Engineer at NASA.
> He's not adding anything interesting to the photos. I like this about it. He adds a banal, trivial, perhaps non-sensical comment that satirizes the emptiness and one-sidedness of communication on today's most popular…
I began working at Nokia after they sold the phone business. It's not a place where people were just clocking in and out; there ws a strong effort and opportunity (born of necessity) to innovate. It was exciting. I…
The point of the comparison is not about placement on a front page (I could complain the NYTimes won't publish my article anywhere on their server), but rather that Apple created and operates a private distribution…
The US Postal Service is not a company.
I stayed in a house in nice residential neighborhood in Berkeley recently. It had four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a kitchen, and it was clear the owner didn't live there. In fact, I never saw the owner or spoke with…
"Women compete, compare, undermine and undercut one another — at least that is the prevailing notion of how we interact." This is written as if men don't do exactly the same thing --and in my experience they do. Even…
It's an outrage. I recently submitted an incoherent, hate-filled diatribe to the New York Times, and they refused to publish it on the front page! Where is my freedom of speech? I recently submitted a video of my parrot…
> You may say whatever you like, provided no one is there to hear it. Freedom of speech does not mean you are granted unmitigated control over the content a private medium, channel, or platform. For example, it doesn't…
Or like Elixir for ContentEditable
I predicted Twitter would be the next unicorn to cut staff and offices ten days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300002). To be honest, I didn't think it would happen quite this fast. But 4K employees, 2K…
> they need to figure out how to fundamentally improve the ease of use of the whole thing I've frequently heard this theory, that Twitter's problem is that it's too complicated. I don't buy it. It has a simpler UI than…
> "The average salary ... being $125,667 in Arizona." This immediately struck me as preposterous, as I'm familiar with the local Arizona economy. Then I saw that number is based on a sample size of 3 survey respondents.…
I don't expect it to disappear (not completely, not over night). But they're burning through $130M+ a quarter and growth is stalling. They don't seem to have leadership with a vision of where to take the company from…
Tesla will use Google autonomous-driving technology? Does Google really want to be manufacturing cars, or does it want to provide the software?
Brevity is the only thing most Tweets have going for them.
You're underestimating the awesomeness of the human brain to tackle big problems. I want to be drunk, watching movies, pleasuring myself in the backseat of an autonomous Uber during my two-hour commute in and out of the…
Emergency steering wheel app.
Another prediction: Twitter. 2k+ engineers on staff without notable improvements to the core user-facing product in a while. Declining signups, declining engagement. Nobody stepping into the permanent CEO role. I don't…
> Lots in the East Coast (ok, NYC) Lots in Boston, too.
> WhatsApps product is much, much simpler than twitters products. Can you enumerate Twitter's products? Perhaps Instagram is a closer comparison -- broadcast photos instead of broadcast 140 characters. And you have a…
> Facebook in particular has allowed me to keep in touch with a much larger social circle For me, Facebook offered a false sense of being social. The more I used it, the more I craved social interaction, leading me to…
> Why? Because Twitter as a company hasn't produced effective revenue? Because they're lecturing about engineering efficiency, yet they require 2,000 engineers to support their product. By comparison, WhatsApp scaled to…
If you're accused of working on stupid, trivial things, and Facebook and Twitter are your best counterexamples, it's a little pathetic. It's very easy to conflate making a lot of money with doing something that matters.…
Slightly off topic, but what library do you use for networking with React? Almost every code sample or tutorial uses jQuery's AJAX methods. Bundling jQuery seems excessive when just using those methods, but is there not…
I'm curious to know how complex your React app is. I'm just starting to integrate Redux (and possibly Immutable) into my app, and initially I'm a bit surprised by how Redux can make simple things much more complex. I'm…
> He's not adding anything interesting to the photos. I like this about it. He adds a banal, trivial, perhaps non-sensical comment that satirizes the emptiness and one-sidedness of communication on today's most popular…
I began working at Nokia after they sold the phone business. It's not a place where people were just clocking in and out; there ws a strong effort and opportunity (born of necessity) to innovate. It was exciting. I…
The point of the comparison is not about placement on a front page (I could complain the NYTimes won't publish my article anywhere on their server), but rather that Apple created and operates a private distribution…
The US Postal Service is not a company.
I stayed in a house in nice residential neighborhood in Berkeley recently. It had four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a kitchen, and it was clear the owner didn't live there. In fact, I never saw the owner or spoke with…
"Women compete, compare, undermine and undercut one another — at least that is the prevailing notion of how we interact." This is written as if men don't do exactly the same thing --and in my experience they do. Even…
It's an outrage. I recently submitted an incoherent, hate-filled diatribe to the New York Times, and they refused to publish it on the front page! Where is my freedom of speech? I recently submitted a video of my parrot…
> You may say whatever you like, provided no one is there to hear it. Freedom of speech does not mean you are granted unmitigated control over the content a private medium, channel, or platform. For example, it doesn't…
Or like Elixir for ContentEditable
I predicted Twitter would be the next unicorn to cut staff and offices ten days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300002). To be honest, I didn't think it would happen quite this fast. But 4K employees, 2K…
> they need to figure out how to fundamentally improve the ease of use of the whole thing I've frequently heard this theory, that Twitter's problem is that it's too complicated. I don't buy it. It has a simpler UI than…
> "The average salary ... being $125,667 in Arizona." This immediately struck me as preposterous, as I'm familiar with the local Arizona economy. Then I saw that number is based on a sample size of 3 survey respondents.…
I don't expect it to disappear (not completely, not over night). But they're burning through $130M+ a quarter and growth is stalling. They don't seem to have leadership with a vision of where to take the company from…
Tesla will use Google autonomous-driving technology? Does Google really want to be manufacturing cars, or does it want to provide the software?
Brevity is the only thing most Tweets have going for them.
You're underestimating the awesomeness of the human brain to tackle big problems. I want to be drunk, watching movies, pleasuring myself in the backseat of an autonomous Uber during my two-hour commute in and out of the…
Emergency steering wheel app.
Another prediction: Twitter. 2k+ engineers on staff without notable improvements to the core user-facing product in a while. Declining signups, declining engagement. Nobody stepping into the permanent CEO role. I don't…
> Lots in the East Coast (ok, NYC) Lots in Boston, too.
> WhatsApps product is much, much simpler than twitters products. Can you enumerate Twitter's products? Perhaps Instagram is a closer comparison -- broadcast photos instead of broadcast 140 characters. And you have a…
> Facebook in particular has allowed me to keep in touch with a much larger social circle For me, Facebook offered a false sense of being social. The more I used it, the more I craved social interaction, leading me to…
> Why? Because Twitter as a company hasn't produced effective revenue? Because they're lecturing about engineering efficiency, yet they require 2,000 engineers to support their product. By comparison, WhatsApp scaled to…
If you're accused of working on stupid, trivial things, and Facebook and Twitter are your best counterexamples, it's a little pathetic. It's very easy to conflate making a lot of money with doing something that matters.…
Slightly off topic, but what library do you use for networking with React? Almost every code sample or tutorial uses jQuery's AJAX methods. Bundling jQuery seems excessive when just using those methods, but is there not…
I'm curious to know how complex your React app is. I'm just starting to integrate Redux (and possibly Immutable) into my app, and initially I'm a bit surprised by how Redux can make simple things much more complex. I'm…