gabyar's comments

gabyar | 2 years ago | on: LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams

My first job was at a tech company with a union. Boeing.

It was ridiculously bad. I've never worked with less talented people. One of my coworkers did nothing, at all, for 2 years. But with 17 years of experience, he couldn't be fired.

I carried the team, but they couldn't pay me what I was worth or promote me. I left as soon as I could.

gabyar | 3 years ago | on: 'Big Short' investor says white-collar jobs bubble is 'bursting'

Burry is a hedge fund manager. The most important part of his job is to scare people away from the S&P and entice them to put money into his fund.

It's generally a mistake to trust the financial advice of any hedge fund manager, and they usually provide advice that makes the S&P seem like a bad bet.

gabyar | 4 years ago | on: America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do we import crude?

Anyone in the country who buys gas benefits from lower gas prices. That includes a lot of poor people.

My mom lives in upstate New York, in a low income area. People there are very negatively impacted by the increase gas prices right now.

gabyar | 4 years ago

Not a proof. But a useful anecdote.

No one is doing large scales studies of how many people meet their partner on FB, so anecdote is all we have for that.

Most of the criticisms are also anecdotes, but you seem fine with those.

gabyar | 6 years ago | on: Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels

The amazing thing here is that rats are intelligent enough to learn to drive, albeit a simple vehicle. That alone is newsworthy, without the experiment on stress reduction.

gabyar | 6 years ago | on: The Hidden Cost of GoFundMe Health Care

It's not "literally impossible". The socialized healthcare system could be corrupt, poorly run, or have other serious problems.

gabyar | 9 years ago | on: Why Is Obama Expanding Surveillance Powers Right Before He Leaves Office?

You don't understand correctly. That's not even remotely what the article said.

gabyar | 13 years ago | on: Warren Buffett Buys World's Largest Solar Project from SunPower for $2.5 Billion

This article significantly misconstrues Buffets investment style. He does invest for value. But he doesn't even think whether a stock has "bottomed in the market price". Predicting when a stock has "bottomed" is not possible as it's dependent on the whims of an irrational market.

The first half of this statement is correct and the second half is completely wrong: "He only buys when he's sure that an asset is undervalued and is likely to have bottomed in market price."

gabyar | 13 years ago | on: Perfectum Dashboard

This is beautiful. Well done. This is the first comment I've made in a year - it's that cool looking.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: DNS tools for developers

This is very useful, and to call it disappointing is rude to the creator of the tool. Why would you say something so negative just because it's not perfect? This is the problem with Hacker News these days - people can't wait to say something nasty.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI

Is Stacker a proprietary 37 Signals thing? It doesn't seem to pop up after several search attempts.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: The story of TextMate, VIM and SublimeText

Nope, fast fuzzy search is closer to find than grep since it looks for files. But it requires less keystrokes and precision, allow you to be lazier. It's a much more fluid experience.

I still use grep a lot while using ST2, but I use it for other purposes.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: Rails Is Not For Beginners

The number of lines of codes, in this case, speaks to the amount of features in the framework. Rails is harder to fully understand than Sinatra because there are many, many more features, and it's possible for a beginner to get lost in, or confused by, all those features.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-saving surgery

Steve Jobs had an extremely rare form of pancreatic cancer that has a very good 5-yr survival rate if caught and treated early. The article is likely accurate.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: IQ Isn't Set In Stone, Suggests Study That Finds Big Jumps, Dips In Teens

Just like all things, both nature and nurture are strong factors. Certainly genetics play a factor in IQ, just as they do with other personality traits such as extroversion, or physical traits, such as height. Set in stone would be a huge exaggeration of genetic causation, but people will have certain propensities from birth.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser

I was going to say that Firefox's lack of innovation and quality in the last couple of years, as compared to Chrome, could be due to lack of funding. But it turns out their revenue is well over $100 million annually, which should be enough to fix bugs. http://goo.gl/g5Upc

Still a good browser, but there's no question they've lost quite a bit of mojo.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: Dart language

Wow, indistinguishable from java. Statically typed and uses generics. Are you kidding me.

Dear Google: seriously? :(

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro

I'm glad to see an outstandingly helpful member of the rails community earn income from what has been a mostly altruistic task that must take a lot of time every week.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro

What are you talking about? The cost is shown in several areas of the page, and "pro" usually means the pay version.

gabyar | 14 years ago | on: Learning the hard way: Moving from NYC to Palo Alto and back in 1.5 months

Not true. If you have investors and two cofounders, both cofounders will have less than 50% even with an even split. And a cofounder coming on after a lot of work has been done doesn't deserve a full equity split.