Thank you for holding up a mirror, dang! Being publicly called out came as a bit of shock and really got me thinking. The comment above really isn't me. Or rather, it is clearly me (since I posted it), but I don't want…
This attitude is very common with software engineers and I find it baffling. Is it some kind of inferiority complex? I doubt Warren Buffett worries that he is overpaid and demands to be woken up in the middle of the…
Sure, security is a good idea, but how far do you want to escalate it? If you visit a higher-end store or a bank in Latin America or the Caribbean you'll likely see a security guard or two with a shotgun. I'm not…
Imagine saying "Yeah, there are human feces all over my living room and kitchen, but the bedrooms are clean. Overall it is a great place to live." Whenever I visit SF I run into someone who looks like an extra from a…
It doesn't just phone home to China. The company actually refuses to comply with the GPL because of "anti-China sentiment" and closed down their support forum when people got angry…
Depends on whether you pronounce it see-kew-lite or ess-kew-lite :)
You are reading too much into these comments, I think. Just because there are some annoyances on HN doesn't mean it is the embodiment of pure evil. > Imagine where you'd be forced to go if HN didn't exist, for example.…
How could they have left out the patronizing irrelevant [0] links [1] to Wikipedia [2] in all the wannabe-academic [3] comments with references[4]? (and yes, references must be 0-based [5]) [0]…
make me a sandwich and sudo make me a sandwich both work
Thank you for holding up a mirror, dang! Being publicly called out came as a bit of shock and really got me thinking. The comment above really isn't me. Or rather, it is clearly me (since I posted it), but I don't want…
This attitude is very common with software engineers and I find it baffling. Is it some kind of inferiority complex? I doubt Warren Buffett worries that he is overpaid and demands to be woken up in the middle of the…
Sure, security is a good idea, but how far do you want to escalate it? If you visit a higher-end store or a bank in Latin America or the Caribbean you'll likely see a security guard or two with a shotgun. I'm not…
Imagine saying "Yeah, there are human feces all over my living room and kitchen, but the bedrooms are clean. Overall it is a great place to live." Whenever I visit SF I run into someone who looks like an extra from a…
It doesn't just phone home to China. The company actually refuses to comply with the GPL because of "anti-China sentiment" and closed down their support forum when people got angry…
Depends on whether you pronounce it see-kew-lite or ess-kew-lite :)
You are reading too much into these comments, I think. Just because there are some annoyances on HN doesn't mean it is the embodiment of pure evil. > Imagine where you'd be forced to go if HN didn't exist, for example.…
How could they have left out the patronizing irrelevant [0] links [1] to Wikipedia [2] in all the wannabe-academic [3] comments with references[4]? (and yes, references must be 0-based [5]) [0]…
make me a sandwich and sudo make me a sandwich both work