dimino

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by dimino 7y ago
Everyone has a price tag, silly to pretend otherwise.
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by dimino 7y ago
There's a certain old-guard zealotry that's a common thread on HN, amplified by the echo chamber. Can't wait until it dies off.
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by dimino 7y ago
So like, what is the counterargument? Google keeps projects alive that drain resources for longer? I guess I don't understand what people want here.
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by dimino 7y ago
I think of it in terms of energy gaining/draining, but I meant more from the "big 5" test perspective, as well as the other groups of personality tests you can take like DISC and Meters-Briggs. In general I'm fairly skep
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by dimino 7y ago
I tend to be a bit skeptical when studies are based on extroversion and introversion, if only because I can test on all parts of the spectrum depending on my mood. I think people shackle their identity to their *version, and it can be limit
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by dimino 7y ago
You could tell your coworker (or your direct report if we're taking this analogy seriously) to clean up his work area. A child's room isn't a completely private space, and it's where they do their "work" (gett
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by dimino 7y ago
Okay but you're flying into DCA, not BWI or IAD, and from there it's a ~15 minute metro into the heart of the city. Agree with you on the other points, though.
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by dimino 7y ago
Hey, it might be a bug that a "real" user could encounter, if you need any kind of motivation to actually look into it!
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by dimino 7y ago
Bringing the database back up with a fix does improve your customer experience, however!
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by dimino 7y ago
The example of the child being asked to clean his room reminds me a great deal of a bad engineer being asked to clean up his code.
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by dimino 7y ago
A) I've been on HN for 10 years, I'm not "coming from" or "struggling to adjust" anywhere and B) I didn't mean "other message boards" I meant literally every other community I belong to, both pro
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by dimino 7y ago
Advice is good, I don't want to seem like I'm critical of the post or anything, I just thought it's worth pointing out the differences in goals of the folks who tend to give the most popular startup advice from your specific
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by dimino 7y ago
It seems like startup advice is based on the repeatable observations that people who've worked with a lot of startups have discovered. That means there are a bunch of situations that don't get covered because they don't come
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by dimino 7y ago
It's not a personal attack, it's my opinion. I've worked with people who think that way, and I'd prefer if they didn't exist in the industry. How would you prefer I shape that comment so it's not crossing som
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by dimino 7y ago
You've completely misunderstood my goals in talking to you. This is a public forum, and I'm making a case for why I think the people who read what I write should believe what I'm arguing. This isn't about you, or me, i
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by dimino 7y ago
Dang doesn't understand any of what you said, and makes zero attempt at improving, neither himself nor the site at large. I am certainly not guiltless, but consider the fact that I have none of these problems anywhere else I interact w
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by dimino 7y ago
I think faking growth until you achieve actual growth is the time-honored tradition of social media websites, and can flip a failure into a success by getting people to feel that, "Am I missing out?" feeling again. I don't th
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by dimino 7y ago
Definitely, which is why doing it just to get small blocks of code won't work. It has to be part of the entire design, and sliced at real, logically separate spacings. It's hard! But immensely rewarding if you get it right. You
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by dimino 7y ago
People don't like hearing dissent, or people who disagree with them. My tone is a reaction to the hostility I'm experiencing as a result of that friction. Most forums have some kind of backstop that prevents the vindictive from c
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by dimino 7y ago
> HN is regularly being updated and improved. No it's not, nor is it growing anywhere near what you guess it's growing at. I'd guess it's stagnant or even dying a bit in 2019.
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by dimino 7y ago
I usually post from diminoten, but moved to this account to try and figure out why I was getting downvoted instantly nearly every time I commented, and why I was losing the same karma as votable posts that I had in the span of seconds somet
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by dimino 7y ago
You know moderation is at an IP level, we've had multiple discussions about it, and I'm clearly still getting hit with the rate limit, so when you say "to work around restrictions" it's obviously disingenuous
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by dimino 7y ago
I'm not doing anything like that, but please, pretend that I am, seems like your go-to move here anyway.
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by dimino 7y ago
Of course there are trade offs, of course we live in imperfect situations where we have to deal with shit that isn't ideal, but sitting around pretending like everything is alright is just lying to ourselves. You're stuck in PG be
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by dimino 7y ago
I can tell you, from experience in this very thread, it feels about as shitty. :/ It's marginalization, fundamentally. A very small group of people (or a single person) decides to use their power to silence you, tell you how wron
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by dimino 7y ago
I cannot overstate how important this concept is. Write code (and DESIGN SYSTEMS) that fit in your brain, because the faster you can reload it back into your brain, the quicker you can dispatch bugs and new features down the line. Nothing
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by dimino 7y ago
This isn't an aggressive tone, except to people who have their own emotional investment into the topic. I put out what is given.
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by dimino 7y ago
People are literally saying to default to using PG for "everything". That's the attitude I'm arguing against. What's frustrating about this conversation is that I'm literally, right now, supporting two differe
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by dimino 7y ago
You're literally doing it right now, my comment got flagged, lol... Don't bother suggesting innovation in HN, it hasn't been updated in 10+ years, and for some reason they're proud of that fact.
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by dimino 7y ago
Not talking about dead comments, talking about the rate limiting that's selectively applied to certain IPs/accounts.

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