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Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring
on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:53PM (#22829174)
Agree with all points made. Especially with the first point (engineer hiring tends to be one dimensional) as well as the “your company is who you hire” point - and even the google example given for that point. Google is great at software. No one writes better software than google hands down, but what you/they learn is that it’s not always about how good you code (else GCP would be the #1 cloud platform). Great write up
Ask HN: Best way to find OSS projects that are looking for contributors?
Pretty self-explanatory. Would love to use some of my extra time to help any OSS projects that fit my skill set (and give back). Any recommendations on best way to find these type of projects?
Re:Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks
on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:40PM (#22671339)
I think you’re being downvoted because of that very first sentence (no matter how much I hate the guy, laying the blame 100% on his frail shoulders seems a bit hyperbolic).
But I don’t see what’s downvotable (if not agreeable) about the rest of what was said
Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market
on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:39PM (#22427642)
As a regular of WSB, this article is just absolutely absurd. Which I guess is the regular for Bloomberg these days (seemingly the Buzzfeed of business news it appears). All you'll find on WSB is a bunch of homophobic bored desk workers. The idea that subreddit of only a few thousand guys (mostly) with an extra $500 to blow on meme stocks can move a stock in _any_ significant way is laughable.
Ask HN: Best way to build a mobile iOS app in 2020?
I ask this as someone who is:1) Very familiar with react native, its breakage, its dependency hell, and the struggle to get the most simple apps rolling2) Slightly afraid of full-on XCode and Swift3) Jaded from React Native, so slightly hesitant to jump onto FlutterI realize that beggars can't be choosers, but what is the a great way to build mobile apps (iOS mainly) in 2020?
Re:Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants
on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:34AM (#22296339)
+1 for the dope, minimalist design. +2 for the no shenanigans approach. Love it
Re:Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death
on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:29PM (#22250680)
Same here. It's incredibly striking to sort of see the pieces laid out in front of you, really _feel_ that they put together facts, but not have the glue you need to objectively/factually put them all together.
To me it feels like the "Israeli operative" scenario seems pretty legit.
Ask HN: Why is the current user verification process so bad?
Story: so I tried to login to my bank account via selenium just _once_. After being unsuccessful, I go back to login as normal, and have to change my entire password and verify my account via email.But that's just my bank.Accessing Linkedin on a different computer? Gonna need to dig out your old email address password to get the code from that account verification email they just sent.And god...
Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen
on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:43AM (#22221966)
Not even from a community management standpoint, but more so just from a UX standpoint. As a HN reader, I don't just wanna read the top 5 or so parents (which is all I can read without scrolling for 2 mins, _especially_ on mobile). I want to read all the parents, and have the option to go into the thread should I so chose. Just me though
Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen
on Sunday February 02, 2020 @10:17PM (#22221149)
I’ve been suggesting the comment collapse idea for a while? Where can we put up a PR for this? Collapsing comments for HN’s comment scale is damn near required at this point.
Re:Show HN: Clips.live – Live video clips of every NBA play
on Saturday February 01, 2020 @10:34PM (#22214977)
As a huge basketball fan I think this is great. As a US citizen roughly familiar with the NBA and how they come after platforms that use their content in ways that they don’t condone (e.g., /r/nbastreams, RIP), I don’t see this lasting very long.
Re:Httpx: A next-generation HTTP client for Python
on Friday January 10, 2020 @10:55AM (#22011820)
Finally a client that mixes async support and a “requests-compatible” API (for those times you don’t want to go as low as say an aiohttp or the like).
Looking forward to trying it out
Edit: maybe the homepage can include a very simple async example as well?
Re:Ask HN: If I cant code, what else can I do in a startup as a recent...
on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:22PM (#21998266)
Product Management. On some level, _everyone_ at the company is involved with product. It's at the intersection of virtually every department (engineering, sales, design, research, etc), but is incredibly demanding :)
Re:The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money
on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:10AM (#21977393)
From a slightly more nerdy perspective:
Because these credit card companies have thousands of _their_ machines, in _their_ locations, running _their_ software, to meet _their_ standards.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin is run god knows where, for god knows who (as rightfully intended of course), on god knows what software.
Sadly speed is just naturally part of the tradeoff in this scenario.