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by hitekker 1y ago
For an article so certain about ethics, it ironically undercuts its own ethos: https://tedium.co/what-is-tedium/ > If you like strange and unusual descriptions of common things, explained in extreme depth, the Tediu
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by hitekker 1y ago
How could I be able short bitcoin at this point? Asking genuinely but not too seriously.
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by hitekker 1y ago
Archive link: https://archive.md/vuOYu
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by hitekker 1y ago
At this point, it looks like everyone involved, not just RubyCentral, contributed to the governance problems over many years https://archive.md/SEzoV > Regarding Arko’s blog post about his removal, McQuaid [Homebrew Main
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by hitekker 1y ago
Agreed. "Vetting" is real, painstaking work and online mobs are atrocious at it. They project, fabulate, distort and lie to stir up a moment's self-righteous anger, regardless of actual, grounded truth. This is obviously tr
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by hitekker 1y ago
That’s a good observation about position. For those curious, the original (and arguably representative) Bluesky user said: > “I want to be extremely clear I was not making a death threat or inciting violence,” he told me, saying that he
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by hitekker 1y ago
Your links are off-base. They're from September 2015, which is months after Andre Arko was told to revise the /teams page. Since no /teams page was archived before March 2015, here's the Github commit of the overly vague
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by hitekker 1y ago
Can you explain what you find so weird? From what I can tell, the GP is adding useful information using his firsthand experience.
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by hitekker 1y ago
Do you have links on people’s experience with the fatigue curve? I’ve heard of “hard to learn, easy to forget” but I haven’t seen people document it for career reasons.
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by hitekker 1y ago
Andy Grove, Steve Job's friend (if not mentor), agreed: "Not only did we lose an untold number of jobs, we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution. ....abandoning today’s 'commodity'
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by hitekker 1y ago
It's an opinion piece by a trusted member of the community. He doesn't need to act unbiased but be credible and informative. As he wrote in his disclosure: > People whose livelihood depends on the health of the Ruby ecosystem d
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by hitekker 1y ago
If you read more closely, the article notes potential malfeasance and cites receipts https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-gemserve... > Later, in August 2017, Andre accused Google Cloud Platform of wh
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by hitekker 1y ago
I’ve enjoyed https://github.com/WiseLibs/better-sqlite3/blob/master/docs/... as a code of conduct. Simple, well-motivated, well-practiced (I think). Unlike more convoluted CoCs, it’s tightly scoped
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by hitekker 1y ago
You can't talk about messes without talking about Garbage. When a mess is inevitable, maybe even on purpose. Landfills, toxic waste dumps; every organization has them, needs them. I once worked in a department that was a dumping groun
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by hitekker 1y ago
Here's a NYTimes article from 2020 https://archive.md/uJl8t and another from 2025 https://archive.md/5az0U . No one wants the "open borders" label but there was and still remains many who see
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by hitekker 1y ago
Many people trying to cancel him is still a "cancel campaign" in my book. Just a failed one. IMO, it's pretty similar to the last cancel campaign against DHH & his associates https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by hitekker 1y ago
My girlfriend witnessed a robbery in London's city center ~2 weeks ago, in the second day of our visit. After that, we saw a homeless guy pooping on a wall; some of them screaming at others. I didn't feel like I was personally in
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by hitekker 1y ago
Eh, it's a messy write-up. The article's stream of consciousness is hard to follow. Too much detail in some areas, not enough in others. It's true Ruby Central was a fiasco and the maintainers should have been treated better.
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by hitekker 1y ago
I don't see LadyBird's dev endorsing white replacement theory in your links. Rather, I see innuendo and hearsay from extremely online people, with a rather exclusionary sense of politics.
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by hitekker 1y ago
What other over the top comments has Michael Catanzaro made?
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by hitekker 1y ago
It’s above kitty? From the numbers posted earlier
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by hitekker 1y ago
In addition, it feels like the author asked an AI to do the narration for him. He made some edits here and there but the humor feels off.
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by hitekker 1y ago
Reading HN is fun—a firehose of insights and intellectual candy. But it's not work. Personal growth ("internal landscape") requires work; unfun human interaction oftentimes. Online discourse doesn't force this work; desp
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by hitekker 1y ago
I wouldn’t patronize the GP. They described a double standard which can’t be dismissed by therapy talk / an appeal to the mainstream. Rather, there’s a real political legitimacy behind their frustration as the election has demonstrated
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by hitekker 1y ago
On the note of alienation in commenting, this perspective is the strongest one I've heard yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26640203 . Read it; it's only a few paragraphs. If I could, I would distill that
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by hitekker 1y ago
> Their ugly side may have made me want to avoid interacting with them as a whole For me, that means "dislike" or "not like". When I see a part of them is not good for me, I can say I don't like that part. When t
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by hitekker 1y ago
Absolutely true. Another angle that goes unmentioned: "the more you know someone, the less you like them." Most strangers in 30 minutes won't show off their ugly side. It takes a lot longer for those rough edges to come out,
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by hitekker 1y ago
Agreed. The leaders of Zig should stop bringing up competitors unless specifically relevant. The RESF became unbearable because Rust leaders quietly encouraged language wars online, and especially offline. Zig should avoid that fate.
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by hitekker 1y ago
IIRC, it was intentional false advertising and deception. https://xeiaso.net/blog/vlang-update-2020-06-17/ Last I heard in 2024, the situation has not improved https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by hitekker 1y ago
I think this blogpost misses a few things. A lack of agency feels like just one specific reason why some people have had negative interactions with the author over the technology he leads. I sense deeper reasons, maybe less tidy ones.

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