tolkienfanatic
Re:Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:40PM (#38959556)
Companies over hired (and remotely) when money was free, and now it isn't. The end.
Re:Navy in Middle-Earth
on Thursday August 10, 2023 @01:27PM (#37079021)
Link?
Re:Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?
on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:02AM (#36632789)
Re:Who controls the Internet? And should they? (2021)
on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:37AM (#32766196)
The answer is yes.
Re:Ask HN: How do you work with Dependabot?
on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:08AM (#32438881)
For people complaining that Dependabot is too noisy, it is easy to configure it to only open PRs for major versions.
I am a big fan of Dependabot, but maximizing its effective is highly dependent on the culture of the team/codebase.
Re:Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve
on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @10:51AM (#32332549)
Very shocking that encouraging employees' endless SJW crusades winds up being unproductive.
Re:Understanding Jane Street
on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:52AM (#32320255)
Boy am I glad I never have to take 3110 again.
Re:Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together
on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @04:27PM (#32157494)
My previous company almost exclusively hired designers from agency backgrounds - it was a huge problem.
Re:Why Aren’t America’s Shipping Ports Automated?
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @03:19PM (#10306374)
Imagine my surprise when the answer is "unions"
Re:Splunk CEO tells tech sector to hire more women
on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @09:32AM (#10296103)
He even uses the word "discriminate", and yet behavior like this is encouraged and celebrated.
Re:Metal Captcha
on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @11:18AM (#9962136)
The most br00tal captcha service out there
Re:Baltimore Residents Begin Clearing Debris After Night of Riots
on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @02:20PM (#9454229)
I think it was meant to be a complaint about the political party that consistently keeps certain demographics beholden to them with policies that are made in the guise of "helping".
Re:No Longer an Inspiration
on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @02:03PM (#9382849)
I'm pretty sure people are voting on this BECAUSE it is sarcastic
Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company?
on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:16AM (#9374375)
Palantir does tons of government and military work.
Re:“I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but I might be...
on Sunday January 25, 2015 @12:30PM (#8943476)
Wikipedia has shown itself to be firmly in the SJW/Quinn/Sarkeesian/Wu camp. So I'm not sure what he is upset about.
Re:What it was like to co-found Model View Culture
on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:46PM (#8924692)
No comments on this? It was the best thing I've read all day
Re:ChangeTip must die
on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:06PM (#8763393)
Had EGS as my Systems prof at Cornell.
Can confirm that he doesn't hate everything and is actually a really cool guy :)
Re:Teaching OCaml
on Thursday November 13, 2014 @02:33PM (#8603539)
Ah, CS 3110. The bane of every Cornell Comp Sci majors existence.
Re:Show HN: Using computer vision to detect birds in parks
on Monday October 20, 2014 @03:51PM (#8484102)
Does not recognize Big Bird. I proclaim this to be a failure.