grosjona

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by grosjona 2y ago
They shouldn't have advertised 'free forever' on the website. OMG. In that area, people don't even think about the next day. One of the things I learned is that you should never offer even one tiny ounce of added value w
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by grosjona 2y ago
I thought I'd found my place when I got into open source distributed pub/sub over WebSockets. I worked in this area for over 10 years but you won't find my project in the first 100 results on Google for those niche 7 keywords
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by grosjona 8y ago
I would argue that there is very little correlation between a programmer's perceived skill level and their actual skill level. I know some programmers who used to be considered rock stars because they created a lot of popular libraries
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by grosjona 8y ago
I wonder what would happen if Let's Encrypt started charging for their service AFTER HTTPS became compulsory. Seems like a great (but evil) business strategy. All these CAs could just start increasing their prices and we'd all be
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think that the argument that you can't trust ISPs is weak.. With HTTPS, you still need to trust certificate authorities. It is somewhat suspicious that Google suddenly decided to create their own Certificate Authority in 2017. Forcin
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by grosjona 8y ago
I was reading about non-disparage clauses and I find it disturbing that these clauses are allowed to override a law as fundamental as free speech. It's disturbing that the US needs to make new laws just to reaffirm the validity of some
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think that there are lots of people who could do a better job than Elon Musk but they will never have the opportunity to prove it. The vast majority of people would know that calling the Thai cave diver/rescuer a 'pedo-guy'
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by grosjona 8y ago
One positive thing about being born in a third-world country is that if you can manage to train yourself to become a good software developer (which I admit is probably much harder to achieve than in a first-world country), you can find remo
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by grosjona 8y ago
Maybe these types of people would not have power if everyone knew who they really where. That said I understand people who are afraid that loss of privacy would be asymmetric but I don't think that would happen. Celebrities and public
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by grosjona 8y ago
I disagree with that statement because they have fundamentally different purposes. Free speech affects my ability to improve society. Right to privacy affects my ability to cover my own ass.
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think it's fine. If you did nothing wrong then you have nothing to lose by unlocking your phone. So if you don't unlock your phone, it's an admission of guilt. People are way too paranoid. Nobody cares about what you do wit
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by grosjona 8y ago
I do think that our current social system rewards the wrong things and drives human evolution in the wrong direction. Traits like lying, cheating and hypocrisy are rewarded evolutionarily because they help people to accumulate more resource
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by grosjona 8y ago
I find modern minimalist architecture depressing; the ceilings are low, tables made of glass, everything tends to be white (made worse by modern LED lights), there are no decorative features. Big modern cities are designed to trick people i
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by grosjona 8y ago
This is sexist. They should also allow Introverted Males WithOut Rich Parents to form a company for free. It is very difficult for an IMWORPs to start a company and raise funding these days. How many IMWORP CEOs are there these days? Probab
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by grosjona 8y ago
Makes more sense how you explain it, thanks.
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by grosjona 8y ago
Why is it that when the price drops, consumers would want to buy more and producers would necessarily want to produce less? If I was a company director and the price of the commodity that I produced dropped by a lot, I would work harder to
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by grosjona 8y ago
I had the same thought. Also, I'm not even sure that this diagram makes sense overall because supply, demand and price are so tightly interconnected (with feedback loops in both directions) that it doesn't make sense to separate t
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> ... as demand for a product goes up, supply increases, and price goes down I think it is fine but confusing because it skips over some steps. A longer version might be: ... as demand for a product goes up, the demanded quantity goe
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by grosjona 8y ago
I would only write unit tests for very complex classes whose logic cannot be simplified into something readable. Personally, I rarely introduce bugs at the unit level, almost 100% of my bugs are related to how classes/functions interac
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by grosjona 8y ago
You know exactly what I mean but you can keep pretending not to. It's about signaling. People who are accepted into Y Combinator know how to keep their eye on the ball; if they move a muscle, it is only to catch the ball. So yeah, I th
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by grosjona 8y ago
I've been back and forth between startups and corporations. I think I know what you mean in technical terms; that corporations use more advanced (rigorous) processes and tools and so it feels like you're learning more (it feels mo
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by grosjona 8y ago
Whenever a solution offers you simplicity, you're giving up flexibility. That's why I'd prefer to use a more advanced but standardized open source platform like Kubernetes.
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by grosjona 8y ago
Deploying to a Kubernetes cluster is easy. You just have to learn a few key concepts to write your own .yaml definitions. Also, some open source frameworks come with the .yaml definitions already.
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by grosjona 8y ago
The author should just quit their academic role and become a bureaucrat. If you can't beat them, join them. It's one of the paradoxes of our society; those who have the most power to change things are also the least interested in
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> only trust a not for profit organization Not a very good heuristic, people always find ways to profit from so-called 'non-profits'.
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> The nicest guy you'd ever meet. ...Or most scheming. Obviously his strategy worked out for him. Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with.
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by grosjona 8y ago
The real reason why centralized networks currently cannot be replaced by decentralized alternatives is that being centralized allows a company to do secret, evil-but-lucrative deals under the table without having to reach any sort of social
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by grosjona 8y ago
My first programming experience was in game development (Flash games) but I never spent more than a few months on any game... Soon, I stopped working on games altogether and started working on open source developer tools instead. Games are
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by grosjona 8y ago
At the same time, it's just a regular rock until you hit it with a hammer. If nobody ever hits those rocks with a hammer then they might as well not exist. I don't think animals, plants, trees, fungus, bacteria or the rocks themse
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> far more important causes of inequality, including increasing automation of labor, winner-take-all markets, concentration of corporate and market power, minimal antitrust regulation That's true but I think that winner-take-all

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