BigBubbleButt

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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> every single developer mentioned they have no trust in Google not canning the service I never said developers have faith in Google. I said shareholders do. My point is Google doesn't really care what developers think.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
https://www.innit.com/nutrition/cuisine-de-france-demi-bague... It uses enriched flour (which I doubt makes much difference), but also adds conditioner which really is the culprit of being engineered for mass productio
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> We've got to get away from this myth that learning a programming language makes you forever forget how to shower, makes you unpleasant, ignorant of the customer, etc. This wasn't even implied, and seems like a projection of y
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
Judging by Alphabet's stock price and their years of shuttering services at the cost of their reputation, it seems shareholders disagree with you.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
There's a difference between when geohot made an announcement that he's working on a hard problem like you referenced, and when he said he'd solved the problem (which would trivially make him a billionaire) but just couldn&
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> It was hilarious to see most of HN treating that obvious nonsense as credible. I remember it very differently. Maybe there was more than one post on HN, but it seemed like everybody was eviscerating him and basically calling him a fra
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> That will not continue perpetually, sooner or later the tech boom will end and re-industrialization of US will begin. What makes you think the US is going to ramp up manufacturing again?
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
I feel like this is a much more subtle way of reframing what OP said. > Arguably, geeks are better at business (i.e. information handling and problem solving) than non-geeks. Do you believe there's something that geeks aren't b
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
I'd say OP swiftly took the air out of the author's argument, which is that geeks are wonderful to work with once you know how. What OP did was essentially say geeks are better than everyone else and management can fuck off, not