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All it took was one failed coup

Please stop defending an attempt to overthrow a lawful election as goofing around.

but this is partially our fault

Yes, I've called dang out on his inaction numerous times. HN is utterly filled with alt-right scum.

Information overload leads to people seeking succinct information and answers. The upvote/downvote systems ubiquitous today are easily manipulated to spread misinformation, propaganda, and fake news.

We need to do away with upvotes and downvotes. It’s manipulated everywhere it exists.

Why is there so much aversion to proving one's abilities? Programmers today feel they shouldn’t have to do whiteboards, hackerrank, or take-homes.

How does a prospective employer evaluate someone’s problem-solving and programming chops?

The author of the post, Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>, was involved in the bitcoin project alongside Satoshi at the very beginning: http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/137799

He's among a very small group of original authors. He quite literally bought into Bitcoin when it was just an idea.

Gratitude is so rare they should close this as "could not reproduce"

fyi that mysql multiple column answer is incorrect, mysql does indeed support row/tuple comparisons [1]:

For row comparisons, (a, b) > (x, y) is equivalent to:

(a > x) OR ((a = x) AND (b > y))

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/comparison-operators...

Add SiriusXM to the list of companies to never work with because they pull the same shit.

Trump has set a precedent for what is acceptable behavior of public servants and the lasting damage will take decades to undo. He pardoned someone convicted of war crimes. He's convinced hundreds of sitting governors, represetnatives, and senators to openly object to and instill distrust in the integrity of elections. He's publicly questioned and disparaged the integrity of nearly every government institution from the military to intelligence agencies to the IRS.

So, yes, we're viewing this in Trumpian terms because there's a very clear link to eroding trust in government institutions.

There are plenty of other alt-right hangouts, and probably 3 more already started today.

I'm glad you're productive in your CLI tool usage but just because it takes you an hour futzing with basic *nix tools doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else. Powershell is extremely cumbersome for me due to the sheer verbosity of each command and the apparent MO of "let's come up with a new name for everything" and "sensible defaults? what's that?"

small college town

That's the key phrase. Police in small towns of America have nothing better to do than setup ways of levying fines against outsiders so they can afford to upgrade their cruisers to the latest dodge chargers or outfit everyone with DOD hand-me-down weaponry.

You should compare the actual effective taxation rates. For example, high earners in Norway get taxed about ~8% higher than comparable earners in California but that comes with affordable healthcare, education, and government-backed pensions that people can actually survive on.

Deregulate it into baby Googles like they did Bell so these states can capture a portion of taxes on that sweet Google corporate revenue away from California.

Nothing will fundamentally change for the consumer, only who gets paid.

and made sure things were right.

Every coding competition I’ve participated in required correctness as a first criteria for basic acceptance, and then speed as a secondary scoring criteria.

Is this an upgrade from my current platform to deploy static sites, FTP?

Do not use hosted cloud services where the implementation creates publicly accessible API keys and each HTTP request results in a charge to your account. A few specific examples are Firebase, Algolia, and AWS Lambda.

All it takes is one programming mistake or one bad actor and you can find yourself in an equally precarious situation.

tech being here to stay is not contradictory with current bubble prices

When will they remove the many extensions owned by SimilarWeb that harvest and sell personal browsing history?

Despite the failure, I'm guessing somewhat better than if they had hired you to make a clone?

they want the traffic and recurring revenue, they don't care about the site

You only pay for what you use, but you must purchase their virtual currency Snowbux, at least 10,000 units per year.

static site generators are nothing more than manually triggered cache refreshes.

I'm guessing: You didn't deliver tangible results and therefore were deemed useless. It was likely one "things are going well!" update after another, while still failing to deliver the most rudimentary of results that a low-level analyst armed with Excel and some basic SQL delivered.

Results that impact the bottom-line are the only thing that matters. If you cannot align your work to that, you're going to be undervalued and viewed as useless.

We're going to see a lot more of such attacks (Denial of Capital?) as engineers blindly throw more and more SaaS components together without any sort of rate limiting in place, especially so when those endpoints are publicly accessible and tied to your account (e.g. Firebase or Algolia requests that are billable to your conveniently included client-side API key).

And in all honesty it's a lot easier to take a site offline through depletion of budget than trying to exhaust an infinitely-scaling service.

Is it still a bribe when the public official initiates it? I hope they all get into trouble but I do wonder, when faced with a corrupt public official who is withholding government-provided services, at some point does that not simply become the necessary payment as opposed to a "bribe"?

Discord somehow manages to run quite efficiently in contrast to nearly every other Electron app out there.

there are a bunch of other software developers who know SQL very well. If your advice was true, then every backend developer would be able to immediately land a data science job

I fully disagree. Most backend developers don't know SQL beyond their ORM library or CRUD statements. The business intelligence world has utilized SQL to analyze data and make effective business decisions for 40+ years.

ML is 90% hype to check a box for investors, and the actual business problems could be solved by a semi-competent analyst armed with Excel or SQL, not a bunch of overpaid "scientists" who completed a few Andrew Ng courses.

Why in the world would expenses be $5k/mo for what presumably some really basis SaaS?