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by jklm 3mo ago
Happened to me too, incredibly dark pattern
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by jklm 6mo ago
The main reason I find myself using Opus is because it's a better communicator. (Yes, I know it's better in some areas like frontend vs. others but this is not significant enough for my purposes.) So this change has actually force
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Learning to Learn(kevin.the.li)
320 points by jklm 2y ago|139 comments
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by jklm 3y ago
Somewhat spicy take - if the people in Area 120 were among the top 10% of Googlers you worked with, they probably weren't the right builders to start a new vertical. Most of what makes people effective at large companies is neutral or
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by jklm 3y ago
Tailwind CSS is fast fashion. Gives you a fresh look in a cost/time-effective way, entirely not sustainable w.r.t. the environment, but sells like hot cakes in any case. The reality for better or worse is it's good enough for mos
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by jklm 3y ago
I have an S and the cost is $2k a year after tax, about on par with the insurance costs of my old Camry. Probably worth shopping around a bit more if you’re still in the process.
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by jklm 4y ago
Interestingly enough, Substack is heading down the same direction - when you get linked to an article, it now forces a full screen popup on you asking if you want to subscribe or just read.
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by jklm 4y ago
> Assuming a neutral tone unless specified otherwise, it's always the best bet. I actually believe most writing is non-neutral in nature. Every word choice and sentence structure conveys meaning, intentional or not. For example, wh
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by jklm 4y ago
That's fair, but your writing style mostly optimizes for you, your comfort, and your speed. And I say that as someone who started memorizing SAT words at the age of 8 - most people actually prefer to read a high school level (myself
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by jklm 4y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head - at a certain point caring about every single rule isn’t effective or is actually net less effective. On HN I’ll use correct punctuation, grammar, and a wider set of vocabulary because there’s a good ch
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by jklm 4y ago
That's fascinating - even as a kid my sense of smell has been near-nonexistent. Whenever I've read descriptions of powerful smells in books, I've always written them off as overly flowery language. Reminds me a little genera
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by jklm 4y ago
Fridays generally are slow for very normal human reasons. Especially afternoons like this one. We have an interesting setup where we do every other Friday off - the logic being that we combine 2 slow Friday afternoons into an entire day of
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by jklm 4y ago
Not seeing how I did any discrediting, just thought it was interesting as I was reading through it. I intentionally wrote this in a neutral way - e.g. I could have just as easily mentioned John Carmack and Oculus. Unless you believe that M
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by jklm 4y ago
Campaigns against disinformation are bound to fail because everyone has a different interpretation of the truth and assumes that everything else is “disinformation” (with quotes this time). Much like social media generally, disinformation i
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by jklm 4y ago
Relevant context - this was written by a member of the team who released the Twitter files, alongside Matt Tabibi.
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by jklm 4y ago
How did this work? Did they put $10,000/mo on their website?
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by jklm 4y ago
Facebook has been a really great shield for Apple in recent years by dominating the media through [advertising outrage]. Now that Facebook has decided to shoot itself in foot by going all in on the metaverse (the new narrative), a lot of Ap
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by jklm 4y ago
I halfheartedly agree. Getting into a top 5 school would have definitely been a surprise, but I also doubt the top 20 or even top 50 schools have equal levels of talent. > People have studied this and found that students that were accept
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by jklm 4y ago
Yeah, in hindsight fair to say a little bit of all of the above. I agree with a lot of what you mentioned. At the same time - if I'd gotten 300-400 points less on the SAT, I likely still would have ended up at the same school. So in
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by jklm 4y ago
Test scores have already been irrelevant for certain segments for over a decade, speaking as someone of East Asian ethnicity. Personal anecdote: 3.7 GPA in average high school with 8 APs (some of which were self-study), 2400 SAT, 36 ACT, l
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by jklm 4y ago
The 24 they mention in the article are full time it looks like - does that change your mindset either way?
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by jklm 4y ago
That makes sense, thanks for explaining it. Got on the phone with support and they've been receptive and are escalating it.
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by jklm 4y ago
For anyone still running into this - using a VPN seems to fix things but not sure why. Some kind of throttling / connectivity issues on ATT's side?
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by jklm 4y ago
Looking at the current state of GDPR compliance I’m not sure this would actually be a good experience for most people.
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by jklm 4y ago
Extreme clickbait article a la Vanity Fair or New York Post…not what I’d expect to see on HN. @dang, are these submissions now acceptable?
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by jklm 4y ago
Are you American by chance? Feel free not to answer, but living in the US I was surprised to learn friends in other countries commonly listen to music they can’t understand (most commonly English, sometimes German). Put things in perspecti
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by jklm 4y ago
I’m no fan of Google in some ways, but is this a problem specific to search or Google search? I don’t see how you can avoid this unless you proactively filter out wrong information…which leads to a question of who decides what’s right. e.g
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by jklm 4y ago
The title includes ‘technicality’ but this was editorialized out in the submission.
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by jklm 4y ago
The explanation is a PM at 1Password decided it wasn’t worth prioritizing, likely for good reason.
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by jklm 4y ago
Mentorship is valuable both ways & brand building. Not everything needs to optimize for output. If you're not at a company that supports those goals...that's a different topic entirely.

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