banusaur

I heard a story about an applicant who got to the final day of a multi-day interview for a major tech company I can't mention and was ultimately denied because he ate a piece of candy they offered him.

Irrationality is a virtue for "prestigious" organizations.

(Fuck you Amazon)

Stop eating my planet. Stop eating beef and dairy.

They have the ability to monetize unexplored territory like face recognition and AR in real, meaningful ways. They've built an amazing technical team and are in position to execute on ideas that could have an incredible impact on the way humans interact in real life. They are among a few tech companies whose tech could cause a cultural paradigm shift akin to what we saw with the introduction of the smartphone. This should be an exciting couple of years.

A) They have the capacity to deliver state-of-the-art technology and can easily dominate with a surge of money for mass-production of electronics. On a whim they could deliver unparalleled face recognition for instance: https://hackernoon.com/is-snap-inc-building-a-wearable-face-...

B) They're worth so much because on any given day, the app reaches 41 percent of all 18-to-34-year-olds in the United States. They have amazing potential as a platform for advertising, recruiting, sales, and so much more. They're probably not making money yet because they're not done honey-potting everybody like Facebook circa-2008.

You may be right about a bloated WhatsApp $19B price, because the Snapchat data is much more valuable and going for $4B.

Fuck the poor!

Their Spectacles announcement was odd though. You don't think an index of millions of people's face data is valuable?

I took out loans for college. After a few years out working, I've just about paid them off. 4 months to go and I'm finished.

Even though I worked hard to pay back everything with interest, I still wouldn't wish the experience on anybody. I don't understand how funding other people's education is somehow a "punishment" to me.

This article is bad advice. Any fool can string a few words together. Truly writing means re-writing.

Your first draft is always going to be ugly, raw data. Writing as a craft means taking that given set of words and processing it until it's concise and clear. Cut and replace until your argument is airtight.

And another thing: all writing is argument.

There are so many great essays about writing that are infinitely better than this - I'm surprised this gained so much traction on HN.

Here's one of my favorites by George Orwell: http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...

But... Didn't Palantir find Osama Bin Laden?