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Then the singer went on to use her influence and celebrity lawyers to keep the apartment and not return the buyer's money, screwing the buyer in the process. Literally her defenses were "the buyer should've known this deal was suspect due to below the market price" and that the buyer should have asked for a health report from a psychiatrist (wtf). Not a nice old lady after all. I haven't been following the case closely, but it seems like the decision has been overturned.

Similar to Streisand Effect, there's now in Russia the term Dolina Effect [0] after this singer, referring to these "grandma schemes" where criminals direct the elderly to sell their property and then renege, relying on courts siding with them to keep the property and the money. Whatever the real story is, it's all so messed up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolina_effect

Looks like many/most of their comments are dead, probably some account-level action that was taken at some point. Vouched for the comment here to bring it back from the dead.

Almost every statement is incorrect. Your knowledge of the .NET ecosystem seems to be about ten years out of date.

You know... one of the charges leveled at Michael was creation of sockpuppet accounts in various media (Wikipedia, HN, Quora). I suppose it could be within the realm of possibility that this is another one of these, given the oddly specific example in the middle of general musings. The fact that all follow-on replies have to do with this particular incident and nothing else in the post, painting the victim in the most positive light, makes this especially questionable. If I'm wrong, I apologize and wish the OP well, but I gotta say, it looks pretty sus to this observer.

Huh, I do recall a certain anti-corporate individual (with the initials MOC) that was fairly loud and prolific on both HN and Reddit around that time, including insisting that pg and other tech leaders were trying to get him canceled (well, before the term existed, I think). If this was him, perhaps he wasn't as much of a crackpot as many assumed he was.

By an author who hadn't read the book, no less...

It's pretty clear which group she would place Elon Musk into, probably the most Randian character out there.

Yup, around 2008 is when I noticed that many of the Slashdot front page submissions were discussed on this new site called Hacker News 1-2 days prior, minus the trolling and the comedy threads. It was a pretty easy switch at that point.

Combination of https://www.hnreplies.com notifications for direct replies and checking the threads page for the nested replies.

First of all, just because you (or the author) call collaboration a bad thing doesn't make it so. Secondly, you seem to have misunderstood the process. The steps are: I will be shipping shortly, here is the direction I decided on because XYZ, if you want to react there is some limited amount of time to do so but those objections better be nontrivial. There is no waiting for permission, the path is set - yes, barring strong objections. Apparently you think it's best to leave those for after the fact, well, good luck with that.

The author talks about having a clear bias for action (a great thing!) but in the process throws the baby out with the bathwater. Without collaboration you'll end up with silos, overconfident decision-makers, and all sorts of preventable production issues, all in the name of avoiding the dirty C word. How about following the approach of pragmatism and finding a solid middle ground that achieves the best results longterm? I suppose that doesn't tell a great story in company all-hands and corporate blog posts.

On the bias for action front, one trick a previous company implemented that worked wonders was stating (in Slack, meeting, whatever): "I'm planning to do X, any strong objections?". The strong objection part generally dissuaded most lazy bike shedding, especially if paired with "do you really feel strongly about it". Of course if people do, then you have a discussion, but most of the time it's a thumbs up and off you go.

One interesting company in this space I've seen is CreativeMode - generating Minecraft mods based on a text description. Pretty brilliant use of LLM coding actually. Found out about it when my kid asked me to pay for it. Doesn't look like they ran a Show HN / Launch HN (not one I can find) despite being a YC company.

I'm in California, no issues accessing it. I'm sure it'd be front page news if Internet Archive went down.

It's hard to remember the exact details all these years later... I doubt it was due to MS-only tech, but rather that IE6/7 were tested and approved and everything else was not. The incentives for IT teams are such that it's a lot easier to say no to something than yes, and create a ton of work and liability.

I loved IE6 as as user when it came out, and grew to hate it as a developer when the browser standards moved on, but a stubborn, large-enough user base percentage had not. I blame slow-moving IT departments that refused to touch their internal environments when all the Web 2.0 progress made things new and scary. A product my team was in charge of had to support IE6 and IE7 years after the rest of the world moved on because the IT admins at Walgreens straight out refused to update the machines that the pharmacists used at their stores.

Funny enough, my wife and her parents all ended up with different variations of their last names in English when immigrating: ending in -ky, -kiy, and -kaya.

Was excited to see Ben Thompson get on the pelicans-on-bicycles bandwagon, but alas, not quite the AI bicycles he was talking about.

I'll be honest, this reads very much AI-generated.

Please stop posting ads for your product. There are ways to do it (Show HN) and this is not it.

If you want to work 996 and that is what makes you feel self-actualized - by all means, go for it, nobody is stopping you. May even allow you to get ahead of the pack (or maybe the quality of your work will suffer in your overworked state - big gamble!).

For me, the big problem in your post is the "996 culture". That means the expectation is that everyone is pushing forward with a similar intensity. Now, perhaps you were talking specifically about individual efforts given your examples of artist and self-employed, but when I think about culture, I think about groups of people, and in that context 996 is problematic.

It only provides work-life balance if there is not much of a "life" to balance, where taking a break once in a while is fulfilling enough. Maaaaaybe this can work in your early 20s, but it basically removes anyone with kids, hobbies, outside interests and responsibilities, and really, anyone with life experience out of the equation. It is a highly exploitative culture, sold under the guise of camaraderie, when anyone who has gone through one or more hype cycles can tell that the majority of these startups will fold with nothing to show for them other than overworked, cynical individuals and another level of normalization of exploitative practices.

Now I'm really curious what kind of answers you're getting. If literally nothing, sounds like this is a great filter (but also makes me wonder what kind of candidates you're choosing to talk to).

Not much to go on here... do you recall anything at all about the content or subject matter?

Google is usually pretty on top of fast-changing sources like HN. My mind was blown more when I saw that ChatGPT seemed to ingest and regurgitate an HN comment of mine as an answer within 10-15 minutes of my posting (see the thread in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649774). Sadly this is no longer verifiable as the answer does not match my comment, but at least it correctly answers the original request, which it did not prior to my response.

Entered the marketing text from the home page into the textbox ("Validate your idea before you build it. Get AI-driven market validation in seconds. Analyze demand across social platforms with actionable insights."), received a 75/100 score with a $10B TAM. I guess we'll see how valid this validator is soon enough.

Facebook still uses Mercurial for their monorepo, as far as I know. I suspect GitHub is the reason git ultimately won. It became the easy default choice compared to the decision making involved with setting up local version control. For the record, last time I had to make that choice for my team pre-GitHub, I went with hg.

I think tattoos on mummies have been known for a while, though these do look very artistic. The thing that surprised me the most, oddly, is this throwaway sentence:

The team worked with researcher Daniel Riday who reproduces ancient tattoo designs on his body using historical methods.

Now that's dedication to research!

Our family did this recently as well at teamLab Planets in Tokyo. I filled out a circular template with a very creepy looking "smiley" face. The template turned out to be for raindrops. I couldn't stop giggling when hundreds of my monstrous creations filled the room, it was very fun.

Please keep broetry[0] on LinkedIn, let's try to stick to human-like communication here.

[0] https://www.fenwick.media/all-blog-posts/mastery/broetry-dea...

This is a fantastic summary and the only thing I would add is that FDB was publicly available only for a year and a half before Apple bought and close sourced it. There was simply not enough runway for the hype to develop. By the time it was open sourced again four years later, the world had moved on and FDB was something of a curiosity from the past, a what-could-have-been story.

Posted about this in the past, but what really got FoundationDB on my radar was a demo at a developer conference, back in 2014-ish. They had the database running across a bunch of machines, with a visual showing their health and data distribution. One team member would then be turning machines on and off (or maybe unplugging them from the network) and you could see FDB effortlessly rebalancing the data across the available nodes. It was a very striking, impressive presentation (especially as we were dealing with the challenges of distributed Cassandra at the time).

The beginning of this video has some of that: https://youtu.be/Nrb3LN7X1Pg