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New comment by asdf6969 in "Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable"

asdf6969 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:31:08 +0000

What if the restaurant followed you with a drone and took pictures of everything you ate in public for a month?

New comment by asdf6969 in "Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable"

asdf6969 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:39:54 +0000

This is ok to you? You’re a creep. Maybe you’re the guy in this article

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-jarry-park-...

New comment by asdf6969 in "Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable"

asdf6969 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:05:27 +0000

Why do people walk down the street if they don’t want me to follow them with a drone?

New comment by asdf6969 in "The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous"

asdf6969 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:11:14 +0000

Maybe you’re just smarter than me or you’re applying for different jobs. I don’t really care about your interview process. I just need a few months of practice so I can perform LC hards in 20 minutes to achieve my goals

New comment by asdf6969 in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

asdf6969 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 02:44:38 +0000

1000x revenue not 1000x developer productivity is possible sometimes. There are lots of jobs where developers also decide on the roadmap and requirements along with the execution instead of just being ticket monkey and a good idea executed well could easily be worth 1000x changing button colours and adding pagination to an API

New comment by asdf6969 in "The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous"

asdf6969 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:26:28 +0000

Have you interviewed since 2015?

New comment by asdf6969 in "Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford"

asdf6969 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:23:52 +0000

What percentage of people live in a rental? All rentals were at some point bought by investors. Unless they’re a much smaller volume of total sales (held longer?) then it seems ok even though the number sounds alarming

New comment by asdf6969 in "The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous"

asdf6969 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:10:51 +0000

The part where I have to rehearse solving ridiculous problems for a few weeks in my free time so I can perform them to the interviewer and then never use the skills again. It’s typically 2 medium/hard problems solved optimally in 20 minutes each with no errors if I want to beat the competition.

New comment by asdf6969 in "Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market"

asdf6969 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:33:59 +0000

That would make my own world worse

New comment by asdf6969 in "Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable"

asdf6969 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:33:19 +0000

Maybe I’ll start taking pictures of the owners kids playing in the yard so I can establish a better relationship with the business and get better service.

New comment by asdf6969 in "Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market"

asdf6969 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:08:16 +0000

Everyone hates calling and apps give customers a list of restaurants with menus to browse. Restaurants also do all of their in-restaurant management with software (why not paper? ask them idk) which I assume has some integration with the app.

I can imagine some type of open protocol that lets them self-host an order service though, or at least an open solution that’s hosted by many providers and many separate apps. That would be nice for everyone

New comment by asdf6969 in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

asdf6969 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:33:00 +0000

Can someone explain how this works financially for the acquihired? I know they aren’t joining like a regular employee with a high TC. Does Google offer them a giant multi-million (billion?) dollar signing bonus? Why would they tank the value of the company they own just to be another employee at Google?

New comment by asdf6969 in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

asdf6969 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:21:18 +0000

He didn’t answer because he didn’t even read your comment. Likely a bot

New comment by asdf6969 in "LLMs should not replace therapists"

asdf6969 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:35:49 +0000

So they just follow instructions from a book? Why can’t an LLM do that? Advice is so situational that I just don’t really believe a therapist would ever understand most of their clients problems. If you’re having a hard time understanding my perspective, imagine a white American therapist giving an Indian American immigrant advice on how to deal with family issues. They will probably never deeply understand the situation.

New comment by asdf6969 in "What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate"

asdf6969 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:09:44 +0000

It’s not reading. Consuming is a better way to put it. Just like how the radio is not a newspaper and twitch streams aren’t gaming.

You get a very different experience with text compared to audio and it changes how the book is written. You can tell the author was trying to make an audio book. Like how TV TV and Netflix TV are very different because they have to conform to their format. The best written books are often ones where I find myself slowing down, rereading, or doing research in the middle and none of this is possible if my hands are occupied.

New comment by asdf6969 in "What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate"

asdf6969 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:13:29 +0000

It’s not really good. It feels like the author was just trying to recreate the Martian and it was only written to be turned into a movie. It’s a book for people who don’t usually read. Everyone just talks about the audio book

New comment by asdf6969 in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

asdf6969 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:09:03 +0000

Salaried positions are explicitly not selling time. Whether I work 2 or 12 hours the compensation is the same. The only reason these contracts make sense is the unstated agreement that my employer won’t abuse the contractual power they theoretically have. And what’s the alternative? Signing bad contracts and leaving when things go to shit is probably 10x better for my career than pretending that I have agency in contract negotiations

New comment by asdf6969 in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

asdf6969 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:05:14 +0000

In my experience I have no leverage and the contract is too vague to mean anything. The contract I signed says my job conditions and work hours are subject to change at any time. I understand I took a risk, but things were fine for years before they wanted me to start being available 24/7 or work late into the night. In environments like this the only sane thing to do is reluctantly accept the terms of the contract and push as many boundaries as I can.

Just because the employer pays me and I signed a contract doesn’t mean I can’t complain or push back. Do you think I should also dance like a Walmart employee in the morning if my employer tells me to? The contract I signed says yes but in reality it doesn’t matter

New comment by asdf6969 in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

asdf6969 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:52:50 +0000

There aren’t formal part time positions but there’s a lot of jobs that only occupy half your full time and don’t ask questions when you disappear for a few hours

New comment by asdf6969 in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

asdf6969 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:49:51 +0000

Not true or else leetcode would be gone. They made a lot of money off the old paradigm and somebody will certainly take advantage of whatever comes next