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New comment by thavalai in "The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program"

thavalai — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:46:40 +0000

I wonder if transaction costs get in the way. Someone has to pay the payment provider in both directions.

New comment by thavalai in "The bee that everyone wants to save"

thavalai — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:30:26 +0000

In case any one else runs into a "this video is not available outside the UK" message, I'm able to see it here: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-garden-thousand-bees-abou...

New comment by thavalai in "Reverse engineering Wordle"

thavalai — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:47:47 +0000

I liked this deconstruction of Wordle a lot: https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle...

When Working from Home Doesn’t Work (2017)

thavalai — Wed, 12 May 2021 14:25:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/when-working-from-home-doesnt-work/540660/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27130675

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thavalai in "A Forty Year Career"

thavalai — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:43:24 +0000

Financial Independence/Retire Early. One forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

New comment by thavalai in "A Preview of C# 8 [video]"

thavalai — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:27:03 +0000

Just wanted to point out that besides creating Typescript, Anders has been the Lead Architect on C# since 2000.

New comment by thavalai in "Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person"

thavalai — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:19:11 +0000

The seeming "idolization" is probably to make up for what he wrote about Bezos (and Amazon) in his famous "accidentally public" post that preceded it: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

New comment by thavalai in "Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers"

thavalai — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:26:23 +0000

"But of your job is to look at data and make descisions based on that data, you're gonna be the first to go."

"The last people to be replaced are going to be software devs"

If your job is to write code so people can look at data and make decisions based on that data, you're gonna be the second to go.

New comment by thavalai in "The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016"

thavalai — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:32:07 +0000

Lots of commenters seem to think that programmers are safe for a while. As a programmer, I sincerely hope they are right.

But, the majority of developers I know, including myself, are ultimately writing software to be used by humans, typically presenting data that is comprehensible to humans, so that they can make decisions.

If AI advances to the point where similar decisions can be made by machines, looking at the same data, then I fear that entire classes of applications will disappear, and with them, the need for developers who build them.

Obviously, we'll still need developers, though perhaps far fewer than are needed today. Perhaps software development will go through the same revolution that agriculture did, where from we went from > 90% to < 3% of the population being involved.

New comment by thavalai in "Google recruitment mistakes: part 3"

thavalai — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:36:33 +0000

Sounds like "before" was five years ago.

I'm curious to read parts 1 & 2, wish there were clear links to them in "Part 3".

New comment by thavalai in "Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay"

thavalai — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 01:17:27 +0000

I got excited about this, as I live in MA and seriously considering a change, until I read the part that it doesn't go into effect until July 2018.

New comment by thavalai in "What ever happened to Wordstar?"

thavalai — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 03:00:26 +0000

You should try a clipboard manager (on Windows, I use 'ditto.' Search for 'ditto clipboard manager.')

New comment by thavalai in "The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp"

thavalai — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:15:23 +0000

Looks like it means that the encryption cannot be reverse-engineered: http://help.penzu.com/pro/what-is-one-way-encryption/

New comment by thavalai in "Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Location"

thavalai — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:16:36 +0000

Time to buy BestBuy stock. They just became an acquisition target for Amazon.