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It's not clear to me if he didn't get invited back, just because of this incident. I'd have a talk with him about it, but lots of people do stupid shit when we're young -- especially intern-young. It's kind of a bummer we don't trust each other more.

Readers can always try this technique for themselves. It costs $0.

I think from their perspective, the likely $XXm legal settlement wouldn't be worth the time and effort to bring a case against Samsung for this crime. I guess it could go on a backlog somewhere though. Still unfortunate.

Anyway, it doesn't violate wiretapping laws, because the resources/budget to uphold the law isn't high enough. A programmer might say they chose availability over consistency.

To me the bottom line of life is to hold on to the fun stuff that makes you unique and happy. Other people practically hate you and pressure you to do things their way. Every time I "grew" it felt fake, performative, and aimless.

I understand this is a bit odd to mention, but it's kinda cool seeing (15) made the list. It's a love-hate thing for me.

Honest question, as I want to learn something. Zuck's quotes were:

> “Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted we have no analytics about them”

> “Given how quickly they’re growing, it seems important to figure out a new way to get reliable analytics about them. Perhaps we need to do panels or write custom software. You should figure out how to do this.”

I'm against what FB did, and it is still Zuck's responsibility, but let's take a fake company as an example. Say I'm your manager, and I ask you to start learning more about what our competition is doing. If you used publicly available info (like news articles or other media, even their engineering blog), OK great -- but if you decided to snoop their traffic, which only went between that competitor's servers and their users, I wouldn't be OK with that. Perhaps you did something unethical, but also I'd be responsible bc I hired you.

How do you prevent this sort of thing, especially at a huge company? Especially a huge tech company, where I believe lots of tech workers tend to specialize in tech and often lack soft skills/ability to think about the bigger non-technical picture. For example, "oh shit, we can't actually read this data w/o the customer's consent."

>decrease of 2.5 years in median biological age

Newbie q. This has to be mice-years, not human-years, correct?

I think there's a strawman here. I look for different things artistically and functionally about the things you mentioned. Cars should function well and feel good when I test-drive them, but I wouldn't buy a hideous car.

Music is somewhat functional (does the cd or record play? does it skip at all etc) but then you have to listen to it. Years ago we might have seen a music video, heard a song on the radio, then went and bought a whole album to hear the rest. I guess I'm saying the buying process is different and it doesnt make sense to apply it to every imaginable product or industry.

Of course he's probably getting kicked out of YC for this, but I still feel that most politicians (and tech leaders too, actually) say the same worthless points and don't really do much good in the world. In some ways, I'm more interested in Tan.

>I'm probably being really picky here - just find this kind of developer in-crowd signalling to be really irritating and counterproductive.

Why is it "developer in-crowd signalling" rather than just a joke? IOW I read this as saying the jokes were "as bad as" virtue-signalling.

I don't see what's upsetting about the problem you linked. If you don't know what a "greatest common divisor" means, why not search it or put it into GPT? That's the simplest statement of the problem.

Does it? Survival/crafting games are popular these days, including shooters. I think someone was bound to make this kind of game eventually, and it's not a surprise people will play it.

>As always, it’s uniquely gratifying to create something my daughter wants to play with. I look forward to her developing many more interests — with any luck, soon she’ll get super into platforming games or heavy metal.

I got into heavy metal because of the Tony Hawk games (THPS3 - Motorhead's "Ace of Spades", THPS4 - Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast"). So there's a potential breadcrumb trail.

In their defense, the article says this:

> Despite these kinds of arguments, in 2020, the Guinness Book of World Records reinstated Mitchell's record scores, saying it was "defer[ing] to the original contemporaneous adjudication" rather than relying on Twin Galaxies' updated findings

Here's a bizarre story about quitting. When I was at Microsoft, I had a manager who, despite good intentions, led through fear and paranoia. I had gotten yelled at for causing a production incident, which was not the first time, but that week I started having some very strange dreams involving seeing the number "69" in different places. Just some juvenile humor maybe, I just dismissed it.

In the meantime, gradually this idea of quitting popped up and felt like a crazy, radical, awesome idea -- and I told him I was leaving immediately, fuck 2 weeks notice, etc. I was excited and terrified of him. Well, he told me the processing would still take a few days no matter what, and once we finalized it, my official last day was... June 9. 6/9

Then I worked at Expedia, had a rough experience with a manager there, and wouldn't you know it I had the magic number appear in my dreams again. 3 months in, cya. Call it superstition, or classical conditioning, but I don't really regret it.

That makes a lot of sense. Expedia used Macs heavily when I worked there.

Sounds like you want a perfect, not good, set of goals. It's infeasible to choose a perfect setup up front -- try an agile/iterative approach. I think you're smart, so I believe in your ability to pivot later if you change your mind. And it won't be a disaster or embarrassment if you choose wrong.

You know how great writers say they clear their writer's block by just starting?

In gaming terminology, those users got taunted. [1] https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Types_of_Crowd_Contr... or [2] https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Taunt

To answer your question, Azure Devops / Azure Repos (at least at the time) was not inside the Azure portal. It was its own website. Bit of a confusing name, eh?

I'd be interested to hear these horror stories about Msft (are they from the modern era? 2010s? 2020s?). On my old team there, I really liked our build system (Azure Devops/Azure Repos, basically all-in-one tool from issue tracking to Git to CI/CD deploying to Azure....

Almost 1.5 years in, here is my opinion on Critique:

Github < Critique < Azure DevOps (or actually, I think it's called Azure Repos)*

*might have changed because I was at MSFT until mid 2021, but development and review used to look sort of like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCid5W-HK0. I just felt the UX was really clean and clear, plus it immediately tied into the walled garden of tools like private package repos, CI, and Azure deployments.

Why not just setup a Windows VM and remote into it? I did that with a friend several months ago to play some "local multiplayer" games together remotely, as if we were sitting at the same keyboard.

I think you're right that he stole your work without proper attribution. I'd suggest reporting his Reddit thread(s) if you haven't already. Or start a new thread like this HN one.

Oh, we had this type of issue ("logging lib breaks everything") with a $MSFT logging library. Imagine having 100 threads each with their own logging buffer of 300MB. Needless to say it annihilated our memory and our server crashed, even on the most expensive sku of Azure App Service.

I had a very similar experience with a toxic app like that :) I must say that I found a handful of valuable threads/comments that helped me, so perhaps it's not all bad.

Congrats!

I have HN to thank for exposing me to a ton of new tech/trends, but I think more importantly exposing me to smart, passionate people coming from very different perspectives, who I'd have never met otherwise. It's so valuable to know what's really out there and what's possible with a little time outside the comfort zone.

Yeah, even if it doesn't become a legal requirement, I could imagine companies asking for FSBoM's from their suppliers -- so it ends up being a requirement anyway if you want to compete with big co's.

Coincidentally my mother has an 80yo neighbor who got diagnosed with brain+lung tumors a few weeks ago. I'd like to recommend this article to her. Though it apparently has the risk of dyslipidemia, "Abnormally elevated cholesterol or fats (lipids) in the blood."

(maybe some exercise too to help mitigate that risk)

They certainly allow you to learn. I'm able to tell my manager I'll spend a sprint(s) tinkering with build performance or reading stuff that's relevant to our work (i.e. the Goog SRE book).