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> "Most of my friends at Google work four hours a day. They are senior engineers and don't work hard. They know the Google system, know when to kick into gear. They are engineers, …

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"Instead, my ‘moderate success’ story is closer to one of hard work, and slow, steady progress"

> You know how I can smell bullshit in this article? Yes, by the domain. no need to even read the article or load the web page

Survivorship bias is by far my favorite bias

My favorite quote from the article: > Imagine two plants growing side by side. Each day they will compete for sunlight and soil. If one plant can grow just a little bit faster than…

> What is the hardest technical problem you have run into? I never seem to find a quick good answer for this. Maybe I just almost never work on REAL hard things. So my question to …

:) it is probably something like : 1. go to upwork 2. find a 2-3 hours task (eg: scrape entire site [sitename].com, design a logo etc. etc. 3. give the same task to 5 different can…

> I was once asked to basically create a clone of Yelp in a week That's just unfair, inconsiderate and unsustainable, and is also a red flag (ie: I would not go to that company). G…

> Hours spent talking: 224 > Hours doing homeworks: 33 I would prefer this to be the opposite: more homework, less talking . That's what the job is going to be like, anyway .. (edi…

> you just have to expect the competitors to be too incompetent/short-sighted Same probably goes to %99.9 of all investors as well, otherwise those %99.9 would have been rich from …

> I feel like this is the best short ever 'feeling like' is not a good way to convincing me to short something. nor long. nor anything ;) > ..., but I feel like the multiplied prob…

if there's enough space for an expanded search bar - there's no point, in my opinion. But for example - on map based apps I would personally prefer to have the map with as little d…

> Please. don't. do. this. Don't do what specifically ? and why not ? and what should I do instead ? All of these answers are missing in your comment. WhatsApp is doing something q…