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by blowski 4y ago
Some of my HN comments will simultaneously have only very critical replies and lots of upvotes. It’s hard to interpret that.
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by blowski 4y ago
I really dislike the trend for saying “I’d fire you for x” where x is merely a suboptimal choice, or even a harmless decision about which the author has strong opinions. Probably it is said in jest but it creates a hostile atmosphere for ju
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by blowski 4y ago
Off on a tangent here, but I downvoted this comment because it doesn't really add anything. On what basis can you confirm it? Do you work there? Do you have deep expertise in the domain?
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by blowski 4y ago
Assuming browser developers are not insane or incompetent psychopaths, why do you think they’ve done it this way?
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by blowski 4y ago
If the article and discussion here show anything, it's that it's impossible to come up with a universally accepted definition of news.
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by blowski 4y ago
Goodbye :wave:
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by blowski 4y ago
I'm not deaf, don't know any sign language, am not close friends with anyone who does. However, I understand that it's much easier to be expressive in sign language. Non-verbal language used by the speaker - sarcasm, tone, in
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by blowski 4y ago
You missed out the bullet point where someone posts a variation of this comment on Hacker News.
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by blowski 4y ago
Before the iPad came out - when Michael Arrington at TechCrunch was talking about the "CrunchPad" - the dream app was a browser. People were talking about laying on the sofa reading the news, watching videos, checking emails - wit
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by blowski 4y ago
Yes, the standard setup for any PHP application in the last 10 years is a webserver (e.g. Apache, nginx, Caddy, lighttpd) in front of PHP FPM. I guess to the OP's point, it does still require PHP, FPM, a number of other PHP extensions,
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by blowski 4y ago
Interestingly, the English equivalent of that page describes an event that's been happening only since 1985.
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by blowski 4y ago
Financial transparency and integrity is a wonderful goal. However, I am yet to understand why any kind of blockchain is necessary or sufficient, or even a good solution. If you want to cook the books you can do it with or without blockchain
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by blowski 4y ago
Agree entirely. The bureaucratic tendency, though, is to see those edge cases as inconvenient inefficiencies that are just easier to ignore.
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by blowski 4y ago
He's put _a lot_ of effort into ripping them.
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by blowski 4y ago
Edge cases aren't frequent enough to have a competitive edge of not having them. Too bad for you when you're the edge case. Backing people's files up for them on my USB storage makes me feel like the aircon repairman in the T
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by blowski 4y ago
The naive mental model of how this works is that Apple is taking the files he ripped onto his hard drive, storing them in the cloud, and then streaming them over the internet to his other devices. As you say, this is effectively what happen
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by blowski 4y ago
My friend is in his 60s who is not very technical, but is very into music. He has 1000s of (purchased) CDs and vinyl. He has ripped a lot of it onto a local hard drive. I can see how he might think Apple Music _is_ a backup of those files.
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by blowski 4y ago
Musk reminds me of Citizen Kane. He could lose $5 billion per year for 20 years and still be significantly wealthier than most people on the planet.
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by blowski 4y ago
Of course a lot of us are. It's probably one of the top 10 topics that gets moaned about on HN.
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by blowski 4y ago
Is it necessary to believe anyone is "stupid" as a personality? I just disagree with people's opinions on certain things. And if I frequently disagree with someone enough, then I just quietly stop paying any attention to what
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by blowski 4y ago
If Hacker News tried building a social network, we'd spend the whole time arguing about every single micro-decision and getting nowhere.
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by blowski 4y ago
I'd like to imagine I have a consistent pattern in my voting, but it's probably affected by my mood as much as anything. If I'm grumpy, I downvote, and might be guilty of upvoting argumentative comments. If I'm in a good
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by blowski 4y ago
In a utopian world, companies would “take what they need, pay what they can”. In the real world, the tech giants will likely dominate the open source market, either by donations that allow them to prioritise, or by killing other versions. B
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by blowski 4y ago
The advantage of Vue, Svelte, and React is the neat decoupling of changing state and responding to those changes. jQuery always seemed to end up in long chains of callback hell.
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by blowski 4y ago
> It's [Safari] so bad that most video chat services don't even support it. Which ones? I've used Zoom, Meet, Teams, and Whereby in Safari with no problems. I've never encountered a video service _not_ work in it.
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by blowski 4y ago
Great point. This is the root of so much of the challenge on the internet. There's a certain techno-utopianism libertarian view that says "absolutely, anybody should be able to say anything". And then there's a totalitar
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by blowski 4y ago
Perhaps "short" is a shorter way of saying "quick to parse". Even with IDEs, I still want that, lest I end up having to choose between names like this all the time: - MinimumPriceCalculatorFactory - MinimumPriceCalculate
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by blowski 4y ago
The site has existed in this format since the late 90s, when CGI was how you did these things. That it hasn't really needed to change in 20 years speaks to the quality of websites built like this, not their "shittiness". Comp
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by blowski 4y ago
Within engineering, there is this weird dominant culture that fresher information is more likely to be accurate. Sometimes, that's right, because a lot of tech changes so quickly that a three year old article about is now hopelessly ou
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by blowski 4y ago
It’s not that simple though, is it. There are plenty of highly paid engineers who couldn’t build a decent product given all the coffee in Shoreditch. As a non-tech person, how do I know to whom I should give all this money? Maybe a hands-of

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