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by 1_2__4 6y ago
Without commenting on what OP meant I would say memes definitely used to be more quirky and funny and lighthearted in general. Heck, originally calling them memes was because they stuck around and passed between people despite often being n
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by 1_2__4 6y ago
I know it's a luxury that I'm in a position to do this, but anyway: in general I won't continue interviewing with a company that expects me to put in significant effort into just preparing for the interview. Make a full prese
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by 1_2__4 6y ago
So I have some experience with this. I decided to add BLE beacons to my vehicles and bicycles, and an RPI to listen for the pings and retransmit them over mqtt. The idea was I could setup some Home Assistant alerts for things like "mul
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by 1_2__4 6y ago
I'm sorry but the claim is YouTube just randomly deletes channels with no notification? And they do it in order to suppress... Whatever this was? That seems remarkably unlikely. The whole article is extremely thin on facts and very fat
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by 1_2__4 6y ago
It was the entire (original) business model of "Epinions".
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by 1_2__4 6y ago
Counter-argument: A positively staggering amount of decisionmaking at a company consists of "look at what other, successful companies are doing and mimic them". It's cargo cult management by the very definition: they see the
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by 1_2__4 6y ago
I guess in 2021, HNers think the NY Post is a legitimate media outlet straining for objectivity, rather than the tabloid rag that they are. And I guess we'll all have a highly partisan discussion over it despite the Post obviously havi
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by 1_2__4 6y ago
As someone who joined and then departed the management track fairly recently, there’s another aspect here that’s not mentioned, but contributed to my finding other work: as what I’ll politely call social awareness has grown in companies, ev
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by 1_2__4 7y ago
I was interviewing for a position and when they got to asking me in the initial phone screen various diversity questions I politely told them I didn’t think the company would be for me. I’m all about diversity but if you’re trying to projec
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by 1_2__4 7y ago
This is absolutely bog-standard anti-union propaganda. This could have been written in the 1960s.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Ugh your response reminds me so much of Google PR speak at TGIFs and such that it's hard for me to believe you don't work for Google. This is exactly the picture Google PR has been trying to create for years - years, by now! - a
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Google, and a few other major tech companies, have turned diversity into a religion. It’s insane. We spend more time talking about it than anything technical or organizational. There is no dialogue about it either, just every day we’re bomb
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
You made me really happy with this comment. Tron was a big movie for me in my youth and a big reason why I was drawn to computers and ultimately programming. I also came to love synth and electronic music (Art of Noise etc.) around the same
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Which is precisely why Firefox is releasing an update that tweaks high resolution timing. I guess tweaks probably means breaks for some uses cases but that’s likely unavoidable and worth it.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
There’s also no choice or incentive to improve.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Those movies came out around 30 years ago. The first one came out while Reagan was president. We don’t really make mainstream movies like that anymore.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Sure and this is also the reason renting cars costs tens of thousands of... oh... wait.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
As someone around that age get off your virtue signaling high horse. People in their fifties today helped build most of the tech you use every day, but even if they hadn’t your implicit ageism levied in service of an accessibility rant is a
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
No, it doesn’t. See we can both play the no proof game.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
A lot of hate for microservices in this thread. I think you’d be surprised how much some major tech companies (Google etc.) are and have been relying on microservices and that style of architecture for many years now. I think the biggest co
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Um, the 787 is what kiled the 747. As in Boeing decided, as all companies do, to retire a line in favor of a more modern one. It’s really weird you don’t acknowledge that at all.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Yes, yes it is. I’m astounded your conflate broadcaster cable TV ads with the stuff we see on, say, YouTube. They seem very different to me
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Convenient fantasies displacing reality amongst management. I can’t count how many times a day a courself action is decided upon that everyone in the room knows will fail, but nobody is allowed (in the figurative sense) to say that.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
HN has a favorite pastime: dismissing tech that has demonstrated incredible utility because it’s lacks some kind of ideological purity they demand.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
You appear to lack any authority or knowledge here because almost every part of your comment is completely wrong.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Spoken like a tone-deaf apple PR person. The entire furor around this suggests your opinion is not shared by the general populace. A problem I usually run into with product managers.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
It’s funny to me that that article talks about everyone loving to bash Millenials, on an article bashing boomers, which you can throw on the massive pile of other media that bashes boomers.
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Do they ever qualify or quantify what is meant by “more opportunity”?
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
You could use arguments easily on the same moral parallels are those to exclude particular races, sexes, etc. I’m not calling you out - I think you’re correct actually, in the observation. But some biases are more politically and culturally
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by 1_2__4 9y ago
Oh look more anti-car propaganda from citylab posted to HN, must be a day with y in it.

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