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by matai_kolila 4y ago
It's not a general "we can't do this" argument, it's got specific criteria, one being company size for certain regs to apply. But honestly YC probably doesn't even think about any of this, for good or bad. Mos
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I'd guess HN isn't big enough for basically any privacy law to apply. Some parts of GDPR at least call out company size explicitly, other parts allow for "cost of implementation" to be considered, which for HN would prob
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
"Performant" is not the same as "well designed". What you feel is a pleasant UX, which is art, or closer to it at least, and would fit your analogy drawn against a chair or a car. However what we're discussing he
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Don’t mistake “beautiful” code for “clean” code. Clean code has value in its ease of maintenance, it’s easy to work with. “Beautiful” code falls into the completely arbitrary land of “what is beautiful?” Wars have been fought over definin
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I’m sorry but this is complete nonsense; there is no pleasure derived from viewing “beautiful” code from the perspective of the consumer such as in your other examples. A program is not like a car, a chair, or a house, and if any of this we
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Beauty doesn't put food on the table, is my point, and I'm beyond sick of working with people who put "code beauty" before "code usefulness". Ugly code that works pays bills. Beautiful code that doesn't
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Sigh... another loss at the hands of, "Code is Art!" It's not art. Art requires no function, it exists as a representation. (Professional) code, and software engineering generally, must produce valuable things, and sometime
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
No, it doesn't matter. Twitter is unimportant to this world.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Yes, I am. Nothing is gained without risk, and this woman likely now regrets accepting that plea deal. Her attorney should have explained to her what the outcome would have been for taking this deal, and clearly had she known she would not
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Can you show me where I said "building microservices is obvious"? Or if you don't believe I said that, can you describe what you think it is I'm suggesting here? Because my intent was to say, "It is obvious that m
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I'm baffled as to why her attorney advised she take the plea deal.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
> Heather Wallace plead guilty to child endangerment and can no longer work with kids. The real mistake was pleading guilty. She should have gotten better representation...
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I bet if you never thought about Twitter again, you'd be just fine. There is no 9-9-6 culture shift, there is no value shift in software engineers across the country, there is no need to build a Twitter competitor, none of this actuall
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
There absolutely are bad microservice architectures, that's a weird claim to make. Good microservice architectures minimize or entirely eliminate the friction around the coordination and debugging. I'm working on splitting out a m
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
So it's "bad micro-service architecture imposes a heavy penalty on team co-ordination", then. ...which is a fairly obvious observation. "Bad <x> imposes a heavy penalty on team co-ordination" is generalizable
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
FWIW my small company has zero issues using Notion, what you're describing sounds like a situation specific to your use case, not a generic Notion issue. But more fundamentally, it sounds like you just don't believe the product wo
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Without specifying that, they’re at best doing a poor job of explaining what their technology does, but more likely they are trying to mainstream it.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
That's a very "snapshotted" view of Reddit, one that doesn't hold up to scrutiny once you consider what Reddit is today .
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
If you're billing yourself as a "Reddit Alternative", you definitely care about mainstream appeal.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Not that I think these folks want mainstream appeal, but if you want mainstream appeal, stop federating stuff! Nobody cares about privacy and control over their own information nearly as much as privacy advocates think they do, and if even
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Of course he can have $100,000 in his wallet, that $80k will be usable to exchange in return for $50k of goods, for sure!
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
A lot of this is complete hokum, and it’s frustrating because the people who should know better end up being the most caught up in the pseudoscience… Edit (don't want to give folks a second comment do downvote into oblivion): I need y&
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Not well!
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
One thing I've learned over the years is to completely ignore anything you read on HN related to health and wellness...
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I feel like I'd StumbleUpon this...
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
What does verification have to do with this?
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Why is anyone still believing this stuff? How is anything on Twitter taken seriously anymore??
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
FWIW they teach 1 in MBA schools, if MBAs are doing 2 it's despite their education, not because of it. Also most top tier MBA programs are an excuse to get wildly drunk basically daily and make a bunch of powerful friends, so it's
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Ah come on now, nobody actually does that.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
My worry is that this "asking for tips" trick is allowing employers to reclassify non-tipped positions as tipped positions that they can then substantially underpay, and not a lot of people know the laws that would force the compa

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