axelroze (u/axelroze)

axelroze commented on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design search.marginalia.nu/... · Posted by u/Funes-

antupis · 4 years ago

As dev I would love search engine which would only do search to stackoverflow github issues, documentation etc.

axelroze · 4 years ago

You can limit the search query per website in DDG (and probably in others)

Example: `rust slow compilation site:stackoverflow.com`

axelroze commented on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design search.marginalia.nu/... · Posted by u/Funes-

gtmb · 4 years ago

As everything in life flows in cycle, I predict the search engine that will de-throne Google will be like Google when it started - a simple variation of page rank.

No smarts, no bubble, no signals decided by over fitting to a biased engineer preference.

axelroze · 4 years ago

Wouldn't the dethroner of Google be some new technology which is not a search engine like Google but better at solving the original task of finding information on how to solve problems?

Just like how iPad dethroned Windows PCs for average home user but not Mac because Windows had the monopoly and then an innovation destroyed MS in this space and not a competitor.

I don't think Google dethrones Yahoo and AltaVista scenario will occur again.

axelroze commented on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design search.marginalia.nu/... · Posted by u/Funes-

marginalia_nu · 4 years ago

Yeah so this is my project. It's very much a work in progress, but occasionally I think it works remarkably well for something I cobbled together alone out of consumer hardware and home-made code :-)

axelroze · 4 years ago

Hi,

Interesting idea. Definitely see an overlap with eReader markets and looking at text only contents.

How does it work?

It ignores pages on which it detects frameworks for ui and ads or any javascript code at all?

axelroze commented on The Frustration with Productivity Culture newyorker.com/culture/off... · Posted by u/x43b

danjac · 4 years ago

Of extended family and friends, the ones with the most personal wealth by retirement got there not by being more creative, or inventive, or productive, or by studying and acquiring skills and knowledge, or starting and growing a business, but by inheriting, buying, renting and flipping properties at the right time.

I don't know much about macroeconomics or economics in general, but it seems that's how you climb in the Western world these days. "Working hard" and increasing your productivity - that's for chumps.

axelroze · 4 years ago

It's the problem of diminishing returns.

If one is at rock bottom then working hard and being productive can get them to middle class lifestyle. It works. Helped billions of people in the past few decades.

But starting from middle class and working hard won't make riches. Think of it physically. A hardworking person can build a house compared to a drunkard who will be homeless. Yet the same hard working person can't build million houses and get insanely wealthy.

To get truly materially rich (millions+ usd, servants, yachts, etc) one usually needs to be evil and screw over other people. Productivity, in the sense of a machine making houses in the millions, would make the inventor fairly rich. But this is the exception rather than the rule. Most riches are arrived at immorally as parent comment mentions.

axelroze commented on The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated twitter.com/thelinuxEXP/s... · Posted by u/mngnt

selfhoster11 · 4 years ago

Is nationalisation evil in itself? The private sector just doesn't have sufficient incentive to serve the public over their own interest. We've seen this time and time again.

axelroze · 4 years ago

> Is nationalisation evil in itself?

Oh very much it is. Come to the lovely Eastern Europe and see for yourself how good national owned companies are. Full of useless bureaucrats put there to ensure voters so the ruling party can continue ruling. Also in huge debts which are paid by more taxes so the working people pay for the lazy.

Unless the human race somehow chains itself to selflessness, nationalization + democracy is a sure way to destroy any organization. Now privately owned is not much better but in theory can be replaced with a competitor. Not so much for a national organization.

Source: Living and suffering daily in Eastern Europe.

axelroze commented on Minus minus.social/... · Posted by u/fredley

silisili · 4 years ago

I thought about that, but still unsure. Want to be an asshat? Pay a dollar and get another credit.

axelroze · 4 years ago

That won't stop organizations with lots of money unless the cost for more credits raises exponentially. Everyone will have to stop when millions and billions get into play.

axelroze commented on Minus minus.social/... · Posted by u/fredley

johnnyApplePRNG · 4 years ago

Interesting idea, but what's stopping someone from creating a second account?

axelroze · 4 years ago

Inconvenience. With the second account one has to re-friend all the users from the first account. Also it would lead to bad social standing as by re-friending it will be obvious they are breaking the 100 posts per person per life rule. This could even lead to automatic bans by studying the connection structure.

axelroze commented on Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best getparthenon.com/blog/how... · Posted by u/that_guy_iain

shantnutiwari · 4 years ago

Here in the UK, everyone hates agents.

Yet when I was applying for my last job, I made 2 dozen applications direct. Got 3 replies, about 2-3 months late. And for all 3, got a standard rejection.

Sad but true: We need recruitment agents, as companies will never do anything until someone is breathing down their neck over the phone.

Those companies that never replied? One year later, they are still running Linkedin ads promoting open positions.

axelroze · 4 years ago

It could be the case that they 'hire' someone internally from role A to the advertised role B. But due to some legal requirements they have to run an Ad so they appear open to all candidates.

I had pretty good experience with recruiting agents. Sadly didn't get the job as I flunked the leetcoding part but I got an interview compared to rejection when I applied via forms and CV.

axelroze commented on Nomura Tells Staff Not to Smoke Cigarettes When Working from Home bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/matrione

axelroze · 4 years ago

Ford was paying more money to employees who were more conformist to his standard of ideal living.

To the hyper individualistic culture like USA today this can only seem bad but this is Japan with factory towns [1] and generally more collectivist culture.

This also need not be bad. Clean and simple lifestyles could make many more people healthier and happier compared to constant analysis-paralysis state of choice. One could even say that this company is morally better than other companies due to promoting a lifestyle which makes people happier in the long term.

[1] https://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75ye...