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by blickentwapft 6y ago
DHH has literally articulated this as a marketing strategy in the past.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Feels like DHH manufacturing controversy. Deliberately break rules so Apple rejects their code. So it’s a marketing stunt designed to get a product into the front page of Hacker News. But that would never happen of course... HEY!! Do you re
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
I think this sort of thing is the outcome of “engineer stockpiling” where companies insatiably hire engineers beyond what they need. The company becomes a “a collector of fine engineers” like a gallery or museum or stable. And since such en
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
I’m getting to the point of just switching off. Whatever your opinion, there will be many others who deeply and vehemently disagree with you and do so with passionate, fiery, certain-to-be-correct righteous indignation. Carry your true opin
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
The cynic might say “because in a year this will all have blown over and we can get back to selling”.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Could open source graphics drivers become a better option than proprietary?
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
>>> Robustness Principle: Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. It’s a design guideline for software and a good rule for life: My understanding is this is flat out wrong and bad for software dev
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Can we identify in comments all the discriminatory words in computing?(twitter.com)
4 points by blickentwapft 6y ago|0 comments
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Whilst his stance is to be applauded, it lessens the value of the stance given that he’s not sacrificing much and won’t suffer for his cause. Doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do, just that it would carry more weight if he was leavin
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
It’s a highly privileged position to be in to make a personal stand and leave your $250,000 job for another $250,000 job. Not judging this way or that, just saying.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Any time I hear “AI powered”, I can’t help it but the image of a curtain pulling back to reveal a bunch of hamsters turning a wheel comes to mind.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
There’s no problem with capitalism. The problem is rich people aren’t willing to share the wealth with less fortunate. Socialism is a dirty word in the USA but it’s really just about taking care of everyone. Rich people - to generalize - a
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Essentially react without virtual dom?
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
This is so precisely a representation of Unix think, and why Linux has such a problem competing as a desktop.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
The biggest most obvious slap you in the face problem with the Ubuntu desktop is cut and paste. This is the key thing a desktop should get right but it’s so wrong. It uses different keys to both OS X and windows, whereas it really should s
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
>> At surface level, the South Atlantic Anomaly presents no cause for alarm. I still feel an irrational sense of alarm.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
New technologies are overestimated in the short term and underestimated in the long term.
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Ask HN: Links are pouring in from “substack”, can someone please explain?
3 points by blickentwapft 6y ago|3 comments
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
No wonder people don’t trust tech companies.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
The more successful the battle against coronavirus, the less effective such an app would appear.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
It’s a pity that all the best text to speech and speech to text systems are cloud based with heavy vendor lock in.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Cool idea
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Sadly I just sold an old z80 sign making device from long ago and it had about 10 add on rom font cartridges. Would have been good to give them to this guy.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
I don’t know why but I love VGA text mode fonts. This project is awesome. Are there pictures of the fonts? I didn’t see any.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
? Don’t understand your point. Is your point that small companies appoint unsuitable people to architect systems? Why because they know no better? FYI many years in small and startups also large and medium.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
That’s not architecture. The tasks you describe are those of a development lead or dev manager. An architect might also be a dev team lead, in which case they might have such responsibilities, but the point remains that such detail oriented
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Precisely my point. An architect is someone who has been designing and building software architectures for years as a developer and or team lead and has accumulated the skills of an architect until eventually they get do take a job solely f
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
How can you get to be lead architect if you don’t already know how to do the job incredibly well? Like how could someone design/architect a skyscraper if they didn’t already know how to do it? Why would you accept such a job if you did
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Ask HN: Are You Out of Work?
4 points by blickentwapft 6y ago|0 comments
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
I heard a (probably apocryphal) story about a couple breaking up due to a diplomacy game.

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