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Re: Fuck You Startup World

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Post by staticelf »

kafkaesq wrote: post #61

Fuck reading a book a week. No one can read that fast. Let me repeat that -NO ONE CAN FUCKING READ THAT FAST. Finally someone has the courage to tell the truth. I mean, I get the part about the necessary skimming one has to to do not just get through school, but be a practical, working academic (as described in the HBR article). Or the way that techies need to skim lots of tech books to stay ahead in one's career. Bu…

I only do audiobooks and then I can easily complete one book in a week. Although, I think most books are uninteresting so I don't listen to one each week.

I hate reading books. It's the worst advice anyone can give me.

Re: Fuck You Startup World

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Post by copperx »

staticelf wrote: post #101
kafkaesq wrote: post #61

Fuck reading a book a week. No one can read that fast. Let me repeat that -NO ONE CAN FUCKING READ THAT FAST. Finally someone has the courage to tell the truth. I mean, I get the part about the necessary skimming one has to to do not just get through school, but be a practical, working academic (as described in the HBR article). Or the way that techies need to skim lots of tech books to stay ahead in one's career. Bu…

I only do audiobooks and then I can easily complete one book in a week. Although, I think most books are uninteresting so I don't listen to one each week. I hate reading books. It's the worst advice anyone can give me.

> I think most books are uninteresting so I don't listen to one each week.

What kinds of books are you reading? I assure you, there's something out there for everyone.

I think your statement is a cop out. There's no better way to get a greater understanding of the world out thereb

Re: Fuck You Startup World

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Post by antfarm »

> Fuck you and your stupid interview questions. Who the fuck thinks of these stupid fucking questions? I never had to shift a bit in a C array in my life! And I never got a compilation error on a white board, when I need an hash set in Java I just use HashSet- I don’t fucking care about the complexity of this code block because I can afford another EC2 instance! So fuck you.

Startup or not, I wouldn't hire that guy.

Re: Fuck You Startup World

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Post by antfarm »

antfarm wrote: post #103

> Fuck you and your stupid interview questions. Who the fuck thinks of these stupid fucking questions? I never had to shift a bit in a C array in my life! And I never got a compilation error on a white board, when I need an hash set in Java I just use HashSet- I don’t fucking care about the complexity of this code block because I can afford another EC2 instance! So fuck you. Startup or not, I wouldn't hire that guy.

> Fuck you startups with your extravagant parties and crazy off-site events that cost way too much money, you’re supposed to buy some fucking servers instead!

So he can continue wasting CPU cycles out of pure ignorance ;)

Re: Fuck You Startup World

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Post by ensiferum »

I don't work or live in the valley but that was hilarious and based on the blogosphere probably on point too. Except for the part of the hash map complexity. In fact as the volumes of data grow the complexities become more important, not less. You simply cannot brute force your way out of a bad complexity.

Re: Fuck You Startup World

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Post by KaiserPro »

Haha, most excellent.

One thing that I'm only now (and stupidly late) realising is that tech journalism almost never critiques new trends.

Sure there are some gut "this fucking sucks" but there is never a real effort to provide some critical thinking about the PR emanating from whichever source.

For example, soylent is the brain child of someone who has possibly crippling [OCD](http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1331) (Having been blighted by it for most of my teenage and childhood.) It looks like one of his coping mechanisms.

I'm sure its a great product, but I wouldn't want to emulate someone's OCD lifestyle. Yet we are asked to "emulate the habits of these successful XXX" without stopping to ask, are they happy?

Yet no one seems to ask the question: "is this good?" or "whats the logical outcome?" They just seem to be keen to breathlessly relay the PR line, possible with a pithy snap reaction.

I'm not suggesting a flame war for every press release, just a health helping of critical thinking, and some research.

Re: Fuck You Startup World

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Post by throwanem »

captn3m0 wrote: post #68
Animats wrote: post #55

I keep thinking it's time for the next dot-com collapse. The level of excess is too high. But we haven't had the first really big failure yet. Yahoo and Twitter are almost ready to collapse. Uber is still iffy, because they subsidize rides with investment capital to buy market share and lose money.

Theranos was a pretty huge investment (~700M). Would that count?

I don't think so, because its failure didn't precipitate a crisis of confidence in the Web 2.0 economy.

Re: Fuck You Startup World

#108

Post by threesixandnine »

Florin_Andrei wrote: post #72
testudovictoria wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I want to get work done and move on with life, not play silly office games. Open space floor plans kill my focus. I always found the people against cubicles but for open floor plans strange. In reality, it's pretty much impossible to build offices for every employee. Cubicles were supposed to be the fix for that. You have a open office with space and partitions to separate you from other people. Then someone said t…

> Then someone said that open offices offer substantial collaboration for employees. > From the other side, I get management types telling me to keep my voice down, because I'm disturbing the collaborators. > But cubicles are somehow terrible. As someone who grew up in the Eastern Bloc, I find this kind of Doublethink almost... nostalgic? Ahhh, the good old days, when we were all following Dear Leader's flawless dire…

Sorry...totally unrelated but I remembered your name fellow telescope maker ;) I think I read about your atm journey on cloudynights. Are you the one who did simple turntable grinding machine?

Re: Fuck You Startup World

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Post by nekopa »

kafkaesq wrote: post #61

Fuck reading a book a week. No one can read that fast. Let me repeat that -NO ONE CAN FUCKING READ THAT FAST. Finally someone has the courage to tell the truth. I mean, I get the part about the necessary skimming one has to to do not just get through school, but be a practical, working academic (as described in the HBR article). Or the way that techies need to skim lots of tech books to stay ahead in one's career. Bu…

I read incredibly fast. Reading a book a night is no problem for me. I think it is genetic, as my mother could read at a pace that astounded even me, and she could recall everything from the book too. A 500 page novel would take her about 2-3 hours to get through, then she could recite the book back to you - scenery, dialogs the works.

Now this is talking about novels. If I'm reading to learn then you have to I must interact with the book, stop and think, go back and make connections, try something out etc.

This is where I like the statement in the book "How to read a book" about reading as fast as is necessary to complete the task you want to accomplish - fast for a quick read through maybe, then slower on another read through for making notes.

So I can read a novel a night, or a pop Sci book in a day, but I've been going through a math book for the last 2 months, and of course, I've been reading the first chapter of TAOCP for about 15 years (hence the math books now :)

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