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by wilsynet 4y ago
I learned how to first program in the early 1990s with Pascal. It never really clicked with me, despite reading multiple different beginner books, and I gave up, figured programming wasn’t for me. Years later I was encouraged to read “The C
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by wilsynet 4y ago
It would be one thing to say yeah, you don’t think the field is interesting and is likely to be a dead end. But that’s not what you’re saying. Instead you are saying that you don’t follow it because well, you can’t follow everything. And I
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by wilsynet 4y ago
Those developers should definitely try it.
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by wilsynet 4y ago
Ostensibly because Amazon won’t allow you to because RTO policy. I guess if you don’t show up, they’ll eventually fire you.
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by wilsynet 4y ago
I’m not arguing one way or another, but presumably the market is “iPhone users”, for which Apple has a monopoly on the App Store.
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by wilsynet 4y ago
Why shouldn’t we take the AI at its word that it is able to count words?
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by wilsynet 4y ago
The people responsible for Civ 6 are advertising multiplayer online play in an effort to take your money, while investing the least amount of money to say they delivered the feature. They are just milking the Civ franchise for all they can.
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by wilsynet 4y ago
I majored in CS in the late 90s and this wasn’t my experience at all. The Netscape IPO happened in 1995, followed by 5 years of the dot.com gold rush. Computers flew off the shelves, and everyone wanted to get online. The dotcom crash happe
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by wilsynet 4y ago
Let them go, but as part of their severance package, let them vest.
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by wilsynet 4y ago
Stadia was a bad idea, it had very little adoption, and Google was right to kill it.
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by wilsynet 5y ago
Sometimes Google ends a project, product or service and ceases to fund it. Engineers are often given plenty of time to find new roles working on other things. Sometimes employees stubbornly don’t get the hint, and then Google needs to tell
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by wilsynet 5y ago
If it worked great, what was so horrible about it?
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by wilsynet 5y ago
And 1/4 is for companies that care about compensating employees fairly, while adhering to market norms. Run away. This CEO wants to hold your equity hostage.
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by wilsynet 5y ago
> I started talks with upper leadership to move all the people currently working on building/improving products internally into a dedicated business unit. New things go with old things. The people who maintain a product ideally sh
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by wilsynet 5y ago
What is the basis of the criticism? The employees of MailChimp knowingly and willingly entered into an employment relationship that did not include equity in its compensation. They have no reason to be unhappy and MailChimp doesn’t owe them
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by wilsynet 5y ago
Ellen Pao made a statement of fact, that rank and file “employees have no equity”. There was no criticism or attack fundamental to the factual statement itself.
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by wilsynet 5y ago
They do profit sharing. https://mailchimp.com/culture/investing-in-people-through-pr...
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by wilsynet 5y ago
I didn’t get that at all. They talked about the funding round as a signal for what the asking price might be, and then “Mike from Sequoia” because they know Mike and therefore know which partner at Sequoia to reach out to broker a conversat
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by wilsynet 5y ago
I think you’re mis-reading the thread. Jeff Huber says YouTube are cranking features, but their backend probably won’t scale and they don’t have good monetization. That ultimately ends up being what they do — after acquiring YouTube, they r
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by wilsynet 5y ago
Do you know why there’s political pressure to motivate vaccination? Because vaccines work.
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by wilsynet 5y ago
Which dishwasher is it?
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by wilsynet 5y ago
Author is saying that the company already decided they are migrating from Ubuntu to Fedora. That’s not the controversy. In a Slack channel, someone said “Ubuntu is doomed”. Not because Ubuntu, as a distro, will soon reach end-of-life, but b
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by wilsynet 5y ago
Did he admit to committing the crime? Or did he just say “uh huh”? But to answer the question, well how do we know any evidence isn’t manufactured? You know, I agree with your sentiment here. But I would also say that the prosecution here h
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by wilsynet 5y ago
How do we know the so called taped evidence wasn’t manufactured? I’m not usually given to conspiracy theories, but we already have plenty of evidence that the prosecution lied repeatedly in this case.
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by wilsynet 5y ago
The Apple TV touch remote is frustrating even if you are tech savvy. It is just bad, period.
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by wilsynet 6y ago
I agree with you that you should not touch your computer.
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by wilsynet 6y ago
The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie. I had tried to learn BASIC and Pascal. And it never really clicked. But K&R’s book explained the language, how it worked, and how to program — in the most primitivel
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by wilsynet 6y ago
Take a look at this page: https://www.omha.net/news_article/show/631894-the-evolution-... Under the standup style of the 80s, you see these very short and narrrow goalie pads. If a modern goaltender were to drop t
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by wilsynet 6y ago
Over time, as goalie equipment changed, so did the way that goalies covered the net and stopped pucks. The way that a goalie plays today is very different than the way Hasek played, and the way Hasek played is very different than the way Fu
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by wilsynet 6y ago
In the early 80s, my mom read in newspapers that computers were going to be the future. So she spent much of our meager savings on what was then a very expensive Apple IIe. Because she wanted opportunity for her children that she never had.

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