simonkafan

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Ask HN: How is it possible to be the CEO of 5 companies at the same time?
38 points by simonkafan 4y ago|91 comments
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by simonkafan 5y ago
Ah I see it now: "prefix=true" is the property that apparently includes "networking" when searched for "network"
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by simonkafan 5y ago
Not for "home network": https://ibb.co/59yFDT5
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Ask HN: Am I using it wrongly or is HN's search engine bad?
1 points by simonkafan 5y ago|5 comments
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by simonkafan 6y ago
It would already help if the rules of the app stores were decided by a parliament. And kicking a provider out of the store requires a court ruling.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
It would be the downfall of the Google empire (and probably half of the Internet) if the majority of companies realized that most of their online/mobile ad budget is absolutely wasted. I don't know of any other industry where peo
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by simonkafan 6y ago
My basic assumption is that most people at the big IT corps either just want to a) make money or b) work on interesting things. I don't think the majority there enjoy torturing colleagues or subordinates (although it certainly can happ
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I still don't see or have read about a useful use case for GPT-3. Maybe for procedurally generated chitchat between NPC in video games or an advanced Lorem ipsum generator but that's about it.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Not the same story but related: Microsoft had to rebrand his online storage SkyDrive to OneDrive once because the television broadcaster "Sky" won a trademark lawsuit in UK. Can anyone tell me how this is possible? Why am I not al
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Average employee tenure at Google is a little over 3 years so it doesn't seem to be the ultimate goal in life.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
One good thing is, you can officially use it as an API¹. I used it to automatically search for training images for an algorithm. ¹ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Using chatbots to solve support/sales problems is like solving the problem of autonomous driving by putting a humanoid robot behind the wheel: It's unnecessary complex overhead, just stop that! If I communicate with a human, sure
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by simonkafan 6y ago
It's like if you would have to ask Google or Apple for permission when you want to open a coffee shop or any other business and have to give them 30% of your profit. App marketplaces must be a public good and under the surveillance of
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Imagine you had to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard just to create something like this...
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Does someone want to set up a stadiacountdown.com for Google TV?
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I would agree to work for Shibu Philip if he applies the same rules to himself and workers can see his keystrokes, mouse movements and websites visited. And if he's not spending his time looking at employees keystrokes, mouse movements
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by simonkafan 6y ago
The question is: What do you want to build? What problem do you want to solve? If you don't know yet, then figure this out first. It is useless* to spend your time reading about how blockchain solutions on AWS work when you don't
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by simonkafan 6y ago
This is an interesting general question that would deserve more attention: What do top executives in a company really do to bring the business forward and how do you measure it? How do you measure today whether the decision to invest 10 bil
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by simonkafan 6y ago
So "too dangerous to release" really meant: Too commercially important to release it for free.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
This sounds horrible to me. I mean, do you really want to spend your life having to deal with leetcode for several months every 2-3 years? Maybe some people find coding interviews and leetcode problems exciting, I find them tedious and want
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Maybe because the audience on Twitter and Hackernews is different?
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by simonkafan 6y ago
The solution would be simple: Stop supporting Apple. Don't release apps on their platform. As long as everyone is just blindly following their orders, nothing will change. And change is possible: Microsoft didn't care much about d
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Why do we have to make everything so forcefully career driven? Just enjoy writing code and showing it to the world if you want - no strings attached. Github helps in this case.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
tl;dr: A Github competitor is looking for reasons to rage against Github/Microsoft.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
It's interesting to see how Google turned from a respected company everyone wanted to work at to a "persona non grata" within just a few years. I wonder what were the main reasons for this change?
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Take a look at what happend to Huawei. If your business is somehow dependent on the goodwill of one person or one company, they can decide if you live or die. And they will at some point. This is the opposite of freedom.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I still haven't found a good answer why they do this. "Makes it harder to tell if the current site is legitimate" sounds like an excuse. If you are the perfect target for a phishing attack (= clicks on everything, enters pass
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by simonkafan 6y ago
You write this like its a fact but it's just your opinion. Deepl.com for example is on par and imho even better than Google Translate for some languages.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Why another general purpose search engine? How about a niche, for example a search engine that can be extensively controlled by using Boolean algebra, Regex, first-order logic? Googles results got less and less reasonable over the last year
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by simonkafan 6y ago
> We want to be the 2% of your software budget that makes the other 98% more valuable; they want 100% of your budget every time. Please. You are a company in a capitalistic system, it's your goal to make money. If you'd have th

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