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by wbsun 2y ago
I feel that eventually people will hate every commercial product and the company. The interests of users and the company have a fundamental conflict because one is trying to get as much money as possible from the other with the least possib
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by wbsun 2y ago
Just curious, any startups working towards this goal? Replacing leadership, decision making, people management, project management, negotiation and such with AI?
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by wbsun 3y ago
I work on a large distributed infrastructure. I always joked that my team's projects and people's careers are outage-driven: the only time we become important and people get opportunities for promotion is when where were big-enoug
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by wbsun 3y ago
I am always wondering why ASML hasn’t got any antitrust lawsuits for their monopoly.
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by wbsun 3y ago
As some comments mentioned that the culture in Boeing has been broken for a long time. How to fix it? I heard about a solution: set up a policy that every executive and board member must take their "safe" airplane once a week.
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by wbsun 3y ago
I like the old times when you could assume everyone around you is smarter than you, so collaboration and communication were never an issue. They never rely on "experts" in other teams to collaborate, they quickly and easily pick u
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by wbsun 3y ago
People often learn the lessons in a hard way: they will keep saving 230k/yr until one day their non-HA bare-metal is down and major customers retreat.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't USB C need many pins?
2 points by wbsun 3y ago|3 comments
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by wbsun 3y ago
Noticed their outage earlier today so took a look, looks like their status page has an issue. This is what I can see now: https://ibb.co/cvyYwVp . 92 out 92 products are abnormal in Beijing. Maybe just a UI bug.
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"Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange" in Plain English(security.stackexchange.com)
2 points by wbsun 3y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 3y ago
I have always been wondering what kind of work a realtor needs to do for selling/buying a $100M mansion and ended up with $5M commission…
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by wbsun 3y ago
Tesla is the only EV in US that can do roadtrip in practice. Both of my family cars are Tesla because of that reason. Maybe things will change when more and more other EVs can also use Tesla superchargers.
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by wbsun 3y ago
Is there any benchmark data to show the difference between no-sql DBs written in different languages when it comes to a real distributed system rather than just a handful of machines?
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by wbsun 3y ago
My sources on the planet Earth say that nowadays this is the way to write news, essays, blogs, podcast videos, and books in order to attract attentions.
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by wbsun 3y ago
I invest $1000 on SPY every paycheck.
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by wbsun 3y ago
I’ve noticed that no other devices can beat the quality of Apple device monitors, no matter how high-definition they are. The display on Apple devices are just smoothing, natural, easy on my heavily myopic eyes. Any expert on display panel?
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by wbsun 3y ago
I use ad blocker a lot. After seeing this title, for a sec I felt frustrated about YouTube but then I realized it is better for me and my family to subscribe YouTube premium… and I just did it. Long story: We are Chinese family living in US
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by wbsun 3y ago
My wife and I used to spend a lots of time pairing socks for the family after laundry. We hated it. When my son started picking up clothes and socks for himself to ware everyday, he picked any two socks, no bother to pair at all. We tried s
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Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy(gizmodo.com)
5 points by wbsun 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Any aggregated banking service since FDIC protects only $250k
3 points by wbsun 4y ago|3 comments
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by wbsun 4y ago
How does that scale if there are many customers that need to meet the lead developers like OP get in weekly 1:1?
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by wbsun 4y ago
This! The fun of programming won't come out of a software project. I find fun in programming by writing code solving small challenges. Something people really hate, e.g. LeetCode, is actually the fun place for me: I really enjoy writin
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The Bizarre but True Story of America's Obsession with Ice Cubes(epicurious.com)
2 points by wbsun 4y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 4y ago
Great, let’s make a subscription based service to help people easily self-host…
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by wbsun 4y ago
As a software engineer, I simply can’t trust software to drive my car 65mph in highway traffic. I have a Model Y, but never bought the autopilot. Actually even if Tesla pays me $15k per year to ask me to use autopilot, I’d say no. It is not
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by wbsun 4y ago
I feel it is better for my eyes in all environments than bright mode. I am very nearsighted. But, both modes hurt your eyes as long as you have to read on screen or even on paper. My aunt used to be pretty nearsighted as a student (-6.00 on
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by wbsun 4y ago
+1 to this. This is the way to start a PhD research (assuming OP is trying to stay up-to-date in this area by "get back").
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Jd.com to slash top exec salaries amid China's 'common prosperity' push(reuters.com)
1 points by wbsun 4y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 4y ago
oh another mediocre 1440p, another boring 27"... As a programmer who suffers from both -12.00 nearsighted eyes, I really hope those LCD/LED panel makers produce a 40+" 5K x 2K curved panel with 350+nits brightness. So that I
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by wbsun 4y ago
Someone tries to manipulate the market because of a short (or long?) position on FB?

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