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Will i18n ever know peace?

I'm wondering how Microsoft is responding to this. Do they expect their current Excel dominance to continue despite competitors constantly catching up to feature parity and even extra goodies, like this one?

I wonder if the hn gods will change the title from "Why supporting Kotlin is genius move for Android" to something less sensationalist. Maybe not, as it's being posted by Steven Levy himself.

I don't think internet reputation effects are enough at this stage. The SEC's fear of everyman investors getting taken advantage of appear well-founded. Just yesterday Kickstarter started a program aimed at addressing the provenance of high profile flops that were funded and then skimmed: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/18/kickstarter-launches-tools...

Definitely seconded. They also have an excellent pamphlet with the evidence-based advice on how to be successful at whatever job you have, including advice both general to life and specific to work: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-be-successful/

You can see it in the many comments claiming that working at an ordinary day job or donating your income to charity is akin to the social good asked for by OP. It's a failure of imagination to assume that you can do more good for the world as programmer #9001 at Facebook who donates some of his income to effective altruism than as a programmer who adds all of her value to some other cause. A good programmer making 100k contributes far more than 100k value to the company she works at, so why not find a charity to which she can contribute similarly?

With how many questionable practices Uber is guilty of partaking in, I wouldn't be surprised if attempting to manipulate Hacker News was one of them.