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People here post a lot of dumb shit. Somebody has to correct them.

My ratio of non-flagged vs. flagged/downvoted comments is still rather high. I don't control why other HN users dislike what I have to say but I'm consistent.

Because you'll buy one regardless.

Interesting. I feel like I can consciously choose to like or dislike people. Once you get to know people better, your image of them evolves, and the decision to continue liking them is made repeatedly every time that image changes.

When your initial chemistry/biology/whatever latches onto a person and you're powerless to change it? That's a scary thought.

Maybe there are some weirdos out there that feels unconditional love isn't love, but I have never heard anyone say that.

I'll be that weirdo.

Dogs seemingly are bred to love. I can literally get some cash from an ATM, drive out to the sticks, buy a puppy from some breeder, and it will love me. Awww, I'm a hero.

It's exactly as hidden/opt-in as the Stripe crypto settings, where Stripe was completely shit on in 20 comments about scams, scamming, and scam currencies.

Downvoters hate having their double standard revealed.

As an expat I’m really sad to see how spineless my fellow Canadians are

You ran away, you spineless coward?

You're all not getting it.

They only want to see somebody who can get working code and a glimpse of their thought process. But from 100s of mediocre examples, the better coder will have a "better thought process."

Same goes for dating. Of course people will swear up and down they "only consider personality." Turns out, they've met 10 other people with a better personality than you.

Just because they're "only looking for x" doesn't mean they'll accept anybody that clears the bar.

The ultimate read between the lines though is that "oh I'm only looking for xyz, nothing superhuman" in a process where you have 10,000 competitors and applicants will still require high performance on your part. It's just a nicety, a meaningless phrase.

It means that he created a tool, with his skills and capabilities, that is a force multiplier for other Google engineers. This is a straight up undeniable example that his capabilities _already_ brought value to Google and their stacked deck of genius non-egostical binary tree inverters.

There's not a more pragmatic measure of whether somebody can code than a track record of a successful code project used by other coders.

Am I missing something or is the use of "GitHub" weird here? Are they GitHub employees? None of the creators seem associated with GitHub. They're _users_ of GitHub, nothing more.

I love open source. My cynicism isn't about open-source, but about the OP's first post being "these docs suck, snaps fingers maybe one of you non-devs can work on it."

In Canada big metro cities (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal), the spreadsheet will most likely tell you that you should have bought on sight instead of making a spreadsheet.

This sounds made up tbh. I mean, I agree it's common to feel this "pressure" but the day you discover the pressure isn't real is the day you level up. And I charge plenty for fixing peoples' software pains.

I do open-source and write blog posts to satisfy my own desire to publicize my work, and for exposure, and to put my skills on display. Not as a race to the bottom. I could have had a career without those things.

Tangentially related. I was trying to describe to a friend of mine how being discerning after a few years of experience means I do less work (or toil) for a better outcome, and why it's worth the higher salary I command.

Young me would've enjoyed the process of building a thing, ignoring problems like maintenance burden, how fragile or brittle the new tool is, lessons learned from the old tool, etc. etc. (you know how it goes)

Current me will take a task and mull on it. No pen to paper for _days_, preferring a minor adaptation to the existing process, or discovering that the desire was misguided in the first place. The work not done and wisdom to not do it is worth its weight in gold.

This is what Triplebyte pretended to be. Then companies who got your resume from Triplebyte just whiteboarded you again anyway.

Passing one significant whiteboard interview once is all you need, that's your "licensure."

Flip a coin whether I'll ace or fail a random leetcode question but after the one and only time my little monkey dance successfully got me into a "desireable" company, I started confidently rejecting other proposals to whiteboard me.

MMA fighters, for example, put themselves at tremendous risk because they're chasing their own personal ideas of "greatness." And there are many examples of "struggling artists" throughout history that gave up on relationships and money because they were chasing something that they believed in.

MMA fighters generally chase their own glory, to get their own hand raised in the ring. Not become a personal servant to another person's ego.

Every dev here loves throwing unglamorous volunteer work to non-developers, acting as if it's a favor.

So is the feature missing or is your support ticket open?

Seconded, happy Proton customer for years since de-Googling my life.

Par for the course at HN to have a "vaguely dislike-ish" relationship with Protonmail. Fastmail is the poster child of HN on the other hand.

I would guess the gist of it is that if you promise _any_ amount of security (or whatever feature), HN will nitpick you to death on not going 100% (despite the general improvement to your security). If you don't promise security at all, it doesn't matter that you're less secure than Proton. Something like that.

Which non-Western utopias have avoided addictive substances? List them.

My personal rule is to rewrite specific solutions many times (all similar to each other) until I have "learned enough" to start thinking about an appropriate generalization (versus generalizing from the beginning).

The publishers wish to somehow capture the players with their own launchers, but this is never going to do them any good and is widely hated.

Nah, if it was possible to sign up for PSN accounts, people would have hated it but done it. Look at how Bethesda, Ubisoft, EA, and other enshittified game companies still sell gajillions of copies.

It's inaccurate to lump in the actual reason for change (game being unavailable in regions) vs. a reason no game company has ever been motivated to change ("we don't like making thirdparty accounts").

Unrealistic book where people around him were willing to change and didn't dig their heels in to protect their fiefdom.

I don't understand why more adults don't have awesome hobbies... most of my childhood friends don't seem to do anything fun now as adults.

I get more enjoyment whole-assing one thing than half-assing many, in my case. Not to say hobbies aren't cool - I know somebody that built an entire guitar starting from wood - but I'd rather spend that time going even further in my main thing. "Majoring in the minors" or whatever.

I hope it doesn't come across as some sigma grindset stuff, it's not that I suppress my urge to have fun hobbies - I just feel happier and more secure incrementally building on my main career than creating a new persona for an activity I'm indifferent to.

Traditional ASR systems struggle when English (or any language) is spoken with a heavy accent, often confusing it with another language.

Humans also have difficulty with heavy accents, no?

kinda worked less during the pandemic (especially at the start).

I wouldn't say I specifically overworked for any one employer, but during lockdowns I was definitely spending way more time at a computer overall.

Elaborate?

No, just wrong.

You can also do the legwork yourself.

The person who makes the claim must justify it, not the readers.