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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13759706 I always enjoy the satirical content about last weeks hackernews posts
> What if you went to your manager, or whoever you feel is the right person, asked if you could speak one on one, and said... "I really love working at this company. The work is interesting, I love the people, the culture, . But I also know I could be making X if I went elsewhere. I love the work I'm doing, and I want to keep doing it here, but I also don't want to be leaving money on the table. What can we do?"
This phrasing, pretty much verbatim, has worked really well for me in the past.
On multithreading in Redis [1]:
> The problem with clustering still becomes lower queries per GB as instances can’t share data. Redis itself runs in RAM so storage is at a premium. One of my main reasons for doing multithreading, and FLASH in the first place was to make Redis work well for much larger value sizes.
I really think we have different use cases in mind.
A book recommendation [2]:
> "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. Not an easy read, but it deeply changed the way I think about incentive structures and the law of unintended consequences. It's a tough pill to swallow for people (like myself) who cling to utopian ideas, but the older I get the more I realize we must live in the world as it exists, with human nature as it really is. Dreaming of a better world is counter-productive if one does not engage with reality. We can build a better world, but only by being honest about the current state of things.
Links to parent comments: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19539485 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19370712 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418
Very frequently, the right answer for a MVP is something
like an e-mail newsletter, or a Salesforce extension,
or a CSV file, or an IDE plug-in, or throwing a pizza
party for your target market and performing the service
for them yourself.
I’ve seen startups charge $10K+/month to dump a CSV file
on a client’s FTP server. Go where the user can most
conveniently make use of your product; for a lot of
businesses, that is neither app nor website.
This comment from nightcracker about GDPR privacy consent: You enter a coffee shop. Before you can do anything, the owner takes a photo of you, and grabs your hand to take your finger print. He quickly writes down the date, time and what clothes you are wearing. He gives you a smile as he starts his speech. "Before we continue, we at Coffee City want you to know we deeply value your privacy. We need your permission t…
Pretty sure my coffee shop has a security camera, and most customers pay by card.
I have quite a few. The most recent favorite is this one, which actually features verbatim quotes - and highlites the level of editorialisation in the (us) news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19405173 " js2 37 days ago | parent | un-favorite | on: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hac... Fox News: "Young Beto O'Rourke wrote 'murder fantasy' about running over children, was part of famed hacking gr…
I would love a website that contrasted editorializing of the day's news and rated them. Is this something machine learning could accomplish? Sentiment analysis, perhaps?
This impersonation of The Economist writing style is hilarious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11050299 >Mocks Populi There is a an apocryphal story in which your anonymous correspondent was on a small business jet somewhere between Davos and Dubai, when he asked a former Thatcher minister what shade of pink the Financial Times newspaper was. "Parlour," the minister replied. It is in the spirit of this self-ref…
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How incredibly sad that this is the top comment at the time of writing.
I mean, using javascript for server code is batshit insane.
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Salary-porn seems to be a category that generally gets a lot of attention on HN. Personally, I feel a bit ambivalent about it. Obviously it's useful to be able to compare & benchmark, because one should go into any decision-making process being well armed with information. But on the other hand: The information exchanged is never enough to truly contextualize the numbers appropriately, and it's a potential source of…
I won't downvote, I want your opinion to be visible so other people can read this. I am one of those 'suckers' that left a job/career (call it what you will) in the Big4 to go solo. Apart from boosting my annual income x4, I am no longer involved in backstabing, politics, shitstorms, and other permanent employment 'pleasantries'. The C-levels who sign my invoices keep me out and away from all that. I have gained thei…
What data sources and techniques do you use to monitor trends?
"Javascript Delenda Est", by zeveb, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851 : > Can we please try to stop talking about this specific language ecosystem as an awful deplorable hell hole or whatever? Back in the second century BC, Cato the Elder ended his speeches with the phrase 'Carthago delenda est,' which is to say, 'Carthage must be destroyed.' It didn't matter what the ostensible topic of the speech was: a…
How incredibly sad that this is the top comment at the time of writing.