vinhboy

As someone who used to work in government contracting, this comment is so freaking true.

The whole thing about contractors is so spot on. The only slight difference I would add is that the contractors will NOT hire the best talent, they will hire whoever they can to fill the position, for the cheapest price, so they can claim to have fulfilled their RFP.

It's a dead end.

Yahoo home page is actually very engaging (in a car wreck kind of way), and they haven't updated it much in years. I definitely believe they are doing well.

The only site I know that died from instant user migration is Digg. Lots of sites died a slow death from users moving on to better platforms, but rarely does anything die from boycott that I know of.

oddly specific...

Don't know about Azure, but my AWS support tickets have always been answered with very helpful diagnosis.

I'm curious what is the normal equity share given to board members? Is their advisory worth six years of engineering?

Curious what is your skillset and experience that Google wants to recruit you so bad?

That's probably like one of the coolest purpose built machine I've ever seen. In my head I originally thought they did it by hand, lol.

The wide spectrum of the human experience never cease to amaze me. Reading the stories in this article just made that spectrum a little bit bigger. Just wild. I am too shocked to have any sort of moral opinion about it.

Similar thing happened to me. Took a long time to realize there was a zombie Heroku instance running jobs.

That horror when you delete code but it's still running, you're just so confused...

I've forgotten how I resolved it, but man it was a pain to diagnose.

I was expecting a story about an eccentric recluse, but it turns out to be a story about a failing government. Good read nonetheless.

Yep. Google paid like $2 per download of Firefox. It cost like 5 cents a click, for the "download Firefox" keyword, on Google Ads to bring someone to my website. Profit.

Fun memory, I made like $40K selling Firefox downloads.... on google ads. Learned a lot about google ads and SEO.

That was a lot of money for me as a poor kid from the TL.

Around the same time, middle school I think, I was in the SF Public library playing MUD on the little terminal they reserved for searching books. We couldn't afford a computer, or internet, at home. The librarians tolerated us.

Eventually led to me learning C and running my own ROM MUD. I remember sending some random person $5 or $10 and they hosted my MUD on their server.

I too owe MUD everything.

those two things are not always mutually exclusive

Wow that's an impressive backstory. Probably one of the more useful things I've seen come out of chatGPT