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icodemuch | 1 year ago | on: Did Automattic commit open source theft?

This seems like a pretty damning indictment of Automattic. The WordPress foundation (that they presumably set up) may have rules that give them legal cover for some of the moves they’re making, but it’s going to hurt them in the court of public opinion. I think that matters to developers, who are the people ultimately responsible for choosing whether or not to contribute to / use their product. It’s true that migration cost might prevent churn from these actions right now but stopping the train of logic there seems short sighted. What about all the business that they may have received in the future that they might not get now because they’ve tarnished their brand?

icodemuch | 1 year ago | on: The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

I read the article as acknowledging this pressure by arguing that Weird Nerds should not be forced into people management positions. Without the workplace pressure on Weird Nerds to become people managers, would they still manage people? Maybe not.

I can’t speak for academia, but in tech companies I’ve worked at I’ve seen a marked improvement in management when there’s a tech track for engineer advancement such that they never need to become managers, if they don’t want.

icodemuch | 6 years ago | on: macOS Catalina

Thanks for the heads up! I was just about to update. Didn’t see anything about the 32/64 bit thing in the update release..

icodemuch | 6 years ago | on: A Collection of Dev Checklists

500 server error on most checklists

icodemuch | 6 years ago | on: Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Go

I'm just learning Go now and I'm still in the middle of the whole "Go solves concurrency" part. It's nice to get a second opinion

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Boeing may be now well and truly fucked

Site doesn't work for me

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Refactoring Back End Engineering Hiring at Slack

It gratifys me in some weird way to know that companies stress out about the recruitment process at least as much as I do

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: We've had Agile, Scrum, Lean Startup. What are current fads?

Are the current fads not still agile, scrum, and lean?

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug

Feels like the headline here should be related to bug itself, the amount of privacy it violated, and how long it took Apple to fix it!

Clearly a good PR move for Apple.

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code

Awesome! Thanks for sharing

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Australia’s beloved kangaroos are now controversial pests

Hard to imagine when you haven't seen it in person

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M

Hopefully this means that my Fossil Q Wander is going to be on the cutting edge of Google's software updates now. Big fan of this watch by the way, only complaint is that it doesn't led itself to workouts as well as some other watches.

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?

I've also gone through several iterations including text files, excel and google sheets. My latest approach (and personal favorite) has been the GTD approach with Trello detailed here: https://blog.trello.com/gtd-getting-things-done-maximizing-p...

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017)

Love to see people trying to make topics in math and cs more accessible to a wider audience

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)

I've been using Sublime since I started and have no complaints. That being said I always hear about emacs referred to as the OG. I know there's positives and negatives to both, but is there any pressing reason to switch from one to the other?

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?

Googling it comes up with a bunch of calculators to generate time and cost of project, but I don't know how much I'd trust them.. Honestly seems like it comes down mostly to trial and error, and understanding your own process when deciding how long a project might take / cost.

icodemuch | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How does HN handle trolls?

Here's what the guidelines say:

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it."

icodemuch | 8 years ago | on: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

So Twitter has finally given up on building for the avg person and begun creating more tools to make life easier for advertisers (ie big money) and they're suddenly more profitable. Shocker!!

icodemuch | 8 years ago | on: How to Beat Amazon

tldr: the only chance you've got to beat Amazon when building a consumer brand is selling a premium product to a specific niche

icodemuch | 8 years ago | on: Fools and their crypto

Hopefully a wake up call.. but probably won't be.