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by rapind 5y ago
Pretty sure microservices will be remembered as a horribly convoluted stop gap once we have better language modularization. They encourage modular patterns which is usually good, but all that plumbing will eventually become unnecessary. I c
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by rapind 5y ago
In your FAQ you have an entry “How much does June cost?” which uses a lot of words to avoid answering what it costs.
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by rapind 5y ago
PCs too. I’ve lost hours to OSX updates that bricked my dev setup (making me reinstall / compile libraries, disabling my second monitor, etc.). First thing I do is turn off auto update and wait for releases to bake for a while and unti
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by rapind 5y ago
Depends how early you mean. The Big Nerd Ranch osx book has been around for a while.
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by rapind 5y ago
Honestly, some work environments are just shit. If you don't have a sizeable stake (co-founder), start looking around. If however you find the same situation repeatedly at different jobs, then you're either 1) too critical, 2) you
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by rapind 5y ago
> If they do have this capability it is only every going to be used for large scale organised crime, terrorism and state security. Don’t forget political opposition / dissidents, and analysis to see what they can get away with in te
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by rapind 5y ago
> these borrowers can afford the higher rates. Not at all what I’ve been reading. We have a record high 2.5 trillion in mortgage debt, and a lot of that debt (especially in the last year) is high risk.
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by rapind 5y ago
I don’t think our government will let interest rates go up. It should have happened a decade ago, but they kept lowering them instead (and watched the bubble grow). It’s political suicide at this point to do it in any meaningful amount.
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by rapind 5y ago
I’m trying to find a way out/ hedge our economy (Canada, similar to U.S. except we can’t print money to get out of it). I have a sinking feeling that either the idiots over leveraging themselves on bubble priced homes will get bailed o
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by rapind 5y ago
Yeah when I clicked into the comments I was hoping for a discussion on the ethics of hiring a firm to trash talk unions (for or against). Instead it’s like the Google 50c party arguing the merits of unions. I’m uncomfortable with companies
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by rapind 5y ago
Thing is, a lot of white collar jobs have always been performative. They just don’t need 6-8 man hours a day. They require very little actual production. It’s collective psychosis.
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by rapind 5y ago
I always found literate coffeescript to be pretty neat. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/blob/master/src/sc...
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by rapind 5y ago
We’ll we’re already doing that, except not necessarily vile but in aggregate filling it up with useless information. Between SEO spam, content marketing, outrage news, and reputation fixers, we’re well on the way to destroying the web at le
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by rapind 5y ago
FWIW, as a Canadian, I don’t have any health insurance beyond what my government provides and I don’t think or worry about it. I have a lot of complaints about my government (like most people), but the idea of universal healthcare isn’t one
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by rapind 5y ago
My god I wish companies would stop iterating on desktop “default” design. The only features on a Mac I use are Cmd+space and Cmd+tab. Beyond that it’s just a host. Every time they add crap I have to find and disable it all. By all means mak
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by rapind 5y ago
Popular HN post circa 2015: “Content Marketing Handbook“ Popular HN post in 2022: “Search engines and SEO spam”. Inevitable popular HN post 2025: “How to avoid getting flagged when content marketing“.
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by rapind 5y ago
There are more than enough users aware of search to support a fledgling competitor that managed to deliver higher quality results. That competitor simply doesn’t exist yet, and I think that’s because no one has figured out how to beat Googl
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by rapind 5y ago
I agree, but parent was responding to a more general comment of "Why is anyone using two-digit years anywhere at all?".
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by rapind 5y ago
That's far too simplistic. Google must also compete or they lose their free users followed by their paying users (ad buyers). I also think it's a multifaceted challenge that failing some genuine ingenuity won't really get sol
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by rapind 5y ago
Unless you're importing historical records...
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by rapind 5y ago
I’m guessing OP meant it’s a hard problem in general, not just for Google. Also, the statement that Goggle doesn’t have the best information anymore seems objectively false. We can wish there were other players doing it better, but that doe
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by rapind 5y ago
Possibly confusing this with the better business bureau (which is totally pay to play)?
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by rapind 5y ago
I think it could be both a user and an industry issue. Lately I’ve been experimenting with treating many libraries as a starting point in some of my projects. Meaning I read and use the code, often removing things I don’t need. So I fork an
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by rapind 5y ago
No I'm not referring to freedom. Wild animals have freedom. I'm talking about drive/greed/motivation/moxi or w/e you want to name it. The thing that delivers ingenuity but also locks us into a winner takes all
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by rapind 5y ago
This is part of their Linux marketing plan. Make windows worse (challenging work!), and push people to Linux. End goal being irrelevance. Very noble!
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by rapind 5y ago
The hype train is all I need to know to stay away from it.
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by rapind 5y ago
My guiding principles reading news stories: 1. Fact checking is usually biased. 2. The more sensational the headline, the higher the chance of garbage journalism and bias. 3. The more boring nuance the better the chance of accuracy. If I wa
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by rapind 5y ago
I mean philosophically speaking our entire species is a concern. What drives us can also destroy us. Paradox.
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by rapind 5y ago
I think we’re going to see a lot of shrinking consumption, but not directly because of climate change, but because of pure economic costs (some of which will be due in part to climate change). Everything is getting more expensive. More and
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by rapind 5y ago
It’s clear from that post that they are really just looking out for their employees… “Can’t hire as many people”, “they would stay for the money even if they weren’t happy”. Obviously this isn’t just about profit but about employee happines

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