ljw1001

10 ms·

61.
by ljw1001 4y ago
It’s always about the money when we let billionaires decide how society should operate.
62.
by ljw1001 4y ago
This prioritization of the rights of corporations over every aspect of human life is one of the great diseases of the modern world
63.
by ljw1001 4y ago
On hacker news today, choose boring tech is celebrated - unless it’s Java
64.
by ljw1001 5y ago
Since the term “public square” originally referred to a gathering place for a few hundred or few thousand people, I think it can be applied safely to a site with nearly 70 million American users.
65.
by ljw1001 5y ago
Replacing excel is like replacing paper. People always talk about formulas, but most spreadsheets don’t have any . They’re todo lists, or more commonly, static database exports. Or they have formulas, but the author calculates a few numbe
66.
by ljw1001 5y ago
We heard you like misinformation, so we put some misinformation in your misinformation
67.
by ljw1001 5y ago
There's nothing about things not being "open" that relates to someone's ability to "move around" in spite of the poorly chosen terms like "lockdown", which means in this context "I can't go
68.
by ljw1001 5y ago
In the spirit of embracing harm reduction, perhaps it's time to consider whom pronouncements by the Koch-funded Cato Institute are intended to benefit. Bring on the downvotes.
69.
by ljw1001 5y ago
These kind of stories serve primarily to further the interests of the surveillance state and its big tech competitors/enablers by making it seem as if there is a ethical outsider community with a real chance of being an effective count
70.
by ljw1001 5y ago
Curious as to how many days of data you have in your cluster. It seems like it could be ~1/2 billion records per day, 125 billion per year-ish. In a few years your 3 node Mongo cluster would be getting towards volumes I associate with
71.
by ljw1001 6y ago
Next, we all stop referring to the different ends of connectors as male and female. Way to suggestive for adults to use
72.
by ljw1001 6y ago
On a large engineering team doing complex work, many engineers can’t even do each other’s jobs without an extended period of retraining
73.
by ljw1001 6y ago
This question depends more on the manager’s motives than on their knowledge.
74.
by ljw1001 6y ago
People also prefer people of their own race, gender, age group, etc. It would be remarkable if they didn’t prefer people of the same educational and work experience.
75.
by ljw1001 6y ago
Hold the bottle parallel to the plate and tap it gently against your other hand. The ketchup comes out easily. It’s only hard to get out if you hold the bottle upside down (like you would with anything else). ;)
76.
by ljw1001 6y ago
I had the same experience until I saw a Pollock retrospective at MoMA. Not only is his best work gorgeous, it’s vastly superior to his own early experiments. The whole “anyone could do this” thing I had going in was wiped away completely by
77.
by ljw1001 6y ago
Lotus notes UI issues were extraordinary. Nothing comparable to the native iOS vs Flutter app difference
78.
by ljw1001 6y ago
The Web is a shitty cross-platform UI toolkit For building apps. It’s fairly popular.
79.
by ljw1001 6y ago
Am I the only one who wonders why a dog alone needs lights turned on when it gets dark? Are we afraid canine sleep cycles aren’t as damaged as our own? Or maybe he just wants to read.
80.
by ljw1001 6y ago
They’re both ok with me. Twitter started as a global water cooler, but became possibly the world’s largest propaganda machine. Something had to be done.
81.
by ljw1001 6y ago
> that’s what people want It’s not what I want. I don’t want my social network promoting violence anymore than I want my toast poisoning my family.
82.
by ljw1001 6y ago
I find my work life to be mostly better, but feel stress from the social isolation and, especially, the political upheaval and US public health disaster. That, and worrying about loved ones who can’t wfh.
83.
by ljw1001 6y ago
Species survival requires looking much farther ahead, but it’s harder to do, and even harder to monetize.
84.
by ljw1001 6y ago
This is nonsense. More people get hurt in the US (and elsewhere) after a sports team loses a championship game than have been hurt because of Covid hysteria. This is like month 8 and you have one shooting. On the other hand, more than 1&#x2
85.
by ljw1001 6y ago
While opinions differ on appropriate action, with some arguing for strong policy responses, there’s very little evidence of anything that merits the word “hysteria”
86.
by ljw1001 6y ago
I would vote yes if they Excluded location data. The language of the propositions doesn’t do that. This suggests to me that it’s as much a Silicon Valley style big data-play as a simple “right to repair” issue, which I would happily suppor
87.
by ljw1001 6y ago
Burn investor money (or in this case, profits from your near monopoly position in another business) to give away something for free until your competitors are dead (or never enter the market in the first place. Then raise prices. And raise
88.
by ljw1001 6y ago
That’s a lot of free publicity for one van
89.
by ljw1001 6y ago
If you buy a 4 million dollar property with 5% down and you go bankrupt it’s your own fault for being over-leveraged If you can’t do the downturn, don’t do the leverage.
90.
by ljw1001 6y ago
The problem with Palantir is that when you combine their business model with the inherent drive of capitalism for growth at any cost (witness the ethical breaches from Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook - all already epically successful), you

More ›