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by ritchiea 7y ago
There's a lot more nuance in the original post, outlining that Go is fully open source & it can be forked. That the author believes any good open source project should have a coherent vision and a set of decision makers. That the a
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by ritchiea 7y ago
Also CVS is a big corporate pharmacy chain where people buy their toothpaste, etc. I doubt this is how CVS does their marketing
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The Roman Mars Mazda Virus(gimletmedia.com)
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by ritchiea 8y ago
It's insulting to compare students whose parents have committed criminal fraud in exchange for university admission to political movements for equal rights for groups that have seen even their most capable members discriminated against
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by ritchiea 8y ago
It's not manufactured controversy, the biggest accounts who are successful from these aggregation without permission practices are constantly under criticism from the creators whose work they are profiting off. If you think this is &qu
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by ritchiea 8y ago
Taking content from public accounts to repost without permission for your profit is definitely morally gray.
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by ritchiea 8y ago
You're right about the tone. If someone has not sincerely committed to believing the NVC framing of the problem is accurate then the tone comes off as incredibly condescending. You have to believe that the emotional component of the is
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by ritchiea 8y ago
None of those are to or from Berlin. Munich might have cheaper rail options than Berlin, especially since Munich is a more traditional hub of industry. Flights Berlin to Köln are definitely cheaper than trains. Generally in my experience fl
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by ritchiea 8y ago
Trains can also be pretty quaint in Europe today now that low cost airlines like Easyjet and Ryanair offer cheap flights to most major cities. I live in Berlin and even domestic trains are far more expensive than domestic flights to medium
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Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not Belong(theatlantic.com)
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by ritchiea 8y ago
I read the finer point of the argument to be that Docker got the layer of abstraction wrong for monetization. That Kubernetes (which orchestrates containers) is the tool at the layer of abstraction where a company could provide a product th
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by ritchiea 8y ago
I usually add "mdn" to my search when I'm querying a HTML/CSS/JS topic.
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by ritchiea 8y ago
You don't get fired for hiring McKinsey. And if there's a scandal 5 or 8 or 10 years down the line where your company loses boatloads of money and McKinsey's hedge fund made money betting against you, 99% of the people involv
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I’m Leaving a Research I University for a Liberal Arts College (2017)(blogs.ams.org)
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$190M is in limbo as Crypto exchange founder takes password to the grave(latimes.com)
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by ritchiea 8y ago
Yea it sounds like the kind of corporate slogan you come up with when you have to prove you're not just a real estate company and that your company has exponential growth potential rather than a slogan expressing something anyone wants
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by ritchiea 8y ago
How effective is an NDA in this case? A lot of NDA's are effective because BIGCO you signed the NDA with has piles of money & resources to sue you. If a developer is ghostcoding for ROCKSTAR and it gets out ROCKSTAR hires ghostcode
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by ritchiea 8y ago
It may actually be an accomplishment. They figured out how to take advantage of the system so that users could not skip your ads. That might be a great thing. But the nature of the accomplishment requires you to change your metrics to evalu
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by ritchiea 8y ago
Wow, I grew up in Chicago and thus lived there for 18 years, and I continue to return to visit family. And I had never heard of the Pedway.
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by ritchiea 8y ago
A few fiction recommendations: Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple is the funniest novel I've ever read. Man v Nature by Diane Cook is an inventive, insightful and sometimes dark collection of short stories that are often hi
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by ritchiea 8y ago
There's a crowd here on HN that hates regulation but this is exactly why regulation exists. Massive, wealthy, powerful industries just aren't held accountable by average consumers or markets. There's no serious competitor tha
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by ritchiea 8y ago
Facebook also is an enemy of publishers because of the way it’s platform dominates how people use he internet. Journalists have no love for FB because they are taking clicks and ad money away from publishers.
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by ritchiea 8y ago
You can also, add irregular punctuation & capitalization, throw in some numbers within words, include words from other languages that you know or look up. Or use near words of other languages. I have always thought of "3 random wor
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by ritchiea 8y ago
It is quite a stretch to compare making yourself be kind to a colleague or underling despite your own frustrations with defrauding investors.
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by ritchiea 8y ago
The idea of faking it until you make it is exactly what Linus needs. Most of the point of communication is for the other person, especially giving feedback on patches. We all need to vent but we shouldn't vent at the people below us in
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by ritchiea 8y ago
This makes a lot of sense, what systems are in place in other countries that lead to better outcomes?
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by ritchiea 8y ago
The original comment has a point about not raising the quality of service in NYC but the consistency of Uber across states and even countries is a huge value add. I have been able to quickly get a car in less populated areas of the USA than
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by ritchiea 8y ago
That sounds a lot like affirming your knowledge of the most likely scenario in your mind. Whereas the article proposes a framework for considering other possibilities which I can imagine being very useful. If there's one thing I regret
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by ritchiea 8y ago
Interesting. I've honestly never heard the complaint about "magic" and abstractions made so concrete. I still believe many of auto-created methods are a good thing and generally done with the thinking that if you do X in 80%
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by ritchiea 8y ago
How is that different from any new codebase you have to look at? If anything Rails reduces the confusion because it has a set of agreed to conventions. I can’t think of any decently complex codebase I’ve ever come across that didn’t have it

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