mimog
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5 years ago
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on: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
Its not two realities. Its one population chunk living in reality and one chunk living in a misinformation fueled delusion. Special interests have managed to weaponize social media and misinformation. It started with allowing blatant lying and partisan propoganda to be framed as impartial news because deliberate mass misinformation is apparently free speech. Now the cat is out of the bag and the only way back is strong regulation of social and news media.
mimog
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9 years ago
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on: What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
$2.06M for eight employees seems very steep
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: The bunny theory of code
You are violating DRY principle. Copied code, with minor variation, spread out through a codebase is, seriously, the root of all evil.
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How long do SE's on average stay at a startup before moving on?
I don't know specifically about the Bay Area, but everywhere else in the world having a bunch of short stints on your CV would be a bad thing. It also doesn't take many 5 - 15% pay bumps before you have maxed out what anyone is willing to pay you given your bleak CV.
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: What is the best way to live in the Bay Area[San Francisco] on 100k?
Do 21 year old people at the start of their career really take home $100K in SF? Thats crazy. How much would a 30 year old with a masters in CS get?
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
So a comment containing an explicit referral to the guidelines is not considered moaning, but a comment implicitly referring to the guidelines is?
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
So moaning about a comment is okay, but moaning about a submission is not okay ever. Got it.
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
You seem to struggle with the fact that your personal interests and the HN submission guidelines diverge. Even though the story of a Hotel manager levying unlawful charges against his guests seems to pique your intellectual curiosity immensely, it still
doesn't mean that it adheres to the submission guidelines. More specifically this part of it:
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic"Also, your use of a double negative in the sentence "It's not a story that doesn't have connections to how some businesses perceive the internet, internet 'mob' justice, antiquated laws, free speech and such, right?" makes it far less sarcastic than you probably intended it to be.
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
Would the proper response then not be to flag my comment rather than making a comment about it not adhering to the guidelines?
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
>> Which amount to "whatever piques one's intellectual curiocity" and "whatever good hackers like"It only amounts to that if you completely disregard this part: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
This part apparently:
"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."But forgive me, I am, unlike you, not the type of person who finds a story about a Hotel manager behaving badly particularly intellectually gratifying.
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
You are thinking of reddit. HN has submission guidelines.
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
How does that make the submission appropriate?
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
>> Trip Advisor is a tech startupSo a nearly 15 year old company with a billion dollar revenue still qualifies as a startup?
>> The situation couldn't have occurred without a service like them
Freedom of speech infractions have occurred for way longer than online services have existed.
So if someone tweets something stupid/political it should be posted on hackernews as well, simply because tweeting wasn't possible prior to twitter? Or what if someone reacts badly to something on tumblr, is that relevant for hn'ers as well in case they are trying to innovate in the micro-blogging space?
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review
Why is this on hackernews?
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: My $300 Home Cloud Server
Just buy a Synology NAS and be done with it.
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Ragnarok MMO open-source HTML5 client
Demo doesn't work. Not super impressed.
mimog
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11 years ago
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on: Banned for Life
Good. I wish all the people developing crappy and useless apps, flooding the place, would get banned. You publish 10 different apps where the only thing that changes is the youtube channel, and claim you were beta testing? I hope Apple and Microsoft ban you as well.
