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by ryandvm 4y ago
Nothing to do with software development, but this reminds me of the Silo series of books by Hugh Howey - which I absolutely loved.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Many will perceive having to pay $8 to vote as "democracy for those who can pay"? You don't say.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Would be pretty amusing if Paul Graham decided to invest in the Mastodon ecosystem. That said, I think Elon is a pretty public cautionary tale of why emotionally driven financial decisions are a bad idea.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Keep dreaming, man. We can't even stop minting the penny.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
In my experience, most ADHD is really just a case of "I have limited willpower for extremely boring shit." Give me something interesting to do and I can work on it non-stop for 12 hours. The problem is that most jobs and almost al
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Security through obscurity never lasts.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
This is the Great Filter we never expected. It probably turns out that most advanced civilizations eventually invent decent language model AIs that clog up their professional message boards with semi-comprehensible blather which ultimately
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Well, at least it didn't say "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER". > Me: How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased? > ChatGPT: The net amount of entropy in the universe is constantly
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Go if you just want to build stuff that deploys reliably and has good performance. It's a simple language with good enough standard library that you don't end up requiring one of those "mother of all frameworks" (e.g. Sp
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by ryandvm 4y ago
The biggest difference between Twitter and every one of Musk's successful companies is that his typical ventures absolutely depend on US federal largesse to survive. Unless Twitter can start selling carbon credits or secure some bloate
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Counterpoint: A billionaire publicly giving away most of their wealth probably has a lot of social influence on _other_ billionaires.
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It takes a while to be an effective altruist with a hundred or so billion dollars. What did you want him to do? Throw it in a fountain?
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Agile is like communism in that it never fucking works, and whenever it fails (which it inevitably does), the apologists always say, "well they just weren't doing it right."
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by ryandvm 4y ago
This is harsh, but as someone that has done a lot of enterprise Java development, the only reason to avoid Java is the developers. Specifically, the enterprise priests of Spring. Java is fine language and the JVM is a great runtime, but unf
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by ryandvm 4y ago
That's genius. Way better than this interminable game theory experiment the airlines are running.
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Ah, so it's really a "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" situation.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
> since I can't set it as my default browser in Safari Wait, what? It boggles my mind that technologically inclined people continue to use this user-hostile, walled garden nonsense.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
> now has a lot of financial incentive to make it function better as a business Boy that's an understatement. It was already kind of a neutral value shithole, but now he's got to figure out how to wring a profit out of this $45
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Not me, I'm rooting for this guy to develop a little humility.
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> We are watching Atlas Shrugged play out. Atlas Shrugged my ass. There has never been a more effective government suckler than Elon Musk. Every business he's running exists entirely due to the largesse of the federal government. Ex
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> Aren’t you just selecting for obedience and unnecessary hoop jumping? Let's be real, that's exactly what most mid+ companies are looking for.
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Every study that comes through here somebody invariably trots out the old "correlation does not equal causation" argument. You're not wrong, but you know, sometimes it is causation. Rather than disregard every study, I just
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Not meaningless, paid blue checkmark would mean that somebody has a business interest in their use of Twitter (which means they're marketing to me ). Now I know exactly which accounts to not follow.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
There's a rich and beautiful irony in seeing a bunch of armchair libertarians gushing about the glories of unfettered speech on HN - a web forum that employs some of the most heavy-handed moderation in the biz. Not sure how long Alex J
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Trying to find a setting in Windows' 3 or 4 generations of control panels. Honestly, it's amazing to me that Windows is such an unpolished turd after 30 years of development.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
If it's any consolation, I'm in my 40s and I have 3 kids and I honestly have days where my burnout and anxiety is as bad as you describe. I don't think it's not having kids that is your problem, I think you're proba
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> I am in the US. Let it drop then, I will adapt by becoming a digital nomad. Maybe I will move to Mexico or Argentina for the better life there. This is the high technology equivalent of what middle class America has been going through
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If you really want companies to just pay for "skills", then unfortunately that's going to mean a considerable drop in the average salary of a developer in the US and Europe. Globally the average salary of a skilled developer
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As a society we should figure out some sort of systemic work exchange program where people suffering from burnout can leave their career for 8 months to work in a brewery or be a fire watcher or herd goats or whatever until they figure out
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I use both, randomly.

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