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by hitekker 4y ago
Do you have specific examples? Not to imply you’re wrong, I’m just curious
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by hitekker 4y ago
pcwalton said on 9/9/2022 that Zig was "a massive step backwards for the industry". He believes that all new languages should be "memory safe"; anything that doesn't meet his definition of memory safe is a
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by hitekker 4y ago
> The launch was originally planned to be in 2020 but only rudimentary experimental code has been released until the project was abandoned in January 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diem_(digital_currency)
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by hitekker 4y ago
The article starts out interesting but the author lacks courage. > I knew there were limits to my desired independence, because, whether we like it or not, we all become like the people we surround ourselves with. So I surrounded myself
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by hitekker 4y ago
Your comments in this thread only seem dyspeptic because they’re antiseptic. Thank you for cleaning up the viral vitriol.
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by hitekker 4y ago
Yep those are two important points. Another one is that Twin Galaxies basically sat on the collusion for a decade after the movie came out. A lot of wannabe criminals on the internet can't see this though; they live in a fantasy where
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by hitekker 4y ago
Funny, the wikipedia page says something different: Twin Galaxies colluded with Billy Mitchell to support his fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kong#Emulation_con... The referee in charge was later delis
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by hitekker 4y ago
I haven’t worked with Nix and this blogpost has encouraged me to stay clear of it. https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/275 I've never seen good names emerge out of committees. Particularly ones that
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by hitekker 4y ago
Agreed. Insinuating "other developers are careless" sounds odd given how GIMP lost their own wiki. https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gimp-web/-/issues/25... Years of docs gone because one
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by hitekker 4y ago
You didn't look very hard. Eugenics was a form of "scientism" that justified and spread scientific racism. The scientists involved were keen on destroying races they deemed "inferior" to themselves. https:/&#x
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by hitekker 4y ago
React Native has two kinds of proponents: managers who don't want to deal with expensive mobile engineers and frontend web developers who don't want to learn mobile engineering. It's labor-saving and over-engineering combined
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by hitekker 4y ago
> antiquated languages and frameworks Yikes, I hope you're not calling Kotlin or Swift antiquated. That's utterly false.
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by hitekker 4y ago
> I always take engineering management advice in books as a "do what I say not what I do" sort of thing. That's pretty true for Will. Too much self-marketing. It doesn’t help his decision to leave Stripe for a failing star
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by hitekker 4y ago
Ethnic nepotism is not normal. It's one thing to hire people you know, it's another thing to discriminate and hire members of your own family.
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by hitekker 4y ago
What defines a "growth & engagement operation"? Is it when the goal is to grow as much as possible, while engaging users without actually meeting users needs or retaining them?
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by hitekker 4y ago
> There is no such thing as a "Rust community". Actually, there is: https://www.rust-lang.org/community . It's centralized and they even have appointed moderators https://www.rust-lang.org/g
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by hitekker 4y ago
Wow! Your third paragraph was a seamless example. I had a laugh.
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by hitekker 4y ago
Idea differ in the degree of virality however. They also differ in the degree of parasitism; some are designed to spread as much as possible with no regard for the longevity of the host. Cults, as an extreme example, seize upon vulnerable a
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by hitekker 4y ago
I'll go a step further. The author of the article is deceiving himself and his audience to apologize for terrible decisions in OSS, separate from Microsoft, which is no saint either. This is historical revisionism that the creator of G
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by hitekker 4y ago
It’s a fun, relevant metaphor. Some folks live under a bridge and have nothing to do but to harass travelers. Trolls don’t own the bridge and they certainly shouldn’t be demanding tolls and taxes. But their position has stunted their minds
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by hitekker 4y ago
I'd give them some time to figure out pricing since they seem to be in early alpha. At least they've articulated pricing they don't like and acknowledged they're still thinking about it
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by hitekker 4y ago
Thanks for calling this out. The twitter meme of "anything I like is natural, anything I don't like is cultural" is pretty braindead. Even just one aspect of our biology like hormones impacts human behavior considerably.
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by hitekker 4y ago
I thought the flagged sibling comment was harsh but wow, 9 angry comments in just the last hour. That's not healthy
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by hitekker 4y ago
Yeah, I think the article lacks of a single, clear statement on why things it went wrong. It gets caught up in myriads of little reasons which I think distracts the author from arriving at a painful insight. His shortest section, left towar
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by hitekker 4y ago
Agreed. Underpaying engineers is not funny. Perhaps desirable for a cookie-cutter, third-tier, sweatshop that runs on labor as dumb as their management. But not desirable for profitable firms that require real talent. As a a manager who&#x2
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by hitekker 4y ago
Solid comment. The word "hustle" conceals face-saving under the lip-service of survival. A careerist use it to cover up their wrongdoing. Like you said, they also believe in "hustle" because they're desperate; the
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by hitekker 4y ago
I think most managers are afraid to think how the people who like them are using them. That fear is intensified by past decisions around liking: when you've promoted someone who was good at manipulating you, terrible at the work, and n
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by hitekker 4y ago
> The idea of UI being a pure function of the model seems so obviously incorrect, and leads to such a plethora of problems, that it is a bit puzzling how one could come up with it in the first place, and certainly how one would stick wit
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by hitekker 4y ago
Today I learned, thanks.
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by hitekker 4y ago
hear, hear!

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