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New comment by darrenoc in "The man who killed Google Search?"

darrenoc — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 05:50:45 +0000

Exactly. The main way to get promoted at Google is to claim that you launched something important. Results in a lot of busywork and misaligned incentives.

New comment by darrenoc in "The man who killed Google Search?"

darrenoc — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 05:49:14 +0000

That amazing internal knowledge graph you're talking about folks on the outside never seeing? That is very ironic because that knowledge graph used to be Freebase.com and a lot of the data came from the open data community who volunteered their efforts and expertise. Then Google bought Metaweb and shut down Freebase.

New comment by darrenoc in "PathQuery, Google's Graph Query Language"

darrenoc — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:52:38 +0000

I think it's far from a fad, the adoption of the semantic web has been enormous in the past 5 years. Almost every major tech company (and many financial institutions) now have their own Knowledge Graph team.

New comment by darrenoc in "Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project"

darrenoc — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:50:08 +0000

There's no mention of any NDA, you've just constructed it as a straw man.

New comment by darrenoc in "Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project"

darrenoc — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 17:29:17 +0000

Why are you reading and replying to the comments when you haven't read the article? You've come at this with a terrible take by inventing a non-existent NDA that would exonerate the CEO. Why bother?

New comment by darrenoc in "Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Vanishes"

darrenoc — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 02:23:25 +0000

His car was found abandoned with the engine running. He was murdered.

New comment by darrenoc in "Sid Meier: More Than Just Civilization"

darrenoc — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:05:14 +0000

I'm not sure if he designed the game as such, but it's widely reported that it was Sids last project before his departure from Microprose.

It's still a cult classic among MTG fans for the novel RPG aspects.

New comment by darrenoc in "Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged"

darrenoc — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:10:27 +0000

This is harmful racial stereotyping. Most of the hardest workers I know are Indian.

New comment by darrenoc in "54% of San Francisco homes are in buildings that would be illegal to build today"

darrenoc — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:43:09 +0000

That's a ridiculous expectation for a city. Urban housing needs to be dense. The kind of housing you're describing belongs in the suburbs.

New comment by darrenoc in "A solo journey to $100k in sales"

darrenoc — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:01:57 +0000

There is a large contingent on HN who are both rich and cheap, so I don't think this holds any water

New comment by darrenoc in "With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux"

darrenoc — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:42:46 +0000

I don't know why you're up in arms about this, but it's clearly not false. Almost all of the games content is PvE based. The PvP mode is very small in scope compared to everything else that's available.

New comment by darrenoc in "Watch live: Zuckerberg, Dorsey testify before Senate [video]"

darrenoc — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:58:36 +0000

Oh dear, there's no way anyone can be that stupid is there?

New comment by darrenoc in "Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app"

darrenoc — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:22:24 +0000

It may be reasonable, but it's very poor optics. It makes it seem like they are trying to coverup any possible COVID exposures within the force.

New comment by darrenoc in "Barbados introduces plan to allow visitors to work remotely there for a year"

darrenoc — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 09:24:09 +0000

If you're not a US citizen, you won't have to pay income at all due to tax residency rules. only the US is brazen enough to charge non-resident citizens income tax

New comment by darrenoc in "Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government"

darrenoc — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:32:41 +0000

This is a bit like when they cancelled the Rotherhithe walking & cycling bridge because it was allegedly going to cost 400 million. Powerful establishment lobbying groups ensure that government estimates for green projects make them seem unaffordable.

New comment by darrenoc in "UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of trips"

darrenoc — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:34:14 +0000

It's noteworthy that Deliveroo is already doing the kind of vertical integration you describe, it's called "Deliveroo Editions"

New comment by darrenoc in "Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned"

darrenoc — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:51:38 +0000

The thinly veiled subtext is that the place they are required to pay it is nowhere.

New comment by darrenoc in "Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned"

darrenoc — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:51:05 +0000

This is a disgraceful verdict for the Irish people. We laid ourselves bare as a tax haven for MegaCorps, and now we're not even seeing the benefits.

New comment by darrenoc in "Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps can charge restaurants"

darrenoc — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:34:28 +0000

Nope, they don't make any profit even when charging 30% fees. So this 10% cap will probably cause them to withdraw from the market.

New comment by darrenoc in "Bye, Amazon"

darrenoc — Mon, 04 May 2020 18:09:59 +0000

It's not that complicated. If you look up Ocado, they have entirely automated their warehouses.