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by hitekker 6y ago
For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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by hitekker 6y ago
To reiterate the point of the GP, you said: > This article is trying too hard to dress the author's limited experience Saying the author has “limited experience” is condescending and untruthful given his career and accomplishments s
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by hitekker 6y ago
> IMO, the video and audio both are slightly better than Zoom. Firm disagree. Three days ago, I presented a video in a google meet stream for 50+ people. For three minutes the stream dropped frames , displayed visual artifacts and lagged
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by hitekker 6y ago
The new title is misleading. It is a charitable interpretation of a half-screed/half conspiracy theory. > The reason they spread these misconceptions is straightforward: they want to discourage people from using the AGPL, because th
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by hitekker 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism He has embraced the concept: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamready/
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by hitekker 6y ago
> PMs who develop tools for internal use. You're thinking of a TPM, not a PM. https://blog.tryexponent.com/pm-vs-tpm/
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by hitekker 6y ago
Curious: how does Stencil compare to Lit Element?
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by hitekker 6y ago
I evaluated on-premise Redash as an alternative for engineers and analysts who don't want to learn tableau. It's harder to setup than Metabase but more intuitive to use (for someone with SQL expertise). However, their feature-set
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by hitekker 6y ago
Do you mind telling us what that non-recursive substance is?
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by hitekker 6y ago
Sometime ago, I made a MVP for a video game that captured the attention of my peers. They liked playing it, I liked coding it, and I felt very much that it contained a story that deserved to be heard. But I let grandiosity distract me. “Th
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by hitekker 6y ago
Ah, “Value-based” pricing, or, how much a company can gouge their customers before their customers change vendors.
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by hitekker 6y ago
I corrected you, not insulted you. Caste and class are similar but not the same. Merging the two concepts into one is useful for generating outrage and maybe for bonding, but less useful for understanding the suffering of one society compar
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by hitekker 6y ago
You conflated caste with class. The comments below are a reaction to that false equivalence.
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by hitekker 6y ago
You raise an interesting point that the author shies away from addressing. Can you elaborate on the phrase "becoming more trust-based" ? Do you mean that decision makers in this landscape rely more on the strength of their connect
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by hitekker 6y ago
I'm no fan of the CDC and FDA, but you'd have to be blind to ignore the failure of leadership at the top of the totem poll. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-n... http
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by hitekker 6y ago
A remarkably self-aware comment. Thank you for this.
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by hitekker 6y ago
> I’ve received various death threats. I had someone on an antipsychiatry Reddit put out a bounty for any information that could take me down (the mods deleted the post quickly, which I am grateful for). I’ve had dissatisfied blog reader
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by hitekker 6y ago
I was following along until you claimed the app was "high performance". Speaking as a mobile engineer and a React developer, I struggle to see how a laundry list of abstractions over native code could be more performant than the a
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by hitekker 6y ago
That jives with this article I found: https://evrone.com/rob-pike-interview > Rob: Although it's far from certain, after over a decade of work it looks like a design for parametric polymorphism, what is colloquially
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by hitekker 6y ago
Rob Pike is not mentioned in the blogpost or in the sources the authors acknowledge as contributors to this project. What is he up to nowadays?
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by hitekker 6y ago
The CEO of Dropbox rebutted this post the last time it came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100352 My own impression was that the author was trying to justify his lack of leadership by distorting the definition o
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by hitekker 6y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. A disrespect for their predecessors inclines me to believe CloudfareTV is just another corporate vanity project.
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by hitekker 6y ago
> Heap also found a lot of success on HN when they launched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424206 . While there was a lot of excitement early on, the kind of crowd it attracted wasn't a good demographic to se
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by hitekker 6y ago
Do you believe the Civil War was fought over state's rights?
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by hitekker 6y ago
IIRC, TripleBye had a vision to be the recruiting division of all tech giants. Big-name companies would centralize their most important recurring, expensive, risky process into a third party to save some money and time. Even when that thir
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by hitekker 6y ago
This paper proposes a return to editorial review: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-012-9233-1
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by hitekker 6y ago
> Simply explaining what is going on more “clear” and repeating it more often probably won’t get you anywhere good. I've learned this lesson personally. Trying to be "clear" about my own perspective while ignoring what the
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by hitekker 6y ago
> Another way to reduce the delays is by disabling System Integrity Protection. I say reduce, because I still do get some delays even with SIP disabled, but the system does overall feel much faster, and I would strongly recommend anyone
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by hitekker 6y ago
The paper that this article is based on: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/593d9b08be65945a2e878...
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by hitekker 6y ago
That is true. Some people are terrified of the world not being as just as they think it is. Any whistleblowing at all poses a challenge to their worldview and therefore a threat to their comfort. It provokes a lashing-out as you can see in

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