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hector_vasquez··on Apple signs union agreement for Glasgow Apple Store staff
Corporations are people, so no, we don't have the state.
hector_vasquez··on The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012
In the U.S., around 86% of kids graduate high school[1], around 63% of high school graduates go to 4-year colleges[2], and around 64% of them graduate within 6 years[3].

By that logic around 35% of 24-year-old Americans have bachelor degrees. More than a third, but not by much.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/coi/high-school-g... [2] https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics [3] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40

hector_vasquez··on Tech CEOs Should Be Held Accountable, or Even Fired, Amid Layoffs
Do you fail at driving if you touch your brakes? I don't think so. The best drivers in the world certainly don't seem to think so. It's just one of the control inputs to driving your vehicle. Staffing levels are a resource company execs can increase or decrease as they see fit for the company. This idea that they should only hire someone if they predict they will need them forever is frankly bizarre and indicates a profound misunderstanding of what shareholders expect of their execs.
hector_vasquez··on Tech CEOs Should Be Held Accountable, or Even Fired, Amid Layoffs
You should lose your driver license if you ever have to touch the brakes.
hector_vasquez··on Why are online recipes so long-winded?
The true outrage isn't that the 0.01% of recipe seekers who like to read a story and get served 77 ads as they scroll through and laugh/cry before the recipe get these recipes high in Google's search results. It's that the rest of us who HATE ALL THAT also get these abhorrent search results.
hector_vasquez··on The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
Paying less for labor increases productivity. Anyone in the construction industry will point to the code books for their explanations.
hector_vasquez··on “User engagement” is code for “addiction”
"User Engagement" is now indeed code for "Addiction," but not because user engagement has changed in any meaningful way. It's because society has been transforming terms that used to have medical/clinical definitions to mean something completely different. PTSD and OCD are two more examples.
hector_vasquez··on Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising
I would rather pay for software with money than with privacy. Which is the precise option Apple is offering by allowing users to opt out of sending private data to Facebook and other advertisers. If you like giving your private data to advertisers, by all means, opt in.
hector_vasquez··on Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development
I assumed the author really meant that using a spreadsheet for project tracking is outdated, static, and manual. Which I agree with. But spreadsheets in general of course are tremendously useful!
hector_vasquez··on Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App
There is a compelling case to be made that manipulating the reporting of results (rather than the results themselves) would be more in line with your goals of public perception and deniability.
hector_vasquez··on Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying
The car would need to authenticate the driver as the driver, and each passenger as a passenger. Plenty of ways to do it. As an iPhone user, TouchID and FaceID come to mind.
hector_vasquez··on Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying
This seems like an eminently solvable problem.

My car knows when its key fob is inside it with great precision, to the point that I cannot even lock the doors while it is inside. My iPhone knows when it is itself in the car, so when I want to use it while driving, I have to dismiss a warning message, which I adeptly do with muscle memory.

Seems to me if cars supported driver and passenger authentication, most illegal device usage could be stopped rather trivially.

hector_vasquez··on Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
People who worked at Docker, Joyent, and Sun would be the ones to answer your question :). Consider the possibility that the kernel and the h/w are increasingly at odds on commodity server hardware.
hector_vasquez··on Is Inequality Inevitable?
How are you defining a "calorie"? The number printed on the package? Because that number is basically meaningless.
hector_vasquez··on California Is in Big Trouble Again, After Averting a Collapse in the 2000s
Nor is there any evidence whatsoever that deficit spending harms overall growth. In fact, deficit spending is utterly indispensable for optimizing growth.
hector_vasquez··on Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars
A lot of folks said the same thing about their horses and buggies. 20 years from now, people will roll their eyes at the view that electric vehicles are inferior to gas guzzlers. You'll come around.
hector_vasquez··on Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018)
Nobody in charge cares about the estimate of an individual task. They care about progress toward program goals. With experience and skill, estimation mistakes tend to come out in the wash.
hector_vasquez··on Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones
For many years, manually flown aircraft have required radically different safety practices from manually driven cars. I wonder why you think the addition of automation changes that.
hector_vasquez··on Sign In with Apple [video]
The SSO "market" is only a market if the SSO providers are monetizing your data at the expense of your privacy. Private authentication is not a "market" almost any of us needs or wants, but rather a right that we deserve.
hector_vasquez··on Sign In with Apple [video]
Your "they're stealing my emails!" outrage is hard to sympathize with.
hector_vasquez··on Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law
As a former NYC cyclist, I can say that your accusations are patently absurd. First, if cyclists blasted through red lights without looking we would all get hit by cars within a few intersections. Second, of course cars have come close to hitting you. It's New York. That's how they drive there. It is always jarring to hear what I anecdotally believe to be a minority of pedestrians who actually believe that cyclists are in any way, shape, or form more of a threat to their safety than motor vehicles. Luckily for us all, NYC is getting more and more friendly to cycling, though it still does have a long way to go.
hector_vasquez··on Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, Autopilot source code
People claiming that Tesla logistics is a "shit show" does not mean that Tesla failed to build a valuable logistics system. Check your logic there. Your saying something doesn't make it true. It would be far more plausible to claim that the repeated theft of Tesla logistics IP implies Tesla has valuable logistics IP.
hector_vasquez··on Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, Autopilot source code
Seems quite odd that people keep trying to steal worthless property.
hector_vasquez··on US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates
Involuntarily locking up and interrogating someone for 13 hours isn't "asking for information," and yes, it is unreasonable. In the land of the free/home of the brave that is known as an "arrest," and it can only be done if there's a charge. This is simply using passport flagging and ports of entry to persecute the political enemies of the current administration.
hector_vasquez··on How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all
Don't get me wrong, it's great that you found a way to reduce the work stress in your life! But ... I genuinely cannot tell whether the guy posting on Hacker News that he "dropped out of society" is being serious or tongue-in-cheek.

If paying society's currency for all the solar panels and the batteries and the gas and the generator and the refrigerator and the laptops and the deeded property and all the other stuff that society created is dropping out of society, I wonder what it is like to be a member of society.

hector_vasquez··on A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews
As a manager, finding folks who can turn thought into code is certainly required. However, a whiteboard does not and cannot measure that. The only effective way to measure the ability to turn thought into code is for them do it for real. Writing on a whiteboard is simply not coding nor is it an adequate proxy.
hector_vasquez··on Showing the world how real soy sauce is supposed to taste
D.O.P. Balsamic Vinegar, the only authentic Balsamic Vinegar, goes for well over $100 for a tiny 100ml bottle, and given the multi-year, multi-barrel method of brewing each bottle, it is a miracle it can be found for even that cheap. Congratulations for having a cabinet full of it! May I come over sometime? ;)
hector_vasquez··on Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies
I work at a big company and about half the PMs I work with were developers, myself included (for around 15 years). I have found this to be totally normal both when I was coding all day and now that I'm managing all day. There are no lanes.
hector_vasquez··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
Nearly every single one of those guys has left, and for very good reason. Ask around.
hector_vasquez··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
Small, start-up like environment. At Wal-Mart, a Fortune-1 company. Think about it. (Also, having worked there ... um ... no. The place is worse than Oracle.)
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