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by tajano 11y ago
> He's not adding anything interesting to the photos. I like this about it. He adds a banal, trivial, perhaps non-sensical comment that satirizes the emptiness and one-sidedness of communication on today's most popular social
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by tajano 11y ago
I began working at Nokia after they sold the phone business. It's not a place where people were just clocking in and out; there ws a strong effort and opportunity (born of necessity) to innovate. It was exciting. I suppose there are a
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by tajano 11y ago
The point of the comparison is not about placement on a front page (I could complain the NYTimes won't publish my article anywhere on their server), but rather that Apple created and operates a private distribution channel, and it has
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by tajano 11y ago
The US Postal Service is not a company.
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by tajano 11y ago
I stayed in a house in nice residential neighborhood in Berkeley recently. It had four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a kitchen, and it was clear the owner didn't live there. In fact, I never saw the owner or spoke with him at all. We we
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by tajano 11y ago
"Women compete, compare, undermine and undercut one another — at least that is the prevailing notion of how we interact." This is written as if men don't do exactly the same thing --and in my experience they do. Even among
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by tajano 11y ago
It's an outrage. I recently submitted an incoherent, hate-filled diatribe to the New York Times, and they refused to publish it on the front page! Where is my freedom of speech? I recently submitted a video of my parrot to NBC, and the
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by tajano 11y ago
> You may say whatever you like, provided no one is there to hear it. Freedom of speech does not mean you are granted unmitigated control over the content a private medium, channel, or platform. For example, it doesn't imply that
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by tajano 11y ago
Or like Elixir for ContentEditable
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by tajano 11y ago
I predicted Twitter would be the next unicorn to cut staff and offices ten days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300002 ). To be honest, I didn't think it would happen quite this fast. But 4K employees, 2K en
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by tajano 11y ago
> they need to figure out how to fundamentally improve the ease of use of the whole thing I've frequently heard this theory, that Twitter's problem is that it's too complicated. I don't buy it. It has a simpler UI t
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by tajano 11y ago
> "The average salary ... being $125,667 in Arizona." This immediately struck me as preposterous, as I'm familiar with the local Arizona economy. Then I saw that number is based on a sample size of 3 survey respondents
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by tajano 11y ago
I don't expect it to disappear (not completely, not over night). But they're burning through $130M+ a quarter and growth is stalling. They don't seem to have leadership with a vision of where to take the company from here. Tw
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by tajano 11y ago
Tesla will use Google autonomous-driving technology? Does Google really want to be manufacturing cars, or does it want to provide the software?
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by tajano 11y ago
Brevity is the only thing most Tweets have going for them.
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by tajano 11y ago
You're underestimating the awesomeness of the human brain to tackle big problems. I want to be drunk, watching movies, pleasuring myself in the backseat of an autonomous Uber during my two-hour commute in and out of the city. Open yo
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by tajano 11y ago
Emergency steering wheel app.
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by tajano 11y ago
Another prediction: Twitter. 2k+ engineers on staff without notable improvements to the core user-facing product in a while. Declining signups, declining engagement. Nobody stepping into the permanent CEO role. I don't see how this end
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by tajano 11y ago
> Lots in the East Coast (ok, NYC) Lots in Boston, too.
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by tajano 11y ago
> WhatsApps product is much, much simpler than twitters products. Can you enumerate Twitter's products? Perhaps Instagram is a closer comparison -- broadcast photos instead of broadcast 140 characters. And you have a much smaller
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by tajano 11y ago
> Facebook in particular has allowed me to keep in touch with a much larger social circle For me, Facebook offered a false sense of being social. The more I used it, the more I craved social interaction, leading me to use it even more.
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by tajano 11y ago
> Why? Because Twitter as a company hasn't produced effective revenue? Because they're lecturing about engineering efficiency, yet they require 2,000 engineers to support their product. By comparison, WhatsApp scaled to 3X as
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by tajano 11y ago
If you're accused of working on stupid, trivial things, and Facebook and Twitter are your best counterexamples, it's a little pathetic. It's very easy to conflate making a lot of money with doing something that matters. At th
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by tajano 11y ago
Slightly off topic, but what library do you use for networking with React? Almost every code sample or tutorial uses jQuery's AJAX methods. Bundling jQuery seems excessive when just using those methods, but is there not a reliable alte
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by tajano 11y ago
I'm curious to know how complex your React app is. I'm just starting to integrate Redux (and possibly Immutable) into my app, and initially I'm a bit surprised by how Redux can make simple things much more complex. I'm h
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by tajano 11y ago
I'm glad the "Internet of Things" is being held to task by a mainstream media outlet. The Internet of Things is just a marketing term being pushed onto consumers by Cisco, Qualcomm, Google, etc., because selling more radio ch
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by tajano 11y ago
It feels like everything is getting priced exactly at the point where it feels like I'm barely scraping by. I make a low six figure income and live in a one bedroom apartment. I don't drive a luxury car, or take vacations, or have
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by tajano 11y ago
CoffeScript is an abomination. On the other hand, CofeeScript may have spurred many of the sweeping changes in ECMAScript 6 & 7. On the other hand, are JavaScript classes actually a step backwards? Go doesn't have classes. On the o
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by tajano 11y ago
This sounds about right. Wait, I forgot, Snapcash.
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by tajano 11y ago
> He also doesn't want to hire a primdonna who is expecting a cush job. Consider not getting a raise in five years. With inflation and (in most technology hubs) a skyrocketing rising cost of living, your company is effectively pay

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