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901.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> why "hacking" aka "going fast and breaking things" is so glorified This is not hacking in the proper ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto ) sense.
902.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> Make it work. Make it faster. This is not hacking.
903.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
This should apply to the whole thread rather than that comment.
904.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Thank you for this. It's very religious, very US-centric and indeed off-topic.
905.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
...while at the same time US law seem to magically apply everywhere in the world. Extradition to the US is very common. Not to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
906.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> The way software engineers (and coders in general) are treated like assembly line workers is ridiculous. It's a trick to keep salaries from raising.
907.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
A simple text string would be much faster to search in a browser or command line. Most browsers would highlight all the matches. On top of that, emojis are much less friendly to visually impaired people.
908.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
A vehicle out of TRON that carries bags of dirt and pulls a horse wagon. More than ugly, it looks like a parody.
909.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Indeed. A lot of the ergonomics people talk about is not backed by any scientific research. Switch to dvorak to minimize finger travel and use a flat keyboard on an inverted stand.
910.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Stunning? They are often a cacophony of gaudily bright colors.
911.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Whitewhashing indeed. But harris is not just a random white guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris#Reception
912.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> Power ... is highly concentrated among impersonal giant corporations That power ultimately belongs to the billionaires that own the relative majority of stocks. The faceless companies are just proxies. This is where wealth inequality c
913.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Noise cancelling headphones are a far from effective. Use passive isolation from earplugs to headphones.
914.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
"can't be used for monetary gain" is very difficult to define. A simple example is replacing a paid software with FLOSS for cost saving. For a company, this directly leads to increased profit. This is one of the reasons why F
915.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> SaaS is more closed than closed: you control nothing, not even your data, and can trivially be spied on and monetized in other questionable ways Spot on, and those companies managed to subvert and violate the spirit of FLOSS in many wa
916.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> This is a good time to remember that police forces work for governments and not the other way around. And let's not forget that both [should] work for the people.
917.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
12% of women is not exactly "rare"! The fact that it did not come out before is telling. It's interesting to notice how designing screens to use the RGB colors is very limiting for those people. Imagine living in a world wher
918.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> "well, then do it in your spare time" Or, get paid to do FLOSS. (paid, not donations)
919.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
"outlet for people at work" hints that benefits everybody, or the majority. "outlet for management" sounds quite different.
920.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Why such bad grammar?
921.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
WTF? Venting might be arguably beneficial in some cases, but in many companies employees don't get to vent in a meeting. Rather, they have to endure demands, complaints and display of status from management - which is the opposite of t
922.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
It's a way to appeal to language fanboys. If someone needs an application written in a specific language they can just search for it.
923.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
More downvotes?
924.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
For most companies it's internal marketing.
925.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
You are making a strawman: they are not a special "class" indeed. But they have a very special position and role that makes them specially vulnerable when dealing with powerful institutions.
926.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Spot on. Websites will turn from bloated to extremely bloated. Shipping 5 MB of bytecode will help with: * Obfuscating dark patterns e.g. aggressive fingerprinting based on hardware, OS, cache contents, timing * Breaking ad blockers * B
927.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
BI?
928.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> Container management? Another place where systemd-nspawn doesn't strike me as notably better than the alternatives. That's one thing where it's way better.
929.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
I was looking forward to this: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2019/11/07/0/
930.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
facepalm

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