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Pretty sure the “such a great product” is also just PR. I had a much easier time integrating with PayPal (of course, they have other issues not related to onboarding…), Stripe does seem to be better than Visa’s abysmal onboarding though.

> No dog in the fight either here, but that's exactly what those who posted these stories recently are trying to do.

Why? Do they have nothing better to do with their time?

Maybe you can ask this person directly why they are lying:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405734

I believe if you kill the parked domain industry it will be harmful to legitimate businesses. Why? Because these domain squatters provide a valuable service - making sure domains are still purchasable by legitimate businesses, even if at a premium. Get rid of them, and people will go out and get various domains they like and might use one day (or redirect to the same spot), with no intention of selling them. More domains, not fewer, will languish.

I think what GP is trying to say is that your hiring process is within your control (especially this far in the pipeline), so even the worst candidate experience should fall above some baseline. You don't get much sympathy if you say "that baseline turns out to be absolute gobshite at the first percentile, sorry."

Sometimes a recruiter or hiring manager leaves the company halfway through the hiring process, leaving the candidate in a limbo.

It'd be funny (in a sad way, I suppose) if the same becomes true on the other side..."sorry, my online assistant just quit so my resignation at the current firm never got filed."

Just today I was reading a post that said "Stripe is a startup no one seems to hate" [0]. No matter how you cut it, that's clearly incorrect based on the discussion here. So, I fully believe this is a PR engine in motion.

[0] https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/11-big-things-the-35b-st...

It doesn't really matter who you are, you could still be a paid shill.

Or do you have some way to definitively prove that you are not on pc's payroll?

Paranoia goes both ways, and I think it's sufficient to just have the reader use their best judgement...otherwise we'll just always be in an endless spiral of "no puppet no puppet you're the puppet."

> Actually making a commercially viable indie game takes incredible amounts of time, effort, and skill-building

Only if you don't invest in luck. Flappy bird, for example.

> The older I get, the more time I have to spend rebuilding reputation whenever I enter a new company.

This is very dependent on organizational structure. Some companies re-org so often that you’re still “proving your value” several years into your job, whereas other companies will recognize a first class developer on week one just by virtue of their work.

If you want to be at/near the top though, and really have an outsized impact, it’s best to start off there. You could be the CTO of a tiny company with big potential.

Alcohol definitely does more good, just consider the uses it has aside from being ingested.

I strongly disagree. It’s true that people who do not understand how to use something basic to accomplish their goals are far behind in terms of fundamentals compared to those who do, but it’s provably false that primitive tooling is superior to modern IDEs.

Even just adding NERDTree or ctags to vim dramatically improves productivity. Repeat ad nauseam and you have the modern IDE.

The advice “get rid of the toys and learn the tools” doesn’t do much other than reveal your (subjective) bias for “toys” vs “tools”.

Funnily enough my bank very recently made me sign an agreement which precluded me from subleasing my safe deposit box. Maybe this is the next arbitrage opportunity.

> you need to disable that

Might need a bit more elaboration there. You want people to turn off 2fa?

Yep, just left a company where the contractors building out a core solution had just such an endpoint where you could get anyone's data, and worse, personal photos.

And of course, every API key and secret was just hanging out in the repo as well.

Maybe the reason these CEOs were all let go was because they were useless?

Wouldn’t that just lead to a black market? Especially in a country that loves its informal economy like India?

Since you want impractical suggestions, you might enjoy “if Hemingway wrote JavaScript”

Personally, I disagree that DRY is the same as “clean”. Clean code is merely code that has been thoughtfully structured (regardless of repetition) and is relatively transparent as to its purpose.

HN has a lot of people who seem to benefit from these types of “common sense” articles that bury the lede, judging by the fact they appear on the front page so frequently.

(Putting common sense in scare quotes to acknowledge that this is new information to some, no matter how obvious to others)

Indeed, no tasty food doesn’t imply no good (e.g. relatively nutritious) food.

Who determines that the wine is high quality? You’ve already established taste there, regardless of the wine’s taste.

You don’t know about lightsail containers? Why make a flowchart that omits one of the simpler solutions in favor of complex ones?

Agreed with the other commenters that this flowchart is not to be recommended, for this and other reasons.

> until the middle class/upper middle class realizes that our current lifestyle and access to "cheap" services is being held up by a systematically abused and underpaid labor force that isn't given the time, compensation, respect, or basic decency to support doing a good job

Everyone knows this already - though the lowest rung is occupied by the undocumented, and no one wants to help them.

Given that I know the mapping of an IP address and a physical address, I am unable to match one to the other?

I suspect you’re attacking a strawman.

How come this is a complete non-concern in other areas?

If you give anyone (say, PayPal) your address, you’ve given then your roommates’ address as well - since you share the same IP. Nobody cares, even though the third party can immediately begin identifying your roommates without harvesting their DNA, like they would in the case of 23andme.

You could suggest that this hook only be executed on a small subset of the repo to start with.

First, life isn’t all about money. Although, If you don’t enjoy what you do you, it’s probably best to find something else.

Second, people make things like this all the time (anyone remember the million dollar web page where ads sold by the pixel?) - that doesn’t necessarily mean anything for you or me. It certainly doesn’t mean we should all be endeavoring to create the next PR sensation.

Finally, be careful what you wish for.

There aren’t all that many “wonderful businesses” in the world.

But, there sure are a lot of fools parting with their money.

Makes sense - I’m well aware no one here cares about anyone else’s wellbeing (but some claims to the contrary sure are good for your image), and you can freely move that line around whenever you want to dunk on someone on Twitter or HN. That’s what life’s about.

Or maybe that’s just Twitter, on HN it’s about saying things everyone agrees with and never bringing up something difficult to respond to, so you won’t get downvoted.

If people were actually worried about inmate mental health we would do away with incarceration. Being held against your will doesn’t exactly do wonders for you - and the consequences don’t end when you’re released.

Sure, we have to “draw the line”, but isn’t that arbitrary?