Hacker News: sjtindell

New comment by sjtindell in "Google to pause all hiring for two weeks"

sjtindell — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 11:33:26 +0000

Hired 10,000 people in Q2 this year alone? What percentage of those people actually do anything of value besides cash the company’s checks? That’s actually staggering to me. Cloud division I can see growing. What else?

New comment by sjtindell in "New divorce app to help couples split assets in New York without lawyers"

sjtindell — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:46:11 +0000

This doesn’t sound right at all. The classic story is “he/she took me to the cleaners”, fighting over every possible asset, being forced to sell a house or property you don’t want to because the spouse demands half. I don’t know the frequency but it happens. My own parents fought hard over the house in particular and my mother ended up having to buy my father out at a huge loss to avoid selling it.

New comment by sjtindell in "Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time"

sjtindell — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:42:21 +0000

In my mind it is the same problem everywhere. Supply is too low and is kept low for many reasons. There is insane demand from around the world to live in Manhattan.

New comment by sjtindell in "GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome"

sjtindell — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:33:25 +0000

I would love a Crazy Eddie’s Discount Domains website built using 90’s html where the domains are sold like timeshares. Do I even own this domain? Not clear, but at $0.90 cents a year who can complain. A counter for page visits and Eddie’s cocaine budget.

New comment by sjtindell in "Books to read to understand financial crime"

sjtindell — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:25:52 +0000

I have read a lot of financial crime books and can’t recommend Billion Dollar Whale enough. What’s so astounding is the immediacy with which he went on one of the biggest spending sprees ever. A case study in how to disprove people who say, “you could never spend that much money in a lifetime”. The fact he used stolen money to finance The Wolf of Wall Street is the cherry detail on top.

New comment by sjtindell in "GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome"

sjtindell — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:13:51 +0000

To me, using women to sell a product reeks of a bygone era and a certain mentality we’re working to get away from. I think that alone is a perfectly acceptable reason to think a company sucks and not use their product. Voting for behaviors with your dollars is important.

New comment by sjtindell in "30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled"

sjtindell — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:50:46 +0000

True, we’re trying to produce bots that reliably do things (make people laugh) that humans can’t even do reliably. People who can feel out a room and use the right joke, or the right reassurance or whatever, are not even very common.

New comment by sjtindell in "Voyager suspends trading, deposits, withdrawals, and loyalty rewards"

sjtindell — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 23:57:47 +0000

Personally I think this is an artifact of a time when there were other ways for you to make money.

New comment by sjtindell in "Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’"

sjtindell — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 23:56:16 +0000

Republicans are in favor of the DEA and drug scheduling though.

New comment by sjtindell in "Ask HN: Who has ditched their phone and what is your replacement?"

sjtindell — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:41:07 +0000

Google maps is hard to replace for me, being out with friends and someone says “here’s my address” and we just map it, too easy.

New comment by sjtindell in "MIT researchers propose Brazil-sized fleet of “space bubbles” to cool the Earth"

sjtindell — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:34:02 +0000

There is no centralized way to drive that change on the needed scale. Most humans don’t even view what we’re doing in civilization as shared project, let alone agree that this is required to protect it. I think they fundamentally lack the abstract thinking required. They won’t change until they feel the pain themselves. A poor fit for an abstract, not quite “here yet” problem. In the United States we can’t even get them to agree it’s a problem at all. But I think once we are collectively feeling the pain, solutions will be swift and surprising.

New comment by sjtindell in "The Board of Directors Announces the Dissolution of the San Antonio Symphony"

sjtindell — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:31:43 +0000

I don’t see this at all. They didn’t make less than you because of some moral failing by society at large. They made less because there is such a glut of artists that the bottom pay rate is literally less than zero, hence “do it for the exposure”. There is more art created every day today than ever before. The old school art forms you think are so crucial just aren’t.

New comment by sjtindell in "Coinbase employees petition to remove execs"

sjtindell — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 07:33:15 +0000

I’ve become convinced that hiring more people is generally a warning sign. A team of between a few and about twenty people seems to produce all the good stuff. Anything beyond that, your value per employee drops drastically, and your cost per employee goes up as you need to offer higher and higher salaries to stay in competition. A company going on a hiring spree is now a negative indicator for me. I think FB, Goog, etc. could lay off thousands with no adverse effects and in fact an increase in velocity, quality, and quantity of new features/products. Sometimes one person can be much more productive than a whole team. This is obviously unscientific, just a feeling I’m getting lately.

New comment by sjtindell in "'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T"

sjtindell — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 01:07:59 +0000

I have to chuckle a little at your “is it just me”…this is literally one of pop culture/the internet’s biggest flame wars these days. No offense intended. It commonly spirals off into tangents about the modern definitions of racism vs. prejudice and many other threads. Sometimes I wish alongside articles like this there was a pre-prepared list of the 10 most common takes about a subject. So we can stop rehashing all that and get to the meat. I’m guilty of it too.

New comment by sjtindell in "'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T"

sjtindell — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 01:00:12 +0000

I don’t know if the term discrimination fits there. Employers would gladly employ children if not for the law.

New comment by sjtindell in "It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal"

sjtindell — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 21:01:56 +0000

Really no video game lets you do a free trial. To me the start of all this was Google. Google completely changed the way we interact with services and technology. It’s amazing and completely “free”.

New comment by sjtindell in "The Two Choices That Keep a Midlife Crisis at Bay"

sjtindell — Tue, 31 May 2022 00:45:36 +0000

Paywall.

New comment by sjtindell in "Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018)"

sjtindell — Mon, 30 May 2022 20:26:46 +0000

I’m not sure fashion feels like the right term. People just assume newer equals better. So they want to use the latest and “greatest”.

New comment by sjtindell in "Terraform should have remained stateless"

sjtindell — Sat, 28 May 2022 07:09:25 +0000

Author is more asking the question, probably also thinks “it needs state” could be valid.

New comment by sjtindell in "Windows Update vs. My Router"

sjtindell — Thu, 26 May 2022 05:05:20 +0000

Honestly it feels a little like blog posts I read titled “X software is full of bugs” and then the first line is “so I installed X on my custom Arch Linux setup…”. Sure, not ideal, but the conclusion might not quite match the playing field.