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by romanhn 9mo ago
Love this anecdote, thanks for sharing!
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by romanhn 9mo ago
I assume this is the email you mean: https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-mov... . His frustration is palpable.
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by romanhn 10mo ago
Fun fact, David Graeber had an HN account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgraeber
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by romanhn 10mo ago
Fifth grade, early 90s, informatics class with Russian-built 8-bit computers (Corvettes). The "programming language" only had drawing commands (LINE, CIRCLE, etc) and the first program was the homework to draw a house. We were to
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by romanhn 10mo ago
I don't understand this at all. The episode 4 ending was up there with Dear Billy for me.
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by romanhn 10mo ago
My interpretation of "Postgres for everything", which I totally agree with, is that it is a sane initial default for just about anything. It is a well-understood stack that most people have had some exposure to, and that can handl
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by romanhn 10mo ago
I must have imagined that she was represented by Mikhail Barshchevsky, one of the highest-ranked government lawyers. Just to be clear, your stance is that the buyer should be the bagholder when the seller gets swindled?
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by romanhn 10mo ago
Then the singer went on to use her influence and celebrity lawyers to keep the apartment and not return the buyer's money, screwing the buyer in the process. Literally her defenses were "the buyer should've known this deal wa
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by romanhn 10mo ago
Looks like many/most of their comments are dead, probably some account-level action that was taken at some point. Vouched for the comment here to bring it back from the dead.
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by romanhn 10mo ago
Almost every statement is incorrect. Your knowledge of the .NET ecosystem seems to be about ten years out of date.
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Greatest chess endgame (skip to 15:50)(youtube.com)
1 points by romanhn 11mo ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 11mo ago
You know... one of the charges leveled at Michael was creation of sockpuppet accounts in various media (Wikipedia, HN, Quora). I suppose it could be within the realm of possibility that this is another one of these, given the oddly specific
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by romanhn 11mo ago
Huh, I do recall a certain anti-corporate individual (with the initials MOC) that was fairly loud and prolific on both HN and Reddit around that time, including insisting that pg and other tech leaders were trying to get him canceled (well,
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by romanhn 11mo ago
By an author who hadn't read the book, no less...
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by romanhn 11mo ago
It's pretty clear which group she would place Elon Musk into, probably the most Randian character out there.
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Sock Discovery Reveals Colorful Fashion Sense of Ancient Egyptian Children, 2018(thevintagenews.com)
4 points by romanhn 11mo ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 11mo ago
Yup, around 2008 is when I noticed that many of the Slashdot front page submissions were discussed on this new site called Hacker News 1-2 days prior, minus the trolling and the comedy threads. It was a pretty easy switch at that point.
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by romanhn 11mo ago
Combination of https://www.hnreplies.com notifications for direct replies and checking the threads page for the nested replies.
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by romanhn 11mo ago
First of all, just because you (or the author) call collaboration a bad thing doesn't make it so. Secondly, you seem to have misunderstood the process. The steps are: I will be shipping shortly, here is the direction I decided on becau
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by romanhn 11mo ago
The author talks about having a clear bias for action (a great thing!) but in the process throws the baby out with the bathwater. Without collaboration you'll end up with silos, overconfident decision-makers, and all sorts of preventab
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by romanhn 1y ago
One interesting company in this space I've seen is CreativeMode - generating Minecraft mods based on a text description. Pretty brilliant use of LLM coding actually. Found out about it when my kid asked me to pay for it. Doesn't l
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by romanhn 1y ago
I'm in California, no issues accessing it. I'm sure it'd be front page news if Internet Archive went down.
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by romanhn 1y ago
It's hard to remember the exact details all these years later... I doubt it was due to MS-only tech, but rather that IE6/7 were tested and approved and everything else was not. The incentives for IT teams are such that it's a
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by romanhn 1y ago
I loved IE6 as as user when it came out, and grew to hate it as a developer when the browser standards moved on, but a stubborn, large-enough user base percentage had not. I blame slow-moving IT departments that refused to touch their inter
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A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)(blog.chriszacharias.com)
212 points by romanhn 1y ago|141 comments
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by romanhn 1y ago
Funny enough, my wife and her parents all ended up with different variations of their last names in English when immigrating: ending in -ky, -kiy, and -kaya.
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by romanhn 1y ago
Was excited to see Ben Thompson get on the pelicans-on-bicycles bandwagon, but alas, not quite the AI bicycles he was talking about.
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by romanhn 1y ago
I'll be honest, this reads very much AI-generated.
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by romanhn 1y ago
Please stop posting ads for your product. There are ways to do it (Show HN) and this is not it.
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by romanhn 1y ago
If you want to work 996 and that is what makes you feel self-actualized - by all means, go for it, nobody is stopping you. May even allow you to get ahead of the pack (or maybe the quality of your work will suffer in your overworked state -

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