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by kweingar 4y ago
It’s not an uncommon phrase, but it seems like people disproportionately use it in describing this particular situation.
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by kweingar 4y ago
Headlines pretty much always use the historical present tense. If this is incorrect, then so is the entire front page of the New York Times today, e.g. "Senate Passes Bill to Aid Ukraine and Avert Government Shutdown" (should it b
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by kweingar 4y ago
Not very relevant, but an observation: I've noticed that users on HN like to use the phrase "eating their lunch" to describe the dynamic between TikTok and Facebook. It would be interesting to search HN comments from the past
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by kweingar 4y ago
As a counterpoint to this, I interviewed at Google and was sure I had flunked. On every one of the follow-up questions, I didn't produce a working solution, let alone an optimal one. I still got the offer. Truthfully I do attribute muc
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by kweingar 4y ago
This doesn’t make sense. If they tell the truth, there is no libel, and they don’t need anybody’s permission to speak.
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by kweingar 4y ago
You could do that, but it doesn’t work with interfaces. The Go style just lets your code live together for easy reading, no problem. You can comfortably fit all of this into one file: a one-function interface, a couple of small functions th
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by kweingar 4y ago
One of the underrated difficulties of learning Java is the fact that it demands separate files for each exported class. Writing and reading simple Go libraries is a breeze. I’ve written tiny libraries that fit in one file. You can read it l
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by kweingar 4y ago
Why stop at the board? Why not have the government actually buy half of the company? Then the government can profit as well, like a sovereign wealth fund
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by kweingar 4y ago
I am uninformed as to how running a Google search as a guest user on ChromeOS has different privacy implications that running that same search using another operating system. Sure, if I carried around a privacy-centric Linux box and told my
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by kweingar 4y ago
You can harden and configure a Linux system to have many of the ChromeOS security features, but ChromeOS has all of these enabled by default: - All user data is encrypted at the login level. A guest user cannot access any other users’ data.
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by kweingar 4y ago
It depends on how much you trust your family members and whether you worry about non-root malware. Looking at my Linux machine, I notice that the default permission for home directories is 755. If I don’t think to tweak that, then I’m poten
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by kweingar 4y ago
The host operating system does not give me more or less confidence in the security of a guest user’s web browsing data.
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by kweingar 4y ago
(Disclaimer: I work on ChromeOS at Google) I would let anyone, even a total stranger, use my Chromebook in guest mode without a second thought (as long as I am reasonably sure they won’t steal it, break it, or disassemble it).
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by kweingar 4y ago
> To me, the issue comes down to the fact that companies are fundamentally relying on software that comes with no promises of support or a warranty. Interestingly, software users do this too with free web services, but generally we don&#
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by kweingar 4y ago
The app sounds really cool, but the videos are what stood out to me. Everything you need to know about the app is conveyed clearly and succinctly (and persuasively!). It’s high quality but not overdone. If I want to promote a side project,
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by kweingar 4y ago
Isn’t the whole shtick with programming language devotees that they have names for themselves like Rusties and Gophers and whatnot
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by kweingar 4y ago
It is curious to see so many people who normally have gung-ho attitudes about "innocent until proven guilty" and "false accusations can ruin a life" and "don't make accusations without evidence" leave that
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by kweingar 4y ago
> What makes you trust someone who says they aren't taking race into account when that same person okayed having objective racial biases baked into the hiring process? To continue the analogy: Your company is growing again and your
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by kweingar 4y ago
This is a tired debate that won’t be resolved here, but here’s the other perspective anyway: Suppose you work for a company and your boss is from Country X and you are not. Your boss hired several other people from Country X and regularly s
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by kweingar 4y ago
This is an interesting situation. Organizations are comfortable treating your email as your identity because email is freely, instantly available to anyone in the world with internet access. Email is free and massively available because it
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by kweingar 4y ago
All I can say is, it doesn’t make much sense to form your opinion about a programming language based on Twitter drama.
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by kweingar 4y ago
> It is quite popular to be consistent and defend anybody who isn't convicted of a crime. I don’t know how popular this is, or at least how popular it should be. Conviction is based on the extremely high bar of guilt beyond a reason
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by kweingar 4y ago
As others have pointed out, this seems to be from a 3rd party service that integrates WeChat with TikTok.
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Pointing out the flaws in open source software is totally fair, especially when the software is popular enough to have a gravitational pull on the rest of the ecosystem. Of course, you need to be mindful not to be a jerk to the developers a
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by kweingar 4y ago
Lots of nits being picked here, but this project is extremely cool! Great work jart! I hope this catches on.
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by kweingar 4y ago
The article makes no allowance for things like loyalty or obligation. In this framework, if you don’t like how Gitlab, YouTube, or Gmail is treating you, then you can use a competitor, build your own replacement, or suck it up.
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by kweingar 4y ago
I know this isn’t a one-to-one comparison, but there’s an interesting discrepancy in how HN views free-to-use products. In this situation, there is a prevailing attitude of “You are not paying for this, so you are not entitled to fixes or s
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by kweingar 4y ago
> I think a lot of problems with child education and just be traced back to economic realities of many parents today. This is it. Our framework for understanding childhood success is based entirely in “school quality”. If a child enters
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by kweingar 4y ago
Ideally, as more jobs are automated and less work is needed, a robust welfare state would provide people with income so they wouldn’t need to do jobs that exist purely to employ someone. Many people who work such jobs are mothers who wish t
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by kweingar 4y ago
Yeah, that really is a shame.

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