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Remember when many of these businesses started out with a “don’t be evil” mindset? The incentives always end up chasing the money in the end...

I mean, I wasn’t expecting original research in the article. So I learned a lot reading it...

Some combination of time and votes where recent highly voted stuff comes first, but honestly I don’t know. It’s probably a formula that needs to be tweaked to what looks right

It would be cool to make a topic-specific Hackernews shin ranked by hotness for that topic. It’d be cool to focus in on topics I care about, not everything in Hackernews universe. My theory is “What’s…

It's somewhat mitigated by the fact that Meetup talks are informal, and in general people like hearing what worked/what didn't work - not perfection. People are generally nice at meetup…

I make public commitments that would be hard or damaging to myself to get out of. Basically committing to a deadline with real consequences. (Example if I am interested in a side project, I promise to…

Maybe for certain projects where failure is high risk waterfall is better. Or at least more up front planning is a “good thing” when fail fast = lives lost

As someone who works in search this is unsurprising, and happens all the time. Search is a two sided sales exercise both to show you good products and also to products that make the e-commerce busines…

The challenge is everything that was analog in the 90s (music, phones, etc) now requires a screen. “Screentime” is treated as this black and white thing, but when the iPhone becomes the uber-tool-that…

There’s a special irony to being distracted enough by a Cal Newport article to feel the urge to comment on it!

Just want to mention, WMF has a very small but elite team of engineers. Amazed they maintain an Alexa top 5 site with many orders of magnitude less engineering staff than Facebook or Reddit. I think t…

It’s usually much more expensive to buy as an individual compared to a group. Health care economics are weird.

In the US, it's a cash vs benefits trade-off. I am happy to sacrifice a lot of salary to get the Cadillac healthcare my company offers to me and my family at no cost.

I read TFA and still can’t tell - what exactly were the contractors doing? We’re they grading Siri’s quality responding? Translating the voice to text to help Siri get smarter? Both? Something else?…

And if you’re new to the genre, definitely check out FTL. https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html

It really is the worst of all immigration outcomes for all but the employer. You come into the US, but entirely as a kind of guest worker. You demonstrate you have great skills and work ethic, but the…

There’s not really “new cities” in the sense of someone establishing a new town. There’s just smaller towns growing into small cities, small cities growing to mid-sized, etc... The problem is those pl…

Unfortunately “new cities” develop in places where everyone is used to driving, so it takes a lot to overcome a car centric culture. I live in a college town in a rural area. The transition to public …

Wow - first year coursework looks pretty interesting and advanced compared to current first year coursework!

At some point when I need to “structure an email” usually that’s a red flag to me that I should format it as a report in an attached document (which can be more detailed) then make the email a handful…

It’s called Generic Neural “Elastic Search” - but does it use “Elasticsearch?” Sorry if it’s a dumb question, poking around I don’t see where it interacts with Elasticsearch (maybe it doesn’t)