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Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Re: Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Post by dang »

kneath wrote: post #74

Author here. Hacker News has long ago blacklisted/blackholed my domain (I am often critical of YCombinator's investment strategies), but the original post can be found on my blog http://warpspire.com/posts/pixels-dont-care — with apostrophes!

Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://hackerfall.com/story/pixels-dont-care and banned that site since apparently it not only steals people's articles but eats their punctuation.

Your site isn't banned, and we don't moderate sites based on what they say about "Y Combinator's investment strategies". I'm not sure where you got that.

Your site was getting mildly downweighted. That could have happened for a number of reasons, including vote manipulation and/or too many lightweight articles. I've taken the penalty off.

Re: Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Post by mbrookes »

kneath wrote: post #74

Author here. Hacker News has long ago blacklisted/blackholed my domain (I am often critical of YCombinator's investment strategies), but the original post can be found on my blog http://warpspire.com/posts/pixels-dont-care — with apostrophes!

The link from hackerfall to your page breaks due to the trailing slash. Probably something easily fixed on your server...

Re: Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Post by janwillemb »

dahart wrote: post #78
galfarragem wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting read from his blog: http://warpspire.com/posts/next

"Psychology, emotion, and interpersonal relationships play a far greater role in shaping policy than any objective fact. Unlike many, I don’t see this as a problem or a bug. It’s just how large groups of people make decisions. We are not robots. We’re leaky bags of meat that have no inclination toward rationality." Pretty insightful thinking there for a programmer, if you ask me. As a group, we tend to focus on ratio…

> It is starting to feel more like an addiction than a fulfilling pursuit of life that will help me grow.

Exactly how I felt it. Addiction-driven development. I found a different purpose in life a few years ago (religiously inspired). I started investing time in other fields and in people, for example homeless people. The big (and not entirely unforeseen) disadvantage was that I felt that my knowledge was gradually aging, because I didn't keep up so well as before. This turned out not to be a problem after all, you don't need to be in the front lines all the time.

Re: Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Post by kneath »

dang wrote: post #91
kneath wrote: post #74

Author here. Hacker News has long ago blacklisted/blackholed my domain (I am often critical of YCombinator's investment strategies), but the original post can be found on my blog http://warpspire.com/posts/pixels-dont-care — with apostrophes!

Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://hackerfall.com/story/pixels-dont-care and banned that site since apparently it not only steals people's articles but eats their punctuation. Your site isn't banned, and we don't moderate sites based on what they say about "Y Combinator's investment strategies". I'm not sure where you got that. Your site was getting mildly downweighted. That could have happened for a number…

Thanks for removing that! I'd be lying if your explanation didn't sound a little… Well hey, HN is always good for laughs.

Re: Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Post by devoply »

shubhamjain wrote: post #33

As an amateur programmer and a part-time freelancer, I didn't have a slightest clue about the value of my work. It was only 5-6 years back when I gladly did small gigs on Want-to-Hire forums for tens of dollars. One particular gig was about scrapping data from a car sales website which I completed for $30 (should have cost at least 10x). The client discussed about the possibility of converting the phone numbers, whic…

At a normal 9-5 job this sort of thing would take at least a couple of weeks to complete and is therefore worth around $3000.

Re: Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Post by dhruvkar »

bjourne wrote: post #50
dhruvkar wrote: post #29

I'm going to be downvoted for this. While privacy is important, and a meritocracy is, well, meritocratic, these systems weren't formed overnight, and aren't even necessarily accepted as 'right' in many parts of the world. Historically, social barriers (e.g. discrimination against short people) are changed through exposure, discussion and sometimes fighting. Writing a post like this is only part of the answer. Taking…

I don't understand what your point is. Is it that Kyle Neath should take a stronger role in the fight against (height/age/gender/race/....) discrimination? It is probably hard because if you are working full-time as a software dev, you don't have much time to also lead a social struggle.

Sorry, 2am haze. My point is that instead of accepting privacy as the answer to the discrimination issue, use the opportunity to make the case that this needs to be talked about. The post did part of the 'talking', but the conclusion negated this. I read it as 'we shouldn't be discriminated against, therefore let's not give them anything to discriminate against'. That's not how social change is brought about.

Re: Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Post by atemerev »

tormeh wrote: post #85
RodericDay wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this kind of absurd lionization of the wealthy is part of the problem. I've met some extremely wealthy CEOs, and they warp nothing around them. It's an elite career track and old boys club, that's it.

There is a substantial intersection between wealthy people and CEOs, but they're still employees, so they're not that wealthy. I have no doubt that a lot of big-co CEOs are operating at the limit of human capacity, but that doesn't really have any effect on my opinion of trust fund kids.

Trust fund kids do exist, of course, but those are usually not Fortune 500 CEOs (or at least not for long, unless they worked hard for that).

Re: Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Post by dragonwriter »

tormeh wrote: post #85
RodericDay wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this kind of absurd lionization of the wealthy is part of the problem. I've met some extremely wealthy CEOs, and they warp nothing around them. It's an elite career track and old boys club, that's it.

There is a substantial intersection between wealthy people and CEOs, but they're still employees, so they're not that wealthy. I have no doubt that a lot of big-co CEOs are operating at the limit of human capacity, but that doesn't really have any effect on my opinion of trust fund kids.

CEO's, as such, are employees, but lots of them are capitalists and derive as much or much more of their wealth from capital as from labor income.

Re: Pixels Don’t Care (2013)

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Post by erdojo »

Radle wrote: post #12
erdojo wrote: post #10

Talent and experience aren't the same thing, and they both affect compensation. Talent can produce a better result than experience, but experience is almost always more consistent. There's added value in consistency for companies. That's not discrimination (ugh), it's a business reality.

Exactly this is why the client get's billed 20 times what Kyle earns. It's just a lack of experience, if Kyle would man up and accept her place it would all work out. BULLSHIT

He's claiming discrimination vs what his coworkers are being paid. What his agency bills his time at is a red herring that doesn't matter at all in his discrimination claim.
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