zemo

54 ms·

571.
by zemo 8y ago
you're conflating the success of the technology with the success of its users. If the measure of success for a technology is that a lot of people are using it and working on it, then Docker is tremendously successful. If the measure of
572.
by zemo 9y ago
If you work for someone that does a bad thing, you are helping them do the bad thing. You are actively making the bad thing happen, and by doing so, you are also doing a bad thing. I think Uber is a bad thing. If you work for Uber, you have
573.
by zemo 9y ago
> At this point I feel like HN has turned into a FB news dump Zuckerberg is testifying to congress right now. That's the news. You're not mad at HN, you're mad at the present.
574.
by zemo 9y ago
> does having uber on your resume tarnish it? depends who's evaluating it and what their values are. If their values are aligned with Uber's values, then no. If their values are opposed to Uber's values, then yes. I'm
575.
by zemo 9y ago
I dunno, I knew what the content of the post by seeing the title and the domain on its own. People (and companies) don't say good bye in the first person when they die, since they're, uh, dead. They just go "there is ... anot
576.
by zemo 9y ago
take several seats. https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/02/28/why-women-leav... https://medium.com/tech-diversity-files/the-real-reason-wome... https://www.cio.c
577.
by zemo 9y ago
the CTO/CEO point probably reflects that people who start their own company AND take the SO developer survey always call themselves CTO or CEO. People don't start their own company and call themselves a developer or an engineering
578.
by zemo 9y ago
that's a poor interpretation of the data. That question is not "how satisfied are you with the state of each of these things now", it's "how much do you weight these categories when assessing new jobs". The fac
579.
by zemo 9y ago
I run game servers. Our intra-day swing gives us about 10x traffic during primetime hours compared to off hours. Autoscaling sheds a lot of overhead.
580.
by zemo 9y ago
Jackbox Games | Chicago, IL | Onsite | Full-time I'm hiring a person to join me in running the infrastructure at Jackbox Games. We make party games like Quiplash, Fibbage, and You Don't Know Jack. Here's a gameplay example fr
581.
by zemo 9y ago
Flash existed in places outside of the browser even after a significant portion of the web development scene moved on from it. Building game UIs with Scaleform was very common. AutoDesk only discontinued Scaleform earlier this year.
582.
by zemo 9y ago
when you back a kickstarter you don't receive a store of value that you can re-sell to another party. That's a vague statement to be sure; you could say the same thing about beanie babies, for example. But Ty did not sell beanie b
583.
by zemo 9y ago
> almost all ICOs so far are illegal. a lot of them are offering to sell you an asset that they advertise as being sure to appreciate, with the subtext that you will sell the asset at a later point for a gain. Selling something purely to
584.
by zemo 9y ago
but aren't Bill Gates' earnings mostly capital gains, and aren't capital gains not included in GDP calculations?
585.
by zemo 9y ago
why? You're not going to be convinced no matter what I say, because the challenged as posed is a pure trick. Both "better system" and "strong economy" are multivariant. So long as I say "in [place] that has law
586.
by zemo 9y ago
> It is extremely harsh. But life is harsh. Oh please. We don't live in the forest, we don't scrape the dirt for nuts and berries, we live in modern industrialized societies with extreme concentrations of wealth. Life is not in
587.
by zemo 9y ago
> This is what regular blue collar jobs look like. You work 12 hour shifts. That's what exploitive labor jobs look like. Not all labor jobs exploit their labor. People literally died fighting for 40 hour weeks. The idea that laborer
588.
by zemo 9y ago
> you want to take a risk and make something and sell it to get higher income no, almost nobody does that. People who work in an Amazon warehouse have no option to take a risk to make something, they are selling their labor because it is
589.
by zemo 9y ago
this is extremely, extremely tone-deaf. > As long as people are willing to do this job for this amount of money, it will probably not get better unfortunately. child labor didn't stop because parents stopped being willing to sentenc
590.
by zemo 9y ago
it's almost like it's a riddle
591.
by zemo 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15559650 it's not purely about reach. A foreign government acting to affect elections to destabilize and weaken a country is very different from greedy citizens attempting to enrich
592.
by zemo 9y ago
That's true regardless of whether or not Twitter exists. It's still a false equivalence inasmuch as a rich American is spending money in a way to maintain the status quo; rich Americans like the Koch Brothers benefit from American
593.
by zemo 9y ago
> There's nothing stopping someone on US soil from exercising their first amendment rights in the same way to subvert an election. Individuals exercising their first amendment rights do not have the same reach as a propaganda appara
594.
by zemo 9y ago
> Equifax IT does not appear to be operating at a level to prevent a single failure from causing terrible damage all on its own. they're operating at a level where over a hundred and thirty million people could have their ability to
595.
ProPublica Seeks Source Code for New York City’s Disputed DNA Software(propublica.org)
90 points by zemo 9y ago|8 comments
596.
by zemo 9y ago
if you have this problem (or like this problem), there's a whitepaper on this topic (with a different encoding scheme) here: http://www.zanopha.com/docs/elen.pdf I implemented a decent portion of it here for a Go
597.
by zemo 9y ago
that's the entire joke.
598.
by zemo 9y ago
> It's ironic though because we all know how that worked out after Sun tried it with Java and what we now have some 20+ years later. a tremendous number of production systems written in Java, being used by a tremendous number of peo
599.
by zemo 9y ago
> There's really no need for such a personal attack here - why do you feel a need to lash out at this author? the whole blog post is lashing out at something. You reap what you sow. There's no "these are the tradeoffs, and
600.
by zemo 9y ago
volumetric displays are pretty fun. e.g.: https://voxon.co/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKTfP56rpDA

More ›