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by yaseer 3y ago
At first I thought "This sounds stupid, just play a little, have some fun, and move on like everyone else". Then I remembered my own experiences with addictive substances. Addiction rewires your brain, which is an experience I for
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by yaseer 3y ago
I interpreted the tone as friendly, lighthearted humour, rather than cynical.
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by yaseer 3y ago
Agreed, Nvidia's dominance is annoying. I made irrational purchasing decisions in the past to support the underdog, likening it to using Firefox. Unfortunately with AMD you just get a worse product. This space sorely needs more competi
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by yaseer 3y ago
> It's not like OP's situation and access to emulators would have been any different if the decision went Sony's way. I would respectfully disagree - although it's hard to speculate on alternative histories. The Unite
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by yaseer 3y ago
Agreed, if anything, I actually would have liked to hear a little more about the author, given the title. A lot of startups have founder backstories weaved into their pitch. 'Who are you, and why are you doing this?' can be an int
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by yaseer 3y ago
I'm an atheist that's generally anti religion, but I think it's unfair to dismiss OP's personal experience as an invalid answer to the question. You could say this community is implicitly a secular one, but OP's ans
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by yaseer 3y ago
Perhaps the tone and context were not clear. > And? A set of negative responses tends to make the quality of Internet discussions deteriorate. I thought there was an interesting discussion to be had, so suggested an alternative phrasing.
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by yaseer 3y ago
I think the way you've phrased your question will invite negative responses. Perhaps a better way would be "I'd like to understand why age discrimination exists in tech. What motivates companies to do this?"
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by yaseer 3y ago
Would love to see @dang's take on this!
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by yaseer 3y ago
What makes you say the brand is in crisis? Asking because I am curious to see this take, not to dispute it.
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by yaseer 3y ago
I did also interpret the title the same way! I had images of a 3D printed version of Google's original server/storage assembly: http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/.
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by yaseer 4y ago
We did W21, and whilst the point that 'remote < in-person' has some validity, I fundamentally disagree on the points about YC's network, partners and community. Most of the YC network effects occur after demo day. Likewise
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by yaseer 4y ago
+101. My wife and I now have an annual tradition of making physical albums of memories from the past year. Making the album in January is not just fun - it makes you mindful of fond memories at a time when you're likely to think "
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by yaseer 4y ago
Strongly agree with this. One thing I realised is, startups should spend more time optimising the decision of their top priority, and less time optimising efficiency. There's no point working on the wrong thing with 100% efficiency.
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Axiom.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring Customer Success Engineers(ycombinator.com)
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by yaseer 4y ago
Good points- this is not just a cost-benefit exercise on your CV/Resume. There are formative life and social experiences in college at 18-22, which are difficult to recreate when you're older. Many of the friendships and experienc
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by yaseer 4y ago
The HN community is filled with a bunch of geeky, technical know-it-alls... but I probably wouldn't have it any other way. The moderation and thoughtful approach to community is undoubtedly the best I have seen on the Internet. It&#x27
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by yaseer 4y ago
They're referring to "Robotic Process Automation" (RPA). I agree the name is a misnomer, but it's now part of the Enterprise Lexicon, which is filled with jargon. I run an RPA startup, but as much as I hate the term (e.g
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by yaseer 4y ago
Great Idea! : ) Aside on TechHub London: Unfortunately, their descent started well before COVID. We were a tenant in our last company before TechHub moved location in 2019. It was a terrible building - an order of magnitude worse than the c
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by yaseer 4y ago
Yes, I had several issues with Blair, Brown and Cameron for different reasons, but it seems like both parties have produced a strikingly poor crop of leaders ever since that generation holding the 'centre ground'.
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by yaseer 4y ago
Political flamewars are Off-Topic on HN, but I have a feeling there's very few Nick Clegg fans amongst HN's UK readership. Out of curiosity though, does anybody here have a positive take on Nick Clegg? I'm interested in your
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by yaseer 4y ago
You could put self-driving tech into one of two categories: 1) So hard, even with incremental progress, we can't predict the problem will be solved even in a decade or two, e.g. Nuclear fusion, General AI (AGI). 2) Hard, but the progre
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by yaseer 4y ago
It's interesting to see how Big Tech firms can struggle with innovation as they scale, but perhaps for different reasons. Facebook has lacked innovation for quite a while, first relying on acquisitions, then brazenly copying other soci
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by yaseer 4y ago
This is a really technologically interesting problem to solve, congrats! The GitHub analogy is particularly captivating. The potential for applying code re-use and other programming principles in hardware could create a 'Cambrian explo
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by yaseer 4y ago
Let's leave our dislike of particular corporate cultures aside to look at the bigger picture. They aren't the whole economy. An efficient job market where people are matched with jobs suitable for their skills, is always a good th
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by yaseer 4y ago
We can all joke about how Big Tech shovels some of the finest technical minds towards clicking ads. But on the plus side, the size of the tech sector in 2022 does make for much more efficient job market for technical skills, than in decades
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by yaseer 4y ago
HN is about geeks gratifying our intellectual curiosity- There's some interesting topics brought up by this post. Science of skincare, underserved markets, sociological phenomena. But all that aside, plenty of geeks with darker skin f
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by yaseer 4y ago
Hyperpigmentation after scarring and acne is something every skin color gets, but it's particularly prominent in brown skin tones. The 'delta' between your normal skin and that scarred skin can be large for this skin type. Un
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by yaseer 4y ago
To get into pedantic semantics: Yes, I agree it's opaque- perhaps not totally clear on first sight. But a dark pattern has connotations of some intention to deceive, which I don't think is occurring here.
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by yaseer 4y ago
It's a pattern, but definitely not dark or undisclosed. The system and rationale are explained in the HN FAQ and repeatedly reiterated by the mods. i.e This is one of the things HN gives back to YC, for funding it. Compared to online

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