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fogetti commented on How to Work Hard paulgraham.com/hwh.html... · Posted by u/razin

Your comment about VCs makes no sense. If a VC wants you to work hard because that’s how a VC gets rich, that means that working hard leads to building a successful company. If it were purely luck, why would the VC care if you worked hard or not?

fogetti · 5 years ago

Because most VC founded companies are not about results. They are about virtue signaling to attract even more capital. Profitability has been thrown out of the window long time ago. Success is measured in the stupidest KPIs you can imagine. That's why 9 out of 10 VC founded companies fail. So you need to indoctrinate your minions to make them act accordingly.

fogetti commented on New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed restoreprivacy.com/linked... · Posted by u/gargs

stuff4ben · 5 years ago

But is this really a problem? LinkedIn is "advertising for yourself", presumably to get a job. With the exception of my phone number, I'm ok with the world knowing this information about me. It's the equivalent of a phone book and I'm putting myself out there and advertising myself in the hopes of getting a job.

fogetti · 5 years ago

Well I can see your point, but this is not exactly the same.

As a thought experiment imagine that someone now builds a website called Linkedout and they post your profile with a layover animation resembling a big red stamp which reads 'Slacker'. I guess you are not OK with THAT information about you.

fogetti commented on Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/carride

monkeydust · 5 years ago

Amazon treating humans like servers. When you need to scale fast you fire up some more and when you're done you shut them down. That's basically what's happening here. Question is, are we OK with it...?

fogetti · 5 years ago

I would say you are probably talking to the wrong audience here. Apparently those flex drivers were OK with it, for unknown reasons.

fogetti commented on Whatever Happened to UI Affordances? shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/... · Posted by u/pimterry

dr_dshiv · 5 years ago

Sorry for this pedantic comment, but he is asking for signifiers not affordances. He wants affordances to be more perceptible. See Design of Everyday Things.

fogetti · 5 years ago

I upvoted your comment because the blog author even references that book, and the book goes into great length to make this distinction between the two. So I think it's only fair to point it out.

fogetti commented on How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014) gizmodo.com/how-fighter-j... · Posted by u/ushakov

j4yav · 5 years ago

Really interesting content, but its almost even more amazing how many ads they were able to squeeze in there at least on mobile.

fogetti · 5 years ago

On Android you can use a private DNS service, for example nextdns.io which will block all advertisement on the page for you. I wouldn't be surprised if iOS would have the same option.

fogetti commented on Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced risk of depression: study medlifestyle.news/2021/05... · Posted by u/intellaughs

cortesoft · 5 years ago

This hasn't even the case for me. I have young children, so I can't sleep in anymore... I now wake up between 6am and 7am most days.

I still have trouble going to sleep early. I end up staying up too late, and then am tired most of the day the next day. But I still end up staying up too late the next night, too.

I would think I would adjust my schedule, but I struggle with it.

fogetti · 5 years ago

Exactly. I feel for you. I am in the same boat. With young kids around I was forced to wake up 2 hours earlier than my circadian rhytm would dictate and it's been a nightmare so far.

I need to compensate each day with even more coffee than normally and my head's just spinning by the end of the day because I am too exhausted.

Since my rhytm cannot be forced to the early waking, on average I only sleep 5 hours each night.

It's a constant torture.

fogetti commented on Has UML died without anyone noticing? garba.org/posts/2021/uml/... · Posted by u/azhenley

anthk · 5 years ago

Red Hat/IBM.

fogetti · 5 years ago

Google/Amazon

fogetti commented on I want a computer that I own misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/... · Posted by u/bezelbuttons

fogetti · 5 years ago

I find it ironic that the author points out in the first part of the post that companies are the real culprit but later puts the blame on governments. I wouldn't do such differentiation. They are equally wrong. Regarding free speech too. Case in point are the recent de-platformings.

fogetti commented on Kubernetes Failure Stories k8s.af... · Posted by u/jakozaur

AmericanChopper · 5 years ago

> Meanwhile, the complexity of our technology goes up and its reliability in practice goes down.

I don’t agree with this at all. Reliability in practice is improving at a phenomenal pace. 10 years ago maintenance outages were a normal feature of every service, and unplanned outages were perfectly ordinary occurrences. Consumers today expect a much higher level of availability and reliability, which they receive rather consistently. Today it takes much less resource to produce a much more reliable system then you would have been able to produce in the rather recent past.

fogetti · 5 years ago

I don't know which industry you worked in, but outages in the telecom industry was strictly forbidden and came with severe financial penalties even 10 years ago. And those companies managed to adhere to really strict uptime SLAs even then.

It might take less resource today though to achieve the same, I agree with that.

fogetti commented on Fueling Reddit’s Future redditblog.com/2021/02/08... · Posted by u/Firebrand

throwaway1777 · 5 years ago

This might sound like a troll, but what’s wrong with using the app? Do you not use any apps?

fogetti · 5 years ago

The real question is: what was wrong with the website in the first place?

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