moosebear847

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by moosebear847 5y ago
I was on a small team at an early-stage startup, and felt forced to do 7+ hours of good work every day due to pace and visibility. As a self-proclaimed productive dev, it was pretty obvious who was slacking or incompetent, and I definitely
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Why I am not religous: 1. Leap of faith is risky, while science is based on repeatable experiments. Kind of like when you're building a house, instead of hoping and praying the foundation is stable, test it to be certain. 2. Who knows
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Playing a game like LoL is like being in a battle or war. Would you watch anime and shoot your gun with 'muscle memory' while fighting 5 ruthless, intelligent opponents? A fight requires constant reevaluation of the situation and
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Does this mean the dealership thinks they can sell it for $10K+ more now even used?
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by moosebear847 5y ago
This was fun to read.
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Dam that's brutal, to think that slavery can still happen here and now via essentially blackmail.
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Faangs always seem to be hiring, not sure but having a LinkedIn seems to get inbound Faang recruiters, at least for me as a US dev. And startups, YC who's hiring has worked for friends, I'm sure grinding applications on aggregator
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by moosebear847 5y ago
I think there are many straightforward answers. Try to get the $500k jobs. If that doesn't work and you don't want to grind LC for 6 months, go for $150-200k jobs like startups. If you are as good as you say you are, you could pro
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by moosebear847 5y ago
I like this viewpoint, it strikes me as mature, realistic and customer-focused. I think I'll learn a lot from your book, thanks!
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by moosebear847 5y ago
As an author of the book that's summarized, how do you feel about in-depth summaries of your book in terms of it affecting sales and providing publicity? I've always wondered how authors feel about it.
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by moosebear847 5y ago
As an iOS dev who's had to deal with Apple's lovely rules, could you go more into this part? I'd like to hear more. '... why "the market" hadn't already corrected [Apple's ability to cut people off],
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Well expressed on cash applying barriers.
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by moosebear847 5y ago
This hit in a different way
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by moosebear847 5y ago
As a dog food lover (product dev, not Purina), I found this very insightful. I may frame it on my wall.
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by moosebear847 5y ago
TurboTax recently tricked me using some dark UI patterns into spending 30+ minutes painstakingly filling out my tax forms in a way that made it seem like it was for the free filing. Only at the very end, did they reveal that it was in fact
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by moosebear847 5y ago
The thought experiment is meant to take the situtation to the logical extreme, something that is unlikely to happen yet still realistically possible, in order to more clearly understand the effects of the behavior. E.g. one guy littering is
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by moosebear847 5y ago
It just seems like addressing the symptom, rather than the cause - that you shouldn't instantly whip out your big $20m legal stick to threaten someone. Using a PR firm might result in him just having some nice sounding text, instead of
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by moosebear847 5y ago
That legal threat was not a good response. I think both sides messed up here. It seems like the ex-intern made an honest mistake especially given his age. This isn't exactly the same but Helen Keller messed up and plagiarised when she
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by moosebear847 5y ago
There is a small (to your point, pretty small) risk that it could be used in place of repl.it or inspire other competitors. If this was done by an outsider, this would be totally fine and healthy for consumers. However, this is someone that
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Rather than looking at it from the view of an employee or founder with power, I am attempting to view it through the lens of a good relationship between two people, with this being mainly defined through the golden rule - treating others as
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by moosebear847 5y ago
As a thought experiment, if you ran a business, and all your ex-employees released a free version of the same product, would you be cool with this? Could you hang out with them, smile and say everything is totally cool? Or would you want to
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Would this be considered product thread hijacking? The 'compliment' could also be interpreted as a disguised subtle diss (7wk product vs 2yr one)..
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by moosebear847 5y ago
I really enjoyed this!
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by moosebear847 5y ago
There does seem to be strong market pressure to have no more than 2 major platforms to support, and understandably so due to the amount of work. Linux never became mainstream because of how poor the user experience was, not necessarily be
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by moosebear847 5y ago
All those companies were around before and during the existence of the iPhone. At least some had apps, and had an equal or better chance at having all those apps, so I wonder why they weren’t successful. You have to start somewhere. If ther
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Sucks that I have to worry while reading their technical blog post that it's pretty likely that Facebook is tracking the fact that I'm reading their article.
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by moosebear847 5y ago
I still haven't come across a convincing argument why Apple should be compelled by regulation to open up the iPhone and let anyone do anything they want with it, ie be a general purpose mobile computer. It sucks that they simultaneousl
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by moosebear847 5y ago
If you sold ice cream on the street and needed to figure out how to become profitable, would you be so opposed to trying out selling at $5 one day and $7 the next? Or would this be too unfair to the people that paid $5? It's the intent
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Most ICO money has already been spent in the bahamas. This is probably less of a joke than it appears :)
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by moosebear847 5y ago
Atomic operations are made up of multiple instructions, but the atomic in the CS sense means that they need to be done together. This is a different concept from being made up of subatomic parts.

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