want on whatever you want) is the root of evils. Startup life isn’t working on what I want, it’s agile firefight every sprint. Corporate life wasn’t working when I wanted, it was
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by villasv 5y ago
In the language of product design and experience, yes you can apply to all abilities. More specifically, all abilities required by your product.
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by villasv 5y ago
I agree with you that an attack on a hospital is an attack on infrastructure, though I disagree with your arguments regarding oil infrastructure. The difference is response is a matter of impact scale. Usually, the infrastructure of a small
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by villasv 5y ago
I wouldn't say it's particular to Brazil but I can try to guess the biggest contributing factors. Brazil is huge (so lots of script kiddies) but it has only like 3 major ISPs (attending big cities). Also ISPs here have a lot of le
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by villasv 5y ago
Of course. That has nothing to do with agile MVPs, though.
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by villasv 5y ago
You nailed the opposite of an MVP, which is to deliver it immediately and improve it later.
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by villasv 5y ago
IKR. The question framing is almost like: is there any other reason to use Java except all the most important and good reasons?
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by villasv 5y ago
No condescension intended. Google has been offering this service for a while, at least since 2018 iirc.
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by villasv 5y ago
This is not new, though. So it may be a dream in the sense of people have been asleep?
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by villasv 5y ago
> pretty much the definition of hindsight bias This. The antidote is to revisit examples of "couldn't you just X" where X indeed prevailed. There are even instances where superseding technology was actually better, but it
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by villasv 5y ago
Regular employees can be fired selectively.
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by villasv 5y ago
Wicket stuff, loved it. Not sure if this will ever be “production ready” or merged by sql.JS-like projects but cool proof of concept.
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by villasv 5y ago
Note that AWS has around 25k employees while IBM is close to 350k.
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by villasv 5y ago
> it wouldn't make a difference in the end Yes it would.
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by villasv 5y ago
Well, to us, it obviously looks like too much money. But do you agree that CEO's decision making could take a company stock to anywhere between -5% and +5% its current value in the next year? That's a lot of value at risk. It&#x27
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by villasv 5y ago
This trendy thing called “progress”, freaking bandwagon mentality for _centuries_.
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by villasv 5y ago
> We already have a solution for the issues you described, HR. Surely you must be joking.
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by villasv 5y ago
> Lots of jobs are hard and require extremely smart, gifted people. And yet somehow only executives get huge "compensation." Someone please break it down for me Barney-style because it seems like bullshit to me. The higher your
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by villasv 5y ago
How is this in the front of HN
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by villasv 5y ago
I think blocking the PR author instead of the original project is a good move. Adding more manual labor to maintainers, not so much. I don’t have an alternative solution, though. I wish it would at least pass through PRs opened from GitHub
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by villasv 5y ago
I understand your viewpoint, I'm just saying that's not how VCs take valuations. It's a 4 bn business, its chance of survival taken into account - which at this point, a16z thinks is pretty high, not <50%. This confidence
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by villasv 5y ago
Or hook up webmentions with something like https://brid.gy/
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by villasv 5y ago
I did some data management a while back for higher education institutions from Brazil and took that opportunity to contribute to WikiData. Not a recommendation, just a shoutout to them. Also, OpenRefine helped so much, kudos to all involved
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by villasv 5y ago
The rationale goes in the opposite direction. If investors led a funding round at a valuation of 4 Bn, that's already how much they think it's worth it and, in most cases, its market value is a bit less.
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by villasv 5y ago
Social networks have winner-takes-all effects and whoever comes first has a big advantage. Not saying it's a guaranteed win, but the advantage has value.
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by villasv 5y ago
Parent commenter didn't say that a16z should be blindly trusted, just stated the obvious counterpoint that they're not ignorant as implied.

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