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Sorry didn’t see this until now.

My name is Charlie, a bit younger than you, I mostly hung out with Simone at camp/skiing. Older brothers you may recall are Brian/Mike/Jim. We spun outta YC long ago. Still have some family that go. Looks crowded :)

Hope you guys are well. If you’re ever in Pittsburgh or Naples FL, get in touch!

You must be a real gem to work with

Correct. Flight 427 to Pittsburgh. My wife’s father was on the flight.

The tail’s controls inverted in freezing temperatures.

Awesome bike.

Miss ripping down Pioneer and Dreamcatcher with you guys. Hope you’re well.

Oh live a little! it was funny

Why is this being downvoted? Take my chuckle and upvote!

Wait why is this reply button italic, but others are not? Mind. Blown.

I mean that mac hardware is terrible for video games in general, and that at some $1.5-$3k avg price tag, "Macs" (in the hardware sense) are almost always outclassed by PCs (in the hardware sense) that are less than half their cost.

The OP commented games were "always available through bootcamp or emulation", which is true of a Windows-only game running on your Mac hardware via Bootbamp/Parallels... my point is, Macs provide a sub-par, no good, very little fun experience for anything but the simplest of games.

And before I sound like a typical PC bro, this line of thinking is coming from someone who has exclusively owned about a dozen Macs starting with the iBook Clamshell, and only recently built my first gaming PC during COVID. I'd never try to play a game on a Mac again lol

I never found Bootcamp nor Parallels/emulation to sufficiently play a modern video game. A $3k mac always underperformed a $500 desktop windows PC in my experience

Multi Player Game > TCP/IP ...

Miss those menus

Thankfully long before that. I recall Diablo 1 was released for Mac OS (9?) only a few weeks/months after PC, and Warcraft I and II had full Mac Support!

Too bad the GPU race has left Macs in the dust.

Splitting hairs here, but Intel’s 60% profit margin has nothing to do with what Apple “keeps” by making their own chips.

It could be dramatically more expensive to make an M1 chip and Apple is making the trade off for performance/walled garden security.

Unlikely, but possible

I missed this!

Perhaps you are correct. But I know where I live (Pittsburgh), if I put soiled and nasty cardboard in the trash, Pittsburgh’s sanitation people will take the cardboard out and leave it for the recycling route.

Sometimes the recycling driver notices its not “clean”, and leaves it for next weeks’ trash route.

<Cue Zaney Movie Theme>

Not hard evidence, but I researched this a lot because I noticed companies I had intimate knowledge of had any sub-4 star review disappear. I detailed the practices in another comment; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793383

Correct on the internal promotion - in addition to Companies compelling Glassdoor to confirm the Reviewer actually worked at the company. Often reviewers don’t respond, resulting in a removed review.

I researched this a lot because I noticed companies I had intimate knowledge of had any sub-4 star review disappear. I detailed the practices in another comment elsewhere; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793383

I researched this a lot because I noticed companies I had intimate knowledge of had any sub-4 star review disappear.

I believe you are correct that Glassdoor wont explicitly take “cash” to remove a bad review. However they do have internal costs if you threaten them legally, which can compel a removal.

I detailed more of the practices in another comment further down; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793383

I researched this a lot because I noticed companies I had intimate knowledge of had any sub-4 star review disappear. I detailed the practices in another comment further down;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793383

Ding ding ding!

Three things actually occur here.

1. Companies pay the employee who left the review if they can identify them. $1,000 to the former employee to take the review down, along with an NDA.

2. Companies push Glassdoor to validate the reviewer was actually employed by the company. Some reviewers may not respond to Glassdoor’s confirmation requests, resulting in the review being taken down.

3. Companies’ HR or Talent Acquisition employees write reviews themselves and promote internally to other happy employees that adding “honest reviews” will help accelerate the company. Basically indirectly fishing for 5 star reviews.

Any startup with more than ~300 total employees (current + former) generally has attention to their Glassdoor ratings. A local company I know of is a huge offender to removing negative reviews and flooding their page with 4.5/5 star reviews in quick succession.

Does this trick work on mobile safari where you can disable JS?

Edit - It does! Go to Settings > Safari > Advanced > JavaScript, and turn the toggle to “off”.

I’m sure lots of things you are used to no longer work when you disable JS. I’d recommend making a shortcut!

Perfect example of regulation having the opposite impact of its stated intent.

Its 100% better to dispose of something that “maybe” recyclable, rather than “wish-recycle” it and contaminate an entire load of material.

The amount of VC dollars chasing wishful recycling is also pretty astounding

When in doubt, throw it out

I’ve seen something similar to this, but about “Names”. One was the assumption that most people have a First, Middle, and Last Name. Some cultures have more or fewer names for an individual.

I think a Github repo or YouTube Playlist of “Falsehoods Programers Believe About______” would be very entertaining and informative.

Does such a resource exist?

I know this does not mean companies will stop USING these old systems but...

Thank god, finally!

So many companies have old school software that still runs in legacy modes that this will probably exist until 2040, but thankfully the commonly held web standards can progress without ever getting a customer complaint that some date picker doesn’t work in IE...

And Azures form processing module

For real though, does ANYONE instantly sign up on the first visit to a website?

Why does anyone continue to think this is a good idea?

I immediately closed the article as well.

We have a continuous data series which represent electrical draw on a motor. This is due to resistance on the motor increasing in key scenarios, which we draw out via some proprietary algorithms/ML.

Just in beta deployments we have a million datapoints, and so we switched over to timescaleDB. Will be hitting production in the next few weeks.

We are using timescaleDB on an iot project and its amazing

Reads like the Yellowstone Club/Spanish Peaks/Telluride/etc from other cities out west.

And as another comment pointed out, its a literal ad by the company.

... Moving on

Dont sponsors also take on the highest risk?