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by skrebbel 1y ago
I have to admit that I don't understand half of this blog post, feels like I'm missing some context, but I do like that the "left pad guy" does a post mortem. That said, this seems like a weird argument to me: > but I
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I didn't defend that claim, I agree that it's ridiculous. I was responding to this accusation, which I think is also ridiculous: > I am baffled by the number of people on this website, who I assume have rudimentary reading com
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I vouched and upvoted your comment to counter the many downvotes. Like other respondents, I strongly disagree with your conclusion that "neither side can claim to be the innocent victim", but I think the rest is valid context. The
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by skrebbel 1y ago
> A culture that produces that kind of hatred According to other pages on this same site, the primary motivation for the people behind RTLM (rich powerful people, incl the presidential family) to spread said hate, was fears that Tutsis w
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by skrebbel 1y ago
What does it mean to "give them the mic"? I feel like your comment makes sense in the abstract but when it gets more concrete it gets a lot fussy. Do you mean disallowing people who make nasty radio broadcasts? Jailing people who
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by skrebbel 1y ago
English is not everybody's first language. And, fwiw, I like to think that I'm as fluent in English as I am in my native language but still the article threw me off too (even while I otherwise liked it). Notably, it doesn't s
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by skrebbel 1y ago
The code can crash but it won't often crash your system (unless you use lots of badly tested NIFs, which most people don't), and that's all GP is saying. BEAM isn't magic but it is pretty robust by now. Tbh I feel like t
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Great writeup, thanks! (I do still feel like all the constant outrage blurs more than it reveals, though, and that this article ("plot against america", seriously?) is a nice example)
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by skrebbel 1y ago
To be fair I don't follow at all. Are you saying that it's more likely for the US under Trump to become a Yarvin-style ultracapitalist monarchy than, say, an Orban-style just-about-dictatorship? Despite the fact that the first is
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Yep!
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I'll never understand why this man gets so much attention.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I admit that I should've guessed, but I'd have appreciated it if you had led with "I'm a Marxist so I think any form of entrepreneurship is evil". Our definitions of "evil" are so far apart that we'll
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Wow public domain license! Smart move, I assume those disgruntled devs who "joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector" can now easily fork it and compete with TurboTax directly (with, I hope, a m
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by skrebbel 1y ago
My company, https://talkjs.com , is in the same market as Cord was. We let you put a full-featured chat UI inside your app; you control all the details and we handle the realtime infrastructure and scaling up. At the time we were
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by skrebbel 1y ago
They update in realtime, so it's kinda a mini chatroom linked to a particular element in your Figma design.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
> There is no need for the production of more works of art, particularly no need for “computer art” I mean, if you're against new art in the first place then the rest kinda follows from that right? This article is like titling an es
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Got any source? I thought it was primarily a Swedish commissioner (Ylva Johansson) pushing it. EDIT: I don't mean this as "I don't believe you", I just want to know more.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
This is so powerful, it makes me wonder why they didn't just make a new markdowny syntax for Latex so they could reuse everything from the Latex ecosystem. A bit like what CoffeeScript was for JavaScript, I mean.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
TalkJS ( https://talkjs.com ) | REMOTE (Europe / Middle East / Africa) TalkJS lets developers build a perfect chat feature in just a few minutes. We power communication in online marketplaces, community sites, multiplaye
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by skrebbel 1y ago
You moved the goalpost from "all companies are evil" to "well, some companies are not yet evil". I indeed jumped over that but only because it's a ridiculous accusation! You can call anyone "not yet evil"
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Yeah yeah I know the theory but then how is it possible that my local bakery pays fair wages, does not exploit customers, does not stifle competition etc? I keep bringing this up and you keep responding with abstract generalisms. Look aroun
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I'd wager the the majority of small and medium business in my hometown act ethically. You pick out the worst behaving faceless bigcorps and generalize that to every company out there. But the vast majority of the world's economy i
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by skrebbel 1y ago
> Companies are downright evil everywhere and nobody's held responsible. As the co-owner of a small company I'm more than a little offended. We're not evil at all, we try our best to do right by our customers, our people,
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by skrebbel 1y ago
A Korean restaurant?
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by skrebbel 1y ago
> Companies anywhere have no ethics This is bullshit, plenty companies have plenty of ethics. I don't disagree that laws are important, but to claim that companies can't behave ethically removes responsibility from the people w
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Fwiw I changed my mind and I now think that your positioning is fine (see adjacent comment). Don't make it harder for people to grok at the behest of HN purists like me! :-)
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Actually I think I'm just old. To me "Firebase" still means the "Firebase Realtime Database" but after they got acquired by Google, they took the Firebase brand and started building all kinds of features that would
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I'm irked how "Firebase alternative" has come to mean "hosted database with an API layer". I mean, the key pitch of Firebase has always been that it's a realtime database. With both Supabase and Trailbase thi
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Jåo nåo e ja jåo YOLO ja nåo!
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Like I said, the joke wouldn't work as well without the "every". This is a super common joke style. I used to tell people that every company I work at goes bust (I had worked at 3 companies at the time and they all went bust)

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