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by hitekker 6y ago
This article is less an honest response and more a knee-jerk reaction. Raw, seething resentment that goes nowhere.
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by hitekker 6y ago
Why did you remove that call-out?
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by hitekker 6y ago
> it really is the most sensible way to communicate. The way you’re talking matches the GP’s warning, and I’m not sure if the irony is intentional.
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by hitekker 6y ago
Was the paper you're referring to called "Too big to sink"? https://web.archive.org/web/20200303183928/https://www.usni.... Since then, it seems like his warning fell on deaf ears. His mos
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by hitekker 6y ago
Yep, vanity is the mark of the CTO who cares more about the elegance of their code, than the effectiveness of their business. Funnily enough, the next company that hired the maintainer and went all in on Elm makes even less money than Prezi
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by hitekker 6y ago
Yikes. The first few emails were mostly professional and the entire encounter could have been resolved by line 63. But you kept emailing him. It's like you were offended by his dissatisfaction and wanted to "disprove" his fe
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by hitekker 6y ago
The GP may be referring to this previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447
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by hitekker 6y ago
Prezi was the first major adopter of Elm in industry. They hired the language author to work on it full-time. A few years later, they laid him off and deprecated their Elm codebase.
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by hitekker 6y ago
The author himself said his book was panned on Reddit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631424 The larger point is that the audience he chose to market to, rejected his ideas. Whether or not his audience was acting in
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by hitekker 6y ago
They're unsuccessful. His book on Psychopathy was panned on Reddit, as well as on Goodreads: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4c27ss/im_pieter_hint... Likewise, the wikipedia article for Socia
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by hitekker 6y ago
For reference, a former maintainer wrote about toxicity in the Angular dev team. https://medium.com/@jeffbcross/jeffs-letter-to-the-angular-t...
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by hitekker 6y ago
I like the way you structured your blog post. Quite minimal and easy to skim. My only suggestion might be to give each section a small title.
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by hitekker 6y ago
I certainly hope you'll forget about me. It's unhealthy to nurse grudges against random, online commenters. Otherwise, all that building resentment will feed back into your insecurities, which will distort your sensitivity to crit
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by hitekker 6y ago
The GP didn't babytalk you. They just pointed out a seeming contradiction. Lashing out at bystanders & spamming passive-aggressive smilies does not cultivate trust in GIMP's leadership.
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by hitekker 6y ago
The GIMP roadmap indicates they're hoping support non-destructive editing in 3.2: https://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap#GIMP_3.2 They apparently haven't thought about how to implement it yet.
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by hitekker 6y ago
> But the guy in question here did something really dumb, was very lucky, and should stfu. Your comment started out reasonable, wandered around, and then veered into outright malice. As others pointed out, the OP had permission from the
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by hitekker 6y ago
It's more of a hype train than a "zeitgeist". Major community contributors like Jared Palmer have stepped forward in the past year to critique the complexity of React hooks. https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/r
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by hitekker 6y ago
I've always felt that JS could have been the language for shared mobile & server business logic. Write a throwaway script in a light, fast interpreted language, and then share it with your compiled, native platform-specific UI code
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by hitekker 6y ago
Very nice. I think wider adoption of the "write your app UI in each platform language, and then write your business logic in JS and share it between all platforms" pattern really depends on Android or iOS officially supporting JS
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by hitekker 6y ago
I wonder if JS could have been a better language for platform-agnostic business logic. Unfortunately, it looks the best approach is still to inject the JS inside of a webview, which has way too much overhead for background processing.
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by hitekker 6y ago
I agree with the top-voted reply: you want Code-of-Conducts for the cover it gives to organizations, and not for the protection it offers to the victims of organizations.
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by hitekker 6y ago
Huh, I was wondering why Unladen Swallow faded rapidly since 2009 and why Python seems secondary at Google compared to Java and Go. Silence and distance seems to be a common echo of failed projects.
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by hitekker 6y ago
This comment in particular has wisdom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444955
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by hitekker 6y ago
Perhaps. I've heard that Reddit engineers still push features to production without PMs in the loop.
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by hitekker 6y ago
Thanks for the correction, Rich. I just watched your presentation at Svelte Summit and I'm looking forward to how Svelte progresses.
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by hitekker 6y ago
I think retiring Sapper was the right decision. I have a feeling Rollup will meet a similar end too. They both seemed like fine pieces of software. They just don't seem offer separate much their counterparts nowadays that warrants cont
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by hitekker 6y ago
Well one matter is about inclusivity and the other is about innocent people being coerced into declaring themselves racist. Separating the two helps the audience determine if you’re speaking in good faith, or if you’re trying to rationalize
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by hitekker 6y ago
Separately from the admissions testing debate: what is your view on the "gatekeepers of white supremacy" and the assorted "I am a racist" declarations?
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by hitekker 6y ago
I'll take your good points one step further: transparency without honesty is like a window on a blackbox, in a room with no light. Let say there's a CEO who presents facts and figures signalling their company's success. Inves
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by hitekker 6y ago
I agree. I lived in San Fran for two years for the job, mostly.

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