mykull

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by mykull 8y ago
I'd like to say I love typescript, too. It's better for collaborative development than raw JS. My point is different, that working in the "low level" or raw JS, obfuscated or not, is where the substantive work happens. G
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by mykull 8y ago
The substantive part is that nothing they wrote back to him, and nothing he wrote in this article was substantive aside from a vague claim about how CEOs who respond (with junk) are better CEOs.
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by mykull 8y ago
Where's the part about not having a safety net? Rich, secure people love to tout their riskless efforts as perilous when they did it voluntarily with no potential for long term negative consequence.
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by mykull 8y ago
This is some real ball-fondling born-into-privilege nonsense. I could write to CEOs too, but I wouldn't be so impressed with their boilerplate social interaction, and the predictability of it is why I won't.
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by mykull 8y ago
"Enterprise development" is not the same as "serious development". Anyone still doing regular old JavaScript without the transpiling and megaframework dependencies is arguably taking their task more seriously than those
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by mykull 8y ago
Let's go out on a limb here and consider that people aren't overly self critical, and the problem is actually that they can't do anything about their failure to meet high self expectations, because they are in effect trapped
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by mykull 8y ago
If by chance this is not a joke, you should look into ECC memory and why it exists.
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by mykull 8y ago
That is a fair concern.
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by mykull 8y ago
No, I was a bit hyperbolic perhaps in response to the tone of the article or its headline. Of course there are responsible organizations who are affected and have costs associated with GDPR. Knowing nothing of what your clients do, 99% seem
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by mykull 8y ago
The US expects to be asked permission before encryption technology can be used in a software product. Our copyright and general intellectual property policy has been pushed on everyone else. We (The US) even go so far as to heavily interfer
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by mykull 8y ago
Lots of companies are ready for GDPR, i.e. the ones that handle user information responsibly in the first place, and aren't opaque data hoarders as a central part of their business model. I'm personally not a fan of the "lets
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by mykull 8y ago
Oh but regular collars must be animal abuse too, then, because tugging on a creatures neck is not pleasant. As well as not providing a square mile play area with ideal humidity and temperature and lots of fun toys.
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by mykull 8y ago
The idea that our measurement of progress only needs to be binary (did we or didn't we progress?) shows indifference to the endless problems yet unsolved. Better than yesteryear doesn't mean good enough. Far from it.
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by mykull 8y ago
You're assuming rich and high IQ go together. We don't live in a meritocratic society and as such, that's not true.
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by mykull 8y ago
I'm not sure that it would be ruinous. Isn't RSA still trusted? People have a tendency to overlook or even defend broken protocol when it's "the good guys"
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by mykull 8y ago
Oh realtek is Taiwanese, but I don't doubt they have reason to cooperate as well.
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by mykull 8y ago
Isn't a national security letter enough to "break in" to any US company?
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by mykull 8y ago
Just addressing the last thing you said, I think sophistication has to do with the level of knowledge required to implement. Whether that means knowledge politely asked for or through other means has implications for the difficulty of imple
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by mykull 8y ago
Don't you think many HN posters will object to using a chat service with a fishy as-of-yet probably-not-profitable business model and a big ol' database of all the messages sent? Discord is a great service for now, but it's u
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by mykull 8y ago
Having a bigger, further away screen may prove to help prevent myopia, though. Eyes focused on near objects all the time tend to go myopic. I'm not sure a few extra feet is that significant though, compared to looking out a window at t
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by mykull 8y ago
Yes, the same one where people are convicted due to lying police on occasion, it's pretty flawed
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by mykull 8y ago
Webassembly is the better thing we will replace JS with as a target language for browsers.
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by mykull 8y ago
Lending isn't productive in and of itself. There is a nice gradient stretching from freeloading rent-seeker to visionary/socially responsible investor. Not seeing the difference and condemning the former is a problem. The differen
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by mykull 8y ago
Little is more naive than the broad claim "collectivism doesn't work" because the USSR and other states tried some form of it and failed. Even if you are willing to massively oversimplify things and look at the cold war and a
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by mykull 8y ago
It isn't that simple at all. When the returns are pushed lower, the means of extracting wealth from low class workers get more brutal. Suffering builds up at the bottom because of decisions at the top, and decision makers don't ca
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by mykull 8y ago
no, this is wrong. secure enclave or not. radio chips have direct memory access. phones are only as secure as providers want them to be. Computers actually do what I tell them to --I don't need hacks to "root" them or inspect
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by mykull 8y ago
I don't understand the idea that living off investments is "independence". It's just a different kind of dependence. You're depending on other people to do work while reaping the benefits. Sounds great, except when
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by mykull 8y ago
captive portals are an ugly hack that should be reimplemented properly (without MITM) based on the obvious need.
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by mykull 8y ago
I really don't think coining the term 10x did anything to help developers or the state of development, and likewise here.
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by mykull 8y ago
Your post hit a lot of notes I agree with. Programming dogma doesn't make a lick of sense sometimes. I wonder if the "don't implement cryptography yourself" rule is disingenuous, and really about not necessitating more w

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