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by hitekker 6y ago
Forking is not violence you perpetuate against people you dislike. It's a freedom; a person can disagree and go their own way instead of being hounded by zealots demanding compliance in the guise of friendliness.
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by hitekker 6y ago
You should read about the concept of "forking": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)#Fo... It's fundamental to the health and growth of the open source community.
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by hitekker 6y ago
Seems like the GP tried https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions and failed
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by hitekker 6y ago
An internal "platform" team is often just a mismanaged infrastructure team. Careerist managers and engineers advocate for a sweeping, complex, centralized system which competes with real-world products sold by outside companies. I
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by hitekker 6y ago
> People who obsess over, and push mindfulness and vulnerability and such are usually those that are over-thinkers and with psychological problems that led them there in the first place. A maxim worthy of framing on wall. > The proble
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by hitekker 6y ago
> When Tillman said he saw his project as necessary so people like his daughter could afford to come back and live in the city, one particularly motivated activist said she wished his daughter was killed in a terrorist attack Jesus. I th
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by hitekker 6y ago
Relevant section copypasted below: > If Kibana had been an AGPL project, would Grafana even exist? Are we being hypocritical? > I asked Torkel, and he said that If Kibana had been an AGPL project, Grafana would likely have been AGPL
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by hitekker 6y ago
Dude, you told a fellow HN-er to fuck off at the drop of a hat. That’s not “giving insight”, that’s just vitriol.
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by hitekker 6y ago
Cussing the GP out for a light joke does not inspire confidence in you or your cause.
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by hitekker 6y ago
Oh nice, thanks for the context. NoRedInk published a big blog post about him joining a few years ago https://blog.noredink.com/post/136615783598/welcome-evan so I thought he'd get a "fond farewell&quot
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by hitekker 6y ago
Is Evan still working for NoRedInk? It looks like he vanished sometime around May last year.
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by hitekker 6y ago
I'm sorry my original comment hurt you. For what it's worth, I deleted the original after I realized it was indeed too sharp. I wrote the new comment to be nicer.
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by hitekker 6y ago
I think there's more truth to the GP's comment than you realize.
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by hitekker 6y ago
The asymmetry of information the GP describes boils down to the asymmetry of power between employer and candidate. You aimed to resolve that uncomfortable tension by exaggerating the power of the candidate. In fantasy, a "good hire&quo
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by hitekker 6y ago
Have you formally managed people before?
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by hitekker 6y ago
This comment comes late, but I've recently learned that "just curious" without qualification is a fair indicator of hubris. A self-described "curious" person will seek out connections where none exists, force others
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by hitekker 6y ago
That's a useful & intimate, definition of politics. I think a lot of folks are uncomfortable contemplating the power relations that rule their own social circles, so they unconsciously externalize that mess to outside, negative for
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by hitekker 6y ago
Quite an insightful comment. A tangential but classic science fiction story covers a similar theme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
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by hitekker 6y ago
It looks like the author’s Wikipedia does not account for his politics prior to Trump. I found this source which supports your statement. https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/journal/17_1/ro...
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by hitekker 6y ago
> "we're nice and therefore right" Golden phrase to describe a lot of folks. If I were to translate, it's behaving pleasantly and politely in order to justify poor decisions.
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by hitekker 6y ago
I think your observation reflects a common pattern called the Flexiblity Usability trade-off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexibility%E2%80%93usability_...
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by hitekker 6y ago
Curiously, the author doesn't bother to categories difficult executives . He exhibits a willingness to criticize everyone except for the ones far above him. The rest of his advice reads pretty poorly. He claims that non-technical mana
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by hitekker 6y ago
Speaking as another engineering manager, the advice in that link is pretty shallow. I think it encourages a rapport that feels efficient for the manager but is plain insubstantial for the report. > I have found 30 minutes is the ideal le
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by hitekker 6y ago
It's similar to when Hans Reiser murdered his wife. Bloodlust was similar, the minor difference is that Ulbricht was too stupid to verify the deed was done. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131449 > Because he
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by hitekker 6y ago
> Rust seems to appeal to a certain type of programmer who is attracted to esoteric topics and arcane knowledge, so the fact that Rust is essentially an unlimited well of complexity is more a feature than a bug to them. Unfortunately tru
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by hitekker 6y ago
Do you have a link handy?
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by hitekker 6y ago
It's called lying, first to others and then to yourself.
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by hitekker 6y ago
You make multiple false, assertions in one comment, backtrack those assertions in other comments, and then pretend your position has remained unchanged the whole time. It comes across as dishonest and makes me, an outsider, wonder how much
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by hitekker 6y ago
In general, an incoherent, racist screed does not provoke thought so much as it does contempt. Hence why this article was flagged.
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by hitekker 6y ago
This is superbly cool. “Emailing hardware to space” is a great way to frame this technological achievement. To see this premise explored in science fiction, I recommend the novel https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobive

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