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How does he get that intense vibrant pink color on his Twitter profile pic? It looks illuminated. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a color that pops like
that before.
I think that “lots of money” needs to be put in perspective when thinking about software that’s used by developers. When you compare the size of the market for these kinds of tools compared to a truly massive market for something like an office suite, it looks pretty puny.
Developers are also very fickle and the one constant is change. Sometimes it seems like change for changes sake alone.
I’m not saying that any businesses easy just that it seems to me after seeing a lot of companies come and go, but this is one of the more difficult markets to capitalize on.
Concur. Private equity is synonymous with the concept of maximum extraction in my experience.
Is it lying if you believe it?
Can’t let people use it the way they want to now can we? They gotta use it the way I want them
That’s the kind of attitude that gets you laptops with no ports and keyboards that don’t work.
“Experts who reviewed the exposed secrets said the commit logs for the code repository showed the CISA contractor disabled GitHub’s built-in protection against publishing sensitive credentials in public repos.”
This makes it seem more intentional to me. Regardless of what the ultimate purpose were use of the repository was it says to me, the person knew what they were doing and it wasn’t just an innocent oversight like anybody could’ve made.
> needlessly complicated because they wanted to be backwards compatible with an old bad design.
It's not really needless complication of there is a reason for the complication. Obvioudsly in this case the need to be backward compatible with an old design made the implemtation more complicated than if they didn't need to do that. There were very, very strong business reasons why backward compatibility was a design requirment.
The Air Force has their own demonstration team named The Thunderbirds.
The Blue Angels are the Navy's demonstration team. This accident happened at an airshow on an Air Force base. The Air Force's demonstration team is named The Thunderbirds.
It seems to me to be saying that the person finds Elon Musk’s behavior problematic. What else are you reading into it?
I guess I wasn't aware that Wine pivoted from trying to be a general purpose, drop-in replacement for Windows to being a platform for games that only supports a subset of Windows functionality.
It's much more difficult to keep current and support the full functionality of a much larger competitor's offering when you have to support everything. In my experience it was an all or nothing proposition. Either you emulated it 100% or you had nothing. I think Asahi is more in this realm maybe than Wine. It really needs to support all the hardware, 100%, or it's value is greatly diminished.
Most of my software development career was spent working at a small company that sold a product that emulated the operating system developed and sold by a much, much larger company. The work was interesting and when you had a breakthrough or a small victory, it sure felt good. The challenge of keeping up was exhilarating and kept folks motivated to keep pressing forward.
But eventually it wears you down. It's nearly impossible to keep up in the long-term. Normal product evolution, the sheer size of the behemoth and sometimes even malice on their part to thwart the little guy make it really tough to stay current.
Think of Wine vis-a-vis Windows. They will never catch up.
Most modern engines have two turbines. A low pressure turbine and a high pressure turbine. The low pressure turbine is connected directly to the fan.
I really don't mind boilerplate nearly as much as most people here on HN seem to. To me it's really no biggie if it helps structure things and make them explicit. I think it kind of goes along with the idea that typing code is not what takes the largest amount of time when you're doing software development. But the fact that I prefer explicit over implicit is another area where I think I diverge from the HN herd.
The ad was deceptively inlined in the article IMO. I read most of the ad before I realized it was an ad. I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to monetize with ads but I do think it should be clear what is sponsored. I felt fooled and I stopped reading right now.
Transmission coolers and suspension kits are great but one of the things that’s really even more important is the ability to stop it comfortably. I think it’s prudent to build in a safety margin of at least 25%. More is better here.
What’s the towing capacity of your van. How do you think it would do pulling a 6000 pound trailer?
The airforce retired the KC-10 in 2021.
>> This is not true for most so-called Engineers in the US.
>> Anyone can declare themselves an engineer with no exam,
>> no sponsor, no assermentation and no real legal ties
>> to their shoddy work.
I don't think that's correct. While there are exemptions, each state requires anyone offering engineering services to the public to be licensed.
https://educatingengineers.com/blog/pe-license-requirements-...
> “every app can be command tabbed to and therein each app has its own subwindow management”
This is so, so annoying. Your Mac app’s window is minimized? No alt-tab for you!
There should probably be an audible cue to go from exhaling to inhaling no?
So it is hard? Not easy? I would agree with that position. I think the analogy with automatic transmissions misses though. Programming actual intelligence into a computer seems orders of magnitude more complex and difficult than building the gearbox for a car.
If the solution were easy or obvious the problem would likely have already been solved no?
That site hijacks the CMD+LEFT and CMD+RIGHT Mac hotkeys for browser BACK/FORWARD and also has very strange behavior when scrolling with the keyboard. Why? Why? Why?