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angryasian··on Snap is ordering employees back to the office 4 days a week
it was a great loss to a lot of things. people's personal mental heath, family time, ability to move to areas with affordable housing, a dissemination of people & money to states that need diversity, overall its a big loss
angryasian··on Ask HN: Why do startups avoid Java?
>allows A level talent to maximize their time delivering value

A level talent is a bottleneck as they will move on for better opportunities. I wouldn't focus my company around that either.

angryasian··on Tell HN: As a dev, Slack has ruined my life
search assumes you know what you're looking for. Its fine but I find it also hit or miss
angryasian··on Tell HN: As a dev, Slack has ruined my life
Big companies, not all stakeholders are always known. sometimes they are notifying the wrong stakeholder. Its hit or miss I find.
angryasian··on Tell HN: As a dev, Slack has ruined my life
the problem with search, is that its assuming you know what you want to look for.. which always isn't the case.
angryasian··on Ask HN: What do you use for a personal database?
not too sound dismissive, but one of the great things about obsidian is their ecosystem of plugins. I don't think this really rivals obsidian
angryasian··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster?
I think its so naive for anyone to think that this problem won't exist within the same rules that are currently set for any company.

As long as there is an arbitrage opportunity and its incredibly profitable this will always exist. Tickets are priced too low, and there are very sophisticated companies who's only purpose is to buy and resell. This was SeatGeek's original premise to optimize when to sell and buy.

I'm not really even sure what the complaints are... yes theres limited quantity and incredible demand. The only real solution is you limit who can buy by price or exclusivity.

angryasian··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster?
Thats what these presales were. They were limited to Taylor Swift fans that essentially were entered in a lottery
angryasian··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster?
thats the reality, Taylor Swift tickets would probably be priced at $1k a ticket and would still sell out
angryasian··on Ask HN: What do you use for a personal database?
Obsidian is by far the best solution and the one I've actually stuck to the most. Markdown, great plugins and all local files.
angryasian··on Tell HN: As a dev, Slack has ruined my life
I absolutely hate Slack. I imagine every organization is like this.

- theres no way everyone can follow everything going on in multiple channels. This makes it almost bs. Theres way too much noise and is overwhelming

- Theres too much lost information in channels and conversation threads etc. At least in email things are somewhat more permanent. As the channels go and more and more people are typing, so much context is lost, and unless you're following the thread you don't know whats going on and people just skip it most of the time.

- On top of that slack threads are lost forever in time unless pinned. The conversation rarely gets translated in to wiki or email or whatever so decisions are sometimes made and forgotten.

Overall I think these are solvable problems but requires a very opinionated way to work or creative solution ( a la google wave, yes it was an awesome tool ).

angryasian··on I make $8k/year sending cheap flight alert emails
Tiger Global would be in a very close running for biggest losses

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonkochkodin/2022/11/08/mor...

angryasian··on Ask HN: Why do startups avoid Java?
you named 4 different languages that are specialized for certain areas or you can just find a team of java devs that accomplish all of that in one language.

>Java was a mediocre language made primarily to be optimized for midsized companies and aimed to be learnable by mid level engineers

This is exactly what a startup should be optimizing for. cheap labor that can use a single language that can move fast enough to push product. When they all leave another group can step right in and continue the work

angryasian··on Ask HN: Why do startups avoid Java?
Simpler is very subjective. Java is a good language for large enterprises is because its so standardized. Almost anyone at various levels can pretty much pick up and start contributing.

Python, has so much syntactical sugar that it can get really messy.

angryasian··on Ask HN: Why do startups avoid Java?
>They typically don't build as much as they just hook shit together with Spring.

>They're big and they have a lot of money, so they usually prefer slow, complex, and consistent over rapid development dice rolls.

These two statements seem contradictory to me. The entire point of using Spring is to be able to not worry about the cumbersome and gain efficiencies in development. Spring is no different than rails, a framework thats highly regarded for fast development

angryasian··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
we had a solution the fairness doctrine. This problem wasn't as bad until it was abolished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
angryasian··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
yes if you follow the news, theres definitely a group within congress that wants to end support to Ukraine.
angryasian··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
They aren't doing anything against the law. The information they collect is what any mobile app can collect.
angryasian··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
The biggest threat to this country are white nationalists as stated by the FBI not tiktok. this is all a side show to say look over there -> look at the bad guys.
angryasian··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
JFC everyone is so worried about China, stop the propaganda and division within our own country first. Fox news, InfoWars.. etc, its tearing apart our country and has nothing to do with China, and everything to do with how our own social media and companies use propaganda to destabilize the US.
angryasian··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
you're seriously going to ignore what Facebook and Cambridge Analytica was able to accomplish within our own borders to divide our country. Fox news, etc.. are all propaganda tools.
angryasian··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
and thats different from other mobile apps how ?
angryasian··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
Yeah because the US govt isn't compromised by Russians, and politcians on their payroll. Lets just ignore the capabilities of Cambridge analytica and how they are able to persuade the mass population with psy ops. I feel like I'm in crazy world right now
angryasian··on ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
nothing any different than any other social media app collect. this is all just FUD
angryasian··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
ad blocking is fundamentally fine. Brave's entire business model is around stealing from content creators.
angryasian··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
you don't profit off of ad blocking. Brave's entire business model is around stealing from content creators.
angryasian··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
you don't profit off of ad blocking. Brave's entire business model is around stealing from content creators.
angryasian··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
yes profiteering company stealing ad revenue by utilizing open sources extensions to an open source browser... this seems like the new HN crowd would like this because BAT pffft
angryasian··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
no one is paying bills with BAT
angryasian··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
>Ad blocking by itself is arguably leeching

Yes but we are not profiting from stealing ad revenue from content creators.

>I'm pretty sure having new tab ads and push notification ads does not leech off websites.

You wouldn't be using a browser to access content, and give them a reason to show you ads.

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