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GBond

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- Making stuff - Startup life - Making enterprise software suck less - merging my interests

Twitter: @gbond location: NYC

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Solar Eclipse 1925 January 24 New York

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

Human 'behavioural crisis' at root of climate breakdown, say scientists

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www.cio.com 3y ago

CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5

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www.wsj.com 4y ago

Congress to Hold Its First Hearing on UFOs in More Than 50 Years

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www.bbc.com 6y ago

The boss who rescued 300 Syrian refugees

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www.theinformation.com 9y ago

Tech Pay Study Shows Asians Have an Edge

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medium.com 10y ago

App featured by Apple, gained 50k downloads, and banned by Instagram

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qz.com 10y ago

David Bowie wasn’t just an incredible artist, but a tech visionary too

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www.washingtonpost.com 11y ago

Why do Italian soccer fans and other foreigners fly the Confederate flag?

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www.spiderstrategies.com 11y ago

The Airport Test (How to Ace That Interview)

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www.forbes.com 11y ago

The Modest Tycoon Behind America's Biggest Woman-Owned Business

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www.washingtonpost.com 11y ago

Homeland Security is laying roots in Silicon Valley

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www.businessinsider.com 11y ago

This Wealth Management Site Was Created for the 99%

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www.businessinsider.com 11y ago

GOLDMAN: The Apple Watch is going to be trouble for old-school watch makers

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

New York's expensive startup initiative only created 76 jobs

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www.forbes.com 11y ago

Detroit Is Dying Because GM Stuck Around

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www.networkworld.com 12y ago

Box just bought real-world equivalent of Pied Piper

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www.theawl.com 12y ago

Let's Call It 'Apple Privilege'

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twitter.com 12y ago

Example of Twitter's new profile page design

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www.washingtonpost.com 12y ago

Why the zebra has stripes

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www.wired.com 12y ago

Bill and Melinda Gates Aren’t Leaving Their Kids Billions

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www.latimes.com 12y ago

Google Glass-wearing woman posts video of alleged S.F. bar attack

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www.bbc.co.uk 12y ago

Fly like a bird: The V formation finally explained

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www.reuters.com 13y ago

Pirate Bay founder sentenced to 2 years in Sweden hacking case

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twitter.com 13y ago

Kevin Rose patented the "Like" button

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www.businessweek.com 13y ago

Grunt fund equity split

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www.theatlanticcities.com 13y ago

Mapping the Census: A Dot for Every Person

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now.cornell.edu 13y ago

Cornell NYC Tech: Applications are now being accepted

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mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com 14y ago

Joi Ito joins NY Times Board

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www.alistapart.com 14y ago

An Important Time for Design

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Crying in H Mart 8 years ago

Poignant article. I'm glad to find it on HN and happy to see an absence of complaints of being irrelevant to tech.

I would add differences in domestic consumers preferences. Americans are now addicted to cheap-quality goods. I passed through the gift shop inside Empire Sate Building in NY yesterday and 98% of the gifts are asian imported plastic trinkets branded with Empire State and USA logos. Contrasts that to when I visited the museums in Berlin where the shops mainly focused on selling locally produced crafts.

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Or maybe elite students from other countries don't hold your same US-centric view that a programming education is for the low in status only?

The reality is sometimes the meaning poured behind a symbol gets changed. The SWASTIKA symbol, originally meant "Good Fortune", existed 5000 years before the Nazis used it.

I too expected more from HN and I think it's because HN is generally more civil than other webs forums. I think the credit of this civility goes to the HN moderators and the enforcement of the policies, not because HN types are special. I used to think technical minded folks are more analytical and thus have less tendency for bias and generalizations but I've concluded that ultimately tech people are still people and subject to the same filters as "normals".

I hope you not discouraged from pursuing your specialization in the US.

Yes, I agree.

The web-scale software segment is at a unique point in time where it is still in an "arms race" mode of growth for the best employees between its competitors AND making tremendous profits.