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by hitekker 5y ago
It sounds like he's just making excuses. If he really thought his contributions were just for learning, he wouldn't be bragging in his bio that he's "created more than 1,000 open source projects". That's like s
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Did your parents pay for your college?
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Admiral Rickover managed nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Moreover, he was responsible for introducing these incredibly complex and dangerous technologies to the Navy. Claiming that his approach was “not scalable” and that yours is
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> What these donations through GNOME still cannot do is funding paid development, so if that’s what you want, please fund the developers directly as explained above. GIMP project obviously welcomes the 2 types of donation, for community
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by hitekker 5y ago
I like that it inspired Krita. Those folks really seem to be listening to users; working hard to build highly demanded features without navel-gazing or bike-shedding. For those who haven't seen it before, check https://krita
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by hitekker 5y ago
A lot of name dropping to cover his butt, management doublespeak, and a disregard for the substance of klabnik's post: that AWS is unduly influencing the Rust language. Niko is now an engineer at AWS so I guess he can't bite the
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The second screenshot shows Steve saying "force them to use our far superior payment system" and the fourth one is him ordering his subordinate to make it so.
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Louis, this sounds like a conspiracy theory. A huge, controversial claim with misleading points, a belief that everyone is biased yet only you are "looking at the facts", a fervent desire to keep arguing on a technology-focused fo
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The GP’s comment sought to marginalize & disrespect a religious text by misrepresenting the text's prominence within its own religion. I suspect we would not be playing word games, if they instead said that SuperNotes is not a real
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by hitekker 5y ago
The very first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books contradicts your comment. > The deuterocanonical books (from the Greek meaning "belonging to the second canon") are books and
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by hitekker 5y ago
You might want to read this article and the HN comments around it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414920 . The GP is not arguing against your political positions, but pointing out that an organization which use to fo
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by hitekker 5y ago
I think the seminal text on offense, jokes, and satires in the worship of programming languages is probably https://web.archive.org/web/20061110043911/https://fluff.inf... I've found it be to pretty
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by hitekker 5y ago
As a counterpoint, I remember when someone satirized RIIR on HN and the post was flagged into oblivion even though the comments section was mostly approving. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198571 Someone reposted th
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by hitekker 5y ago
> To improve our critical infrastructure we must improve the developer experience (DX) of systems programming, but rewriting everything is not the only answer. I like Kristoff from what I've read of him. He seems like a leader who w
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by hitekker 5y ago
For those interested in media panics over small nothings, check out this full-length 1980's made-for-TV movie about Dungeons and Dragons, featuring Tom Hanks snapping and losing his grip on reality. https://www.youtube.com&#
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by hitekker 5y ago
Jeff Huber did not think that. Peter Chane, the product manager of Google Videos, wrote the 1.5 engineers comment and "we have all of their [Youtube's] features in our q4 plan". The email thread indicates that Peter wanted Go
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by hitekker 5y ago
This is a wonderful comment. You've put into words what I've felt about the industry these past 10 years. Complexity correlates strongly with onboarding. The more complex your framework, library, or tool, the longer and steeper th
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by hitekker 5y ago
Speaking from personal experience, I agree with most of the points listed in the linked comment The incompatibility of GraphQL and SDUI is obvious; the former dictates UI from the frontend, the latter from the backend. Poor performance stem
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> I think sharing this story reflects poorly on me also. Perhaps finding out somebody has been telling you lies so they could continue to participate isn't a great sin. Perhaps I was simply too focused on getting shit done in imposs
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by hitekker 5y ago
I found this comment to be a thoughtful critique of Server-Driven UI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27708631
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by hitekker 5y ago
Totally fair. Good nitpick.
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by hitekker 5y ago
Well said!
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Yep, “RPP” one of those positive illusions that the naive cling to, while the sociopathic leverage its rhetoric to advance up the ladder. Or to impress the status quo onto new entrants of the social hierarchy. It’s a very scary thing to liv
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> Even overengineered systems should be simple to change. One of the most significant qualities of a over-engineered system is an unusual resistance to change.
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by hitekker 5y ago
I definitely didn't know about this. It's a shame you're the only one to remember. Thanks for sharing. It's telling that one Wikipedia’s citations describes their customer burning out due to the evangelized methodology:
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SF is great once you convince yourself that crime, lawlessness and misery are "values" rather than the result of poor governance. When I lived in SF, it was fun watching who could admit the government wasn't great, and who di
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by hitekker 5y ago
Thanks for the link. The article looks like global-warming denialism wrapped up in a blogspam format.
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> You no doubt realize that money doesn’t change who you are. It can, however, change others’ perceptions of you. People project their own needs, resentments, insecurities and ambitions onto others. Compare and despair is an often unavoi
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by hitekker 5y ago
A lot of new programmers don’t know the meaning of complexity. They only see the features and not the costs. By the time they finally realize the mess they’ve created, they’ve sunk too much effort and credibility to admit fault.
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by hitekker 5y ago
I think your idea of “passing data around” is pretty far off from the commonly accepted one.

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