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721.
by sidlls 5y ago
I do not, though I have done so in the past to a small extent. Long before I came of age the notion of "free" software (in any context) had been well down the path of corruption by corporate interests. My opinion is that these day
722.
by sidlls 5y ago
That's different from having the "know-how", though. We have the knowledge and ability to manufacture a lot--as much as or more than any past point in time. We just "produce" a lot more stuff that isn't manuf
723.
by sidlls 5y ago
It isn't different: you can get insurance for those things in the US or pay for them directly (no employer or government subsidy). That's exactly the same as what the GP suggests. Plenty of companies even provide tiered insurance
724.
by sidlls 5y ago
Linux is not popular enough on desktop to matter for game development or basically any other consumer software.
725.
by sidlls 5y ago
That's not really different from care outside of insurance coverage that exists today, e.g., elective plastic surgery. Universal healthcare, done even as poorly as our government likely will, will go a long way toward decoupling basic
726.
by sidlls 5y ago
The "overview" is just a graphic with links to an event page and video content. That isn't an overview. An overview is a blurb of text summarizes the subject matter. I am really, really sick of these gated "watch the vid
727.
by sidlls 5y ago
I hope that's a misunderstanding or miscommunication. It might be useful in some limited contexts, but it would point to gaps in the theory (at minimum).
728.
by sidlls 5y ago
It says something even more that CNN, MSNBC, and the NYT are considered "left". Sensationalism capitalizing on division isn't "left". It's just modern capitalism in disguise. Vox is a propaganda arm of the Demo
729.
by sidlls 5y ago
It should be, but another thing in this industry is the completely subjective design ideas everyone brings. So PRs inevitably have comments about the approach to abstractions, testing, etc. that are really little more than ego-stroking.
730.
by sidlls 5y ago
"IMO this is a very wrong way to look at pairing. It's not about one person being incapable of delivering a solution on their own, it's that having multiple perspectives on the code will lead to a higher quality and more well
731.
by sidlls 5y ago
Watching widgets/components freeze after an interaction because of a poorly-handled race condition in the JavaScript, dropped or mis-handled/scheduled async requests, and inconsistent cross-component state management isn't an
732.
by sidlls 5y ago
We had this functionality before web apps were a thing. I'm not going to claim it was some golden era/glory days in a bug-free, seamless cross-device nirvana, but it's not like it was a wasteland, either. And for all the prom
733.
by sidlls 5y ago
This is true. The question is whether it's necessary or good (for consumers, for businesses, for the software engineering profession, etc.). The answer is subjective and lies within a spectrum, surely, but I tend toward the negative en
734.
by sidlls 5y ago
Most tech workers in the Bay Area spend $80k/year on housing and commuting expenses, easily. Rents of $5k/mo and mortgage payments (piti) of $7k or more can easily account for almost all of that.
735.
by sidlls 5y ago
"Dependency Injection" should be just shorthand jargon for "pass a pointer/reference to the dependency into the constructor". Unfortunately, thanks to enterprisey-OO zealotry, it's become a terrible monstrosi
736.
by sidlls 5y ago
Reminds me of Facebook’s (in?)famous “Apple can’t handle our scale” thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3m5n2n/faceboo... There was an HN thread about it, too, but I can’t find it.
737.
by sidlls 5y ago
"how will this be tested?" can be answered without writing a single line of test code or defining what the test suite will look like. The design spec documents determine what the implementation should look like, and the tests shou
738.
by sidlls 5y ago
This assumes the test isn’t making it hard to use unnecessarily.
739.
by sidlls 5y ago
One doesn’t design around tests, unless the test code is the design spec. In which case something has gone horribly wrong in the requirements and analysis for the project.
740.
by sidlls 5y ago
This seems nuts to me? Sacrificing guarantees for the sake of testability? TDD zealots tend to not care about efficiency, maintainability, readability, or any of a number of very important characteristics of a program if it interferes wit
741.
by sidlls 5y ago
I've often thought a blend of Huxley and Bradbury is where we're at now, at least in the West. People just want to live, with as little worry about their basic needs as possible. They don't much care how they get it, either.
742.
by sidlls 5y ago
Well, yes, that sums up technology VC in general. It is exceptionally rare for a person to truly have seen an opportunity with the clarity of vision to have any real confidence it will succeed. Almost of the successes in this world boil dow
743.
by sidlls 5y ago
You and I are in agreement, if you'll (re-?)read my comment you'll see that.
744.
by sidlls 5y ago
It's (also) more mundane than that. Think about those minor annoyances one has with their partner in a relationship (friendship, romantic, doesn't matter--everyone has something they could pick nits about in their friends, spouses
745.
by sidlls 5y ago
Almost nobody, having had the pleasure of living in even a modest SFH, would prefer to be packed in like sardines the way modern high-rise buildings do. It's possible to make high density housing that doesn't feel like that, but i
746.
by sidlls 5y ago
Sorry: the Peninsula in the Bay Area
747.
by sidlls 5y ago
No, it doesn’t. Or at least it depends on where. What the Bay Area needs is more genuine family housing, not small 2BR condos. If the condos were majority 3+ BR I’d have a different opinion. But they aren’t: it’s very hard to find good qual
748.
by sidlls 5y ago
Plenty of single family homes are in HOA developments. It’s not impossible but it’s not exactly trivial to find non-HOA SFH in the Peninsula.
749.
by sidlls 5y ago
Yes, the algorithm is a poor algorithm that overfits. It is not a good algorithm by any reasonable measure, unless the intent specifically is to commit users to such a funnel. Whether the content is stupid cat videos or a DIY isn't rel
750.
by sidlls 5y ago
The algorithm is really good! At overfitting. Snark aside, what you describe is short form videos intended to show off or cash in to a trend: that it’s not stupid cat videos, or dance-offs or whatever doesn’t change that.

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