Please just delete all my comments. Including this one.
Surely there might be some portion of the 1,200 people who posted today that may want to delete their submission in the future.
Allowing them to do so would be civil don’t you think?
(There may also be those who figured out there is a risk here and just avoid sharing anything anymore, but that’s another story).
As expressed here by Paul Graham https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226 and enforced with blind loyalty by Daniel Gackle who repeatedly refuses to delete my stuff instead spending his nights examining and debating the minute details of my words deciding which should or should not be deleted.
If this misguided idea never existed, HN would be like all normal web services, the user would have a delete button and my life would be better.
But, the idea and the power position it allows are here, and my life is changed for the worse.
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Hi everyone.I’ve been a member of this community for a decade plus.I’ve used two accounts: TotlolRon and ronilan.I recently figured this community is not good for me and I want to leave.I tried to delete all my content (comments and posts) as one can do in other communities (i.e. reddit, Twitter), but I can’t. There is no technical way for me to do it and the moderators are refusing to help.If...
That would match the current German version below and makes sense as languages evolved from same tree.
To the point:
1. Obviously the meaning of words change over time.
2. If this difference in metaphors has real bearing on how people act than the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, at least in its weak form, stands. That is something worth paying attention to....
Awareness is gained by that action that differs between languages.
In Hebrew awareness is gained with emotion (put heart) - שים לב
Any native speakers of other languages able to chime in? Sapir-Whorf revived?
Edit: used word awareness to clarify what is being gained.
Anyway...
This summer & fall I wrote a JS core lib and a set of compatible packages that together greatly simplify the creation of terminal based node apps and games (in the realm of blessed, blessed-contrib and ink, but with no dependencies and with a novel api/architecture)
I got into it because my son did this node project where an animated car drove in a forest of cellular automata generated trees. Yah. You read it right. Things spiraled from there...
It is not a small project and it is pretty close to release form. I’ve used the lib and components to write a couple of small but non-trivial things. So, yes, it works.
In December, though, I stopped actively working on it. There are various reasons. One of which is that there is snow on the mountains. There are other reasons, none of which is code related.
More curious? More question. Cheers.
P.S - After reading more into this idea I think that setting high ratio goal of Minimum-to-Median (75%???) might be a direction worth exploring... we have an excellent, proactive provincial government in BC, maybe I’ll go look for the suggestion box...
As a result, the majority of people will have equal wage.
In BC, Canada:
Minimum wage is: $13.85 CAD
Median wage is: $23.98 CAD
Minimum is going up to $15.20 in next 18 months.
It’s not that far...
Edit:
”in developed economies, the minimum wage ranges usually from 35 to 60 per cent of the median wage.“
https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/wages/minimum-wages/settin...
US is 35. France is 60.
BC clocks 57 right now. Will go to about 63 with minimum wage hikes.
So, yes, a higher ratio is worth thinking about....
“The minimum wage should be the median wage”
I’m not sure if it should be a rule or a goal or be anything at all, but thought it’s a thought worth putting out there.
Edit: thinking in context of country, or province but also in context of company or group.
I’m not building a video platform. It’s already there. I’m just, totally hypocritically, fixing the company that operates it.
In which case, if it was up to me, and it is not, obviously, I’d open a short discussion about goals, and if we couldn’t find a common ground, would write down “culture fit” and wish you better happiness somewhere else.
Maybe. But I doubt it.
First because people don’t quit that fast and second because I think something else might happen that is worth the risk of loosing a few “top” quitters.
I think top people will realize there is an opportunity here, and after seeing how effective it can be for a team to work toward a common goal, will request other such tasks be added to the list.
Eventually, people at that company can choose where to use their “20% service job” time.
But, then again, don’t worry, it’s all theoretical anyway, it’s obviously not up to me.
Edit: yes. Every single one.
(which according to https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ is WCAG AA OK in contrast to the ugliest colour in the world)