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> Q: Just show me some interesting careers that most people don't know about > A: Sure! Have you ever heard of UX Design?

Just share the prompt so folks can actually get help. No need to spend time on bubblewrap monetization

What was wrong with 1/2/3/4 for key binds? I played CS 1.3 -> 1.6 professionally in 2000s, never really saw folks do this.

Former Uber engineer - had friend who got "randomly" banned in ~2016/17 and I investigated.

Sadly, it's likely the same story as back then, and same story as you see with other large tech companies - false positive fraud detection algo.

This doesn't help you much, but just wanted to try and help explain the "why".

Totally agree.

But then it’s more like brand-driven marketing - people literally typing your URL into their browser.

Brands take a long time to build.

New companies don’t have a brand so they kinda have to go at it along the SEO route, especially in the early days.

I think is article is written from an eng/design perspective and thus fails to address business realities.

Example: “product pages are way too long”

Product pages are long because longer pages tend to perform better at SEO. Furthermore, at least in my experience, longer product pages don’t actually have a significantly negative impact for on-site conversion rates.

Sure, maybe a better global maximum exists, and every once in a while a startup finds it and achieves great success.

However, that kind of “bet the farm” mentality should be very intentional, not just based on design best practices, because in reality, companies live and die by their balance sheet, not by their UX best practices.

This got a bit rant’y, but I just wanted to provide this counterpoint. I’d love to hear what others have to say - I feel this is such a complex, nuanced topic…

> average reporters of that period, with a decent patronage; just documenting things on paper as they hear/research/study it; without the intention of publishing for widespread readership.

We don’t really have that anymore though right?

The current internet is economy strongly incentivizes people to write things in favor of engagement.

Sometimes this aligns with ground truth (e.g. Gergely Orosz, who has documented Musk’s Twitter takeover via daily updates). Many times it does not.

Who is supposed to be the historical record keeper, at this time, when trust in record keepers is at an all time low?

I find myself uncomfortable asking such controversial questions, but I do feel like they should be asked

By the way, here’s a thought that worries me - where does “let’s all become good deep structural thinkers by writing a lot” break down? How will we know it happened? What do we do then?

I kind of stumbled upon writing by accident. To me it’s not about ability to get things done (thought it helps). It’s about feeling some semblance of control and structure, something I think so many struggle with in the past few years (Trump, COVID, Ukraine/Russia, recent tech layoffs, etc etc).

As others here mentioned, it’s kind of like programming.

We used it to live in “hello world”.

Now we all got thrown into this crazy distributed microservice world. The language of this new world is still the same. It’s (mostly) English. Except it’s more complex now and you have to be faster and better at writing. So write.

Folks here mentioned that the core point is not about the need to the importance of reading, but the importance of writing. No, it’s really about becoming better at deep, structured thinking. I think that’s quite a good thing to focus on.

The world we live in is becoming more complex. I think it’s because our communication pipelines now have unlimited IO - there’s too much to consume, too much to process, too many thoughts we feel the need to express in response to all these inputs. All of this at the unforgivably quick eventual constituency cross-region replication guarantees afforded to us by Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and many others.

I write more these days.

I don’t share most of what I write.

I write for myself, because I think that writing my thoughts helps to refine these thoughts, retain them for future me, and, on occasion, share them with another person, thru conversion, or by just copy pasting something I wrote.

You don’t need a blog to start writing. Just start writing. VS Code. Notepad. Emacs. A piece of paper. It doesn’t matter. As long as you can do it when you feel like it. Write.

"Every line, every casting decision" restated by Jerry back in early 90s, literally from the get-go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0TE_xXjp-0

As someone else said here, he did also give credit to rest of team - "every single one of the [main] cast could hold down their own show"

I think Garry changed my life in 2013 and might be reason why an awkward inarticulate engineer got into YC. He believed in my me and my cofounder.

To me, Garry is one of the people that embodies the spirit of YC. See some kind of potential in early founders (my cofounder called this "a twinkle in his eye"). Believe in them. Give them a shot.

Being a founder is SO lonely. Especially when few believe in what you're doing.

So happy that Garry's back.

To balance out my parent negative comment, I think the semi recent release of browser VS code on GH web (just press “.”) is awesome. Just wish the PR review experience would get more love.

There is “should” and then there’s what people actually do. Do you suggest that parent commenter should now go and change their policy on comments to solve this real immediate issue? If not that, do you have practical advice for parent?

Parent commenter and several others said they found it very valuable. People seem to want this. Feels like enough of a reason to not remove it for all users with no heads up.

No explanation about why.

No name for blog post author.

No gradual rollout I think? Was this ever a beta feature first like most other things?

Compare to Stripe product releases where people who built it are instantly on HN, responding to feedback.

Is there someone at GH who actually owns the PR experience and sets the long term roadmap for non-enterprise?

Let's let the person who actually did this for the past 18 years decide how they want to feel about it.

I’m really disappointed that you would take such an antagonistic stance towards what I said and twist my words.

I am not a saint. I never said I was. You, my friend, are also not a saint. I suggest you make arguments based on things you have actually done yourself. Be better. I’m trying to better as well.

I’m glad you had the determination to do something like what you did. You sound like a better person than me. Keep doing what you’re doing - need more folks like you who actually walk the walk.

I literally left Uber and moved to Japan. Mostly because I could not stand inequality I saw in SF and US. Did feel like Uber wasn’t great for full time drivers as well and it bothered me a lot and always on my mind.

So I did that.

You ever actually do something like that or are you just giving theoretical advice based on stuff you’ve never done?

Easy to say stuff like this. Tell me when you’ve actually done something similar yourself.

Disclaimer: at Uber 2014-2018

Travis has not been CEO for 5 years. Based on this article, what do you want the people who actually presently work at Uber to do?

I agree with your sentiment. It's magic until it isn't. When something breaks, you need to often need to dig into the implementation and understand how everything works. This becomes harder and harder when there are more and more layers of code and libraries, many written by completely different people. Seems like frontend is still going in this direction of "magic > simple". I wonder when we'll reach some point where we see a dramatic shift.

> they don't first explain the problem they are solving

I think you're right about this and the "hero text" on their landing page should explain that in one crisp sentence. I imagine the authors of the project just aren't good at this stuff so hope they read this thread and refine the messaging.

They actually do right in the hero section of the landing page. For me:

- fast (very important) - Fully Typed APIs (very important)

Just those two points would convince me to try it and I can see it right away on the landing page.

At my company, I looked at Vite 6+ months ago and decided it doesn't make sense for us, yet, because of some specific tooling gaps, but it's a tool that I consider "cutting edge" in the frontend tooling world. I think they're doing just fine and their page doesn't have any major issues with their copy. Do you actually do frontend dev?

Just wanted to say that I spent several hours on this today and had 4 amazing conversations. Used safari mobile whole time.

Please read the article. It has a whole section called "In Defense Of Scrum". The author of the article was personally involved in a situation similar to yours and addressed many of the things you brought up.

Periodic liquidity events

The goat has to be sacrificed at an Equinox gym for that to work, duh. Why do you think they call it spring equinox?

I wonder if it’s something like the “bozo bit”? Once you see one Waymo car doing something that looks unsafe, your entire perception of “Waymo car” becomes (nearly irreversibly) lower.

Can you give some examples? I feel like perception of safety will be a big adoption gap. What made the Waymo cars appear more natural?

Age is implied here. The author isn’t comparing the Silent Generation to the Baby Boomers. They are comparing two successive generations, which by definition, have an age gap.

Tesla supports setting a speed over/under current area's speed limit (not sure if it's disabled in certain jurisdictions - worked for me both in California and Florida)