jay-barronville

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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Freedom from having to go to school with non-white children (that's the root of the school choice dog whistle). That’s such a bizarre take. You don’t think non-white parents want school choice too? I’m black and I believe in schoo
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> This is standard practice in basically every country. The United States is NOT every country. We have a Constitution that makes this behavior unacceptable. > So by all means, the police should keep the money until you simple prove t
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> The IJ does some amazing work. Highly recommend supporting them if their mission resonates with you. Agreed. IJ (Institute for Justice) [0] and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) [1] are my two favorite organization
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
To be clear, the state uses the verb “seize” as a more polite alternative to “steal” when referring to its own actions. We all should just be good Americans and let them “seize” whatever they want!
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> I hope this doesn't come off as patronizing, but I just wanted to send you an appreciation for the tone of curiosity and openness you've set in your posts here: your post and JumpCrisscross' comments were some of the mos
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Once you have bureaucracy, you’ve lost the benefits of implicit communication. A large firm must thus either lose that culture entirely or constrain it to the top of the firm: elite group of fewer than 150 people, often much fewer, who
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Somewhere around Dunbar's number [1], a union begins to make sense. Beyond an order of magnitude past it, i.e. ~1,500 employees, it almost always does. Considering the points I made, you mind elaborating on the pros and cons you s
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> When you hear about unions in software, stop thinking about auto-workers and think about NBA players instead: > https://nbpa.com/ > Lebron James and Stephen Curry are in a union and they don't seem to be hav
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
This might be an unpopular take here, but from my perspective, the downsides of introducing unions in tech for software engineers far outweigh the benefits. I understand why unions can work for certain industries, but I just don’t see how t
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
Oracle executives are scheduling a meeting right now just to read this letter together and laugh at it. All jokes aside though, they don’t care, and frankly speaking, despite how much sense it makes for them to release the trademark, they h
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
I don’t think I understand what your issue is with them. They used an open-source project to visualize their data, were open about doing so, and cited the creator of the project. What more did you want from them? (Genuine question.)
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
You just can’t win with some folks and I honestly don’t think it’s worth the effort to try. You remain proprietary, they’ll complain. You open-source what you can with a reasonable enough license that protects you and allows you maintain a
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
I don’t think fully relying on the Pd Unicode category is ideal though. For example, I don’t think you’d want U+2E17 to be matched too. I think the best solution would be to match by some specific code points, and then throw an error when a
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an argument promoting junior engineers so well articulated. Upvoted! I fully agree with the author’s sentiment. Many companies see junior engineers as burdens who’ll suck up valuable time and resources of the co
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Infact it can be argued that the very reason it should be in rust is because it is critical. I think there would be great value if a person can efficiently thread between both rust and c rather than competing. I fully agree with that.
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> The horror. Lest someone make an argument that to earn a salary, you have to put in hard work. To quote the HN guidelines [0]: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Plea
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Your point was that some developers you know would spend months getting comfortable with the language and semantics. > > My point is, most of them already know a lot of the semantics. It’s the semantics they keep in their head wh
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> As for the HN guidelines. Sorry if you felt like I crossed a line. Never my intention. I didn’t feel like you crossed a line—according to the HN guidelines [0], you very clearly crossed a line. You responded with snarky strawmans ins
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> So you are saying we should stick to the status quo because, otherwise, some C developers have to adapt and might lose their competitive advantage because of it? Can you point me to where I said or suggested any of that?
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> What C programmer hears, “you can heap allocate without a GC and the compiler will place frees for you” and thinks, gosh… this sounds irritating? > > Or what C programmer hears, “we make using multiple mutable references to the s
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> The fear that I'd be less productive for a "long" time was quite overblown. I’m genuinely glad that was your experience! I actually would love for more C programmers to have that same experience (or better), but my own e
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> This is a problem that will resolve itself with time as C developers retire and new projects start in Rust. Respectfully, this is wishful thinking. C programmers aren’t going anywhere any time soon. There are millions upon millions upo
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
As someone who writes, reviews, and maintains lots of C code professionally, here’s what I think a lot of Rust advocates don’t understand: We see and understand the benefits of Rust. That’s no longer something we need to be sold on. Every C
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Yes, let's encourage gender divides and backwards thinking. I’m sorry that everyone in the world doesn’t think the way you’d like them to. I know lots of Muslims, both male and female, and they’re perfectly normal to me. In fact,
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> […] their right, but feels fishy regarding child right to truth. I’m not sure what’s fishy about it. Parents have always controlled what their children should have access to and consume. The entire concept of “parental controls” exists
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> […] I've already toyed with using AI models to analyze browsers' screenshots and determining if it's likely phishing or not and it works very well. Assuming the AI is comparing screenshots of real versus phishing, it can
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Yes: https://github.com/alganzory/HaramBlur No. This is more similar to an ad blocker, but focused on helping Muslims respect their religious standards while they browse the web. I’m not a Muslim, but it makes pe
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Why don't they run their own community? Because it raises the bar for community participation. Running their own community sounds ideal, but that assumes someone interested in testing the software out and participating in their co
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
As a dad, I love this idea. I’ll consider reaching out! Thank you.
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
This is really awesome. On almost every project I’ve worked on, I’ve never been able to trust and truly rely on proprietary services and companies to handle my authentication and authorization. I’ve been forced (i.e., it was already decided

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