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TikTok’s Poison Pill
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Productivity porn
Productivity porn
What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
Oracle Suspended My Account
Coding as a greybeard
Interviewed Erik van Eykelen of releasewise.com, a (then) 51-year-old programmer and founder who had some interesting things to say about growing older in tech.<p>"I'm 51 and I've been active in this industry since I was 14. I watched it grow from computers with 4k of memory to having a supercomputer in my pocket. I was learning in the age of Apple II and the Commodore PET. When I realized that I could create an explosion of data with just a few lines of code, I was hooked forever. It was such a magical thing. I found some other guys in my high school that were also into computers and we started meeting regularly on Fridays and Saturdays to... Well, to do some things that were, perhaps, not allowed. Since then, I've started three companies, and I don't think I could have found the same satisfaction in any other industry. I am mindful, these days, that I'm 51 because I know ageism is a thing in tech. There's a moment when you walk into a room and people think, 'Oh, he's a greybeard.' I don't have a beard, but you know what I mean. But when I start to talk about things and find solutions, that disappears. I can't change my age but I am in full control over what I do and what I read and how much time I carve out to write code. I can still see myself doing this when I'm 60, 70 years old. Even older. Because I want to keep doing meaningful things."
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Understanding Jane Street
I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo
I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo
Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
Use one big server
Use one big server
Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
If so, what did you replace it with?
The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives
The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives