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offtop5 commented on 43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training   iafrikan.com/2021/06/04/i... · Posted by u/iafrikan
typon · 5 years ago
Are you really suggesting that the reason 43% of South African youths are unemployed is because they're lazy?
offtop5 · 5 years ago
>Are you really suggesting that the reason 43% of South African youths are unemployed is because they're lazy?

Not at all, it's structural problem. I've seen this in LA as well and it's the number one reason I left. Since I lack the personal capacity to fix LA, I no longer live there.

If anything if you live in a city or a nation where unemployment is rampant , you just need to leave. Not worry about what the government is going to do to fix it.

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offtop5 commented on Ask HN: Why do you hate JavaScript?    · Posted by u/tuxie_
blitz_skull · 5 years ago
What do Java or C# offer that Typescript cannot offer? Genuine curiosity as I’m not quite sure myself.

It seems, through my experience, that Typescript isn’t “hacked together” as you imply. It’s just another Type-system, just like Java or C#’s?

offtop5 · 5 years ago
Babble.

The weird transpilation system constantly breaks. I guess maybe one day they'll be better tooling around this, but it's not there yet. And I've worked with node in some capacity since 2013, things always feel fragmented and broken

offtop5 commented on Ask HN: Why do you hate JavaScript?    · Posted by u/tuxie_
offtop5 · 5 years ago
I've built multiple JavaScript project at scale, and I would never trust it over java or C sharp. JavaScript allows you to make way too many mistakes.

I do think Dart is the best of both worlds though. Having real types, not hacked together typescript stuff is very good. That's the other thing the nodejs ecosystem feels like a bunch of duct tape slap together again and again

offtop5 commented on Ask HN: If you have a free product, how do you give it away?    · Posted by u/flancrest
offtop5 · 5 years ago
The issue is you'll have to ask for credit card numbers in order to prevent abuse, so you're not really giving anything away. I would still evaluate anything you call free as I would any other product. Plus integrating into my workflow, pitching it to my manager, these things have a real cost.

I'd actually argue you shouldn't offer anything for free, but instead charge whatever makes sense factoring in you're going to have to support customers even if it was a free product. For example if your offering website uptime monitoring, but it's not accurate that can cause a real cost to me

offtop5 commented on Ask HN: What is your playbook for profitable SaaS without outside investment?    · Posted by u/_448
jdvh · 5 years ago
We've built a couple of saas businesses without any investment, as complete unknowns. It's doable, and today it's easier than it has ever been. You can go from 0 to revenue in less than 6 months. The big problem is that there is a ton of software out there, including free software, and people will only pay if your product is much better in some way that actually matters. If you only give yourself a few months to build a product you can only build a couple of features, so those features better be really good.
offtop5 · 5 years ago
How big of a team do you have. Even if it's from your personal funds, if you're maybe paying a few contractors $10,000 a month, that's still an investment.

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offtop5 commented on Amazon warehouse injuries '80% higher' than competitors, report claims   bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/mikesabbagh
jodrellblank · 5 years ago
This pattern of comment includes accusing someone of “being bias” (instead of “biased”) and implies that noticing bias is somehow a debate winning move.

Bias is a thing, having bias means you are biased towards one position or away from another. You should be biased in many ways - e.g. preferring human survival to human extinction would be a reasonable bias. Preferring the word of your friend to the word of a stranger, another.

offtop5 · 5 years ago
Okay, if I send you a study from buygold.net predicting the imminent collapse of the US dollar, wouldn't you be a little skeptical ?
offtop5 commented on Amazon warehouse injuries '80% higher' than competitors, report claims   bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/mikesabbagh
wayoutthere · 5 years ago
Uh, this is exactly why unions exist. Because you sure as hell can’t trust the company to give a shit about worker safety. It’s a cost center to them.
offtop5 · 5 years ago
I wouldn't trust a study like this unless it comes out of a university, or a government agency like OSHA.

The unions just lost a major fight to try and get into Amazon's warehouses, they have every interest in disparaging Amazon.

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