purplemoonx

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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Material existence != a guy flying around in space listening to your thoughts
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
One time a startup I worked at (NOT YC THIS TIME) had a "secret shopper"[1] [1] Some old guy who I'm pretty sure was a severe alcoholic Send us Gmail links that were 1000000000% obviously fake, like from a fake version of the
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Hahaha nightmare. Like I'm pretty sure I had that nightmare
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Hahah what are you doing here??? I had a friend - David - he could do it insanely quick. He's basically who I am thinking of in my post since he was also a genius at guitar, and could play beautifully. And he taught me basic PHP. We sp
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Someone should investigate, interview me. They violated their termination agreement with me already when they went way out of their way to make sure I would not get hired at certain other companies when I left.
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
That's fair
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
In 2010 I was doing Flash/AS3 (professionally) and Wordpress sites, but yeah, maybe. I don't doubt it has a searchable history back to 2010.
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Getting a patent on software is mid-brain mid-manager shit to pad marketing and inflate egos, doesn't really do anything. I could copy this "design" exactly and it would be totally fair to use. Exhibit 270 is my favorite
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Haha, try 2013. You were not around then ;) Go 1.0 was released in 2013 (I don't even think the "official date" of March 28, 2012 is correct, or at least, nobody had heard of it). Apple doing Swift and Google doing Go was bas
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Cheez-Its: 1 lb, down to 13.7 oz, then 12.4 oz, now 7 oz. 100% cheese product is now just salt, whey, yeast powder blend (they're allowed to call that cheese).
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
> this just doesn't fly How dare you. And to your point, you'd never catch me on one of those paraglider things! > Oh I'd say, yes, a license is a good idea, simply given how often developers put in stuff from marketing
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Prove Zeus didn't fart the Earth into existence, otherwise that's what happened
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Node.js came way before Go. If you fact-check with AI, it will say "Go was invented in 2009" but anyone who has been around knows it's more like ~2013. Node.js was 90% of the inspiration for Go to exist in the first place. Sw
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
If you knew anything about payment systems, you'd know you get a nonce or receiptID and it is a front-end only thing. You don't do the backend banking yourself. Maybe your backend sends an email, or saves the receipt, but that&#
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Allow me to introduce you to: Burden of Proof.
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Commercial aviation involves other people's lives in real-time. I put that more like being a lifeguard or EMT. Recreational aviation has a lot less regulation. I saw a guy with nothing but a fan and a parachute just flying around the c
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
The entire reason the company was funded is the US government started enforcing FCRA compliance on 1099 Uber drivers. So the government did get involved and regulated Uber and the entire gig economy, and the private sector is so powerful
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Kinda feel like you get corruption no matter if it's pure socialism or pure capitalism, and that any system is a reflection of the people.
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
So bad. At these types of startups, developers will find themselves in some debate about the time complexity of a click handler (which is debounced anyway). Meanwhile Joe CEO is like "HAY GUYS" -drops db- "CAN U FIX IT BY MON
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Ask HN: Is there a marketable "skill" to using AI?
3 points by purplemoonx 1mo ago|4 comments
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Idk licensing and regulation sounds like involving more institutional arrogance. We effectively have that kind of gatekeeping now with the University degree and University recruiting pipelines (all other candidates are "external&quot
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
A link halfway down the page is causing the whole thing to have wide horizontal scroll. [that links selector] { text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; max-width: 100%; d
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
It's hilarious how these companies handle security breaches. I once reported superadmin user/pass committed to github at a major YC backed background check company I worked at and everyone tried to make it seem like it was my fau
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Mainstream News has entered your mind. It likes it here, and is going to stay a while.
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
"Checking your browser..." See ya!
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
2010 Startup CEO: "I take no salary - I believe in the venture" 2015 Startup CEO: "I pay myself $1/year - just like Steve Jobs. It worked for him, didn't it?" 2020 Startup CEO: "I pay myself the same as ou
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
> compiled vs interpreted Best rebuttal here - yeah didn't think of that obvious one! I had a larger point about language idealism / putting code on a pedestal vs getting the job done but yeah, this crowd can't handle that
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
1000% that's why I said "Fair points" I consider npm to be part of "the interface of JavaScript" and to your point it's one of the strongest reasons beyond performance to use Node over some other dynamic langua
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
Have you never heard of Node.js where they got the idea from
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by purplemoonx 1mo ago
I like where this is going. Can we refer to user data as “the garage”? And instead of hackers they should be “coons”. The headlines can read: ”Buncha Coons In The Garage Again” It’s more quaint

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