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by yibg 5y ago
Can't you say the same thing about a lot of stuff? Why outsource hosting to a third party like AWS, knowing they're the biggest target? I trust AWS a lot more than myself when it comes to securing infrastructure.
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by yibg 5y ago
Is it nobody cares or they care about different things? If you want to be cynical, they care about making money. But could it also be that they're more focused on the general population (who don't care as much about this stuff)? I
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by yibg 5y ago
Isn't the basic question, should youtube be forced to do something it doesn't want to? In this case, host videos it finds objectionable for whatever reason. Same way they don't allow porn for example. From the way I see it th
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by yibg 5y ago
It’s percentage of owners. What other normalization are you looking for?
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by yibg 5y ago
I don't think you read my original reply?
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by yibg 5y ago
But you are saying in this analogy that the restaurant should post negative reviews from its customers, say on its website. Why should they? It’s not like they’re taking down negative reviews (videos) from things they don’t own.
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by yibg 5y ago
Reality is any platform without moderation turns into a cesspool. Individually you want to be in control, but in aggregate the product rots. I can’t really think of any user generated content product without some form of control that hasn’t
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by yibg 5y ago
Why is this type of "censorship" problematic? Is it also problematic that youtube doesn't host porn?
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The restaurant isn't forced to make good food. But in this analogy isn't it more like the restaurant being forced to put up a poster of your bad review? The overall point being made is, why should a private entity be forced to do
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What would've been the benefit to employees with having a union in that case?
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by yibg 5y ago
That's a great success story and I'm happy for you. But it's not really an actionable advice. How would one go about identifying a late stage startup that will have a 7 figure exit?
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by yibg 5y ago
Prices for a lot of things are regional dependent though, not just salaries. Produce and dinners out costs more in the bay area than Omaha too. Same for salaries in Vietnam vs Omaha. I get that in a sense it doesn't seem fair for the s
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by yibg 5y ago
This seems very much related to the equal opportunity vs equal outcome debate. Affirmative action seems to be very much about equal opportunity. What I don't quite understand is why the fixation on race? Why not on family income or any
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by yibg 5y ago
By figuring out why they're under represented and fixing those? Is it income disparity? Single parent households? Lack of funding for schools in poor communities? Why can't we focus on addressing those and leveling the playing fie
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The rationale also seems strange to me. If we're talking in economic terms, Chinese Americans (taking one subgroup) didn't start out wealthy but rather historically were a poor, marginalized group (etc Chinese exclusion act). So a
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by yibg 5y ago
This is one of those dark realizations I've had as I'm approaching middle age. Yes there is the aspect of me getting older, fatter, balder etc, but mostly that there is going to be an increasing likelihood that people I care about
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by yibg 5y ago
Foreign to the engineers. Onboarding still takes time, regardless of documentation. There is a reason why CPAs takes a year to complete, even though there are lots of high quality written material that have been used for decades. Ever tried
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by yibg 5y ago
I dunno. I for one wouldn't want to work at a place where I'm just handed a bunch of docs to implement. I want to be able to ask questions for clarification, suggest alternatives etc. All of which takes time.
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by yibg 5y ago
You're assuming the team works on something most developers know enough about. Often times that's not the case and it takes time to get familiar.
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by yibg 5y ago
That's the theory, but like I said for us it hasn't really worked out like that. Maybe we're doing something wrong so who knows.
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by yibg 5y ago
Heavily depends on the nature of the work in question and size of team. Larger the team, and more foreign the domain the more time is needed to coordinate work.
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by yibg 5y ago
Yes but if you have 2 part time devs, that requires 2 people spending time. The discussion here isn't meetings vs doc, it's full time vs part time.
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by yibg 5y ago
The time require by devs for non coding work is inversely proportional to how relatable the domain is and how specific the problem is. Tell me to build a clone of twitter and I can make a lot of autonomous decisions. Tell me to be an ERP an
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by yibg 5y ago
Seems like the consensus is that engineering interview is broken, but no one has come up with a better method? You’d think with the war to get talent these days if there was a better way to screen for candidates companies would use it.
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by yibg 5y ago
Why is this a problem? You can replace meeting time with time reading specs / requirement if you’d like. Point is you need some constant amount of time to understand the problem domain. If 2 people need to do that then that’s twice the
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by yibg 5y ago
The other problem is with overhead 2 half time employees != 1 full time employee. There is the extra equipment cost, benefits (perhaps), management overhead etc. e.g. If I replace a team of 7 full time engineers with 14 half time engineers,
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by yibg 5y ago
We’ve tried part time developers, but so far haven’t been able to do it successfully. The problem usually comes down to 2 things: 1) there is a constant amount of overhead that is always needed regardless of how long you work for in a week.
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by yibg 5y ago
How many servers do airlines and banks run? And how do they get logs?
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by yibg 5y ago
There is one car that drives by my neighborhood on a regular basis that sets off multiple car alarms as it goes by. Some times it's in the middle of the day, some times it's in the middle of the night. If I can hear it in the hous
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by yibg 5y ago
Yea that sure works great in countries with ineffective law enforcement.

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