ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: The memory safety problem isn't bad coders
The problem often is needing to fight with less technical higher-ups for adequate time and resources for tooling/testing/infrastructure work.
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ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Too Many Americans Will Never Be Able to Retire
As someone who's family is from a former Socialist/Soviet Bloc country, I have to note that "one failure" is a bit of an understatement...
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I stop caffeine intake without losing productivity?
"Feeling tired" is a bit subjective. There are numerous studies indicating that caffeine enhances cognitive function, improves test scores, reaction times, etc.
Personally, yes, I feel less tired after drinking coffee, but seem to get diminished returns after the first half cup.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is PHP still relevant?
YES to whether it's relevant. Regardless of opinions about PHP as a language, it's way too widely utilized to be irrelevant in the near future.
Whether it's worth investing time to be a PHP master is subjective. Personally, I won't be excited about being a crackerjack PHP dev, but if you find certain aspects of working with PHP compelling and suited to whatever you're building, it may be worthwhile. There's also plenty of work out there for people with PHP skills, so it could be pretty relevant with regard to employment.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal
An adolescent isn't a fully developed human being, aka an adult. That's medically verifiable.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Still Any Tesla Doubters?
By “Tesla Doubters” do you only mean people who don’t believe it’s a viable auto manufacturer? It seems pretty clear that it’s a viable auto manufacturer -- as in it manufactures and sells a significant number of vehicles. But I think many reasonable people have serious doubts/concerns about some of the issues with the vehicles themselves and leadership and future of the company.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Did Hacker News Censor the Nancy Pelosi Story?
Really? I don't know that the story is especially important, but it seems like plenty of other tech-related stories which are equally or more political or business focused, don't get 'flagkilled'.
Frankly, I feel like people here are often a little too quick to flag anything that they simple don't like, and it's annoying and kind of cheap.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Vue Dark Mode – A Minimalist Dark Design System for Vue.js
I assume "Show HN" items aren't necessarily news, but just someone showing the community something new that may be of interest. There already appears to be too much flagging around here just because someone doesn't particularly like something. Let's not encourage more.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: My asshole tech lead steals my ideas
1) Propose your ideas in an email, preferable with someone else cc’d on it.
2) Propose your ideas to several people on your team at once.
3) Find someone more trustworthy if you need a sounding board.
4) Talk to your manager.
5) If you don’t have good relationship with your manager AND your tech lead, it’s pretty clearly time to find a new job.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Wharton professor says America should shorten the work day by 2 hours
This isn't about American vs. non-American workers. It can be hard/impossible for most humans to do quality mental work for extended stretches of time.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?
For a long time, I felt that Firefox was just less nice to work with than Chrome and couldn't quite make the switch. However, Firefox developer addition feels pretty "Chrome-like" and I've yet to experience any noticeable performance or stability issues.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: As a developer, what are your biggest pain points?
Managers who call meetings for the sake of meetings.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
That's cowgirl to you.
So, if we prioritize, say, addiction treatment, more people will want to be addicts. Right.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
I mostly agree. But, surely, you'd agree that personal experience, especially extensive personal experience, might give one an inkling about whether a particular statistic is accurate. I wasn't arguing anything more.
I've looked at a number of studies about this. In general, it's hard to find much agreement between them about actual numbers. I suspect some of that is related to how "homelessness" and "mental illness" or "addiction" are defined by the people doing the studies, but most indicate that some kind of majority are influenced by one or more of those issues.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
We’re not talking about “getting in people faces”, we’re talking about a situation that is extremely unsafe, for everyone, homeless and non-homeless alike. If you’re suggesting more of that, there’s something seriously wrong with you.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
Why are you assuming I'm a bro just cause I'm on hacker news? 1950s are calling you.
Get back to me when you have something logical to say, not just ad hominems...
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
I don't disagree, but in Seattle, the streets are a huge problem.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
To be clear, I have volunteered with a number of organizations that help the homeless in Seattle. I don't know where you're getting 25-30% from, but that doesn't match with my experience -- I'm inclined to believe it's much higher, but it can really depend on what neighborhood you're in.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
Agreed, there are many problems worth solving in Seattle, but some are more clearly urgent public health problems than others.
ithilglin909 | 7 years ago | on: Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
I agree that both are problems worth solving, but one is pretty obviously a more urgent public health problem, and unfortunately, the more difficult one to solve.
When people are talking about Seattle's worsening homeless problem, they're talking about the presence of needles and fecal material on the sidewalks, and being harassed, and sometimes even attacked, by clearly mentally ill people, not about people living in trailers in non-urban areas.
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