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by neilk 2mo ago
I don’t know if you’re joking or not but of course Wales doesn’t profit directly from this. And, as a non-profit, compensation of executives is public knowledge. I believe Board members get zero compensation other than reimbursement for tra
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by neilk 2mo ago
Another word whose usefulness has been degraded to just mean “bad behavior by an organization”. With “enshittification”, Doctorow meant something specific, where a platform rises to popularity by serving its users, then betrays those users
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by neilk 2mo ago
It’s beautifully done. A few questions I noticed that complex patterns - marble, some paintings, some stained glass - are rendered in what seems like stretched, hazy ellipses. Is that the fundamental building block of a splat? Also, I was i
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by neilk 2mo ago
I haven’t read this book, but I noticed the author makes much of their empirical research available with a CC license. https://catharsisinsight.com/ , scroll way down to “Developers deserve science.” I found this one intere
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by neilk 3mo ago
> For (literally) decades no one there would have even thought of forming a union! Why do you feel so certain about that?
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by neilk 7mo ago
You're right that it's become a stock phrase, is somewhat redundant, and I used it without thinking. I strive to avoid such stock phrases (see Orwell's Politics and the English Language), so I thank you for drawing my attenti
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by neilk 7mo ago
I understand why the parent post felt it was clankerish. It has the same feeling - many signposts on a road to nowhere. But it's also got the structure of marketing. Or a pitch for a cult. Or both. It is literally book-ended - they men
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by neilk 7mo ago
Yeah this is a bit sad. I think maybe this person actually had some real lived experience and wrote bullet points and then generated the book. I don’t even want to think about the possibility that the whole thing, including anecdotes, might
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by neilk 8mo ago
A friend of mine has this problem with their D&D campaigns. He makes huge efforts and there’s always one or two people who flake or don’t have the same commitment level. He’s gotten quite angry and sad about it. He is trying something d
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by neilk 8mo ago
You have to be the one who creates things to do. Really, that’s it. You want to play D&D together, you host and DM. You want to just hang out, you reach out and propose what you’re doing. You want more purposeful and meaningful time, jo
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by neilk 9mo ago
Read it carefully. He's not saying that these are all common values or practices at Google. He's saying he learned those lessons while working at Google. Despite the metaphor of a "lesson", a "lessons learned"
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by neilk 10mo ago
Yup. I nearly had this movie memorized when I was a child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWXuDNmO7j8 Peter Weller, playing Buckaroo Banzai, is late for his military-particle-physics-interdimensional-jet-car test because h
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by neilk 10mo ago
In Mad Men, we have these little moments of mind=blown by the constant sexism, racism, smoking, alcoholism, even attitudes towards littering. In 2040 someone's going to make a show about the 2010s-2020s and they'll have the same a
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by neilk 10mo ago
It has never been about small government. You can just look at the Republican record on deficit spending or military funding to dismiss that. “Small government” was just an acceptable way to say you were for reducing benefits to people deem
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by neilk 10mo ago
Thanks for bringing Vancouver into the discussion. We have SROs here still, and they have a contentious relationship with both the government and the population they serve. Sometimes it's hard to tell if they are good or bad, other tha
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by neilk 10mo ago
So details were left out and it doesn't adhere exactly to this author's idea of what a good security report is. Nothing to see here IMO. The simpler explanation is that: - They're a young organization, still figuring out how
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by neilk 11mo ago
XSLT is being exploited right now for security vulnerabilities, and there is no solution on the horizon. The browser technologies that people actually use, like JavaScript, have active attention to security issues, decades of learnings bake
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by neilk 11mo ago
He's not making an argument. With these characters, from Trump on down, discourse is not the point. He is flexing his power by showing he can make an obviously fatuous point and get away with it. Because there are no consequences, for
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by neilk 11mo ago
Working on: to teach myself Rust, I’ve been working on a NYT Letter Boxed solver, with some ambitions to turn it into a game by itself. I think this game could be made a lot more fun. Thinking about: A new take on LinkedIn/web-of-trust
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by neilk 1y ago
Microsoft and Oracle sold closed source software that had obtained tremendous leverage in their fields, if not outright monopolies. Historically, Microsoft and Oracle’s business models were threatened by open source. They have reacted in va
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by neilk 1y ago
Seems a bit like webhooks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webhook Although your model is polling rather than making the other server push something.
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by neilk 1y ago
I personally find these examples underwhelming. Most of them are processes that require time, like the pitch drop experiment. I suspect that the things in our lives that truly have value and take a long time aren’t easy to identify as proje
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by neilk 1y ago
How long ago was "formerly"? Signed, a formerly formerly fat person.
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by neilk 1y ago
I like it, but when you make your guess the mystery color should change to the color it describes, not to green or red. You should use some other aspect to indicate success - shape, motion, font, anything other than color. You already have
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by neilk 1y ago
I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know this is completely wrong. There is a conspiracy theory that “anchor babies” will help undocumented parents avoid deportation from the US. As far as I can tell, the usual thing that happens when undocu
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Stop syncing everything(sqlsync.dev)
656 points by neilk 1y ago|126 comments
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by neilk 2y ago
Management theory, at least the aspects of it which become popular, seems fad-driven. Matrix managment, holacracy, consensus, etc etc. Is this a field where people discover things that last? For instance, fundamental limits to human communi
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by neilk 2y ago
I suggest you try steel-manning this. Imagine that the people who want these things have rational reasons for wanting them. What might they be?
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by neilk 2y ago
That is a more optimistic read of what he might mean by NPC. I cannot possibly know for sure, but I don't think so. NPC is a meme with shifting meaning, but I have never seen NPC used as an adjective for an activity or aspect of someon
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by neilk 2y ago
I know that people like me do not belong on HN anymore, but: Calling people "NPCs" is vile. And, the entire ideology that makes it okay to say that one's fellow earthling is just an NPC? That is probably a major component of

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