TooCleverByHalf | 4 years ago | on: Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA Today records ID'ing readers
Sure. But that's not the point.
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TooCleverByHalf | 4 years ago | on: From apes to birds, animal species that “laugh”
We may never know...
TooCleverByHalf | 4 years ago | on: The Octopus Teacher’s Student
Their intonation was tough to get past I will say that.
TooCleverByHalf | 4 years ago | on: Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
?? - returns right side operand if left side operand is null or undefined
|| - returns right side operand if left side operand is any falsy value
TooCleverByHalf | 4 years ago | on: IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
This implies that handling it well is aligned with keeping ones job. I don't agree with that mindset myself. I'd say they handled it poorly. But, then, both of us are at least half wrong regardless of which one is right.
TooCleverByHalf | 5 years ago | on: Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood in the State of New York
What they did is the antithesis of their name. What a time to be alive.
TooCleverByHalf | 5 years ago | on: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify
Oi, same. Cliché or not, Obi-wan said it best:
> ...as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
I've since created a playlist dedicated to those lost songs, long forgotten fossils, as I randomly re-find or re-remember them. Sadly, there's fewer than 20 songs in there even after all this time.
TooCleverByHalf | 5 years ago | on: Catalina VM
> I’ve been considering building a “Hackintosh” system. But with Apple’s plans of going to ARM possibly by the end of this year, I don’t want to invest a lot in hardware that’s going to be obsolete soon.
This argument doesn't make much sense to me. While not all hardware works with the goal of building a hackintosh. Plenty of top of the line hardware does and will run Windows just fine if ARM becomes an issue.
TooCleverByHalf | 5 years ago | on: Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances
> Presumably nothing would be stored about you in that interaction
Given how prevalent the tracking of users is, anonymous or otherwise, I'd be extremely pessimistic about this assumption.
TooCleverByHalf | 5 years ago | on: Hiring Without Whiteboards
> One candidate even thought they should be able to bill us for their time spent applying (We passed)
Ironically, you passed on the smartest applicant of the bunch.
TooCleverByHalf | 5 years ago | on: Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
The problem here is that the average end user would not know which one to use and when to use it.
TooCleverByHalf | 5 years ago | on: Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
On one hand I appreciate how elaborately the parent comment made their point. On another, I appreciate how succinctly you made your point. A conundrum within a conundrum, indeed.
TooCleverByHalf | 6 years ago | on: Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
I have had the exact opposite experience with BlueJeans :(
TooCleverByHalf | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
Can layer 0 be sources supporting the content?
TooCleverByHalf | 6 years ago | on: Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?
You use your bare hand?
TooCleverByHalf | 6 years ago | on: Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack
If I remember correctly, React was only part of it. Lack of support for relational databases was a big issue as well. On top of that, people realized that they didn't need real time functionality and the overhead (and scaling) of mini-mongo et al was a difficult venture. Take with a grain of salt. This was all very long ago so my memory may not be accurate.
TooCleverByHalf | 6 years ago | on: Disney Private VIP Tours
Is this an advertisement?
TooCleverByHalf | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
I enjoyed this episode greatly and learned a whole lot about the NHL that I did not know (or intend to know).
TooCleverByHalf | 6 years ago | on: Phoebus Cartel
Planet Money ran an episode on the Phoebus Cartel not too long ago. Really interesting listen.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/27/707388981/epis...
TooCleverByHalf | 6 years ago | on: How to Find Consulting Clients
> professional services firms that subcontract work to me
How were you able to create these kinds of relationships with the professional services firms?
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