heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How do you ensure everyone on the team is heard on Slack?
I haven't been in a position to proscribe process, I'm just a consumer. We have tried leaving messages in Slack but that process always ends in a matter of days from disinterest.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: How Well Are European Sanctions Against Russia Working?
I think it's mainly that was is messy and hard to report on in the moment. There's propaganda coming in from all angles, of course, muddying the water further.
FWIW Washington Post reported on Russian success in Lysychansk just this morning.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How do you ensure everyone on the team is heard on Slack?
Slack huddles have poor ergonomics what with their use of global keyboard shortcuts. I avoid them whenever possible.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Football shirts chart the rise and fall of tech giants
It's too bad we don't know the names of the other companies that bid for the rights, not the amounts. They might be just as bad as the winners.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed
Further, people are too quick to dismiss the culpability of engineers in the design and implementation of these technologies. It was programmed by software engineer; people like many of us on HN. This should serve as a cautionary tale for us and not just written off with the familiar "they were just doing their jobs" meme.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: RadioShack reinvents itself as a crypto platform with wild tweets
To me it sounds like a 70 year old talking the way they think 19 year olds talk.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon workstation (2019)
> Soon your bill will be linked to how much you make. So if you're in the top half of income earners, then you'll be charged more.
That's already the case where I'm at (not California). The electric bill often comes with inserts explaining how I could save money if my income is below some threshold. Same goes for my other utility bills.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public
I'd be interested in reading more about this. A lot of the cost of medicine is overhead interfacing with insurance providers and all the layers of profit therein, but I don't know exactly how much.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: New California law requires high schools to start later
Have you read the relevant research on the subject?
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: If-im-gone – A cheat sheet for if I am somehow incapacitated
We're using Bitwarden for this, on the free two-person organization. It works pretty well when we remember to save passwords to shared folders.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE
In addition to all that you said about key management -- if you do manage to leak your keys and you chose a bad passphrase good luck proving to anyone that any correctly signed transactions were fraudulent/performed by someone else.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
Your citation doesn't entirely support your argument. The court said "[vast] economic and political significance." This seems like a power grab by the court because now they and they alone can decide what has "vast significance," not the legislature and not the executive.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Seattle software firm Outreach.io employee fired for not liking bodegas
I haven't found it yet, but Twitter only shows me two or three replies at a time. Seems like this post should have just linked to that.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Seattle software firm Outreach.io employee fired for not liking bodegas
I think I'm missing all of the context. Who is this person? How do we know he was fired (or worked for the company)? All we have here is a video of someone talking to camera and no other information. And yes, I did search, and the only results I found were right here on HN.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS
If I got banned, I don't know what I'd do first -- open a bottle of champagne or dance a little jig?
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS
I'd love to have multiple windows. At some point in the last few months Slack broke the command-up/command-down shortcuts that would take you to the next conversation with an unread message -- if you restart it'll work for a short while and then break again. Having multiple windows would resolve this and other annoyances.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
That does make sense. Of course it's the result of lobbying and not some high-minded concern about privacy or espionage.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
I didn't like Trump but that wasn't why I was opposed to the TikTok ban. I was opposed because it was pointless and stupid. If we want to ban Chinese businesses because of human rights abuses, fine, let's start banning imports -- hit 'em where it counts! Let's not waste people's limited time and money banning a silly mobile app.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)
IME it's a sign of one developer doing their best to get a system up and running well enough for business to get by (basically a MVP) and business not providing the staff necessary to improve upon it until it is too late. Maybe it needed 19 engineers all along. At least, that has been my experience in the past.
heretogetout
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3 years ago
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on: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
If China really is as bad as all that (and I think it probably is) why are we wasting any time or energy on TikTok? It'd be a lot more effective to sanction China over those human rights abuses than to ban some toy app.
