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by fipple 8y ago
What apps are in the gray area? To me it’s pretty clear and not much room for “making an argument.”
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by fipple 8y ago
This isn’t an Apple “senior executive” exactly. Probably not one of the top 100 guys.
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by fipple 8y ago
The whole “diversity industry” (and it is a huge industry) is based on a lie... that “diversity” improves a company’s performance. The research on this is so shaky with so much empirical evidence to the contrary, and everyone knows it, whic
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by fipple 8y ago
"this reminds me almost exactly of what I was asked to do while working for a short guy and his wife." "What do you have against short men?"
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by fipple 8y ago
This was always a fun duck idea made mainly to serve Central Valley towns whose population could not justify such an expensive boondoggle. Glad to see Newsom speak some truth and put an end to this lunacy.
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by fipple 8y ago
Because detail is how we bring stories to life. Otherwise all of our statements would be “I did a thing with a person.”
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by fipple 8y ago
My working definition of religion is a system that produces easy answers to tough questions. These tough questions can eat away at a person so religion has an important “damping” function in a society, especially with the 90% of the populat
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by fipple 8y ago
Great, Google gets 5 more years from its technical women while the kids are raised by government mouth breathers. No thanks
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by fipple 8y ago
My values don’t contain anything about Taiwan. I’ll call whatever you want because I don’t think I have nearly enough contextual knowledge to know who is “right” and “wrong” in that conflict.
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s not that Amazon is primarily culpable, it is that a person in the US has more leverage, however minimal, over Amazon than over the Saudi king.
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by fipple 8y ago
My friend "applied," knowing full well it was a scam. He said that he regretted nothing, as it allowed him to fantasize about the journey more concretely. So perhaps it served the same function as pornography.
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by fipple 8y ago
The median is certainly lower than $79, and may even be $0.
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by fipple 8y ago
200 companies at $5m is only a billion dollars. Softbank is deploying close to 100 times that, so they write checks 100 times the size.
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by fipple 8y ago
The term “social justice warrior” doesn’t refer in modern parlance to people who leave bad reviews for SaaS products. It’s a term referring to a particular conflict in American culture/politics and just detracts from any point you’re t
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by fipple 8y ago
I used Dropbox’s 2GB for eight years before becoming a paying user.
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by fipple 8y ago
Most henchmen don’t think their bosses are bad people, because they aspire to be their bosses, and people don’t think they’re bad themselves, even when they are.
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by fipple 8y ago
Why shouldn’t they double up?
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by fipple 8y ago
Reminds me of how some state governments say that “100% of our lottery profits go to the state university.” While not mentioning that they cut the university’s funding from the general budget by the same amount.
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by fipple 8y ago
If you don’t want to participate in the central economic function of a company you would not have been a good hire regardless of technical skill. You don’t want employees who are willing to work at a company they think is a blight on humani
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by fipple 8y ago
Yeah, but like any medical field, people come to you in extreme pain and leave without it. If you can’t find meaning in that you probably can’t find meaning in anything.
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by fipple 8y ago
Yes, I didn’t mean to an oscilloscope, I meant to a Homo sapiens.
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by fipple 8y ago
That’s why one of the Amazons is made illegal — so that individuals don’t have to make this choice. That’s what regulation is for.
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by fipple 8y ago
Apple earbuds are incredibly high sound quality. They are just really uncomfortable in my ears. And Spotify 320kbps is as good as CD.
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by fipple 8y ago
I see this more of a perf thing than a privacy thing. Since most apps connect to a remote backend, any app developer can create backend tooling that perfectly recreates a user session from server logs, with local actions logged locally and
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by fipple 8y ago
Moving to Louisville for Google Fiber would be a pretty reckless decision for a business which wasn’t wholly dependent on it (like a reseller or Google Fiber)
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by fipple 8y ago
The minute I figured out you can adjust the Instacart fee to zero I did, and leave a fiver for the delivery person.
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by fipple 8y ago
I had a company with roughly 10 engineers give or take over its lifetime. The two younger women never left. The men, younger and older, left at various times, one after 4 months, and one with 4 hours’ notice.
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by fipple 8y ago
How they manage in Canada is that they have many fewer successful knowledge-based businesses per capita, at every level of success.
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by fipple 8y ago
You see this with everyone who has no exposure to a type of person. “How many people actually stand in LINE to buy sneakers?” “How many people are ACTUALLY going to vote for that clown?” Etc
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by fipple 8y ago
Repairing one lane of a two way street is still useful. :)

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