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new_stranger commented on Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?   cell-lang.net/faq.html... · Posted by u/luu
gscho · 4 years ago
> Why yet another programming language?

'Because I wanted to' is a sufficient reason. Create all the programming languages you want and share it with the world!

new_stranger · 4 years ago
I know some people are afraid of change and competition, but I'm thrilled everytime someone shares their new language or library. I don't have to learn or use them all, but it's great to basically have unlimited research and approaches to skim on github/gitlab/etc.. for any language and any problem.
new_stranger commented on FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns   cbc.ca/news/business/tikt... · Posted by u/breitling
bombcar · 4 years ago
> let an adversary control the information flow to a huge portion of the population is beyond me.

Because most of the possible responses are various forms of censorship.

new_stranger · 4 years ago
Wait, censorship or reduction in choices? They are different concepts with some overlap.

China has the most draconian censorship in the world: lethal censorship. Nothing like the "de-platformed" or "down-voted" censorship Americans face.

new_stranger commented on Hell is ourselves   thenewatlantis.com/public... · Posted by u/cratermoon
klodolph · 4 years ago
I like cognitive load when I'm reading. Unless I'm reading an email from a coworker or a manual for some software I'm using, the cognitive load is nice.
new_stranger · 4 years ago
I do too, but from the weight of the idea - not the complexity of the delivery
new_stranger commented on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk   nytimes.com/2022/06/17/te... · Posted by u/danso
jfengel · 4 years ago
I've owned TSLA stock for over a decade, and I believe in the company, but I find Musk increasingly distasteful. If I had sold the last time it was over $1,000... of course that's the silly wishful thinking we all do in a contraction/correction, but goddamn, I want him out of my life.

I've already sold some of it, just to assuage my conscience a little (as well as lock in some of my profits). The next good opportunity to get out, I will, regardless of my belief that the company could well be worth $2,000 a share. It's just not worth being associated with such a terrible human being.

new_stranger · 4 years ago
Maybe I've read to much history, or maybe I just need to pay more attention to Musk, but I'm pretty sure he isn't anywhere close to the category of "Terrible Human Being" I have in mind - even for the West.
new_stranger commented on The silent majority of experts (2012)   prog21.dadgum.com/143.htm... · Posted by u/bluedino
plonk · 4 years ago
> Many of my peers had middle-class parents working normal jobs who just loved unconditionally + put effort forward... the difference between them and those who had less than ideal upbringings is typically vast.

Do you mean their career success, or their personalities in general?

new_stranger · 4 years ago
Not OP, and just opinion, but I've seen markedly different career and personality/friend/family success. They seem like talented happy people able to take on a wide variety of challenges and do well.

The friends with troubled upbringing often do find success in one area of life, but they seem unstable overall and often crash or stall in multiple other areas.

new_stranger commented on Must be this tall to write multi-threaded code (2015)   bholley.net/blog/2015/mus... · Posted by u/luu
new_stranger · 4 years ago
Assuming you don't need bare-level performance and Go is okay, I love how easy and approachable parallel code is with Go. Locks and channels each offer trade offs you can easily benchmark using the built in go test.

I've written so many different concurrent approaches to workers, pipelines, and multi-stage processing systems and found it always easy to reason through ways to limit the number of workers, prevent duplicate work, and implement backoffs.

new_stranger commented on Ask HN: Are companies preparing to end Remote?    · Posted by u/tropicalfruit
pseingatl · 4 years ago
There are problems with remote work. An employee of a California company is working remotely in, say, Illinois. He sits on his chair in the morning to do his regular work at his desk at home. The chair collapses; he is injured. He files for worker's compensation. His company paid no premiums in Illinois, no coverage. Will California cover an out of state injury? I don't know.

Second scenario. The California employee decides to work in Mumbai. Why not? Cost of living is lower and relatives are near. The employer then gets a tax bill because it is "doing business" in India. Or the ED VA. Or anywhere the employee decides to rent an apartment.

These issues have been put aside during the force majeure pandemic {in war and plagues the laws are silent, or at least, temporarily shut up} but a return to normalcy now means there is no more force majeure excuse.

new_stranger · 4 years ago
> The chair collapses; he is injured. He files for worker's compensation. His company paid no premiums in Illinois, no coverage. Will California cover an out of state injury?

This sounds so American: Insurance and litigation for every little thing.

new_stranger commented on Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits   kenkantzer.com/learnings-... · Posted by u/lordofmoria
izacus · 4 years ago
I've found that slowdown from tech debt killed as many companies as any other issue. It's usually caused by business owners constantly pivoting, but being too slow on the pivot and too slow to bring customer wishes to fruition (due to poor technical decisions and tech debt) is probably one of the top 5 reasons for dead companies I've seen.
new_stranger · 4 years ago
And keeping 100% of all features instead of removing the least-used features as you add new ones to keep tech debt from growing indefinitely and reaching a point where new features take months to ship.
new_stranger commented on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?    · Posted by u/jharohit
new_stranger · 4 years ago
As a kid I wanted Zelda: Ocarina of Time - but with Pokemon
new_stranger commented on Now Monkeypox   science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/_Microft
TimTheTinker · 4 years ago
There's a big difference between centralized power and coordinated action facilitated by wise leadership.

The latter does not require the former, contrary to what some people might say -- those who wish to hold unfettered power, or those who wish to be ruled over by one holding such power.

new_stranger · 4 years ago
The issue is you and I know this, but they don't

u/new_stranger

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