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The flagship example is 300 lines to implement word count


Step one - "upload your data" and we'll do cool stuff

Ok. How do I upload my data? Can't find any link.

Sign up for our newsletter. Nope.

And we went to Stanford? I don't care.

I'm not trying to be nasty, though it probably comes of like that. Assume I want to get started with your product and invite me in...


> Discussing code style once in a while is not a problem. What's a problem is discussing it at every PR.

I worked a team where this happened. Black was a godsend


That just means your coworkers are anti-social... this masks the problem but the real solution is educating people so they won't be anti-social anymore and stop nitpicking about others' style.


Teaching people to “just don’t be anti-social” is not the purview of people on a team trying to get work done, nor is it even possible in many or most cases.


Another step in the end of property. You don't own anything. You license it.


It does not seem like the end of property - somebody keeps owning what you license from him.


Assume it has a solution. Try that.


I was expecting to read something about McDonald's. Now I feel stupid.


It's a regression to the mean argument. Tall people won't have even taller children. They'll have shorter children because the average must be maintained. So very exceptional people will have less exceptional children. Giraffes disagree.


The rest of the phrase is "jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."


Nestle, Novartis, Roche...


Often I ask myself at the start of the meeting "what are we trying to achieve". Am wondering if I've been missing the point.


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