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Churlish and petty?

I see it more that Americans were acting rationally and logically and parts of rest of the world were acting emotionally in panic and willing to stop thinking for themselves and put their trust in health officials.

I wore a mask when it was considered racist and selfish to do so (Jan). Months later the who changed their advice and everyone needed a mask.

As does cop shows and popular media and video games. Where do you draw your line?

Be who you want to become.

They are in google pockets for 95% of revenue. But I think as a browser with a smaller market they join things and change things to be like everyone else.

There was a recent change to facebook picture albums that lazily loads pictures as you scroll. In large albums this grinds to a halt after a few pages and each scroll takes 30 seconds to load the next set of images. Chrome handles this smoothly. For social media I had to switch to chrome.

Firefox is still better for privacy and I use it when I can even though it feels like it's slowing down after each upgrade.

Did you ever open source the project? I can see it being useful in a more limited context.

And because half of the population didn't vote.

My favorite opinion is comments muckup the source code.

There is the 4 hour a week movement.

That's more popular than you think.

If you said php is a pretty good language and I enjoy working with it you may get a lot of closet php developers upvoting you.

A real unpopular opinion is testing is not worth the effort.

Finding metered street parking in the most congested parts of Manhattan? I guess it's possible but wouldn't you waste more in gas circling all day?

At one end they exist to inform and offer you a service. I've clicked on ads and purchased and have been better off for it. No tricks involved but it did save me 1/2 off the original price I normally purchase from another store.

Who I am impressing with my canned milk buy?

Ads that show a lifestyle that tricks you into believing you can become something you are not is a small segment perhaps larger on social media. I don't see any of that or if I did it doesn't register. But I do see can of milk for sale.

I go through fliers and get coupons. I get email ads on products I purchased for discounts.

Even those store displays with toilet paper are a form of advertising. I don't mind them and often buy a pack if on sale.

Why are ads suddenly so evil? Ads are paided messages.

Congrats on the new position. Some people can spot talent.

Back in the day you wanted in to get shares before they went public. Then the dream was to cashout and using your google money you can create something. Then people stopped getting stocks but used it to get funding. Then there are the people who get in any position for less than 2 years and use that expereince to get a CTO job at a smaller org.

Why do you consider it your endgame? Top salary? Interesting problems? Making a difference?

That's interesting and truly insightful. Doing a good job in a previous role doesn't matter anymore because everyone relys on the leetcode score.

I have. You start with a half turn, then the full turn, then say something. People are much more afraid of confrontation than they use to be.

I always hated ushers. A little bit of power can go to your head. Why do we want this back? If someone is making too much noise let them know.

Laws aren't necessary in extremely smaller groups. Do you and your dog need laws?

You and your family probably have rules.

Very small communities don't even have police.

The larger the group the more need for laws to protect each other against ourselves.

But no more smallpox deaths. It is possible.

Crime free can happen without laws.

We do this a lot. We take a truth + mix it in with our personal situation and broadcast this information as truth and someone comes around and follows this and finds it to be untrue.

Hiring ex C/C++ game developers is fine on the surface. They are smart people and can pick up things quickly.

But as a general rule it fails.

Taking longer to get things perfect is usually not a tradeoff in the webworld that makes sense. People want simple, reuseble and quickly changable features. Pixel perfect perhaps but never code perfect because things change quickly. Why would you hire for that?

Higher salaries for no reason.

Learning curve will be harder than one expects

Smaller pool.

Greater unhappiness. You might hear after writing a game engine that web work is 90% easier but so boring.

Hire an ex c/c++ developer because they show an interest in making a change and are willing to put in the work. Don't hire all of them and expect an advantage..

And they are free to complain about the treatment they got.

Sounds like google is doing something bad if they need to enforce this.

The power inbalance you speak of is why unions are probably needed.

You were a special snowflake in the 90s/early 2000s now you are a cog.

Maybe not after paying that team.

Small startups have less than 2 million and usually a 16-24 cash or bust cycle. If they are hiring teams of people they are not a small startup.

If you are not bring in more cash than your aws bill that's a problem.

Small startups use junior talent for most services. They are not hiring the best hr team, marketing, sales and development. They don't have unless amount of money. They will pick one or two areas where they have an advantage and hire a strong person or two.

We should start by asking how many of the daily reddit users are bots vs humans to set a baseline.

It had almost a million subs at it's peak.

The semi-recent crackdown on right wing or in some cases extremely left wing subs has forced many to other platforms.

I would say millions have been pushed off in one way or the other.

You are probably an expert in your area but the original poster was talking about much smaller shops. That's the point being missed for every multi-million dollar spender there are thousands of smaller projects paying 10x the cost because they think they will be you one day and it is cheaper to build on that stack from day one.

Many moved off reddit when thedonald subreddit got shutdown and went to other places.

"Linode is frequently the target of massive global DDOS. I remember well a few years ago the Christmas Eve Linode DDOS because I had to work 20 hours that day."

Those sound like some of the weakest reasons. Is your information still upto date? Are they still experiencing major outages?

The truth is it would save you money to use a digitalocean instance over aws, regardless of your edge cases where some network property is not desirable.

How much do you spend a month more to justify working around that weird networking property?

Is it really worth it for everyone else? What is this weird networking issue we need to spend extra to avoid?

Before the web, centralization meant you couldn't get published unless you made a one sided deal if you were lucky with a publisher. You would have to buy 2,000 copies yourself and try to sell that out of a car.

When amazon opened that up it allowed anyone to publish and now we have other smaller sites like smashworlds that offer similiar.

Things are now so much more open as a publisher.

On the selling side you had smaller book stores being pushed out by Chapters. Chapters bought up many book chains and pushed out many smaller shops with better prices.

When Amazon came in they were fighting against the big box stores and they won.

Things appear centralized with Amazon but you can sell your ebook from anywhere (from your site/app/newsletter) you couldn't do that before. Everyone wants easy Amazon sales.