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For agents in the wrong country at the time of the announcement, it may just condemn them to torture or death.

Let’s say Russia releases the names and pictures of 100 active CIA agents who they uncovered as having done their country harm but are now active in other countries and out of their reach. It’s the truth, now what are your thoughts?

This feels like a strawman...I’m sure a seasoned team of GraphQL devs could getting something running faster then a team of veteran devs who are trying to use Drupal but have no experience.

I find it interesting that people equate/equated Elon Musk with Tony Stark. Years in the future, I think there’s a good chance people will look back and instead recognize him as an incredibly talented salesperson.

I like this analogy.

But to extend it, consider this. The refactoring dev can’t help but climb every single mountain they see. The product focused dev decides instead they want to climb Everest.

You drop them both in a mountain range in the US. The refactoring dev starts climbing. The product focused dev decides to hop a plane and fly directly to Everest.

Taking a step back from the analogy, not everything is worth refactoring. How much will that code change over time? And what’s the opportunity cost of doing the refactor?

Why do you assume that companies will decide remote work is suboptimal and will go back to in-office work?

Are you thinking of Wechat? Whatsapp is run by Facebook.

Anecdotally, I’ve never heard of this person until today (despite having heard of the company). I’d guess I’m not alone.

FWIW, I fed this into AIDungeon (running on OpenAI) and got this back: “The bottle is definitely lighter than the pack because you can throw it much further away than you can carry the pack. You continue on into the night and come to an intersection.”

I’m not a moderator by any means, but off-topic, low effort comments like these make HN a more annoying place to read through. You likely have seen some of this noise on reddit, please don’t bring it here.

For universal dark mode, try this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

Their series D was in 2016, so the options would probably be underwater.

Can you share the space your app was in out of curiosity?

Yeah, this is exactly right. I put up something on Github awhile back that compares different approaches in more detail, if anyone's interested: https://github.com/jiaweihli/git-workflow-strategies-example

Building a solution in search of a problem might be the classic engineering pitfall, but reading the title made me think about the flip side of that.

Is finding problems in search of a solution the classic PM pitfall? I’ve seen more than a few products suffer from feature bloat and inevitably collapse under a lack of design and UX cohesiveness.

I can’t say I’ve reached product sense zen, but I imagine it lies somewhere in between these 2 extremes. Meaning, being okay with ‘finishing’ products, but having the intuition to find and work on the next high-impact product.

Not to diminish your experience, but I would infinitely have preferred moving abroad vs. bouncing around domestically. Doing so gives you a free pass in some ways, since it’s expected that there’ll be some element of friction for you as you adjust to the culture shift.

If you have friends who immigrated at a young age, I highly recommend talking to them about the experience of returning back to their birth countries (if they’ve done so). Especially for those who no longer speak the language, it’s often a reverse culture shock.

My roommate at the time and I had just started at our first jobs fresh out of school.

The first thing he bought after he got paid was an extremely nice office chair, soon followed by a nice desk.

I didn't quite catch on until 5 years later, but I can attest to being blessed with near 0 back pain so far. (Fingers crossed.)

Doesn't this already exist in Google Maps and/or Waze?

I highly recommend against using web components. Polymer has failed to take off in the past 3/4 years, and there are performance issues across browsers.

Subjectively, I didn’t find the API all that great either.

It'll be interesting to see how this'll affect startups down the line. If employees aren't cashing out in a reasonable amount of time (or at all), will the majority of startups suffer a brain drain of top talent? Will startups need to come up with a new way of compensation beyond just equity?

They're a B2B company, and they're still selling to their primary market - Chinese businesses - via advertising.

I didn't imply anything about the central government. I was responding to your assertion that "you would do what Google has done and completely remove yourself from China." I don't think Google is the saint you make them out to be if they're making billions of dollars from Chinese sources.

Google has always been a B2B company - their revenue comes from businesses. Even if Google the search engine were running in China, where would the revenue be coming from? Still Chinese businesses. I don't think it's relevant whether the spending is domestic or international in nature.

Yes, this is pretty well known.

What's not well known is that Google still operates in China and makes billions [0] off advertising there. So Google has hardly 'pulled out of China' despite not running a search engine. At this point, they wouldn't succeed even if they tried - so it's more an excuse than anything else that they don't _want_ to operate Google the search engine there.

[0] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-ad-sales-fro...

Google operates in China: https://careers.google.com/locations/shanghai/

Can someone explain how rent control works? It seems like it only benefits long-lived tenants. In the Bay Area, every apartment I’ve signed with advertises a “1 month off” deal or some equivalent. That guarantees them the option of at least a 9% increase in rent the second year.

One thing I’ve gotten better at over the years is identifying the viability of off-the-shelf tools early on. If you minimize subpar tooling at the source, you can mitigate long-term frustration down the line.

IIRC next version of iOS is adding in automatic stripping of these when sharing. If not iOS, some other big player.

Is it possible this is a hardware-related issue?

They do back them up pretty well...but the queue to get serviced is extremely long. Or so I’ve heard.

As a counterpoint to this, I don't get much enjoyment out of games anymore.

You mentioned Dark Souls. A friend suggested I try out Sekiro, a new game by the same studio. There's a mandatory element of stealth, which is a genre I've never found terribly attractive. You die, you learn/memorize a little more, repeat. At then end of it you successfully accomplish something, like defeating a boss. But what did it mean? Were you skilled enough to run through it on your first try? (Probably not.) Is there replay value? Again, probably not - once you've learned the movement and attack patterns there's only so much variation that can happen. So you might've spent quite awhile memorizing something which doesn't improve your experience in the same game, much less other games.

Other factors that have turned me off: heavy randomness, in-app purchases, generic fetch missions.

I find myself more drawn to the rare unicorn that has a good story, or really is revolutionary in terms of gameplay. I can also appreciate online games to some extent - you gain extreme mastery in something, but it's a skill that you need to use in fresh, changing conditions. If you improve far enough, you might start playing against the best players, requiring you to predict multiple moves ahead like chess. In most games, this is impossible for AIs to reach.