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Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by paul7986 »

Seeing someone else bravely telling their story and account how the biggest tech company mistreated them during an interview too...going as far as trying to steal/patent their work without their consent they demoed during their interview.

I had been telling my very similar story here of my experience for a few years, then to see another say same thing with email evidence was vindicating.

Around that time and maybe before more and more negative posts about said company started and have continued to appear on Hacker News. So her story along many other things going on I believe helped highlight they do evil/aren't to be trusted per the image they once sold.

Overall I'm glad she had the courage to post her experience and in turn help other dreamers/innovators (what my aim was) to not trust this tech company and highlight they are the opposite of the mantra they sold to the public.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by dgellow »

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #87
dgellow wrote: post #60

"The contrarian dynamic" by dang, from around a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601 > The "contrarian dynamic" is that HN threads (and internet comments generally) are largely propelled by people making objections. Cunningham's Law touches on this [1]. The objections come in waves. In the earliest stage of a thread, they tend to be rapid negative reactions to the article. It's not that these are…

It would interesting to study these phenomena quantitatively.

Any idea how that could be done?

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by d3nj4l »

paul7986 wrote: post #91

Seeing someone else bravely telling their story and account how the biggest tech company mistreated them during an interview too...going as far as trying to steal/patent their work without their consent they demoed during their interview. I had been telling my very similar story here of my experience for a few years, then to see another say same thing with email evidence was vindicating. Around that time and maybe be…

Can you link to the comment?

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by kqr »

superice wrote: post #90
ycombinete wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should though

There is ~250 cycling related traffic deaths per year in the Netherlands. Some 60 of those are e-bike related. Normalized per capita that is well above the EU average, but you shouldn't forget that we cycle a lot in the Netherlands, which means that per cycled kilometer, cycling in the Netherlands is still ridiculously safe even without helmets. It has been argued that forcing people to wear a helmet in law will redu…

Head injuries are more common in cars than bicycles. Before someone tells me I "must" wear a helmet when cycling, I want to see them strap on a helmet when entering a car.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by zimablue »

harry8 wrote: post #83
robocat wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also I don't think most people can really tell when an idea is good. My heuristic is that if you google it and someone is doing it successfully, you know you had a good idea, and it makes me happy. If you google it and nobody is doing it, it is a bad idea for some reason that’s not obvious.

And if you see $100 on the road, leave it there, it's fake or someone would have picked it up first.

This is an excellent comment, it should be noted given the thread.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by santiagobasulto »

howon92 wrote: post #5

For me, it's this comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ) that argued Dropbox wasn't useful and was going to fail. Both the comment and its replies (by Drew at the time when Dropbox wasn't known) really get to me because they remind me to keep an open mind to other people's ideas and have conviction in my own ideas even if there are people who doubt them.

In defense of the commenter, there’s a follow up the next day acknowledging Drew’s points and wishing him the best luck. I had always read the first comment only.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by postit »

combatentropy wrote: post #11

One of my favorites is a super-long one by a user named bane, about three solutions to speeding up computing: (1) "high" (more RAM, CPU), (2) "wide" (more machines), and (3) "deep" (refactoring), which is what he recommends first. More than once he has rewritten something that was running slowly even on the latest and greatest architectures (perhaps partially because of that), to running on a single machine, even an…

Ah, there's where the "bane's rule" comes from; I've heard if from a FAANG friend, and I kept wonder the source.

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by indy »

thinkingemote wrote: post #74

I used to like the writings of a user called something like Marin Country until they were banned! I liked the anecdotes, flow of words, way of speaking. He was a retired programmer with lots of stories and fell across the lines of policial correctness (which moves every year) and got banned.

If a user is banned do their comments disappear?

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by CapriciousCptl »

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #3

It's very short and not at all in-depth, but this was my favorite comment. It was one of the greatest troll shutdowns I've ever seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083

In that thread the pg - cperciva exchange is exemplary. cperciva is concise and blunt, someone else suggests softening his delivery, and pg replies "actually, if someone is wrong about math you probably should tell him so."

Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

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Post by iso947 »

p1mrx wrote: post #18
ivars wrote: post #13

User mikekchar on the value of ideas: My advice is to lower the value of ideas. A lot of time people think, "If only I had a good idea I would be successful". You will see other people saying things like, "Buy my good idea!". But really, good ideas are a dime a dozen. Good ideas, bad ideas... it actually doesn't make much difference. What makes the difference is execution and timing. For things that take a long time,…

It can be fun to think of "new" ideas, and then search the Internet for them. This week, I wanted a handheld device to push buttons and open doors without touching them; found several for sale (though the models without covers seem useless.) Later I wanted a 3D support structure to fit under a mask and increase its usable surface area; found several for sale.

I use the end of my key to push buttons. A shoulder shove works for pushing doors. If I have to pull occasionally I use my T-shirt to get a grip. If it were a major problem I’d use a glove.
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