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Is there any good reason why preferred stock exists? It just seems like another tool to screw people over in favor of investors.
Re:Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves? on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:43PM (#44595988)
I would say type signatures that don't really describe the state of the program. Especially when someone has objects with a bunch of optional fields that either shouldn't be optional or should be represented in a different way, like as a discriminant union.
Re:When College Might Not Be Worth It on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:39PM (#43711505)
Keep in mind some people can't afford to make bad financial decisions.
Re:Functors: Identity, Composition, and fmap on Saturday April 05, 2025 @02:31PM (#43595564)
Caesar cypher +7

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Re:Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again on Monday January 27, 2025 @01:04PM (#42843878)
Nothings going to change until consequences for this behavior is established.
Re:How Cars Turned Into Giant Killers on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @03:58PM (#38701443)
Re:The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:03AM (#38381004)
Sources on it being “climate denying”?
Re:Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt found on Thursday September 21, 2023 @12:57PM (#37600486)
The thing I’m confused about from the article is that, if I read it correctly, the temple was found a few miles from the coast. Did the Nike delta use to extend that far? Or what? That seems to be pretty far.
Re:A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:41PM (#37515754)
Did the website only give you all the option to agree to their privacy policy, and not decline? If so that seems very disingenuous.
Have you heard of this new db called dev/null? It’s super fast and web scale!
There are definitely UI tricks used by pretty much everyone when applicable. For example, infinite scrolling is used to keep people’s attention. There are other dark patterns that exist as well
Same, all hail Google's new AI god (plz don't kill me)
I don't think the class of problems talked about in here are necessarily the biggest problems. Rather, it's politically motivated decision-making. Not in the sense of insert your pet US politics issue, but rather about capturing influence within the organization to make themselves status-y. For example, Google managers over-inflating their team numbers to make their resume look better.
Thanks! I loved playing this game growing up. I had heard later on that it was a technical achievement, but didn't realize they made their own dialect of Lisp.
Can someone explain the significance of this to me? I'm not caught up on this topic.