Nicksil

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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Before anyone starts a flame war, I want to remind you that HN guidelines require you to either respect other people's culture and religion or keep quiet. It does not.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Click-bait title >on state-owned or state-leased devices
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I work in the industry and all I see around me everywhere are skilled and talented people doing their level best to ship the best and most useful products to their customers at the lowest prices. The theory that the whole industry was s
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>So much longer. Go read any of the warnings that Cory Doctorow has been writing for 20+ years about the imminent war against general purpose computing, how DRM will end our right to use our own CPU, and then look at the date lines, and
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by Nicksil 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>This sounds awful: flying is already a terrible experience, and people suck. On my flight last week, some asshole had to be repeatedly told by a stewardess he had to use headphones to watch a video, instead of making everyone within 10
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Some trivia: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page wrote about this in their 1998 paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine". [...] Doing a Google search for "cellular phone" now returns those poor-q
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by Nicksil 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797896 Submitted 30 min. ago.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Shit, I wish. If you click through the previous pages ("more" link at bottom of page) you'll still find plenty. Though I don't know why the search isn't returning those results.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Your comment is dangerous Your comment is nonsense.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>You should get out more. No offense. This is an unnecessary comment. >Incremental pain, delivered early, is both corrective and less expensive over the long run. If you need to remain version-locked for a specific reason, that reason
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>the majority of its users (developers) want rolling updates for their tooling. I haven't met a single software developer who wants this. That's not to say your statement is incorrect -- I have no evidence stating otherwise --
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by Nicksil 4y ago
I don't know what this is but it doesn't seem to meet the criteria for what should be submitted.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_(airline)
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by Nicksil 4y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Apple, Microsoft, Amazon? Ads.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I see a lot of submissions that get a few votes and then disappear. If you hate it go submit 20 articles about something else, just not all at the same time. That would be contributing to something I'm clearly opposed to. Besides,
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Huh? I see one article about Twitter on the front page right now and one article that might be tangentially related. New is getting spammed with that stuff but not a lot is floating to the top. It’s like that quote from the movie The Ch
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Yes, please. My god.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
You've amplified it by quoting that specific statement; it's a lot easier to pick out from your comment than if it had remained buried in text.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Are we really at the stage where we simply downvote people who say things that are hard to hear? This behavior is ubiquitous and has been for some time. Though the frequency has seemed to have increased exponentially somewhat recently.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Imagine how much better the program could be if it were directly funded by the government instead of being indirectly funded by the government and enriching the world’s biggest arsehole in the process There are plenty of other threads o
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I guess Musk just doesn't care about the lower income countries out there. Is this really a priority for the lower income countries out there?
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I'm guessing you haven't worked at a big valley tech company. But this may be your chance! A "big valley tech" company? No. A big company? Yes. But you didn't explain why that mattered.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Hiring new engineers while the CEO is busy boiling some of its engineers alive [...] But that's just your anecdote and has no actual affect on the time necessary to hire new software developers. And the time it takes to hire has al
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Do we know for sure they still have to prove they are who they claim? Do they not already?
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>So if [insert celebrity here] decides not to pay, I can now pay $20 to officially impersonate them as backed by Twitter. Do you have the necessary documentation to prove this identity? Aren't you concerned with violating federal la
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by Nicksil 4y ago
What's to say there isn't just as many, equally capable people looking for a job there? They'll be fine. Most people are going no where and those that leave will be replaced immediately.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>A number of Twitter users have been correctly pointing out that anyone who pays $20/mo is more opening themselves to being dunked on than anything else. That says a lot about those Twitter users.

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