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by Hasu 5y ago
I write PHP for my job almost every day, and have for the past 4 years, and there's some truth to what you say: anything you can write in another language, you can also write in PHP. Personally, I can't stand writing PHP, because,
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by Hasu 5y ago
> Sure, there are apex predators who are knowingly scamming and defrauding people, but how do I describe a coworker who is enthusiastic about the $1000 of Bitcoin he has? The English language has plenty of words, the ones that come to mi
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by Hasu 5y ago
> Why can't the US simply allow the corporations to face the consequences of their actions? They can and usually do. I don't think you'll see any US government action over this $2.8b fine. If the EU decided to try to fine
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by Hasu 5y ago
For every company that introduces a positive change into their hiring process that is 'obviously better' for both employers and employees, there are 9 (or more?) companies that will thoughtlessly add it to their already endless in
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by Hasu 5y ago
A not as large but still significant number of people (including myself) also got vaccinated, then got infected anyway. It's certainly not a simple choice between the two, taking the vaccine reduces your risk, it does not eliminate it.
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by Hasu 6y ago
This seems pretty crazy to me - you're saying that if I happen to enjoy anything that also happens to be enjoyed by racists/sexists, you would be concerned? Guess what? Racists and sexists like Harry Potter, and Star Wars, and Mar
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by Hasu 6y ago
The Nashville Megaman rock opera band The Protomen [1] has a member who goes by the pseudonym K.I.L.R.O.Y. who opens every show. [2] They've covered Mr. Roboto and are heavily influenced by 80s rock culture generally (they did an en
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by Hasu 6y ago
Google doesn't sell your personal information to anyone. They sell ads that are targeted based on your personal information. Selling your information directly would entirely negate their market advantage in advertising, it would be sui
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by Hasu 6y ago
This does not address my point at all, which is that if it locks out OTHER parties that currently abuse third party cookies from tracking, there's a substantial improvement for user privacy from those parties. Not to mention that while
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by Hasu 6y ago
> That's not an improvement in privacy. Okay, that's obviously not true from your own comment, you also say: > Google will make it more difficult for others to track you So if Google can still track me at the same level, but
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by Hasu 6y ago
I've read part of it, and really enjoyed it, and I would say: It breaks cooking down into four simple, basic principles (the salt, acid, fat, and heat of the title), then deep dives into each one and explains exactly how those things c
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by Hasu 6y ago
I never used Google Reader, but did use other RSS, and I stopped years ago - not because RSS doesn't still work great, it does. But because so much of the content I used to consume with it is gone now. I used to follow a few dozen blog
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by Hasu 6y ago
> But that had nothing to do with me working at UPS. I worked there because I liked the extra money on top of what my parents gave me and to me it was like getting paid for gym :D. I'm happy you ended up with a great job that pays w
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by Hasu 6y ago
> So he worked at McDonalds for 3 years in high school, what does that have to do with anything. I'm confused, you started by agreeing that highlighting the McDonald's experience is a good thing, then asked 'what does that
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by Hasu 6y ago
I'm not sure that using React or another JS framework counts as 'being at the edge of over-engineering'. I agree with the rest of your point - the value of the product to end-users has little to no correlation with the underl
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by Hasu 6y ago
I don't think you're arguing against what I actually said. > So would you argue that the Craigslist experience is only good for those with the "programmer's mentality"? No, I think I was clear - I think the Cra
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by Hasu 6y ago
HN users, on the whole, are terrible UX critics who have no idea what they're talking about on the subject. The average HN user probably: - knows their way around a terminal - understands default browser behavior in depth - has the pro
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by Hasu 6y ago
> I think you should use your logic to campaign for legislation or regulation, not try to force people by applying pain. Campaigning for legislation or regulation is trying to force people through the use of the government's monopol
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by Hasu 6y ago
You can do all kinds of stupid animations with pure CSS.
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by Hasu 6y ago
It's funny, when I was first learning programming 15 years ago, the thing I heard everywhere was "webdev is easy and for noobs", and sure, it was 15 years ago and webdev has come a long way... but when I interview the fresh-o
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by Hasu 6y ago
They aren't selling to individual programmers, they're selling to CTOs and other executives, the people who have the power to make spending decisions on which cloud solution to use. "Whoever it is sure ain't a good marke
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by Hasu 7y ago
> Which actually makes sense. if we are made up of influences from nature and nurture and you remove one of those influences, differences in the other becomes more clear. its not rocket science but somehow people are still surprised by i
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by Hasu 7y ago
>When we talk on HN about managers that have technical competencies and try to get into the development process we bash them for thinking they understand, but we sometimes argue that we need to understand and do all roles and it works...
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by Hasu 7y ago
There are several points here where you assume that as an engineer, you need to learn to do another job entirely, here: >This paragraph encompases the job title of business analyst, project manager and business intelligence. >Let’s ju
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by Hasu 9y ago
So what? Human beings aren't obligated to make "an actual contribution to human understanding." If you want neuroscience research done so much, go get your degree and make that contribution yourself. I don't understand w
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by Hasu 10y ago
This is exactly what the article is talking about. You're not acknowledging how much of your success comes from luck, you see yourself working hard and you don't like being told you're lucky. You're not only lucky becaus
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by Hasu 10y ago
Unfortunately there are people who really believe it. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism
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by Hasu 10y ago
That PHP has gone through major changes matters, and I agree that newer versions of PHP are huge improvements, but I don't think that response is an adequate rebuttal of the Fractal of Bad Design article. The "rebuttal" is cl
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by Hasu 10y ago
There's a game company called Artillery that is developing an RTS called or code-named Atlas. https://www.artillery.com/atlas
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by Hasu 11y ago
That isn't a very efficient way to do it. Try doing a binary search. Start with a word that starts with 'M', then if it's before, try one that starts with 'F' or 'G', if it's after, try one that

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