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by ferdowsi 5y ago
In the 1980s it was perfectly reasonable to not depict Indians eating monkey brains and performing child sacrifice rituals.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
This is a great story. There's little more painful than putting your life into building something and coming out feeling unappreciated.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Why ARE types like the Koch Brothers so interested in nuclear? It's a massive upfront capital expenditure, and profitability is always questionable so they need to be subsidized by governments. Is it simply ideological aversion to sola
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
This is very neat. Looking forward to ICS files actually being useful again!
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I'm sure that the culture is very privacy/tech savvy, but Freenode even couldn't be bothered to enforce TLS on all connections. There's no need for overt collaboration at that point since communication is just wide-open
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
It's interesting to hear about stability concerns. Overall I think my organization moving to microservices improved our resiliency story. It allowed us to freeze sensitive legacy services and gradually build other surrounding services
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I think all of this conflict will just cause most users to abandon IRC altogether for Slack or Discord. Points of prolonged disruption are where people start to seriously evaluate jumping to different platforms, even if they were previously
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Experiencing backwards compatibility breakages is not "finding a bug" it is the tool being broken from under you. I don't have to prepare for the possibility of having live tech support open whenever I update the Go binary in
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I don't want my tools to break from under me, and I don't want to be forced to call tech support needlessly. Do you love dealing with refrigerator repairs? Why should we love dealing with Rust repairs?
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Needing to jump on a tech support chat server to a debug a language backwards compatibility issue seems another bug, not a feature.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Is it really so grim? This report has London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin in the top 20 startup global ecosystems. https://cdn.startupgenome.com/sites/5c98cab2fb6681000470c58c...
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
It was probably a one-time-use bypass code offered by a 2FA provider.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
This is a difficult thing to describe for any pre-modern polity, where vassalage and weak frontiers make it difficult to describe if a central power actually controlled a territory. The Ottoman Empire de-facto exercised little control its N
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Strongly agree with this. I've been in situations where my team had no manager, a bad manager, and a great manager. The situation where I had no manager was the worst, by far. I've found that if you throw a bunch of Alpha Geeks to
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
How would this CTO possibly know what data is shared with the Chinese government?
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
It's curious that we haven't seen dedicated effort towards a consistent password autofill API in browsers, like what is present in Android. Even the Credential Management API seems to have not picked up traction for passwords, tho
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
It gives Google an ingress to weaken adblocking and privacy controls in other browsers.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Plenty of typical lawyer work is ripe for automation.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Since starting to work remote I've discovered the power of shutting down the work laptop (not sleeping) at a set time and not looking back. No Slack or work email on the phone. When I look back on hallway conversations, I can't th
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
When I was around the Bay, I felt like part of the implicit social contract was trading a luxurious office environment for meager, overpriced housing. A long-term WFH arrangement was never sustainable. In my spacious but reasonable Midweste
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Whoa. Really, really disappointed about this. The Phabricator approach to reviews and merges was incredibly impactful on a previous team. It encouraged discipline and an informative main branch that was always linked to reviews, and free of
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Cannot agree enough. I joined a startup that very clearly initially hired for Russian cultural fit (friends hiring friends) and the mood was like attending a funeral on a daily basis. During interviewing, the hiring manager very cleverly ha
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Depends if the employee has signed an options agreement and those options have been approved by the board. At a recent gig I started up a few weeks before an exit. My options had not yet officially been granted by the board. My company gran
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I recently spearheaded the creation of a new Go service at my company. If it was Node or Python I could easily imagine a team getting sucked into weeks of bikeshedding the API framework, the test framework, linting tools, formatting tools,
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Including inheritance in nim was a design mistake and is enough to make me pass on it. Go and Rust were correct in avoiding inheritance in the language.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I find that for PEPs like this there is not adequate discussion of performance implications. It describes an "opt-out" mechanism which suggests that Python programs will and should by default incur a performance penalty for this b
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by ferdowsi 6y ago
If you work at Facebook it's time to seriously consider leaving to avoid damage to your own brand. Future employers are going to be scrutinizing your record and will ask you difficult questions about why you stuck by Facebook despite a
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by ferdowsi 6y ago
The Google team is right. It had a great run, but it's time to let XML die.
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by ferdowsi 6y ago
ECDSA is the standard format used for WebAuthn registration/auth. It's going to become more commonplace.
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by ferdowsi 6y ago
The addition of hooks feels more like an ideological decision than anything. The current fad in the JS world is for functional programming, even if misusing hooks can completely crash your application (this happens if hooks are run in an un

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