Hacker News: faangiq

New comment by faangiq in "Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time"

faangiq — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:01:35 +0000

Is generating valid json nontrivial?

New comment by faangiq in "Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative"

faangiq — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:33:09 +0000

>where pagers from 12am to 5am were guaranteed, and you'd have to dig through thousands of lines of someone else’s SQL

Jfl … can’t find the words …

New comment by faangiq in "Webvan: The dotcom bubble’s biggest bust"

faangiq — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:31:20 +0000

They should have just raised a series J.

New comment by faangiq in "Ask HN: Do developers have positive experiences with Scrum?"

faangiq — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:42:16 +0000

Agile/Scrum/etc are not meant to be positive for developers. They are meant to control developers.

New comment by faangiq in "The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity"

faangiq — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:10:56 +0000

Yes this is well known.

Don’t forget it’s also in the interest of middle managers to lower the productivity of the people at work, who actually add value as well. This decreases the productivity gap and helps to not expose how useless they are.

New comment by faangiq in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

faangiq — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 06:15:07 +0000

He’s a standard FAANG manager. Failing on upppp …

New comment by faangiq in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

faangiq — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 06:13:01 +0000

Why not ask him what a bit is?

This is a low IQ question.

New comment by faangiq in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

faangiq — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 06:06:33 +0000

“FAANG exec” … today in middle managers learn real business is hard …

New comment by faangiq in "Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering"

faangiq — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 02:10:47 +0000

We all know where this is heading. Just let him go already.

New comment by faangiq in "Tell HN: 6 months after the NYT acquisition, Wordle has started showing ads"

faangiq — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:02:55 +0000

Paywall in 3… 2…

New comment by faangiq in "Show HN: Tarot Arcana—AI tarot card readings"

faangiq — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:20:49 +0000

Crashes a lot

New comment by faangiq in "The most difficult thing about working in the big tech is managers"

faangiq — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 19:16:17 +0000

FAANG exclusively hires low to midwit IQ managers. Just deal with it.

New comment by faangiq in "Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work"

faangiq — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:53:17 +0000

Yep 100%. Get those wageslaves back in our buildings buying our overpriced sandwiches.

New comment by faangiq in "Ask HN: What are some reasonable black swan tech predictions for 2023?"

faangiq — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:31:19 +0000

AI ends up being a total scam, everyone conveniently forgets how much they hyped it.

New comment by faangiq in "Ask HN: What problems do you have?"

faangiq — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 02:00:36 +0000

Too many low IQ humans.

New comment by faangiq in "Ask HN: Why aren't more UK companies offering WFH friendly jobs?"

faangiq — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:27:34 +0000

It’s a jobs program for middle managers.

New comment by faangiq in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging"

faangiq — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:26:00 +0000

Remember- this is by design.

New comment by faangiq in "Ask HN: Do electrical engineering majors work harder than CS majors?"

faangiq — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 05:11:46 +0000

CS is quite trivial.

New comment by faangiq in "Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results"

faangiq — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 04:16:38 +0000

Is BERT the ultimate midwit tier algo?

New comment by faangiq in "Is the era of VC-fueled complexity ending?"

faangiq — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 03:25:21 +0000

No. Unnecessary complexity is a powerful snake oil that will always be sold. Everyone benefits from it too, except for customers and investors. And screw those people.