Readit News> It usually comes from a good place, but is typically given by two groups of people:
> those who tried to invent a wheel themselves and know how hard it is
> those who never tried to invent a wheel and blindly follow the advice
There's a third, and I think more common group: folks who know all that's involved with reinventing the wheel, and how to do it, and know the juice of doing it isn't worth the squeeze, and there's no value in doing it yourself, educational or otherwise.
This group is much more tangible for me. Instead of trusting the status quo, this group fears it.
MetaMalone commented on Strengths Are Your Weaknesses terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
I think strengths are more difficult to define than weaknesses, because they are very context dependent. “Speed” may be useful in certain situations, but in many cases “speed” can be harmful in more ways than just overlooking details. You miss out on opportunities to learn, to ask for help, to become better at thinking critically as a software engineer.
What the idea of “strengths being weaknesses” reflects is how much we identify with our present state of ability. It seems like we get it backwards. We ask our jobs to fit us as people, rather than how we as individuals can become best for the job.
MetaMalone commented on Peter Thiel Company Generator peterthielcompanygenerato... · Posted by u/MetaMalone
it dynamically loads a google spreadsheet that lists the options it assembles randomly to display. If that request is rate limited, the site breaks.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pBzx2k-Erh_zvfWI7zDK... is the doc it attempts to load. You can see the possible outputs that way
Can’t believe it has edit access, lol
MetaMalone commented on Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties lanparty.house/... · Posted by u/kentonv
I think the thing that I’m most amazed by - and this setup is truly amazing - is the fact that you’ve got a group of friends to enjoy this with. Good for you; this looks like a blast, and I can only imagine how fun that’d be, compared to years of purely solo gaming.
So real. Most valuable component of this setup
MetaMalone commented on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops old.reddit.com/r/crowdstr... · Posted by u/BLKNSLVR
>Apple has done a much better job with macOS in terms of security and performance.
I really like their corporate IT products that are going to push MS out as you say. I particularly love iActive Directory, iExchange, iSQLserver, iDynamics ERP, iTeams. Apples office products are the reason noone uses Excel any more. Their integration with their corporate cloud, iAzure is amazing. I love their server products in particular, it being so easy to spin up an ios server and have dfs filesharing, dns etc is great. MS must be quaking in their shoes
lol. i’ll dunk on Apple as much as i’ll dunk on any other OS, but they wouldn’t be as praised for security if they had to manage the infrastructure and users that Windows supports
I’m inclined to believe the latter. Our fancy tools provide so much more utility beyond keeping us happy. Our tools teach us new things and stretch our curiosity and creativity. Our happiness stretches us to solve more problems and ask better questions.