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by hitekker 5y ago
This comment on SDUI is the most insightful one I've read yet, and I'm surprised it isn't at the top of the page.
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by hitekker 5y ago
Spoken like someone who was personally offended by satire.
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by hitekker 5y ago
Edit: I stand corrected, see below. Sadly no in-unit washer/dryer. Interesting that their product is called "casita" since the company "Kasita", which also specialized in tiny homes, recently folded. https:/&#
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by hitekker 5y ago
My team is currently removing Flow types in our JS code base.
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by hitekker 5y ago
> They changed it so I would report to the product lead, which is odd for an EM to report into a product chain and the only instance within the company ever. This screams of power play. Good on you for moving your neck before the axe cam
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by hitekker 5y ago
This went from "weird, defensive throwaway" to "possible Amazon HR agent" in 5 seconds. I think asking for the name of someone's former manager on a public forum without giving any details in return is pretty suspec
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by hitekker 5y ago
"Lower level" is a basic software engineering shorthand for minimal abstraction. https://computersciencewiki.org/index.php/Higher_level_and_l... IndexedDB builds on top of SQLite, so it's considered &quo
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by hitekker 5y ago
I don't think the GP's intent was to project his own superiority. Rather, if we're unable to use mythologies as a metaphor for the human experience, that is, for our self-expression, we are not as smart nor as strong as we fa
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by hitekker 5y ago
The phrase that comes to mind is "Xanatos Gambit" https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit
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by hitekker 5y ago
> at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose, From reading the emails, it looks like the Replit CEO "trusted" that the OP was cowed into submission.
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by hitekker 5y ago
> Apparently it didn't bring enough of that, so instead he's using the feigned outrage to try to achieve the same. The charity bit is particularly weak. Very relatable; I felt the same way about the article. When I was a younge
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by hitekker 5y ago
Walgreens is not a grocery. Its official tagline is "Your go-to for Pharmacy, Health & Wellness and Photo products." In practice, it offers some foodstuffs that a Grocery might have like instant noodles, but does not market it
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by hitekker 5y ago
> - I gave a beer to a homeless guy, and he chugged it & threw the can into the street. I asked him why he didn’t put it in the trash can right next to us, and he explained that he didn’t want the tiny Asian women who forage for recy
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by hitekker 5y ago
> This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print i
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by hitekker 5y ago
I think little of zeal outside of close-knit groups. It takes too much effort, it's easily misdirected, and it can be faked. At scale, it incurs a deficit between input and output, willpower and reality, and eventually achieves its clo
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by hitekker 5y ago
> It was an interesting bit of group dynamics, in that the vast majority of my colleagues there did not ever have to be in the position of actually endorsing the lies about my work; they just were able to not think about it and move on.
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by hitekker 5y ago
Not too surprising. Mobile native engineers are quite expensive and coinbase has been cutting costs recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27119787
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by hitekker 5y ago
Developers sneering at other developers is relevant to a discussion about gatekeeping.
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by hitekker 5y ago
May I have a link to his departure from Yarn?
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by hitekker 5y ago
You're right the "XY problem" is vague. But that's exactly why engineers cling to it. The concept cloaks a messy, human interaction in the guise of math & logic. It enables an answerer to dissect their questioner wit
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by hitekker 5y ago
Agreed with the sibling comment. My own experience with GTK and their developers have been awful.
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by hitekker 5y ago
Echo chamber is one term, another would be tribe. An insecure group member feels threatened by an outsider and lashes out. Another group member sees an outsider triggering a group member and he immediately jumps into help. Together, they at
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by hitekker 5y ago
If MacOS support is terrible, then they could either not advertise it[1] or disclaim it results in poor UX. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty#installation Labeling a piece of software as "cross platform"
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by hitekker 5y ago
Are you affiliated with GNOME?
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by hitekker 5y ago
The last two discussions I recall on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24922522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125769
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by hitekker 5y ago
On the topic of web components, does anyone know if AMP is still using them? I heard they switched over to Preact but I couldn't find an official announcement.
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by hitekker 6y ago
I've heard a strategy to start with asking "who do you respect the most in this org?" or "who is the most knowledgeable person in the org?". Keep repeating that across every 1:1 and you may eventually build an influ
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by hitekker 6y ago
> one who would rather metagame the organization itself rather than address the market/customers/ops Saved for future reference. My company has an exploding number of metagamers with an ever shrinking number of "adults in
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by hitekker 6y ago
This passage from the "Wisdom of Insecurity" by Alan Watts sheds more light on the concept of "surrendering knowledge" as a way to realize truth: > The discovery of this reality is hindered rather than helped by belie
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by hitekker 6y ago
I was going to ask about where you see hostility. But judging by your comment history, it looks like you're just trolling and starting flame wars :\

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