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flip a coin, the option you want while the coin is in the air is what you should do.

What would you suggest they do to reduce demand? (This is a serious question btw)

Getting $5000 worth of product essentially free and then being told to pay is not enshittification.

The Spotify hate is so forced. Everyone's complaints boil down to "the UX doesn't work exactly like I want". I find these changes mildly annoying like anyone else, but Spotify is miles ahead of everyone else in terms of discovery and it's not even close. It's not perfect but no service is.

I loved knots, lashings, plaits, braids, and splices as a kid, this really brought me back.

also this has been discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=animatedknots.com

https://straitsresearch.com/report/e-cigarette-market

If GDP was not increasing, every business transaction is a zero sum game. No one wants to live in that world.

Most applications don't have a billion users

I would if answers came with age

They are moving everything to azure to be able to scale so I'm guessing they are going through growing pains.

But if these issues continue for more than a couple months I could see organizations looking more and more into other options, but let's be honest, everyone knows and uses GitHub so they'd really have to mess things up for more than a fraction of their user base to move away

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

I have tried a lot of breathwork techniques lately and Buteyko is very good. One thing I always tell people that sit and slouch a lot is that your diaphragm is probably very tight (the same way your quads/hamstrings/etc can get tight). breathing exercises are very good for loosening it up, which, at least for me, have had a very positive impact on my health and wellbeing.

Yeah I mean his solos compared to his melodies/song structures or even the other soloists on each song.

But also compared to other prominent pianists of the time like Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, etc

I grew up playing a lot of jazz in the late 2000s and there was always a strict canon - big band was seen as kind of cutesy and not worth putting much effort into while the Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Coltrane, Davis, Hancock, Shorter and a few others were the "real" musicians. But the internet was in its infancy at the time and YouTube/spotify started showing things that I had never heard of like a bunch of Japanese jazz musicians, so I always wonder what musicians coming up today see as "the canon". Is it still mostly the names I mentioned or does it include a lot more?

On a separate note, I always saw Chet baker and Gerry mulligan as "real" musicians but was taught early on that Brubeck was "staid" and boring. After judging it myself I guess you could say his soloing was a little underwhelming but he was incredibly creative in a way that a lot of the "serious" musicians weren't. Jazz people can be such losers sometimes

what features in entry level cars do you suggest they get rid of?

I hate to be that guy, but is there a transcript or even ai summary of the video?

a few ideas:

- see if he can be put on a project that he has complete autonomy over that is separate from the normal work that you are doing. or try and come up with something that he could do separately and doesn't need to be in meetings.

- split the team up so that he leads his own team. if he's that bad the people on his team will leave and his behavior will be that much more obvious. if he's a good engineer maybe he can actually get stuff done with him separately. if he's bad it's an easy case to make. if you make the decisions about who works on what give him the work you don't want to do. you're two levels higher and it sounds like he doesn't have much leadership experience.

- you said in one of your comments that your manager doesn't want to look bad to his manager. what could you do to make him look good and also get rid of this guy?

- can the bad guy move teams to something he likes more? where could he go that doesn't necessitate him working with you?

- make the business case that this guy is bad and not worth keeping. if he's already gotten rid of one good lead and burning out other people, I'm sure you can make the case that keeping him is not worth the cost. if his behavior is preventing you from shipping x% faster or higher quality or whatever it shouldn't be that hard a sell to management.

- whatever route you take document everything that he does that is preventing the team from accomplishing more.

- are the other people on your team reporting this behavior to your manager? if enough people are complaining and your manager doesn't do anything, he's clearly not doing his job.

- the skip level talk is also a good route. see if people that he interacts with that aren't your manager or teammates have difficulty with him. if he's that toxic you have more ammo with your skiplevel or anyone else with influence.

I would add debugging as a course. Maybe they should teach this but how to dive deep into figuring out how to learn the root cause of defects and various tools would have been enormously helpful for me. Perhaps this already exists

uhhh, it's their website. they can promote as much as they want

I don't know why there's so much negativity. I see this as a big win for students interested in it.

1. it's a short commitment - only 3 months. more time-bound opportunities should be available to kids coming out of school. too many people go straight to big finance/law/tech/etc and get stuck because they don't want to give up the salary or safety.

2. get access to a network that is very difficult to get access to otherwis

3. better status boost than most other things you could be doing. There are likely better status signals about someone's abilities/intellect than YC, but i'm guessing they are few for people in the valley.

4. Get to work on something you are interested in

5. learn a lot very quickly.

6. gives you a lot of optionality

yes, YC is trying to make money but they do seem intent on developing talent and this is a good avenue for that.

Civilisations by kenneth clark - an art critic tries to understand western civilization through the "book" of its art.

not accusing the author, I agree with the article, but whenever I read prose like:

"In real-world engineering, simplicity is king. In interviews, complexity is currency.

Job interviews aren't assessments. They're auditions for a job title: The Architect Who Solves Hard Problems™."

it just sounds so much like it's written by ai.

This is what I come to hacker news for - great post

I thought of quoting the end of Ode on a Grecian urn, but thought it might be distracting.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

I love this question. My answer is Beauty. we are surrounded by ugliness and it pains me. almost everything could be made more beautiful.

what prompt are you using?

I don't have any data, but it wouldn't at all surprise me if single/business travelers are way more likely to cancel or change flights, and this is just pricing that into the ticket cost.

there's also no reason you should be viewing a pull request with more than 100 files :p

I think think is doable, but how would you find a partner that is willing to do it? how many men or women are interested in this that are also the kind of people that read substack regularly?

I'd love to see the average hackernews commenter live with 536 tech for a year or two and come back

I think if you understand the fundamentals of how computers work and can debug anything to figure out what is causing a problem you will be valuable for a long time. most people either don't have the requisite knowledge to do this, or just simply lack the drive and curiosity to figure out weird bugs. also, there are senior engineers with 10+ years exp. at the company that I work at that don't bother to google or do any real debugging before asking a question in slack. don't be one of those people.