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My experience is similar but at a differet level of seniorty. I've applied to ~15 jobs for engineering manager and got 1 answer.

On the other end a recruiter reached out to me and I'll be doing the final interview with their VP next week.

I don't think we can draw conclusion at that stage (we are a dataset of 2..). But I'd love to have access to the LinkedIn dataset to figure out if applying for jobs is broken at scale.

Very similar experience for a lot of math programs in France. For about a year we did a lot of repetitive and uninteresting stuff (integration by parts, compute Taylor series on the whiteboard, ...).

The only concept from that time I used in my day job is the binomial coefficients. Yet I don't regret taking the class, in some inexplicable way I feel it has made be better (at what I have no idea).

Totally agree. About 10 years ago I was the first hire of a startup built partially on top of LinkedIn. A Monday we got a cease and desist letter. We had to immeditely stop using their API and had to start crawling the data instead. That almost killed us.

The headline is misleading. What is happening is that LinkedIn is using user data for its own benefit only and blocking innovation. As a LinkedIn user I want everyone to have access to the data I'm sharing publicly through the service.

I can't wait for entrepreneurs to take on LinkedIn. There are a lot of opportunities there.

I've worked in risk & fraud for some time now. As online platforms become mainstreams and are easier to build I think Trust and Safety is going to become the key differientiator. Stripe Indentity will no doubt play a big role and benefit the whole internet.

Are any accuracy numbers for Stripe Identity currently available? I'm working with a merchant in Europe who is struggling due to fraud. Would be cool to figure out if Stripe Identity will improve over their current solution.

That is an interesting data point. In my case the support I got from Stripe over the years (email, chat, IRC, ...) has been consistently stellar. Are you in the US?

I think pc is one of the Stripe co-founder.

Tean years ago I moved to Silicon Valley from London to work at a hardware company. I realized pretty quikly that I wanted to do software not hardware. Algebraic datatypes, static typing, ..., were also more natural to me than OO and classes. So I 'learned' OCaml in a week, applied to a software dev job at a startup and got hired (I got extremaly lucky obviously). My secret love was Haskell and I later joined companies using Haskell in production. I then transitioned to engineering management.

Long story short - my experience has been that OCaml (and Haskell) are often better phased out as the maturity of the team grows. I hope that one day I that will change - but as of today I would not advise a startup to bet on functional languages like OCaml. Happy to elaborate as to why if there is some interest.

I'm looking forward to hearing from people who disagree; and more importantly, have built successful products in OCaml.

I think that is your personal interpretation and I am surprised at how angry your comment is.

I lived in the Netherlands, worked for an international organization and I still have a lot of friends who works (or worked) in Brussels. Few comments:

1. The level of profentiency in foreign language of people working for the European institutions is orders of magnitude higher than readers of HN. Not too mention translators. It's not rare to meet people speak 6 languages totally fluently. Switching languages for some working documents is almost a non-event beyond signaling. There will be zero impact for the rest of us.

2. I totally support a Europe where people speak foreign languages beyond English.

I'm curious what do you mean by "bad" in that context? In my book, asking people to practice or learn a new language is not inerently bad.

Decision-making should not be reduced to the law of the majority. If Europe wants to push people to learn and practice more foreign languages, I'm all for it. (Disclosure: that starts with me, I speak 3 languages and I'm learning a fourth one).

And it comes across as very condescending imo. We are in a world where a brilliant intern may know or sense as well as any CEO, from YC or not. That what makes this world interesting.

I am not sure they are 'illegal' - do you have a source for this? That being said, most non-competes are not enfoceable in Californina that's true. And that is a very good thing imo and a net positive for innovation.

Strong competition has been a net positive for the tech ecosystem in my opinion and what has made SV what it is today.

Replit leadership and team should focus on winning by building faster and better, not by artificially blocking innovation.

It is a fair point if the focus is on billionaires (Bezos, Zuck,...). The proportion of resources they consume is well below their wealth. They may even contribute positively to society through charitable causes.

The real issue is that tech/startup founders and workers who, while less rich, accumulate more wealth at scale compare to the rest of society. And given their number, I'm afraid this will have a real impact by greatly increasing inequality. That would be ok if the other part of the population would also be able to live better. But I do not think it will be the case.

Btw: I am a tech founder.

I respectfully but also totally disagree. Value of money in particular is not intrinsic, it comes directly from the ability to redirect resource today (buy a home) and the future (be able to retire comfortably).

People made rich by Google will absolutely be able to redirect more resources to themselves in a world of bounded resources.

I think a lot of founders are idealistic about it and refuse to believe that at scale the start up mentality will increase inequalities. That's PG's point acutally, see the last sentence of his essay: it will. But he doesn't care. I do.

What you are missing is that the resources in the world that matter are bounded. So if a minority is creating most of the value at scale, they will be able to redirect most of the resources to themselves. This drives the increase in inequality.

That is why thinking purely in financial terms is misleading. It's not because everyone has more $$$ in the bank that everyone is better off.

Exactly. And I also think looking at money only may not go far enough. At the end of the day what matters is the amount of resources that the society allow a person to enjoy during her/his life, from food to home ownership to work opportunities, to access to vaccine.

It's pretty clear that a new class of people (founders, VCs and people close to them) are capturing a larger part of the resources today while the majority gets a decreasing share of that. And we should all be working at finding way to reverse that trend.

My understanding is that censorship is currently the only known way to tackle untruths leading to violence on a platform that enable viral sharing of information.

In any other instance, censorship should be (is?) inconstitutional.

I second this - I've had about 10 colonoscopies/endoscopies in my life (due to a medical condition) and it went well each time, no pain as steve said. The prep is also an opportunity for cleansing of the digestive system.

At equal execution, I suspect there is often (but not always) a direct relationship between investment and speed of execution / time to profitability (since with more investment it will be easier to attract great talent and iterate faster).

Assuming what I'm saying above is correct, that means that YC is advising founders to take the slow road to profitability? (Nothing wrong with that!)

As somebody new to the world of startups, I'm wondering why taking a small seed round and then work hard to bootstrap within a few years (with the help of the extra seed cash) isn't a viable option?

I worked for a fintech company until 2018 and learned a lot about the payment ecosystem. At an industry event in 2017 (or maybe early 2018) I discussed with an industry veteran about a bunch of things and he mentioned wirecard, saying that nobody believed they had a profitable business and advised to stay away from them. I didn’t pay too much attention.. until last week!

I see your point at the same time platforms also bring values, are expensive to build,... Success/failure, business models, pricing should be function of the products and the markets. So I'm not sure 'be entitled' or 'deserve' mean much.

The reason it is shocking in this case is because Apple (and not WIX imo) has a clear monopoly and is probably abusing it. And that is illegal.

The stock market is the rule of the minority who is looking (sending trade orders for a specific stock, driving price up or down). And for Hertz, the pros may be looking the other way these days because that serves their purpose, letting retail investors drive the price.

Intel was later more successful with VLIW. They bought Silicon Hive a company in NL that built VLIW for image processing. I had left by then but my understanding is that they were able to build actual products with it.

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While that's true, behavior trumps lifestyle I think. I had a dentist appointment scheduled for this morning in San Francisco. I called my dentist office and explained that my wife has some mild-flu symptoms and asked if we should reschedule. They said that's since I don't have symptoms myself it's not necessary to postpone the appointment. That may happen in Jacksonville too.

> Haskell is great for business and great in production

I disagree. It's a beautiful language but it lacks a lot of features to make it useable at scale. And in my experience Haskell engineers are extremely smart but the environment/culture they create makes it difficult to foster team spirit.

I've been in 2 companies in the last 4 years who initially used Haskell in production. One has transitioned to Go and the other is rewriting the codebase in Rust.

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