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ia

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About ia

writer turned hacker. i like creating things.

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    Comment #48960424

    I’m tried to understand the motivation for this salty comment and the parent comment. I failed. Then I opened the user’s comment history and most of their comments are like this. M…

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    Comment #39275465

    This is almost spooky... it produced the results of my typical google research process. Thanks for this, I'm impressed.

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    Comment #39266479

    How hard would it be to do a comparative analysis, say of Vision Pro, Oculus, and Quest? Does that capability exist? Or is it more of a summarization/vision board thing? The UI loo…

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    Comment #9507772

    i will, thanks!

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    Comment #9507649

    i'm in the market for a remote position. is that something that would work here? or is this only for locals or those able to move to the bay area?

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    Comment #9387059

    this is what i love about the internet. you're a great person. i also thank you on sean's behalf :)

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    Comment #9212457

    from my experience, this is all 100% accurate. medtech is a shit show. however, from another perspective, it's exactly the type of "schlep" that mints millionaires.

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    Comment #8881568

    totally agree. i think it's why many many many tech managers aren't technical. most truly technical people cannot put up with the cognitive dissonance required to convincingly say …

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    Comment #8394839

    cool. how about a comment on its usefulness? code quality? breadth of TOS it has ratings for? "it's been around for years" doesn't add much value.

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    Comment #7649163

    He wasn't doing that at all. His point was that autism skews male and then suggests that the traits of Aspergers make good programmers. It was a comment on why there are more men t…

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    Comment #7624236

    we have one side of the story, for fuck's sake. the other side--the github side? it's lawyer-speak and completely devoid of anything that addresses the specific accusations. how so…

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    Comment #7622947

    i've been playing with elixir for a little while. i'm still wrapping my head around all its metaprogramming goodness, but so far it's been a fun journey. also, jose valim must have…

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    Comment #7567513

    i usually don't jump into these debates, but your comment strikes me as at best impossibly naive and at worst inexcusably ignorant. take a look at the various laws being passed to …

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    Comment #7116807

    Mine is down also. This is actually slightly terrifying. What's standard operating procedure for recovering from a lost gmail account? And I don't mean getting the account back--I …

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    Comment #5739940

    yes. very interested. very very interested :)

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    Comment #5037034

    ah, public shaming. the easiest and most low-brow way to sway opinions on the interent.

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    Comment #4855534

    my experience w/stripe just adds to the pile of awesome. on a couple of occasions, i was in their support chatroom trading code snippets w/their engineers who were incredibly smart…

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    Comment #4854563

    any additional info? tech involved? problem you're trying to solve?

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    Comment #4849612

    "hot startup" is empty and salesy, IMO. after reading this, i kind of wish i hadn't. none of the parties mentioned came off in a positive way.

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    Comment #3168712

    Saying that the alternative is "a stiff and sterile ad" is a fallacy of false dichotomy. fair enough. to clarify--"a stiff and sterile ad" is the only type of add that won't aliena…

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    Comment #3168533

    If that's the type of person you're looking to hire (say, for a porn site...), not sure why you wouldn't do this. Assuming, again, that you aren't breaking any laws. Not sure what …

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    Comment #3168516

    Can you explain your first sentence? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'm not defending bigotry/sexism/etc. Hopefully, you didn't take my comment that way.

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    Comment #3168459

    i don't disagree with your points. however, each company has a particular culture. in a startup, a new hire that isn't a cultural fit can be devastating. the kind of neutered, ster…