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by neilv 11mo ago
Academia and higher education have long-established ideals, institutions receive considerations from society in light of that, and they are also supposed to be regulated in some ways (e.g., accreditation). I think a better defense than the
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by neilv 11mo ago
Not delusions. Ideals. And reactions to erosion.
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by neilv 11mo ago
Thanks especially for using GTK with Rust to do this. We need to keep desktop Linux GUI libraries alive and viable (as an alterative to Web site GUI frameworks, Electron apps with Web frameworks, and proprietary mobile app platforms).
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by neilv 11mo ago
> I have a fire tablet I hucked into my wall to use as a home assistant console. OK, but "fire" is right there, in the name.
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by neilv 11mo ago
Purchase/lease access to the hardware, subscription for the necessary online connectivity, and microtransactions for each actual use of it (ostensibly because of cloud compute, and that also means surveillance data is captured and mone
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by neilv 11mo ago
I don't recall that fame at the time (from Mcom/Netscape, JWZ was more visible, in my circles), but I knew his name. When he was first coding NCSA Mosaic, we were both pretty young, and doing workstation development, which took mo
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by neilv 11mo ago
Only "multi-million"? Someone once told me about being a new journalist, on the city beat. They said something like: I wasn't surprised to find that bribery was going on; I was just surprised the bribes were so small .
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by neilv 11mo ago
I asked that because I suspected it was AI-generated, but didn't want to assume.
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by neilv 11mo ago
Take heart: there are a lot of people like Aaron Swartz. Of course you'll find them in proportionally fewer numbers, when you look somewhere that attracts with money/power.
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by neilv 11mo ago
The only reference to Swartz that I see in the parent comment is: > Through good times and rough ones, including the loss of Aaron Swartz (who I only knew of through HN), this has stayed a place for real conversation. And the rest was
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by neilv 11mo ago
Was this AI-generated?
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by neilv 11mo ago
> Hardware kill switch - Firewall-level failsafe, not software I think that firewalling/filtering and routing are software (though they can be accelerated in hardware). "Hardware kill switch" is a useful pre-existing ter
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by neilv 11mo ago
> Here's why: This image shows authentic human photography with natural imperfections, consistent lighting, and realistic proportions that indicate genuine capture rather than artificial generation. This sounds to me like a messag
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by neilv 11mo ago
> How much time is normal for a team/project to get its bearings? (It depends, I know...) If you mean figure out their process, this can happen incrementally, starting simply and building up as you go, with a team of people who ar
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by neilv 11mo ago
> How do you know when people are not aligned or honest, I'm not an expert on this, but do have some conventions and thoughts, so partial off-the-cuff answer... Of course, at some point, actions will speak pretty clearly about ali
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by neilv 11mo ago
> [...] when multiple employees reported that a representative of The Boring Company was soliciting them to bail on Shane and work directly for TBC [...] > [...] noting that many prospective employees won’t work on the project beca
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by neilv 11mo ago
Thanks for the very kind words. No blog yet. The closest thing to a blog was that I was writing a book, "Racket Tactical Field Manual" (RTFM), which would teach a programming language (Racket) and effective software engineering
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by neilv 11mo ago
Am I missing something, or is RealPage tentatively being given a pass on illegal price-fixing and all the harm that's caused to numerous people?
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by neilv 11mo ago
I could blather for hours around this space. A few random highlights: * The very first thing I read about requirements was Weinberg, and it's still worth reading. (Even if you are a contracting house, with a hopeless client, and you
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by neilv 11mo ago
On some of the infamous large public IT project failures, you just have to look at who gets the contract, how they work, and what their incentives are. (For example, don't hire management consulting partner smooth talkers, and their f
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by neilv 11mo ago
Does anyone else feel odd skimming real HN this morning, noticing how similar it is to the LLM regurgitation and some archetypes? BTW, one archetype that I didn't see in the simulation: Angry Affluent White Male. Perhaps the presence
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by neilv 11mo ago
Very nice! Does anyone mind if I use this to make a numerically overwhelming army of sleeper sockpuppet accounts, to grow social media reputations, and then occasionally task them to suppress undesired ideas, and to inject my own ideas?
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by neilv 11mo ago
Yeah, I think it's fair to say that Micay knows a million times more about this technical and application space, and the political and business dynamics around it, than most HNers. And I also believe that he's actually been person
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by neilv 11mo ago
"Sockpuppeting" has connotations that don't apply here, and it's an important term for other pressing purposes, so we don't want to dilute it. Does "parroting" express your intent well enough?
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by neilv 11mo ago
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."
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by neilv 11mo ago
You're responding to the words "grab" and "take", and leading up to an argument in which wealth is created , by a Great Man, who deserves the wealth and power that He created, or else He wouldn't have incentiv
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by neilv 11mo ago
Children are in poverty because some people grab vastly more than their share of the world's wealth, and then they buy legislation and elections, to take even more. A challenge is that usually, within an attempt at a fair and equitable
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by neilv 11mo ago
> We also have a “points system” for bugs and a leaderboard showing how many points people have. [...] It’s a simple structure, but it works surprisingly well. What good and bad experiences have people had with software development met
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by neilv 11mo ago
How about we simplify the point: Support light-mode and dark-mode, and don't mess it up like a vibe-coder.
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by neilv 11mo ago
I think they don't always communicate well with industry practitioners, and your reactions are great evidence of that. Racket is lead by professors, and (as is sometimes the case in systems research) some of them are very highly skille

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