mdoms

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by mdoms 5y ago
Musk is famous for aggressively silencing his opponents when he has the power to do so (or thinks he does).
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by mdoms 5y ago
This guy honestly writes the absolute dumbest stuff on the internet (perhaps second only to PG) but because he does it in a very verbose way HN eats it right up.
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by mdoms 5y ago
Twitter is no longer a Ruby application, they moved to Scala and Java after running into scaling bottlenecks.
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by mdoms 5y ago
(De)centralization is a spectrum, not a boolean.
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by mdoms 5y ago
Presumably no actual babies are reading the article so I think it's quite clear what the author means.
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by mdoms 5y ago
You're missing the point. The desire to bail out of a social commitment is the problem, not the way you're doing it. Blind cancelling or coming right out and saying it are both baby behaviour.
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by mdoms 5y ago
This must be a cultural thing because it's the rudest thing I could imagine! Agreeing to a plan is a commitment. The other people involved (who have also committed) rely on you doing your best to honour your commitment - who knows how
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by mdoms 5y ago
> HN was designed to be independent of YC interests. lol come on
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by mdoms 5y ago
The supposed "downside risks" in this article just don't seem realistic to me. > There are all sorts of ways that your former employers might retaliate. They might decide not to give a reference they would have before the
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by mdoms 5y ago
At a previous workplace we managed flags with Launch Darkly. We asked developers not to create flags in LD directly but used Jira web hooks to generate flags from any Jira issues of type Feature Flag. This issue type had a workflow that ens
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by mdoms 5y ago
> "We only merge code that is ready to go live" I like to go even farther, I advocate only merging code that won't break anything. If you're feature flagging as many changes as possible then you can merge code that do
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by mdoms 5y ago
Same way it affects anything else, not sure I understand your question.
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by mdoms 5y ago
If I buy a Google Home from JB Hifi I am not Google's customer, I am JB Hifi's customer. If they don't want to deal with a huge load of refund claims for Google products they are free not to sell them.
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by mdoms 5y ago
In both NZ and Australia all returns/refunds and most warranty claims can be done through the retailer who sold you the product. Part of doing business in these markets is being the middle man between the manufacturer and the end custo
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by mdoms 5y ago
> Is it annoying for candidates? Yeah, but we pay you a lot of money, and it does actually work for us. Is it perfect? No, but it does work. I've never been paid for interviewing. You mean you pay the successful candidates well, whi
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by mdoms 5y ago
> I think you're still going to bump up against scaling issues with this solution. Youtube has something like 500hrs of new content uploaded to it every minute, and I've heard speculation that this solution couldn't possib
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by mdoms 5y ago
> With the scale that Google has a manual review process wouldn't scale well. Nonsense.
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by mdoms 5y ago
You can read anything you want, but you left an ignorant comment.
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by mdoms 5y ago
No, this is automotive journalism from a company that also sells automotive insurance. They are an excellent automotive journalism outfit. If you had any actual interest in cars you would know this. If you don't - maybe move on and rea
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by mdoms 5y ago
It troubles you that this person has an interest you don't share?
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by mdoms 5y ago
I read your first sentence and was about to regale you with the reliability stories of my 2009 BMW 335i, but I see you have that covered in your second sentence. I mercifully sold that car just a few weeks ago and it's like having a we
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by mdoms 5y ago
I have a '88 Ford Falcon ute which is mercifully easy to fix and parts are plentiful. I absolutely recommend old cars to everyone, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread they build character. But I mostly recommend the ones with lots of
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by mdoms 5y ago
Hagerty is about the only automotive journalism left that's worth reading and I am so grateful they are still around (and still improving at a clip). I you have even a cursory interest in cars their Youtube channel is excellent. Jason
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by mdoms 5y ago
You can downvote me until the cows come home, it's still true fellas.
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by mdoms 5y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted because the answer is no, Firefox is no longer relevant.
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by mdoms 5y ago
Healthcare costs are controlled in most markets because of the collective system, not despite it.
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by mdoms 5y ago
Your neighbour dialed a new number without hanging up his ongoing call? Is this his first time operating a telephone? The scammers mustn't have believed their luck when they realised that was happening. Did they mimic a "brnnnnggg
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by mdoms 5y ago
I'm outdoors almost every day in New Zealand - arguably with the worst weather in NZ, in Wellington. The trick is to not let the rain chase you back inside. It's just a bit of water. We're lucky here that temperatures are bea
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by mdoms 5y ago
> crypto is simply a hedge against incompetent/corrupt government Adding this to my increasingly long list of "things that bitcoin actually is".
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by mdoms 5y ago
You'd call 10 bags of concrete in the car a "tiny" amount of weight?

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