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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> how little credit is given to GPS in Uber's story Uber would not exist without GPS. I wonder how many other of the unicorns: * Twitter without Rails * Facebook without PHP (I think this is fair but maybe not) * Reddit without Pyth
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> It was utterly shocking that Google did not copy Nvidia's streaming games They wanted the lock in. They did it for profit margin. Because people like the Director of Product the GP mentions hops from one role to the next its all s
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
Until someone looks in that employee's wake and sees one dumpster fire after another and the employee being the common denominator. These people aren't just jumping from hype space to hype space, they are torching each of those pr
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> The test for democracy is whether elected politicians pass legislation that the public at large wishes to be passed. What happens if the majority of Americans want to pass laws against their best interest? What happens if the majority
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> isn’t fast enough for anything major. I think it could be fast enough if portability to different platforms wasn't such a high priority for game studios these days. Nobody wants to write typescript and then pay $50M for someone to
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
"They didn't say no" Is not by itself justification to do a thing.
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
Assuming eternal altruism from a third party is absurd. This data is being soaked up, processed, transformed, stored, and at some level shared via a peering agreement.
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
It would be different if they just wanted VR to be a success. But to replace Facebook's once-in-a-economy golden goose money ultra-printer with it? Thats so much to ask as to be comical.
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
Instead of trying to game your entire psyche like other comments suggest, I recommend to founders to find a person you can actually speak truthfully to. Drop the marketing talk. Stop talking about the peak potential of every little thing. S
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
They create value [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> hundreds of new managers Thousands of new managers. Think about that.
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> a highly leveraged crazy idea that will be a foundational part of a major technology shift Has anything other then the Cloud presented a true foundational shift in how applications are built? Kubernetes, Serverless, Blockchain, React,
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
I just feel like there is an adequate "middle option" where you get a hotel room with a den and rely on the breakfast bar / hotel and local restaurants, to plug the gap while still paying the average hotel room price. I could
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> Good luck booking a hotel suite (w/ kitchen, common room, etc) This seems like a huge luxury that is not needed for most travelers. If you really need the kitchen and entertainment spaces then you're going to pay a lot even w
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
Most tech-adjacent subreddits (even sports subs) have tech products advertising for my user. Now a lot of this could be based off my activity as a user, I'm subbed to a few programmer subs that I could get targeted through. That said a
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
Only if allocating resources to in-house data centers does not take away resources from the product. If you're Google sure throw a 100 people at a project that might get pivoted or axed. It won't matter. But a Government IT initia
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
That they tried to build their own data centers is a red flag. Not because its a bad idea, but I think you need to establish product-market fit for a software product before laying down serious hardware.
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> upper manager saw the cool tool promoted by someone and bought it And closing that deal and having their reports implement the roll-out was milked for an entire quarters worth of performance metrics for that manager's brag-sheet.
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
At a previous job I was a developer attached to a non-technical business unit. They were an awesome group, none the less I felt like an outcast and it ultimately led to burnout. Start interviewing elsewhere. Just seeing new opportunities
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
I particularly appreciate the project structure of the linked repo. Its good to see actual production application code beyond a hello-world todo style app for languages like Rust and toolkits like Svelte. I look forward to going through the
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
That project looks awesome, there are so many opportunities to take entrenched cloud products that leave a lot to be desired and turn them into smaller businesses that better serve the customers that AWS largely ignores due to their prefere
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
Every interview screen I've had in the last few years has been an opportunity to discuss salary before getting into the more grueling technical stages of the pipeline. Yes a screen call is annoying especially if you have a current work
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> likely called Unbanked DAO of Courage represented by Mark Wahlberg The celebrity endorsements of Crypto related investment platforms and product is so gross. Using themes like "you don't have to be smart to trade cypto"
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
I wonder if the Tweet Account was fed info from someone in the accused's circle who didn't get their cut.
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> seem quite even keeled in dealing with everything I'm guessing the money they lost in this endeavor didn't materially impact them.
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
Isn't it kind of weird that a Bezos owned media outlet is publishing an anti-union argument? "There's two sides to the story" falls apart when your siding with Corporate over Fast Food workers.
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
Will you make a contractual promise that you will NEVER sell the financial data that you scoop up?
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
> They let their buildings fall down Literally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
I'm sure its a complex mix of 200+ years of socioeconomic development that goes well beyond my glib comment. I do really believe there is something to it though and understanding American culture (and politics).
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by tmp_anon_22 4y ago
Americans love feeling like they're about to be rich (all 300+ million of us), thus unions are bad because they redistribute power to the poor.

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