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0800LUCAS

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About 0800LUCAS

Senior SWE at Microsoft, Ex-Facebook.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/0800LUCAS

I write things at heylucas.net

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    Comment #28505165

    > I’m from europe and i have no idea what a leaf blower is They love the stuff in Ireland. I have no idea why people use it. It doesn't do much better of a job than a rake would. I…

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    Comment #28221901

    Can you even get one of those Panasonic laptops outside of Japan? Checked Amazon.co.jp and doesn't seem like they ship to Europe. I'm actually interested in trying one of these out…

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    Comment #27325974

    > Both companies attempts to diversify their dependency on such info for their revenue have been broadly unsuccessful (Google fiber or a Google car anyone?) IMO, you're wrong on th…

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    Comment #27121204

    Is there such a thing as LineageOS for SmartTVs? Could that be a way to prevent sneaky services from pushing information you don't want out of your TV?

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    Comment #27048546

    500K is a year's salary for a senior SWE there. I imagine VPs are making well above that.

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    Comment #26859350

    You do realize you can just ask the recruiter to have meetings with the team members, right? I've done just that. Once you're done with the interviews and they come back with an of…

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    Comment #25886100

    > AWS knows that if they take too much of ES' market that they won't survive. If they don't survive it will just be a matter of time before ES is dropped by Amazon and totally unsu…

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    Comment #25834731

    > by just installing and maintaining that product as a service? You are seriously underestimating the value Amazon provides by "just installing and maintaining" those services. Mai…

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    Comment #25761773

    The entitlement those people have is ridiculous. They are literally not paying anything for the service and come in demanding things. It's funny that all these people moving away f…

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    Comment #25759910

    TBH I disagree with your statement here. It's not just the USA that can do this. Europe and UK did this pretty successfully. Thanks to their legislation Facebook won't share data w…

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    Comment #25759876

    This is called commoditization. Pretty much every company does this. You offer a product that would normally be paid, for free and gain market share. Then you build a business on t…

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    Comment #25759823

    Nice project! Would be great to have a way to search by technology.

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