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Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Thursday January 16, 2025 @03:41PM (#42730611)
Been on this tip for 6 months, glad to hear i am not alone
Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Thursday January 16, 2025 @03:40PM (#42730605)
It's because you are not an Average Human and so averaging everyone's humor doesn't really work for you. I think this is precisely why Instagram and tiktok are actually more addictive, they give you these personalized algos that are powered by your personal engagement stats, vs Reddit which just sort of sorts by other people's opinions
Re:Companies can no longer silence laid-off employees in exchange for ... on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:13AM (#34908483)
There are other rights (forced arb) that you sign away when you sign a voluntary severance
Re:The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (2010) on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:46PM (#32754653)
I mean they're basically a college student given the YOE and where this was published, sounds like the kid got mugged by reality. But yea, definitely jaw-droppingly naive.
Re:Show HN: TinyClock – a tiny true 5-arch universal Mac OS X single-b... on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:33PM (#32754404)
What does 5-arch mean? Single Google yielded nothing (which may be more of a comment on Google's quality as of late)
Re:What I Learned at Clubhouse on Monday July 25, 2022 @03:12PM (#32229481)
I see a lot of these retrospectives from companies that (to a certain degree) failed to live up to their hype. I don’t want to invalidate the sort of lessons you can only learn by living through these hyper scaling phases, but I sometimes wonder if some of the lessons folks learned are potentially why things went wrong?
Re:Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquir... on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:28AM (#32071351)
Having previously worked at SFDC, I would not wager that it's much more dynamic than Tableau.
Re:What Drop-In API Observability Looks Like, Pre-Launch and Post-Launch on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:40AM (#31947972)
"Almost immediately after installation, Akita provided all the endpoints’ requirements, as well as some examples of expected values, which allowed us to better understand the service that the contractors had built. Once we could understand the data flow (including not only the request body, but also headers and authorization), improving the system became a lot easier. After we had the mapping,"

Interesting... could be cool to see a value-add service on top of Akita or another Obs vendor that just inspects req/res payloads and generates OpenAPI specs based off what was observed. I can't count how many times I've dropped into teams and tried to piece together their API contracts just to realize... they don't have specs! Having to then turn around and reconstruct them backwards based off code spelunking and maybe some design docs is... frustrating.

Re:No Refrigerant Left Behind on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:32AM (#31947849)
I really really love how this post touches on the bullshit that is the carbon credit market. Question: what incentive do BigCos have to buy your "high quality" carbon offsets vs the inferior ones you mentioned? Do you price cheaper per ton of CO2 credited? At the end of the day they're just trying to comply at the cheapest price possible, right?
Re:2022 Cloud Report on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:07PM (#31769730)
was discussing this the other day with colleagues. you google CockroachDB and are immediately served Yugabyte and PlanetScale, which are imo much "hotter" right now
Re:2022 Cloud Report on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:06PM (#31769717)
"we" meaning you are an author on the report, or just at your job?
Re:Purdue Starts Comprehensive Semiconductor Degree Programs in U.S. on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:37PM (#31759140)
Doctors. The US is way understaffed for doctors.
Re:Purdue Starts Comprehensive Semiconductor Degree Programs in U.S. on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:14PM (#31757921)
This seems like a smart cross-section of the existing ECE major and IE majors offered at Purdue, and would likely be a good way to lighten up the major (IE was considered easier than the other programs when I was in undergrad).
Re:FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting on Thursday May 26, 2022 @09:20AM (#31517988)
Instagram used to do this too
Re:Tech Layoff Tracker on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:48AM (#31516824)
Tech companies are like lewdness, we know them when we see them. I’m sure Maersk and Walmart rely a lot on tech and engineers, but no one is calling them tech companies.
Re:Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football on Thursday April 28, 2022 @12:05PM (#31194250)
If anyone here likes this book I highly recommend his documentary series, Fighting In The Age of Loneliness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3FHjiwb_8)
Re:Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:36PM (#21818510)
The MX Master 2 or whatever has been absolute trash for me on my work mac. There's the standard issue with macs and third party mice where the "inertia" or whatever of the mouse feels off, but more than that there has to be some sort of interference because the thing just floats and jitters constantly. Completely unusable, I gave it away to one of our finance guys.
Re:Collaborative Software That’s Wary of the Cloud on Monday December 09, 2019 @07:25AM (#21742025)
Didn’t Google Wave first use CRDT’s? Well before 2011?
Re:The Future of DEV (dev.to) on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:03AM (#21452951)
I've been hoping to see them take this direction for a while. They've fostered a great environment and built out a robust platform for "drop-in" communities. I also like that it seems like they're trying to scale out and ratchet up the amount of advanced content.
Re:Anil Dash on the Facebook Brand Update on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:01AM (#21452930)
Does the new logo (wordmark?) remind anyone else of the old Uber logo (maybe the current one? I can't keep up anymore and don't really care). This branding feels somehow more evil.

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