Hacker News: curiousDog

New comment by curiousDog in "A Letter to the American People"

curiousDog — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:35:09 +0000

All of this seems like deliberate destruction of America from the inside out by an ayn-rand worshipping, billionaire afrikaaner cabal (David Sacks, Elon Musk, roelof botha etc). Thoughtless and mindless cuts

New comment by curiousDog in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

curiousDog — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 04:31:30 +0000

Utter incompetence from senior leadership at Netflix. They had so much time to prepare for this.

New comment by curiousDog in "Show HN: I built a serverless data API builder – no storage, low latency"

curiousDog — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:01:43 +0000

To be honest, it's really hard to understand what Fleak does. For a minute, I thought it's a low-code way of deploying microservices/API endpoints. Maybe one end to end use case would help

New comment by curiousDog in "The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins"

curiousDog — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:31:50 +0000

I propose line managers be on-call 3-4 days a week so they continue to get that high and actually be useful :-)

New comment by curiousDog in "A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing"

curiousDog — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:07:52 +0000

I mean it's not like they're claiming to be Gartner..who by the way, gasp, do paid marketing for "fair" rankings.

New comment by curiousDog in ""3 Body Problem" Is a Rare Species of Sci-Fi Epic"

curiousDog — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:34:32 +0000

Such an amazing show and kudos to Netflix!

New comment by curiousDog in "Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up"

curiousDog — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 03:13:27 +0000

It's likely you're sharing it across households/relatives. Not sure I'd go to such lengths for something that costs as much as a Chipotle burrito tbh

New comment by curiousDog in "Netflix Plans to Cut Spending by $300M in 2023"

curiousDog — Fri, 12 May 2023 23:53:19 +0000

Disagree, total content spend the last 4 years has been ~18bn/year compared to ~500m/yr on all employee R&D. That's shows there's a content quality problem not a content underinvestment.

New comment by curiousDog in "Netflix Plans to Cut Spending by $300M in 2023"

curiousDog — Fri, 12 May 2023 22:26:05 +0000

Describing engineers as "fat and happy" is really derogatory. Their spend on tech employees is a tiny fraction of total content spend. Also, an even tinier fraction of what they spend on services like AWS. If they want to cut costs, there's a ton more low hanging fruit than letting people go. In fact, revenue per employee is the highest compared to other FAANG

New comment by curiousDog in "‘Dilbert’ dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonist’s racist rant"

curiousDog — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 04:07:22 +0000

Is this the right way to expose that hypocrisy though? If his goal was to truly bring society together and eradicate hate, I'm sure someone as smart as Adams could expose it in a more amicable and less polarizing way.

New comment by curiousDog in "Google asks some employees to share desks amid office downsizing"

curiousDog — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:11:48 +0000

How quickly the tide turns in our industry..from massages at your desk to sitting on each other's laps. Hey they could perhaps still continue the massage to each other though.

New comment by curiousDog in "Does your office have a library?"

curiousDog — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:55:58 +0000

Microsoft HQ has an awesome library. Every big tech should have such a space for some quiet reading

New comment by curiousDog in "Tell HN: From $200/mo to $18k in 5 years as solo founder"

curiousDog — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:21:45 +0000

How and where did you learn your designing skills? Would love to learn.

New comment by curiousDog in "Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal"

curiousDog — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:41:49 +0000

Not to digress but substack bas gotten quite annoying on mobile. Have to scroll through so much irrelevant BS to just get to the article, what the hell.

New comment by curiousDog in "Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies"

curiousDog — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:09:41 +0000

that's the definition of a strawman.

New comment by curiousDog in "Memory leaks detection paper co-authored by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in 1992 [pdf]"

curiousDog — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 01:36:15 +0000

Having met him before, his clarity of thought just comes across in this paper as well. Some people are just wired with that talent that makes me so jealous. Reed is one of those people with high EQ and IQ (with the ability of handle his inner Elon diplomatically)

New comment by curiousDog in "Ask HN: How to work with people who push back forcefully?"

curiousDog — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:56:07 +0000

After seeing great folks laid off from FANG, i would also question if you should care so much about these things. IMO, us SWEs tend to care so much about writing idiomatic code for corporate overlords when in reality the effects of mildly sloppy code won’t be realized for a decade, it’s okay to leave it to the next poor soul that has to deal with it 10yrs down the lane and just enjoy your weekend :-)

New comment by curiousDog in "Netflix Gains 2.4M New Subscribers, Reversing Trend"

curiousDog — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:07:43 +0000

Netflix has been in business for 25years now and competing with Amazon prime for close to ~12 years.. Of course on a long enough timeline survival zero yada yada..

New comment by curiousDog in "Cassandra at Apple: 1000s of Clusters, 300k Nodes, 100 PB"

curiousDog — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:39:01 +0000

And not to mention, for 90% of the use cases out there Postgres or MySql on aurora or whatever will be more than enough

New comment by curiousDog in "From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate"

curiousDog — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 20:27:18 +0000

Hey Peter Gibbons already did this. Time to burn the whole damn warehouse down, Milton.