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Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Having interviewed many people from there, I can only assume they hire anyone with a pulse and give them major features to write in a language they don’t know.

I try to explain to people how consistent under-market salaries and a combative work environment has thoroughly brain drained Microsoft. It's really hard to turn that around.

From using their products it seems they just don't value excellence. I think everything else is downstream of that (e.g. if they did, they'd pay more, optimize the work environment, etc.).

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>Well, I disagree; the people of a nation contributing to and supporting genocide are responsible in part. Why exactly do you think human right for justice doesn’t apply here? Do you include in this group everyone, even those who were not able to or actively tried to stop it? What is their responsibility exactly? If not, how do you make the distinction? Then what country are you talking about? Russia is not committin…

> Why exactly do you think human right for justice doesn’t apply here? Do you include in this group everyone, even those who were not able to or actively tried to stop it? What is their responsibility exactly? If not, how do you make the distinction? Unfortunately, there's no way to separate accomplices from those who don't support it, but what do you expect to be done? Pretend that nothing is happening and that ther…

>Unfortunately, there's no way to separate accomplices from those who don't support it, but what do you expect to be done?

First of all, there is a way. See EU sanctions. They are targeted because there was an effort put in identifying the accomplices and finding the appropriate way to sanction them precisely. Second, by even contemplating the idea of punishing the innocent by applying the principle of collective responsibility you put yourself on the same level as Russian supporters of war. They do exactly the same to justify the war.

> Denial of Ukraine's existence as a sovereign country and as a people.

This is factually not correct. Russia recognizes Ukrainian ethnicity and Ukrainian language (see e.g. the annexation paperwork) and currently accepts existence of Ukraine as a sovereign non-aligned state. That’s literally their proposal for peace.

> The destruction and stealing of cultural artifacts;

Probably war crime, but not genocide. Ukraine wasn’t particularly careful about cultural artifacts in Russia too.

> Forcibly transferring and filtering children of Ukraine to Russia;

That’s complicated. They did move Ukrainian children from the war zone into Russia. It doesn’t constitute genocide obviously (they received proper care), but may constitute crime in some cases.

> Destruction of maternity hospitals, medical facilities, power grid

War crime. Not genocide.

>These are elements of the crime of genocide[0].

You missed the most important part. The definition actually starts with intent: following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such

Russia does not have an intent to destroy Ukrainians as a nation or ethnicity. Without intent every war would be a genocide. E.g. Americans did bomb a hospital in Afghanistan and did kill civilians.

I am aware of the scale of what’s going on there. More than you think.

>700.000+ children were kidnapped by Russians

This number is off by orders of magnitude.

>The point I was making is that Sanctions are already an example of collective responsibility.

Not exactly. They target state and certain actors. Yes, that may make life of ordinary people less comfortable, but this is not the same as when they are applied to a specific person or entity without due process.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Microsoft recently claimed 30% of their code was AI written. Maybe this is what you get when your systems are non-deterministic

Having interviewed many people from there, I can only assume they hire anyone with a pulse and give them major features to write in a language they don’t know.

I'm unfortunately using Teams. It's really such a comprehensive piece of shit.

I can't share photos in a channel w/ a customer. Why? No idea. There's no feedback at all. Drag and drop simply fails. Uploads won't go. I went through support and there's 5 different places in the admin to check. All of them seem fine.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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I just had to use Slack again after 6 years, and it's incredible how much worse its gotten. Honestly I don't know how they managed to make an industry leading tool actively worse by so much that its now _worse_ than Teams. Features it had 6 years ago that I desperately missed when we had to start using Teams are pretty much all gone now. Its such a slap in the face of how Enshittified it's become.

I'm not really sure what you mean, I'm also coming back to using Slack for some contracting work after a similar period of time and it seems identical to how it always was to me, definitely feels nicer to me than Teams. Could you point out what has changed? I guess calls are called "huddles" now for some reason, that's a bit weird but doesn't really bother me.

Ine big thing for me is the removal of the reactions & mentions sidebar.

I now have to constantly manually check in a special tab to see if someone ACKed my message.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Looks like a great product and congratulations on your success. I miss the days when HN was more stories like this of people using their expertise to make money - whether it was code, book launches, writing courses etc. Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted?

It used to be easier to use expertise to make money, now you need to use expertise just to get by.

I was not expecting this comment here but it tracks with my observations.

Things that previously could be taken for granted now require applied thought and physical capability.

For example, people regularly ask how to find reasonably priced housing in /r/askPortland. The OP usually mentions constant looking at Zillow and other sites / apps.

Very, very few good deals will be found there because the marketplace is too fluid and too accessible. You gotta hustle on the ground in the neighborhood you want to be in to find the best housing compromises.

Used to be you could wing it on craigslist.

From concert tickets to new Nike shoes, you want a good seat / common size? How about a nice family campsite?

Well you better have set up automation. It’s to the point where public swim lessons can’t be got without a bot. Unless, you go to the pool and ask about lessons not scheduled on the internet.

It is an absolute hustle, across the minor daily desires of good things and experiences.

Those products rejected by the most motivated get binned into some consultant optimized vertically integrated reseller.

The services get marketed heavily with dark patterns just to cancel their membership.

It is tough out there.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Looks like a great product and congratulations on your success. I miss the days when HN was more stories like this of people using their expertise to make money - whether it was code, book launches, writing courses etc. Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted?

There is good reason why these posts don’t regularly make front page.

The genre of content is regularly abused by hypesters. There is a forum / podcast dedicated to this kind of success story and it is just massive cheerleading and success bias.

If you go look for it, you’ll find it.

HN readers achieving this success either don’t need or don’t want the attention that might come with this kind of content marketing.

It’s much more interesting to learn about detailed technical solutions engineering and the SOTA.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Yeah, it's a Trump-related political outrage, or it's an AI thing. I feel anecdotally like the AI-related things are even more prevalent, but would love to see some data on it. The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle. It's heady times, anyway, that's for sure.

> The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle. Speaking personally, I flag the political posts and not the AI posts because the political posts always turn into flame wars. AI posts do not, so I leave them be (even though I don't personally like them).

Hmmm. Is there a statement of HN policy somewhere about that? Or is this just a thing you decided to do on your own accord?

No judgment, just curious. I presume you've reflected on the idea that one person's flame war is another person's gentle exchange of opinion.

I can see what you're saying though, and I have seen discussions where I've thought "oook, don't really understand what these people think they're achieving", but I wouldn't say I've seen anything horrendous. I mean, individual horrific comments get quickly flagged to death. Why bother flagging the whole topic? Why not simply not investigate those threads?

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Honestly the most admirable part is shipping a Teams app. I’ve been down that rabbit-hole and Je-sus what a horrific experience. Never again.

Can you elaborate a bit? Been tossing around the idea of doing a Teams app. What were the challenges?

None of the onboarding material actually works. I guess because it’s all based on Azure/Entra which changes so frequently.

So there’s videos, articles, VSC extensions, all to help you navigate this Byzantine structure. But they’re all just wrong.

Look I’m not a pro dev so YMMV. Kick the tyres for a few days and see if you can get it to do anything. I never could, and the experience was just no fun at all.

At least with web dev, that I’m also no good at, it can be fun. Teams was like pulling my own nails out.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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> A telltale sign Internet psychoanalysis based on "telltale signs" is just seeing what you want to see especially if you're responding to a perceived personal slight. The people telling you they're having the time of their life also might be projecting to try not to feel bad for their life choices. I didn't read OP's comment as "every FAANG employee is miserable". That's uncharitable but easier to fight than the mor…

> Internet psychoanalysis based on "telltale signs" is just seeing what you want to see especially if you're responding to a perceived personal slight. The people telling you they're having the time of their life also might be projecting to try not to feel bad for their life choices. Not really. I've worked at a FANG for quite a few years and I can tell you from my own personal experience that in many ways it was the…

OP here. You may read my comment as a dramatic over-simplification of the facts for the sake of a robust argument and brevity. ;-)
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