Hacker News: ConradKilroy

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Fuck Nuance (2015)"

ConradKilroy — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:09:11 +0000

thank you for posting this!

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles"

ConradKilroy — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:24:46 +0000

@vfxGer, Thank you so much for including # of Employees!!! Its so undervalued.

Backstory: At my jobsite, there was an amazing seminar called the 'One Day MBA' taught by Prof Noah Barsky from Villanova University; an Saturday 8 hr intense lifehack/bootcamp on how to properly read and analyze required SEC 10-K filings of major companies. He boiled it down for technical folks. https://ims-online.com/outline/ONE-DAY-MBA-Mastering-the-Fun...

The most insightful thing, Barsky intentionally brought up a depressing metric: [Market Cap / # of Employees] = 'Avg value of each employee') (or for the more anal folks, [Annual Revenue / # of Employees] = 'Avg value each employee brings in, whatever floats your boat'.)

Sad fact! Contrast that with your current salary and you'll immediately realize how terribly under paid you are as a worker drone...

Also, Barsky explained you want to invest in companies with trending high 'net income' and high 'Avg value of each employee'.

And that's what Karl Marx tried to explain to the public, but we are not ready to have that revealing conversation...

Back to the beginning, again, thank you for including 'per employee value'. I would love to discuss and collab with you more on this.

Lastly, thank you for https://bigwhalehunting.com/graph/, graphing the incestuous nature of board of directors.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements"

ConradKilroy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:59:58 +0000

wow, I've learned so much from your post, owe you big time!

New comment by ConradKilroy in "First 2D, non-silicon computer developed"

ConradKilroy — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 06:30:56 +0000

I was wondering that too!

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

ConradKilroy — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:36:56 +0000

Oh Wow, I wonder if this experiment would yield similar results outside San Francisco, hmmm?

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types"

ConradKilroy — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:09:58 +0000

I fondly remember trying to angel invest in BioPure, thank you for the flashback!

New comment by ConradKilroy in "California Nominates Steve Jobs for Its American Innovation $1 Coin"

ConradKilroy — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:02:03 +0000

Thank you for referencing his idiot behavior leading to his own demise, I hope that will be on his coin.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "CS Career fair cancelled at community college because no companies reached out"

ConradKilroy — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:08:24 +0000

Thank you for stating this. Its annoying to hear free education = bad in all subtle forms.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract"

ConradKilroy — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:43:50 +0000

Wonderful.

“Look at data about use, costs, and find allies across your campus who care about issues of equity and openness,” Bourg said. “This is both the right thing to do in terms of our values with public engagement and the right thing to do from an economic point of view.” - Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries at MIT.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Uniqueness Bias: Why it matters, how to curb it"

ConradKilroy — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:47:50 +0000

Related: At the national scale, 'American Exceptionalism'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

New comment by ConradKilroy in "WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics"

ConradKilroy — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:20:19 +0000

fancy and interesting, thx for sharing.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Org Debt"

ConradKilroy — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:40:34 +0000

2 points of brilliant insight:

-"Instead of code and interfaces, we have processes and expectations. (By hiring career engineering managers, industry norms are imported. Firing a low performer may be a quick solution to a bigger underlying problem, deferred for the next manager.")

-This year, Meta laid off all their engineering managers that don’t code. It’s the same move that Google pulled 20 years ago, spawning Maps, Chrome and Gmail.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Seinfeld Transcripts"

ConradKilroy — Sat, 13 May 2023 07:22:51 +0000

Coupling >> Seinfeld I cannot agree more.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "D. B. Cooper"

ConradKilroy — Sat, 06 May 2023 09:35:57 +0000

In some alternate reality, D.B. Cooper became the Unabomber.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Brandolini's Law"

ConradKilroy — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 05:56:41 +0000

I first learned about it in 2021 from this badass eloquent education explainer on TikTok, @CapWithoutaCountry.

#BradolinisLaw https://www.tiktok.com/@capwithoutacountry/video/70004626474...

New comment by ConradKilroy in "‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman lied about his lifetime of lies"

ConradKilroy — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 07:33:01 +0000

I read somewhere that Frank Abagnale Jr. is the father of The Barefoot Bandit (Colton Harris Moore) & US Rep George Santos...

Fraud runs in the family.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Tell HN: GitHub does not allow to remove the payment method"

ConradKilroy — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 03:09:25 +0000

Yep I second that, use Privacy.com (free!) to issue a virtual credit card. I use it all the time to secure all my online transactions.

New comment by ConradKilroy in "What Are 'Dark Factories,' and Do They Exist?"

ConradKilroy — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:44:52 +0000

@px43,

New comment by ConradKilroy in "Fireship – Learn to Code Faster"

ConradKilroy — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:13:23 +0000

I concur, their yt channel of 100s video series is succinct.

Bezos Academy, free Montessori experiment, overhead expense ~$97.2k per student

ConradKilroy — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:50:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/former-amazon-executive-paid-to-run-jeff-bezos-preschool-network-2022-12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33858306

Points: 4

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