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faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees

A very middlebrow dismissal of OP. :|

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees

Anecdotally speaking, I went to a party which had a few Amazon employees in attendance. After a few drinks, two of them let on to the group that they were quitting their jobs because they were sick of Amazon - and high fives were shared all around, including among the folks that weren't leaving. Doesn't seem like a happy group.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Why I Don't Drink

Probably chows down on ritalin like half of HN. ;)

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Why I Don't Drink

I agree with most of his points, and that's why I don't drink to excess. But I'm happy to have a glass of red wine with a steak or a nice stinky piece of cheese, and I don't suffer any of the drawbacks he states. I don't feel an urge to continue drinking either, because yeah, being drunk and hungover later sucks!

Drinking (or doing anything) responsibly doesn't just mean "find a DD and then get trashed", it can also mean "find satiation with a little bit of something nice."

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: The Decline of the Mobile Web

I think this is the price we pay for hewing to the party line of only permitting non-breaking incremental changes on the Web.

Would this still be the case if Web development wasn't a broken matrix of browser and OS versions powered by a language which people are constantly trying to paper over with abstractions? (Seriously, it's like a person you'd only have sex with as long as you'd put a paper bag over their head.)

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Low-level is easy

I agree with this article. The Web is a shambling mess of crap technologies, just a Jenga tower of crap. When is it going to collapse under its own weight? The rise of native apps suggests that the collapse has already begun.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Night Walk in Marseille [video]

This is the Web version of walking around a museum with an audio guide around your neck.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Night Walk in Marseille [video]

Very engrossing.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence

I'm utterly shocked that this happened in a Southern state.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff

They are _scanning_ your content!! Mobilize the "scropboxed!" campaign!

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions

This 6th Grader Stood Up To Government To Tell Them Something... And I Think The Results Were Amazing.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Noob comments on HN

This might be good for spotting astroturfing campaigns.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: PowerVR GR6500: Ray tracing is the future and the future is now

I think you're thinking of raycasting.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Valve replaces Steam Controller touchscreen with new analog face buttons

It's remarkable to witness a company that responds to criticism instead of powering through it via reeducation campaigns and hype.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Attackers trick 162,000 WordPress sites into launching DDoS attack

It's sad that Ars Technica is making blogspam.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Skype and Microsoft man-in-the-middle chats to give targeted ads

Exactly right, and people here seem to ignore that in favor of convenient ideological screeds.

Look at the EULA of what you pay for. It's amazing how little you're entitled to. Even if you paid for it~~~~~

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?

Designers: please stop it with infinite scroll. They are painful to work with and work around.

When a service switches to infinitely scrolling lists, I stop using it.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: T-Mobile Turns An Industry On Its Ear

Much of the same in France. Many semi-"public" hotspots set up for subscribers.

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

SITE CREATED WITH NOTEPAD (THE RIGHT WAY)

faddotio | 12 years ago | on: Google Explains How Not To Be A Glasshole

Haha, I wish I could've been a fly on the wall for that.

You should've recorded it with your cell phone. ;)